<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Public Lecture at MIT </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>Chris Henke </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colgate University </div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></p><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>Contested Fields: Agriculture and Environmental Conflicts through the Lens of 'Place' </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">In a world of increasingly global connections, agriculture is both part of these widespread networks but also still rooted to the specific "places" where crops are produced. This literal grounding of agriculture makes it a potential site for conflict over the environmental impacts of farming, serving as a place for diverse interests to contest the practices and technologies used in specific locations. The example of agricultural biotechnology makes a useful case to explore the place-based conflicts over agriculture in the early twenty-first century. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 16.8px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><b>September 30, 2011 </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 16.8px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><b>4 PM </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 16.8px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><b>Building E51- 095 </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 16.8px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><b>Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 16.8px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 14.4px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 14.4px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">This event is part of WHEATS 2011 (Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science), sponsored by MIT's departments of History, Anthropology, STS, and the SHASS Dean's Office. For more information go to <a href="http://wheats.mit.edu/">wheats.mit.edu</a>. </div></body></html>