Jame C. Scott, Yale University

Faculty and graduate students are invited to join this year’s E.P. Thompson Memorial Speaker, James C. Scott, for a lunchtime discussion on doing world history from below. Scott is the author of Weapons of the Weak (1985), Domination and the Arts of
Resistance (1990), Seeing Like A State (1997), The Art of Not Being Governed (2009), Two Cheers for Anarchism (2013), and Against the Grain (2017).

Please email Niklas Frykman (nef13@pitt.edu) by Monday, April 15, 12:00 noon to RSVP for lunch and to receive two short texts that will serve as the basis for discussion.