MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
2010 - 2011
Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM
Building E51 Room 095
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
September 17 Lions and Stray Cats: The Animal Projects of the Early
Paris Academy of Sciences
Anita Guerrini, History, Oregon State
University
October 15 Seeds of Memory: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the
Atlantic World
Judith Carney, Geography, University of
California, Los Angeles
December 3 Frontiers of Discovery: Changing Meanings of “Frontier” from
Frederick Jackson Turner to John F. Kennedy and Beyond
Helen Rozwadowski, History, University of
Connecticut
March 18 Alligator Tales: The Cultural and Environmental History
of a Charismatic Carnivore
Mark Barrow, History, Virginia Tech
April 8 Can Agricultural Biotechnology Alleviate Third World
Poverty? Reflections on Green Revolutions Past and Present
Jonathan Harwood, History of Science,
Technology, and Medicine, Manchester University
April 29 Betting the Future: Population Growth and Resource
Scarcity Debates in the 1970s
Paul Sabin, History, Yale University
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