[Sci-tech-public] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History 2009-2010

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on

Environmental and Agricultural History

    2009 - 2010



       Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM

     Building E51 Room 095

Massachusetts Institute of Technology





November 6         “Bound in Twine: Changes in Technology,  
Agriculture, and Environment from a Commodities-Web Perspective”
                  				Sterling Evans, History, University of Oklahoma

December 4         “Art, Science, and Money: Field Guides to the Birds, 
1889-2009”
      						Thomas R. Dunlap, History, Texas A & M University

February 19         “Dead as Dirt: An Environmental History of the  
Dead Body”
                  				Ellen Stroud, Environmental Studies, Bryn Mawr  
College

March 19             “Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers  
and the Modern Environmental Culture”
                  				Joseph E. Taylor III, History and Geography,  
Simon Fraser University and University of Portland

April 9         	 “Observing Nature at the Edges: British Naturalists  
on the Shore during the Napoleonic Wars”
                  				Anne Secord, History and Philosophy of Science,  
University of Cambridge

April 23 		 “Reintroducing the US West’s Creatures of Empire with  
Navaho Churro Sheep and California Tamspot Pigs: Gleaning Pasts and  
Futures in Thickened Presents”
                 				Donna Haraway, History of Consciousness and  
Women’s Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz




For more information, 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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