MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
2011 - 2012
Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM
Building E51 Room 095
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 23 The American Supermarket and the Cold War
“Farms Race”
Shane Hamilton,
History, University of Georgia
October 28 Islands in the Stream of Environmental History
Graeme Wynn, Geography,
University of British Columbia
November 18 Plant Transfers, Imperialism, and Biodiversity:
A View from Africa
William Beinart,
History and African Studies, Oxford University
February 24 A Landscape Architect in the Twin Cities:
Western Settlement, Indian Mounds, and America’s Most Radical Park System
Aaron Sachs, History,
Cornell University
March 16 Earthsickness: Circumnavigation and the Origins
of Planetary Consciousness, 1520-1830
Joyce Chaplin, History,
Harvard University
April 20 Beyond Yosemite! A Three-part Guide to
Reimagining the American Landscape
Jenny Price, Free-lance
writer in Los Angeles
For more information, contact Margo Collett at [email protected]. This seminar
series is sponsored
by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, Technology, and Society._______________________________________________
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