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X-Posted from H-NET List for Environmental History <H-ENVIRONMENT@H-NET.MSU.EDU> From: Melissa Wiedenfeld <mwiedenfeld@FCDARWIN.ORG.EC> -------------------- From: "Margo Collett" <mcollett@MIT.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Modern Times, Rural Places Seminar Series at MIT, Spring 2005 Modern Times, Rural Places: Seminar Series at MIT Spring 2005 Sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 PM Building E51 Room 095 Massachusetts Institute of Technology February 4 Tropical Infertility: Scientific Research on Soils and People in Equatorial Africa, 1880-1940 Helen Tilley, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University February 18 Caring for Nature: Practical Zoology and Nature Protection in Nineteenth Century Germany Lynn Nyhart, Associate Professor of History of Science, University of Wisconsin March 11 Wrangling over the Range: Land Ownership and the Fate of Ranching in the American West Patricia Limerick, Professor of History and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado, Director, Center of the American West April 8 Safari Culture: Gorilla Expeditions in the African Highlands or Domesticating the Wild from Paul du Chaillu to Dian Fossey Janet Browne, Professor of the History of Medicine, University College, London April 22 Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Dogs as Gambling Technology in Nineteenth Century Britain Edmund Russell, Associate Professor of Environmental History and History of Technology, University of Virginia May 6 The Man-Eating Tiger a Colonial Myth? Four Centuries of Confrontation between Humans and Tigers Peter Boomgaard, Senior Researcher, Royal Netherlands Institute of South East Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Professor of Indonesian History, University of Amsterdam For more information, you may contact Margo Collett at mcollett@mit.edu This seminar series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
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