<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: center; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: -66pt; "><span style="color: rgb(41, 0, 16); letter-spacing: 1.3pt; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; ">MIT Seminar on</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-right: -66pt; "><span style="color: rgb(41, 0, 16); letter-spacing: 1.3pt; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; ">Environmental and Agricultural History</span></font></i></b></span><span style="color: rgb(41, 0, 16); letter-spacing: 1.3pt; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-right: -66pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); letter-spacing: 1.3pt; "><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: normal; "> 2009 - 2010</span></span></font></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-right: -66pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#003300" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><i><br></i></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-right: -66pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-size: 15px; "><b> </b></span><span style="color: rgb(41, 0, 16); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM</span></font></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -66pt; "><span style="color: rgb(41, 0, 16); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> Building E51 Room 095</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -66pt; "><span style="color: rgb(41, 0, 16); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">November 6 </span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">“Bound in Twine: Changes in Technology, Agriculture, and Environment from a Commodities-Web Perspective”</span></font></i></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Sterling Evans</span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, </span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">History, University of Oklahoma</span></font></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">December 4 </span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">“Art, Science, and Money: Field Guides to the Birds,1889-2009”</span></font></i></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Thomas R. Dunlap</span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, </span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">History</span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, </span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Texas A & M University</span></font></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">February 19 </span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">“Dead as Dirt: An Environmental History of the Dead Body</span></font></i></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; ">”</span><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Ellen Stroud,</span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> Environmental Studies, Bryn Mawr College</span></font></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">March 19 </span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">“Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers and the Modern Environmental Culture”</span></font></i></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Joseph E. Taylor III</span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, </span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">History and Geography, Simon Fraser University and University of Portland</span></font></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">April 9 </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> “Observing Nature at the Edges: British Naturalists on the Shore during the Napoleonic Wars”</span></font></span></span></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Anne Secord, </span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge</span></font></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">April 23 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> “Reintroducing the US West’s Creatures of Empire with Navaho Churro Sheep and California Tamspot Pigs: Gleaning Pasts and Futures in Thickened Presents”</span></font></span></span></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Donna Haraway</span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, </span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">History of Consciousness and Women’s Studies,</span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">University of California at Santa Cruz</span></font></span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span></blockquote></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: -66pt; text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#003300"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: 1px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><i></i></span></font></b></span></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#003300" size="7"><b><i><div align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 96pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -120pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 96pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -120pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 96pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -120pt; "><span style="color: rgb(41, 0, 16); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">For more information, contact Margo Collett at </span></font><a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu"><span style="color: rgb(41, 0, 16); text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">mcollett@mit.edu</span></font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">. This seminar series is sponsored</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 96pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -120pt; "><span style="color: rgb(41, 0, 16); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, Technology, and Society.</span></font></span></div></span></font></div></i></b></font></div></body></html>