<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History</span></font></b><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></b></div><div><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Helen Rozwadowski<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">University of Connecticut</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Frontiers of Discovery: Changing Meanings of “Frontier” from </span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Frederick Jackson Turner to John F. Kennedy and Beyond</span></font></span></p></b></b></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></b></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">The word “frontier” is both evocative and problematic. In the course of the 20th century its geographic reference shifted from the western United States to remoter places like Alaska and the polar regions. It also, figuratively, came to include the air, the ocean and outer space - and even the human mind, science, and knowledge in general. This paper explores the way that “discovery,” in the context of scientific research − which was not among the suite of meanings broached by Turner − became central to the meaning of “frontier.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Friday, December 3, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">2:30 to 4:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Building E51 Room 095<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">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>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><br></span></div></b></div></body></html>