MIT Seminar on Environmental and
Agricultural History
“My Life as a Mosquito: Narrative, Disease, and Agro-Ecology in a
Malaria Landscape”
James McCann
Professor of History, Boston University
Current research links malaria transmission with the expansion of
maize in Ethiopia. This paper addresses the problems facing the
historian who seeks to tell the story of agro-ecology, disease, and
human agency in a specific historical landscape.
Friday, February 13, 2009
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Building E51 Room 095
Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge
Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the
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