MIT Seminar on
Environmental and Agricultural History
(formerly Modern Times, Rural Places)
Spring 2008
Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM
Building E51 Room 095
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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
May 2 "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
<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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