<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; "><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><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">MIT Seminar on Environmental and</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Agricultural History</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"> </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"> </font></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">“My Life as a Mosquito: Narrative, Disease, and Agro-Ecology in a Malaria Landscape”</font></font></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"> </font></font></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: -9pt; text-align: center; "><span><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">James McCann</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></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><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Professor of History, Boston University</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">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.</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: justify; "><span><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"> </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: center; "><span><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Friday, February 13, 2009</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">2:30 to 4:30 pm</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Building E51 Room 095</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"> </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"> </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">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 </font></font><a href="mailto:mcollet@mit.edu"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">mcollett@mit.edu</font></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">. </font></font></span></p></div></div></body></html>