<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="text-align: center; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History<o:p></o:p></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">“Earthsickness: Circumnavigation and the Terrestrial Human Body, 1520-1800”<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">Joyce Chaplin</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">Department of History, Harvard University<o:p></o:p></font></p><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"> </font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">From the 1500s into the early 1800s, most of the mariners who tried to go around the world died, mostly of scurvy. Commentary on their suffering represented a meaningful event in the conceptualization of the human body as the planetary entity: circumnavigation offered their scorbutic bodies as evidence that humans were terrestrial creatures, physically suited to the earthly parts of a terraqueous globe.</font><o:p></o:p></font></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Friday, March 23, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">2:30 – 4:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Building E51-095<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 800; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Sponsored by the MIT History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Contact <a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a> for more information or to be put on the mailing list.</span></p></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>