[Sci-tech-public] RESEND Spring 2009 MIT Colloquia by Anthropology and History

[Margo Collett]

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Colloquia Sponsored by Anthropology and History

of the Joint Graduate Program

History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS)

GLOBAL SCIENCE STUDIES

in

AFRICA & ASIA & BEYOND

                            ANTHROPOLOGY       				HISTORY

  Bldg 16-220                 				Bldg E51-285




13 February        My Life as a Mosquito: Narrative, Disease, and Agro-
2:30 - 4 PM        Ecology in a Malaria Landscape
			     Jim McCann, Boston University

23 February        Fab Labs: Think Globally, Fabricate Locally
4 - 6 PM              Neil Gershenfeld, MIT

3 March               Making Enlightenment Newtonianism in France c.  
1700
4:30 - 6 PM        J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota

16 March             Anime Tech:  The Materiality of Japanese   
Animation, From Giant Robots to Tiny Toys
4 – 6 PM      Ian Condry, MIT

24 April                Woodlands, Meadows and a NATO Training
2:30 - 4 PM         Ground: Dioxin as Denouement
                               Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario

4 May                    Agricultural Biotechnology: Bollworms, Bt,  
the Group
4 - 6 PM                Dynamics of  Agricultural Performance
                                Glen stone, Washington University

8 May                    Empires of Energy 1580-1980:  Fossil Fuels
2:30 - 4 PM          and Geopolitics
                                John McNeill, Georgetown University


For more information contact mfischer at mit.edu
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