Latest Past Events
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH) – Becoming History: Species Extinctions in the Americas, 13000 BCE to the Present
Building E51 Room 285Please join us for the final SEAH of the Fall 2025 semester. This event will be held in a hybrid format, allowing participants to join in person or via Zoom. Prior registration is required to join via zoom. Friday, December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM Hybrid Event MIT Campus, Building E51, Room 285 Becoming History: […]
Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies Workshop – Perspectives from Behavioral Sciences
E51 - Wong Auditorium 2 Amherst Street, CambridgeReturning to MIT in Fall 2025 after a successful 2023 edition, Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies: Perspectives from the Behavioral Sciences is a two-day interdisciplinary workshop that brings together scholars and practitioners to explore the evolving dynamics of polarization. The workshop will be held on December 5th-6th in the Wong Auditorium at […]
Michał Pospiszyl “Escape Ecologies: Peasants, Nature, and Power in Eastern Europe, 1700-1850”
E51-275Michał Pospiszyl traces how the presence of escape ecologies (forests, swamps, wastelands) influenced the relationship between subjects and centers of power (nobility and state) in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the disasters at the turn of the eighteenth century—the Little Ice Age, eighty years of continuous warfare, epidemics, and economic […]