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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nTuesday, March 04, 2025 4:00 pm to 6:00 p
 m \n Seminar Room #10031 \n Floor 10 \n 700 University Ave, Toronto, ON 
 M5G 1X6 \n\nSpeakers \nJayson Maurice Porter \n\nDescription: \nThis lectu
 re follows the emergence and popularization of arsenic insecticides from t
 he end of slavery in the United States on Jan 1, 1863 to Rachel Carson's 
 Silent Spring (1962). Across these nearly hundred years of increasingly si
 lent springs, arsenic served as an original toxin during the rise of indu
 strial agriculture. It also acted as emerging technology that reinforced a
 nd expanded racial divisions of labor in the countryside, especially in r
 egards to race-based justifications for, and practices of, arsenical dus
 ting on cotton pests. Arsenic helped maintain the political economy of whi
 te supremacy and US empire. This story begins in the United States but doe
 s not end there. This lecture will detail how arsenic travelled through em
 pires as a measure of global agricultural modernization from Mexico to Per
 u, South Africa, Palestine, and the world over. I insist that we can no
 t fully understand what started and turned the Green Revolution without an
 alyzing how arsenic cycled and propelled through racism and empire during 
 the Second Industrial Revolution or Chemical Revolution (1870-1914). the A
 ge of Empires (1870-1914), and mid-twentieth century.Bio: Jayson Maurice 
 Porter is an environmental writer and historian who serves as a Presidenti
 al Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department and a Black and Indigenou
 s Climate Faculty Fellow in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gende
 r, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He
  specializes in black and Indigenous environmental histories, agricultura
 l and food systems, agrochemicals (especially arsenic-based insecticides)
 , cultural histories of ecology and botany, and environmental histories 
 of revolution, resistance, and land reform. He also is the principal gro
 undskeeper and curator of The CEDAR Gallery, centering ecologies, diaspo
 ras, and ancestral roots, at UMD's Indigenous Futures Lab.Beyond academi
 a, he is also an environmental justice practitioner who supports and desi
 gns environmental literacy programs with a number of institutions and comm
 unities, such as the Chicago Teachers’ Union Environmental Justice Freedo
 m School and Rutgers University’s Black Ecologies Lab. Lastly, he is an e
 ditorial board member of both the North American Congress on Latin America
  (NACLA) and Plant Perspectives: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and serves
  as the Board Chair of One Square World (1SW), a non-profit organization 
 dedicated to creating liberatory systems for racial and environmental just
 ice.Organizer: This event is part of the 2025 Technoscience Salon, hosted
  by the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto. Launched
  in 2008, the Technoscience Salon is an open forum for entangling intelle
 ctual and political questions about technoscience while remixing the disci
 plines composing Science and Technology Studies (STS). This year, the sal
 on is asking: What is a Chemical?  \n\nSponsors \nTechnoscience Research U
 nit \n700 University Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 1X6 \n\nCategories \n Lecture 
 \n\nAudiences \n All
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LOCATION:700 University Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 1X6
SUMMARY:A Hundred Silent Springs: Arsenic Cycles through Race and Empire
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