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<div><span style="font-family: Karla; font-size: 12pt;" class="">The second Cross-STS for this Spring is coming up!</span><br class="">
<span style="font-family: Karla; font-size: 12pt;" class="">In this upcoming Cross-STS, we explore the industrialization of food production in the United States. Bringing together historical and ethnographic perspectives, our speakers will talk about their
work on the past and the future of American agribusiness, where not only machines but also non-human species are subject to the industrial mode of production. What challenges might industrial farming of plants and animals pose to how we think about the ethics
of consumption and multi-species coexistence on a climate-changing planet? Join us on</span><b class="" style="font-family: Karla; font-size: 12pt;"> Thursday, March 12, at 05:30pm (E51-095)</b><span style="font-family: Karla; font-size: 12pt;" class="">.
Dinner and snacks will be served!</span><br class="">
<span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Karla; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic;" class="">About Our Speakers:</span><br class="">
<span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Karla; font-weight: 700;">Alex Blanchette </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Karla;">is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. His research concerns the politics of
industrial labor and life in a post-industrial United States. His upcoming book, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Karla; font-style: italic;">Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the "Factory" Farm </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Karla;">(2020),
is an ethnography of labor within large-scale meat corporations.</span><br class="">
<span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Karla; font-weight: 700;">Deborah Fitzgerald </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Karla;">is Professor of the History of Technology at MIT. Her research focuses on agriculture in twentieth-century
America. Her latest book, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Karla; font-style: italic;">Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Karla;">(2003), discusses
the transformation of agricultural practice in America from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity in the early twentieth century. She is currently working on a project about the industrialization of food during World War II. </span><br class="">
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</span></font>Best wishes,<br class="">
Boyd and Alex<br class="">
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