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<div style="text-align: center; "><b>MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History</b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(47, 47, 47); ">‘Fluvio-centric currents of river history: from the Mersey to the Po’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(47, 47, 47); ">Peter Coates, University of Bristol</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(47, 47, 47); ">In many environmental histories, rivers feature primarily as victims of human abuse. This talk shifts the perspective, focusing on what rivers
do to us rather than what we do to them. Rivers illustrate the limits of human authority as well as our transformative abilities, and their capacity to shape and inspire us is as strong as our ability to harness and pollute them. With reference to six bodies
of water - the Danube, the Spree in eastern Germany, Italy’s Po, the Mersey in northwest England, the Yukon and the Los Angeles River – Coates will examine the possibilities of a fluvio-centric version of liquid history. Rather than a view from the bridge,
he considers the view from under the bridge.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><o:p> Friday, May 10, 2013</o:p></p>
<div style="text-align: center; ">2:30 to 4:30 pm</div>
<div style="text-align: center; ">Building E51 Room 095</div>
<div style="text-align: center; ">Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge</div>
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<div style="text-align: center; ">Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing list contact <a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>.</div>
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