<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, 51, 0); "><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, 51, 0); "><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, 51, 0); "><b><i> <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; color: maroon; "><b>“Woodlands, Meadows and a NATO Training Ground: Dioxin as Dénouement”<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: 'Bookman Old Style'; color: maroon; "><b> <o:p></o:p></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, 51, 0); "><b>Joy Parr<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: rgb(0, 51, 0); ">Canada Research Chair, Technology, Culture and Risk, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#003300" face="'Century Schoolbook'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The NATO training grounds at Gagetown, New Brunswick, just north of the Maine border, were assembled in 1952 from Acadian mixed forests and parts of the Saint John River flood plain which had been re-fashioned by 250 years European settlement into highly valued timber lots, pastures and arable.<span> </span>This presentation analyses how this transformation was accomplished and how it was undone considering how human residents of the area had adapted to their habitat and how their displacement re-ordered the political, ethnic and sexual economies of the place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <o:p></o:p></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, April 24, 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> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "> </span></b></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>