[E&E seminars] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, Friday, February 19, 2010

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History

Ellen Stroud, Bryn Mawr College



"Living Among the Dead:  Corpses and Property Rights in U.S. Environmental History"

Dead human bodies may not be merely material, yet they are physical objects of significance and value.  Who owns a corpse, and what rights and responsibilities does that ownership entail?  Over  the course of the twentieth century, Americans have answered those questions in very different ways, as their treatments – and uses – of dead bodies have transformed.  Likewise, the presence of human remains has had shifting effects on what owners are able to do with buildings, plots of  land, and rights of way.  In this talk, Ellen Stroud draws from the research for her book project Dead as Dirt: An Environmental History of the Dead Body to explore the ways in which modern Americans live with and among the material dead.



Friday, February 19, 2010

2:30 to 4:30 pm

Building E51 Room 095

Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge

 

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, please contact mcollett at mit.edu.

 
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