[Sci-tech-public] Modern Times, Rural Places Seminar Series at MIT, Spring 2005

[Margo Collett]

Modern Times, Rural Places:

Seminar Series at MIT

Spring 2005


Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM
Building E51 Room 095
Massachusetts Institute of Technology



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

April 8                           Safari Culture:  Gorilla Expeditions in 
the African Highlands or Domesticating the Wild from Paul du Chaillu 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 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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