[Sci-tech-public] Modern Times, Rural Places seminar series at MIT

[Margo Collett]

Modern Times, Rural Places:

Seminar Series at MIT



Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM

Building E51 Room 095

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


2004 - 2005



October 22              Slavery and the "Sunny South":  Climate, Race, and 
Place

                                       Mart Stewart, Professor of History, 
Western Washington University



December 10           A Tale of Two Cities:  Mining, Health, and Nature on 
the Western Frontier

                                       Gregg Mitman, Professor of History 
of Medicine, History of Science, and Social Studies, University of Wisconsin



February 4               Tropical Infertility:  Scientific Research on 
Soils and People in Equatorial Africa, 1880-1940

                                       Helen Tilley, Assistant Professor of 
History, Princeton University



February 18             Caring for Nature:  Practical Zoology and Nature 
Protection in Nineteenth Century Germany

                                       Lynn Nyhart, Associate Professor of 
History of Science, University of  Wisconsin



March 11                 Wrangling over the Range:  Land Ownership and the 
Fate of the American West

                                       Patricia Limerick, Professor of 
History and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado, Director, Center 
for the American West



April 8                      Safari Culture:  Gorilla Expeditions in the 
African Highlands or Domesticating the Wild
from Paul du Chillu to Dian Fossey

                                       Janet Browne, Professor of the 
History of Medicine, University College, London



April 22                    Blood, Sweat, and Tears:  Dogs as Gambling 
Technology in Nineteenth Century Britain

                                       Edmund Russell, Associate Professor 
of Environmental History and History of Technology, University of Virginia



May 6                      The Man-Eating Tiger a Colonial Myth? Four 
Centuries of Confrontation between Humans and Tigers

                                       Peter Boomgaard, Senior Researcher, 
Royal Netherlands Institute of South East Asian and Caribbean Studies 
(KITLV), Professor of Indonesian History, University of Amsterdam



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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