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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

November 7 : The “Scientific Conquest of the Empire”: Fascist Infrastructures and Italian science in Ethiopia (1935-1940)Angelo Caglioti , Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University

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November 14: Indian Landlords and Socialist Votes: Imperial Indigestion in Oklahoma, Sarah Phillips, Associate Professor of History at Boston University

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December 5: Becoming History: Species Extinctions in the Americas, 13000 BCE to the Present, German Vergara, Associate Professor of History at Georgia Tech

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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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