Thursday 25 February 2021 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Online
About
The Greenhouse is a meeting place for students and researchers interested the history and sociology of plants, food, agriculture and environment to explore how science and technology shape what we grow and eat. The regular programme of papers and discussions is curated in conjunction with the project From Collection to Cultivation, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
We meet fortnightly on Thursdays, 1–2pm, via Zoom. All welcome! If you're outside the Department and keen to join us, please email hps-cultivation@lists.cam.ac.uk
Organised by Helen Anne Curry and Jessica J. Lee.
This week, we'll discuss readings on plant health, quarantine, and epidemics, ahead of our speaker Stuart McCook on March 11.
- Jennifer K. Sedell. 'No fly zone? Spatializing regimes of perceptibility, uncertainty, and the ontological fight over quarantine pests in California.' Geoforum, in press (published online 2019).
- Jessica Wang. 'Plants, insects, and the biological management of American empire: tropical agriculture in early twentieth-century Hawai‘i.' History and Technology 35, no. 3 (2019): 203–236.