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<div align="center"><b><i> <br><br>
<font size=4>Modern Times, Rural Places:<br><br>
Seminar Series at MIT<br><br>
<br><br>
</i></b></font>Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM<br><br>
Building E51 Room 095<br><br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br><br>
<br>
2004 - 2005<br><br>
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October
22
<b><i>Slavery and the "Sunny South": Climate, Race, and
Place<br><br>
</i></b>
<b>Mart Stewart</b>, Professor of History, Western Washington
University<br><br>
<br><br>
December 10
<b><i>A Tale of Two Cities: Mining, Health, and Nature on the
Western Frontier<br><br>
</i></b>
<b>Gregg Mitman</b>, Professor of History of Medicine, History of
Science, and Social Studies, University of Wisconsin<br><br>
<br><br>
February
4
<b><i>Tropical Infertility: Scientific Research on Soils and People
in Equatorial Africa, 1880-1940<br><br>
</i></b>
<b>Helen Tilley</b>, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton
University<br><br>
<br><br>
February
18
<b><i>Caring for Nature: Practical Zoology and Nature Protection in
Nineteenth Century Germany<br><br>
</i></b>
<b>Lynn Nyhart</b>, Associate Professor of History of Science, University
of Wisconsin<br><br>
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March
11
<b><i>Wrangling over the Range: Land Ownership and the Fate of the
American West<br><br>
</i></b>
<b>Patricia Limerick</b>, Professor of History and Environmental Studies,
University of Colorado, Director, Center for the American West<br><br>
<br><br>
April
8
<b><i>Safari Culture: Gorilla Expeditions in the African Highlands
or Domesticating the Wild <br>
<div align="center">from Paul du Chillu to Dian Fossey<br><br>
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<b>Janet Browne</b>, Professor of the History of Medicine, University
College, London<br><br>
<br><br>
April
22
<b><i>Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Dogs as Gambling Technology in
Nineteenth Century Britain<br><br>
</i></b>
<b>Edmund Russell</b>, Associate Professor of Environmental History and
History of Technology, University of Virginia<br><br>
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May
6
<b><i>The Man-Eating Tiger a Colonial Myth? Four Centuries of
Confrontation between Humans and Tigers<br><br>
</i></b>
<b>Peter Boomgaard</b>, Senior Researcher, Royal Netherlands Institute of
South East Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Professor of Indonesian
History, University of Amsterdam<br><br>
<br><br>
<div align="center">For more information you may contact Margo Collett at
<a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>. <br>
This seminar series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in
Science, Technology, and Society.<br>
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