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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear MIT Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Program in Science, Technology, and Society invites you to join us
<b>today at 4:00 PM in the Nexus at Hayden Library </b>for the first lecture in our Colloquium Talk Series,
<b><span style="color:black;background:white">“This Too Shall Burn: America in the Age of Wood”
</span></b><span style="color:black;background:white">with Daniel Immerwahr.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">America has been, historically, a land of trees. This made its built environment thoroughgoingly wooden and, as a consequence, alarmingly combustible. In the same way that fossil fuels are today
the source of our abundance but also the cause of a dreaded apocalypse, wood was the source of American abundance and the cause of constant, harrowing fires. In
<i>This Too Shall Burn</i>, Daniel Immerwahr asks how those hair-raising fires have shaped—or scarred—the American past.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/daniel-immerwahr/">Daniel Immerwahr</a> is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. He is the
author of <i>Thinking Small</i> (Harvard, 2015) and the award-winning <i><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250251091/howtohideanempire/">How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States</a></i>, which was a New York Times critics’ top
book of 2019 and has been translated into seven languages. Immerwahr is a contributing writer for
<i>The New Yorker</i> and has had essays published in the <i>New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Harper's, The New Republic,
</i>and the<i> New York Review of Books</i>. He is currently a 2024–2025 Radcliffe fellow performing research and writing a fire history of the United States.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To attend the lecture and Q+A virtually, please use the following zoom link:
<a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/96632389426">https://mit.zoom.us/j/96632389426</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This jointly sponsored talk with STS, Anthropology, and History is free to the MIT community and to the public. Please see the attached flyer for more details. We hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Mina Hadley | MIT (she/her)</b><br>
Events and Communications Assistant<br>
Program in Science, Technology, & Society<br>
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