Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)

This seminar series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

For more information, contact kalopes@mit.edu.

Fall 2025

2:30 -4:00 PM

Hybrid Event:  MIT Campus E51-285 , Registration Required –Coming Soon

November 7 : Angelo Caglioti , Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University
November 14: Sarah Phillips, Associate Professor of History at Boston University
December 5: German Vergara, Associate Professor of History at Georgia Tech

Spring 2026

Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History/Asia in Dialogue symposium

February 27 , 2026  2-5 PM

In person, MIT Campus Hayden Library Nexus

Invited Speakers: 

Micah Muscolino, Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California at San Diego

Sigrid Schmalzer, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Prakesh Kumar, Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University

Invited Discussants: 

Benjamin Siegel, Associate Professor of History at Boston University

Heather Roller, Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Colgate University

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