<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 31, 122); "><b><i>MIT Seminar on Environmental and<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 31, 122); "><b><i>Agricultural History<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 48, 137); "><b><i> <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 48, 137); "><b><i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; ">“My Life as a Mosquito: Narrative, Disease, and Agro-Ecology in a Malaria Landscape”</span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(14, 94, 10); "><b><i> </i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: -9pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 31, 122); "><b>James McCann<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -9pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 31, 122); ">Professor of History, Boston University<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Current research links malaria transmission with the expansion of maize in Ethiopia. This paper addresses the problems facing the historian who seeks to tell the story of agro-ecology, disease, and human agency in a specific historical landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: green; "><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b>Friday, February 13, 2009<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b>2:30 to 4:30 pm<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b>Building E51 Room 095<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b>Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: navy; "><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact Margo Collett at <a href="mailto:mcollet@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>. </span></p></div></body></html>