Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)
This seminar series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
Sessions are held from 2:30 to 4:30 pm on campus in E51-095. Hybrid event, pre registration required.
For more information, contact history-info@mit.edu.
Fall 2023
October 6, 2023 * NEW DATE*
Who Gets to Have an Environmental History, and What Kind? Energy, Property, and the Making of Legible Landscapes in the American South
Abby Spinak, Harvard
Hybrid Event, register here
November 17, 2023
The Practical Prophet: On June Jordan’s Intellectual Thought and Political Vision”
J.T, Roane , Rutgers
Hybrid Event, register here
December 01, 2023
A Gravid Pursuit: Secrets in Rattlesnake Country
Whitney Barlow Robles , Dartmouth
Hybrid Event, register here
Spring 2024
February 2 ,2024
“Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East ”
Samuel Dolbee , Vanderbilt University
February 9, 2024
“ Indigeneity, environmentalism and pipelines: Estonian perspective on late Soviet indigenous imaginary and its afterlife”
Linda Kaljundi , Estonian Academy of Arts
March 1, 2024
Water, Waste, and Race:
Environmental Politics during the Nineteenth Century Gold Rushes
Mae Ngai, Columbia University
March 8, 2024
The Burden of Beasts: Debating the Energetics of the Sacred Cow in Postcolonial India
Elizabeth Chatterjee, University of Chicago
Upcoming Events
A Gravid Pursuit: Secrets in Rattlesnake Country
WHITEY BARLOW ROBLES VISITING SCHOLAR DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
December 1, 2023
2:30pm – 4:00pm
Hybrid Event MIT Campus E51-095
Seminars in Environmental Agricultural History Series
