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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This seminar series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program
in Science, Technology,
and Society.
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