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nice to see some geographers -----Original Message----- From: Cynthia Richardson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 06 June 2001 22:15 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Series: Modern Times, Rural Places Dear colleagues, We would like to let you know about "Modern Times, Rural Places," a seminar series that will take place at MIT throughout the next academic year. The series will focus on change in agrarian and environmental contexts, particularly as influenced by technological and scientific ideologies and practices. It is part of the Sawyer Seminars program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Seminar will meet on Friday afternoons from 2:00 to 4:00. The location will be at MIT, in E51-095, on Memorial Drive and Wadsworth Street. Below is the schedule of speakers. If you would like to be put on a mailing list to receive further information about the seminar (titles of the talks, logistical information, etc.), please contact Diane St. Laurent at [log in to unmask] We hope you will be able to join us in the fall! Best regards, Deborah Fitzgerald Harriet Ritvo Program in Science Technology and Society History Faculty "MODERN TIMES, RURAL PLACES" Fall 2001 Spring 2002 Schedule Sessions from 2:00 4:00 p.m., MIT in Room E51-095 September 28, 2001 Sarah Franklin Reader in Cultural Anthropology University of Lancaster October 12, 2001 Sara Pritchard Sawyer Seminar Fellow MIT October 26, 2001 Liana Vardi Associate Professor of History State University of New York - Buffalo November 16, 2001 Shepard Krech III Professor of Anthropology Brown University November 30, 2001 Leo Marx Kenan Professor of American Cultural History MIT January 4 2002 James Scott Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology Director of Agrarian Studies Yale University January 25, 2002 Richard White Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Stanford University February 8, 2002 David Lowenthal Professor Emeritus of Geography University College, London February 22, 2002 Elinor Melville Associate Professor of History York University March 1, 2002 Michael Watts Chancellor's Professor of Geography University of Califoria - Berkeley March 15, 2002 John Stilgoe Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Harvard University April 5, 2002 William Cronon Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin Madison April 12, 2002 Richard Drayton University Lecturer in Imperial History University of Cambridge April 19, 2002 Louis Warren Associate Professor of History University of California Davis May 17, 2002 Arturo Escobar Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill