<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b>MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History</b></span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Donna Haraway</span></font></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">University of California, Santa Cruz</span></font></b></font></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Staying with the Trouble: Becoming Worldly with Companion Species</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Most of my work these days asks what it could possibly mean to inherit the histories of the companion species on a blasted earth.<span> </span>Companion species “break bread together” at table; who is on the menu at this table is a question of ethical, political, and ecological urgency. “Staying with the Trouble” aims to work through ontological, ethical, and ecological knots tying together three companion species: 1) 21<sup>st</sup> century urban chickens and the women and families who depend on them in Greater Gabarone, Botswana, and also Missoula, Montana; 2) park managers (Aboriginal and AngloAustralian), ecologists and tourist experts, Bininj/Mungguy Aboriginal traditional owners of the land, and Asian water buffalo in an Australian World Heritage site, Kakadu National Park; and 3) the people and other critters of the Navajo Sheep Project who bring the Iberian Churro into unexpected worlds of alliance and conflict.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Friday April 23, 2010</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>2:30 to 4:30 pm</b></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Building E51 Room 095</b></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge</b></font></p></body></html>