Dear fellow alumni,
On behalf of our local MIT alumni organizations, I would like to formally invite you to attend a brief talk and dinner with Prof. Deborah K Fitzgerald, Dean of MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Her bio is below and attached.
Event details have been confirmed as follows:
Location: TusPark Club, 27F, Block A, SP Tower, Tsinghua Science Park
(Tel: 86-10- 82151965)
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Date: Friday, Jan. 23rd, 2009
Time: 5:00-6:00pm Talk by Dean Fitzgerald 6:00-7:00pm Dinner.
Cost: Estimated at RMB 200 per person (if attending dinner and talk), Estimated at RMB 50 per person (if only attending the talk)
RSVP: Professor Wang Hong, hongwang.studio @ gmail.com, 8846.9948
Please indicate ASAP if you plan to attend so we can book the proper number of tables and confirm costs with TusPark. She is only spending 1 day in Beijing, so we hope you can make the event. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Professor Wang Hong.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Professor Wang Hong
[edit] About Dean Fitzgerald
Deborah Fitzgerald is the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT, and Professor of the history of technology in the Program in Science, Technology and Society. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 1988, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D from University of Pennsylvania (History and Sociology of Science) in 1985. Her work includes the books The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, 1890-1940 (Cornell University Press, 1990), and "Every Farm a Factory": The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (Yale University Press, 2003), which won the Theodore Saloutos Prize for the best book in agricultural history in 2003 from the Agricultural History Society. She has published essays and articles on deskilling in agriculture, the Rockefeller Foundation's agricultural experiences, the modernization of agricultural practice and thinking, and regional food systems. Fitzgerald is former co-editor (with Pete Daniel) of the "Revisiting Rural America" monograph series at Johns Hopkins University Press, and is an advisory editor for Technology and Culture and Environmental History. She has served as President of the Agricultural History Society, as well as many committees in the Agricultural History Society, the American Society for Environmental History, and the Society for the History of Technology. She has been awarded three National Science Foundation Fellowships. With Harriet Ritvo, Fitzgerald received a Sawyer Seminar Grant from the Mellon Foundation in 2001 to inaugurate a colloquium series "Modern Times, Rural Places," which continues at MIT as the MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History. Her current research focuses on the industrialization of food and agriculture in 20th century America. Image:Dean Fitzgerald.pdf