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
Upcoming Events
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)
Angelo Caglioti , Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University
November 7, 2025
2:30pm – 4:00pm
MIT Campus E51-285 Hybrid Event Registration Required
Seminars in Environmental Agricultural History Series
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)
Sarah Phillips, Associate Professor of History at Boston University
November 14, 2025
2:30pm – 4:00pm
MIT Campus E51-285 Hybrid Event Registration Required
Seminars in Environmental Agricultural History Series
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)
December 5: German Vergara, Associate Professor of History at Georgia Tech
December 5, 2025
2:30pm – 4:00pm
MIT Campus E51-285 Hybrid Event Registration Required
Seminars in Environmental Agricultural History Series


