[Env seminars] Modern Times, Rural Places: Seminar Series at MIT

[Margo Collett]

Modern Times, Rural Places:

Seminar Series at MIT

2005 - 2006


Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM

Building E51 Room 095
(Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge, MA)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology




September 23                Husbandry Was Once a Sacred Art:  Environmental 
History and the Future of Conservation
                                     Brian Donahue, Associate Professor of 
American Environmental Studies and Director, Environmental Studies Program, 
Brandeis University


October 21                    The Building of European Forests
                                     Bernd-Stefan Grewe, Assistant 
Professor, University of Constance


December 2                   Sanemori's Revenge:  Insect Technologies, 
Eco-System Accidents, and Environmental History in Japan
                                     Brett Walker, Associate Professor of 
History, Montana State University - Bozeman


February 10                   Beauty and the Bourgeoisie: A History of 
Bland Fruit
                                     Suzanne Freidberg, Associate Professor 
of Geography, Dartmouth College


March 10                       The Husbandry of John Muir
                                     Donald Worster, Joyce and Elizabeth 
Hall Professor of U.S. History, University of Kansas


April 7                           The "Disease Among Us":  Agriculture, 
Public Health, and the Bovine Tuberculosis Debates
                                     Susan D. Jones, Associate Professor of 
History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota



For more information, you may contact Margo Collett at 
<mailto:mcollett at mit.edu>mcollett at mit.edu.
This seminar series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in 
Science, Technology,
and Society.
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