MIT Seminar on
Environmental and Agricultural History
2009 - 2010
Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM
Building E51 Room 095
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 6 “Bound in Twine: Changes in Technology,
Agriculture, and Environment from a Commodities-Web Perspective”
Sterling Evans, History,
University of Oklahoma
December 4 “Art, Science, and Money: Field Guides to the Birds,
1889-2009”
Thomas R. Dunlap, History, Texas A
& M University
February 19 “Dead as Dirt: An Environmental History of the
Dead Body”
Ellen Stroud, Environmental Studies, Bryn Mawr
College
March 19 “Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers
and the Modern Environmental Culture”
Joseph E. Taylor III, History and Geography,
Simon Fraser University and University of Portland
April 9 “Observing Nature at the Edges: British Naturalists
on the Shore during the Napoleonic Wars”
Anne Secord, History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Cambridge
April 23 “Reintroducing the US West’s Creatures of Empire with
Navaho Churro Sheep and California Tamspot Pigs: Gleaning Pasts and
Futures in Thickened Presents”
Donna Haraway, History of Consciousness and
Women’s Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz
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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