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MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
This seminar series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty
and Program in Science, Technology,and Society. For more
information, contact Margo Collett at mcollett@mit.edu.
Schedule
[Sessions from 2:30-4:30 p.m., Room E51-095
at MIT]
"Bound in Twine: Changes in Technology, Agriculture, and Environment from a Commodities-Web Perspective"
| November 6, 2009 |
Sterling Evans, Louise Welsh Chair of History, University of Oklahoma |
"Art, Science, and Money: Field Guides to the Birds, 1889-2009"
| December 4, 2009 |
Thomas R. Dunlap, Professor of History, Texas A & M University |
"Dead as Dirt: An Environmental History of the Dead Body"
| February 19, 2010 |
Ellen Stroud, Associate Professor Johanna Alderfer Harris and William H. Harris, M.D. Chair in Environmental Studies, Growth and Structure of Cities Program, Bryn Mawr College |
"Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers and Modern Environmental Culture"
| March 19, 2010 |
Joseph E. Taylor III, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in History and Geography, Simon Fraser University; Visiting Professor, University of Portland |
"Observing Nature at the Edges: British Naturalists on the Shore during the Napoleonic Wars"
| April 9, 2010 |
Anne Secord, Research Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge |
"Reintroducing the US West's Creatures of Empire with Navaho Churro Sheep and California Tamspot Pigs: Gleaning Pasts and Futures in Thickened Presents"
| April 23, 2010 |
Donna Haraway, Professor of History of Consciousness and Women's Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz |
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