<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="margin-right: -66pt; text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); letter-spacing: 1.3pt; ">MIT Seminar on </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); letter-spacing: 1.3pt; ">Environmental and Agricultural History</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); letter-spacing: 1.3pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-right: -66pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><b> 2011 - 2012</b><i><o:p></o:p></i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-right: -66pt; "><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-right: -66pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><span> <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></span></span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-right: -66pt; "><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span> </span>Building E51 Room 095<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-right: -66pt; "><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span></span>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 120pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -120pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 120pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -120pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">September 23<span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">The American Supermarket and the Cold War “Farms Race”<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span> </span><span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span>Shane Hamilton, History, University of Georgia<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">October 28<span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">Islands in the Stream of Environmental History</span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span> </span><span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span>Graeme Wynn, Geography, University of British Columbia<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">November 18<span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">Plant Transfers, Imperialism, and Biodiversity: A View from Africa</span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span> </span><span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span>William Beinart, History and African Studies, Oxford University<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">February 24<span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">A Landscape Architect in the Twin Cities: Western Settlement, </span></b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">Indian Mounds, and America’s Most Radical Park System</span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><span> </span></span></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: large; color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><span> </span><span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Aaron Sachs</font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">,</font> </span><span style="font-size: large; color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">History, Cornell University<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">March 16<span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">Earthsickness: Circumnavigation and the Origins of Planetary Consciousness, 1520-1830<o:p></o:p></span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: large; "> </span><span style="font-size: large; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Joyce Chaplin,</font><b style="font-size: large; "> </b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">History, Harvard University<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><span> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">April 20<span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">Beyond Yosemite! A Three-part Guide to Reimagining the </span></b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><span> </span>American Landscape</span></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -1.5in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: large; color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><span> </span><span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Jenny Price,</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">F</font></span><span style="font-size: large; color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">ree-lance writer in Los Angeles<o:p></o:p></span></font></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, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></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, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: -66pt; margin-left: 96pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -96pt; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></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, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></o:p></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, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></o:p></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, 0, 144); "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></o:p></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, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">For more information, contact Margo Collett at <a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 144); ">mcollett@mit.edu</span></a>. This seminar series is sponsored<o:p></o:p></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, 0, 144); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, Technology, and Society.</font></span></div></body></html>