Plants and Plagues
Jean Beagle Ristaino of North Carolina State University, John McNeill of Georgetown University, and Tristan Brown of MIT
November 13, 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Online Zoom Meeting
The History of Now
Events
Book Talk with History Lecturer, Pouya Alimagham
Please join us as History Lecturer, Pouya Alimagham, discusses his new book.
November 13, 2020
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Online Event
Thinking Forward Through the Past-Requiem for the Farm Animal
Karen Sayer, Leeds Trinity University
November 6, 2020
2:30pm – 4:30pm
Online Zoom Meeting
Seminars in Environmental Agricultural History Series
Public Health, Biopower, and Inequality
Carlo Caduff of King’s College London and Amy Moran-Thomas of MIT
October 30, 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Online Zoom Meeting
The History of Now
Demography and Biopower
Anne McCants of MIT and John Brown of Clark University
October 23, 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Online Zoom Meeting
The History of Now
Building the Perfect Human to Invade
An Indigenous Feminist Queer Analysis of the Pandemic on the Navajo Nation
October 21, 2020
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Online Zoom Meeting
McMillan-Stewart Lectures
MIT Women’s League Breakfast Series with Historian Caley Horan
BYOBreakfast and hear from one of MIT's wonderful History professors about her work and career
October 21, 2020
8:30am – 9:30am
Online via Zoom
The Invisible Scientist: Farmers, Plant Breeders, and the Uneven Modernization of Latin America’s Coffee
Stuart McCook of the University of Guelph
October 16, 2020
2:30pm – 4:30pm
Online Zoom Meeting
Seminars in Environmental Agricultural History Series
Immigration and Contagion
Nayan Shah of the University of Southern California and Natalia Molina of the University of California at San Diego
October 9, 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Online Zoom Meeting
The History of Now
Cities and the Plague
Cindy Ermus of the University of Texas at San Antonio and Martin Melosi of the University of Houston
October 2, 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Online Zoom Meeting
The History of Now
Beyond Bananas: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural ‘Diversification’
Megan Raby, University of Texas at Austin
September 25, 2020
2:30pm – 4:30pm
Online Zoom Meeting
Seminars in Environmental Agricultural History Series
Race and Pandemics
Adia Benton of Northwestern University and Kathryn Olivarius of Stanford University
September 18, 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Online Zoom Meeting
The History of Now
What is a “Pandemic”?
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan of Columbia University and Sylvia Hood Washington of Environmental Health Research Associates, LLC
September 11, 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Online Zoom Meeting
The History of Now
Craig Wilder leads discussion of The Central Park Five
Join us for a discussion of this film led by Craig Wilder.
July 10, 2020
12:00pm
Online Zoom Meeting
April 9, 2019
4:30pm – 6:00pm
MIT E51-095
Digital Zombies and Virtual Reality
Juliette Levy of University of California, Riverside speaks about energizing history and the humanities with digital tools & methods
March 5, 2019
4:30pm – 6:00pm
MIT E51-095
February 26, 2019
4:30pm – 6:00pm
MIT , E51-095
