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After 1492: Globalization as a Biological Process

Poster Collage, large - 2015-2016Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Center, Medford Campus
12 pm – Lunch Provided!
Join us for this weekly, TIE-sponsored ENVS event!

This week’s Lunch & Learn will be presented by no other than best-selling author Charles C. Mann, author of 1491, which won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Keck award for the best book of the year, and 1493, a New York Times best-seller.  Mr. Mann is also a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many newspapers and magazines here and abroad.

Description of the Presentation: The two dates that mark the beginning of globalization are 1492 (when, famously, Columbus voyaged to the Americas) and 1571 (when, much less famously, Legazpi bloodily founded the Spanish colony of Manila). From these beginnings came today’s globe-spanning network of exchange. Increasingly, this exchange–and is impacts–is understood in terms as much ecological as economic, in terms of vessels from distant lands causing previously separate ecosystems to collide. The “Columbian Exchange,” as this ongoing worldwide ecological convulsion is known, was the biggest event in the history of life since the death of the dinosaurs, and a vital part of the human story as well.

If you can’t make it to the Rabb Room, watch it live here!


TIE is a proud sponsor of the Environmental Studies Lunch & Learn lecture series.

Every week during the academic year, ENVS features speakers from government, industry, academia and non-profit organizations to give presentations on environmental topics. This is a great opportunity to broaden your knowledge beyond the curriculum, meet other faculty and students and network with the speakers. See a full list of the upcoming speakers here!

Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community are welcome to attend.

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