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