The Cosmology of Mining: Ecological Knowledge in Qing China
Tristan Brown of MIT Register for this event This seminar is part of the Seminars in Environmental Agricultural History Series and is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and Program in Science, Technology, and Society. For more information, contact kalopes@mit.edu
Book Launch: Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (MIT Press, 2021)
Join us on Zoom to celebrate the launch of the book Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (MIT Press, 2021) with editors Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine D’Ignazio, and Kristin Veel. Contributing authors present include: Os Keyes, "(Mis)gendering" Boaz Levin & Vera Tollmann, "Proxies" (with Wendy Hui Kyong […]
Oriana Bernasconi: Documenting Atrocities: Human Rights Archives, Technologies of Resistance, and Insurgent Knowledge
“Documenting atrocities: Human Rights Archives, atrocities artifacts & insurgent knowledge” Abstract As Bickford et al. state, the “modern human rights movement has relied on documents of all forms since its […]
Robin C. Reineke: Forensic Citizenship Among Families of Missing Migrants Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
Forensic Citizenship Among Families of Missing Migrants Along the U.S.-Mexico Border Abstract Since the mid-1990s, US federal policy has funneled unauthorized migration through remote portions of the Sonoran Desert, resulting […]
(SEAH) Tony Perry, UVA: History of Slavery and Environmental Knowledge in Antebellum Maryland
This seminar series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, Technology, and Society. The co-conveners of the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH), including Megan Black […]
Book Talk with Anne Pollock, Ph.D, ’07: Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States
E51-095 MA, United StatesANNE POLLOCK, '07, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine King’s College, London SICKENING: ANTI-BLACK RACISM AND HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THE UNITED STATES An event-by-event look at how institutionalized […]
(SEAH) Bartow Elmore, OH State: History of Monsanto and Ecological Impacts of Agrochemical Industries
This seminar series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and Program in Science, Technology, and Society. The co-conveners of the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH), including Megan Black […]
Sandra Ristovska: Seeing Human Rights: How Video Serves Distinct Policy Functions
Seeing Human Rights: How Video Serves Distinct Policy Functions Sandra Ristovska Abstract Visual technologies have long constituted a crucial element of struggles for human rights and social change. There are […]