<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">"'Pilgrims of the Vertical': Rethinking Gender Analysis in Environmental History"</span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Joseph E. Taylor III</span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Simon Fraser University and University of Portland</span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Taylor's forthcoming </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers and Nature at Risk</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> recounts the history of Yosemite Valley's globally significant rock climbing scene. Beyond the thrills offered by Yosemite's walls, however, this story draws telling links between sport, environmental values, and consumerism. Climbing history also offers an important corrective to the way environmental historians have thought about gender analysis within the field. Taylor will focus on the earliest period of modern technical climbing in Yosemite in order to suggest that paying greater attention to the social contexts within which gender was performed offers a fruitful path for future work.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Friday, March 19, 2010</span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">2:30 to 4:30 pm</span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Building E51 Room 095</span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Street, Cambridge</span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" style="font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">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 contact <a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>