[Sci-tech-public] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History 2007-2008

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on
Environmental and Agricultural History
(formerly Modern Times, Rural Places)

2007-2008

Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM
Building E51 Room 095
Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


October 26             "Popular by Their Misery:  The British 
Response to a Colonial Disaster, 1825"
                                 Alan MacEachern, Professor of 
History, University of Western Ontario

November 16            "How Sick Was My Valley:  A History of Bodies, 
Ecologies, and Knowledge in California's Rural Landscape"
                                 Linda Nash, Assistant Professor of 
History, University of Washington

February 8                "'Wilding the Farm or Farming the Wild?' 
The Evolution of Game Ranching in Southern Africa, 1960s to the Present"
                                 Jane Carruthers, Professor of 
History, University of South Africa, Pretoria

February 29              "Industrializing Bodies:  Synthetic 
Hormones, Livestock, and Environmental Health in the Post-War Era"
                                 Nancy Langston, Professor, Nelson 
Institute of Environmental
                                 Studies and Department of Forest 
Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison

March 7                    "The Port Royal Earthquake and the World 
of Wonders in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica"
                                 Matthew Mulcahy, Associate Professor 
of History, Loyola College

April 18                    "Empires of Energy, 1580-1980:  Fossil 
Fuels and Geopolitics"
                                 John McNeill, Professor of History, 
Georgetown University



For more information, you may contact Margo Collett at 
<file:///mailto:mcollett@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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