[Sci-tech-public] Zoom Link to A+H+STS Colloquium Talk Series with Daniel Immerwahr - “This Too Shall Burn: America in the Age of Wood” (Today at 4 PM)

[Willamina Hadley]

Dear MIT Community,

The Program in Science, Technology, and Society invites you to join us today at 4:00 PM in the Nexus at Hayden Library for the first lecture in our Colloquium Talk Series, “This Too Shall Burn: America in the Age of Wood” with Daniel Immerwahr.

America has been, historically, a land of trees. This made its built environment thoroughgoingly wooden and, as a consequence, alarmingly combustible. In the same way that fossil fuels are today the source of our abundance but also the cause of a dreaded apocalypse, wood was the source of American abundance and the cause of constant, harrowing fires. In This Too Shall Burn, Daniel Immerwahr asks how those hair-raising fires have shaped—or scarred—the American past.

Daniel Immerwahr<https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/daniel-immerwahr/> is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. He is the author of Thinking Small (Harvard, 2015) and the award-winning How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States<https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250251091/howtohideanempire/>, which was a New York Times critics’ top book of 2019 and has been translated into seven languages. Immerwahr is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and has had essays published in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Harper's, The New Republic, and the New York Review of Books. He is currently a 2024–2025 Radcliffe fellow performing research and writing a fire history of the United States.

To attend the lecture and Q+A virtually, please use the following zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/96632389426

This jointly sponsored talk with STS, Anthropology, and History is free to the MIT community and to the public. Please see the attached flyer for more details. We hope to see you there!

Thank you,
Program in Science, Technology, and Society


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