Industrializing Organisms: Plants, Animals and Technology

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

Conference sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA), April 4-6, 2002.

RCHA seeks papers on when, where, and how industrializing humans have sought to "improve" plants and animals in order to better integrate them into technological processes and systems during the rise of modern industrial societies. For more detailed information, contact the RCHA at rcha@rci.rutgers.edu. Send cover letter, one-page abstract, and brief vita by December 1, 2001 to: Philip Scranton and Susan Schrepfer, RCHA, 88 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Materials may also be emailed to rcha@rci.rutgers.edu