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6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 9, in AA 340; noon on Friday, Oct. 10 in FA 218

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The Material+Visual Worlds Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence welcomes Padraic X. Scanlan, of the University of Toronto, at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 9, in AA 340. Scanlan's lecture, "Rot: Appetite and Political Economy in Ireland before the Famine," addresses the role of the potato economy in the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century.

At noon on Friday, Oct. 10, Scanlan will participate in a lunchtime workshop in FA 218. The group will be discussing a draft chapter from his forthcoming book, "Steam", a cultural and social history of industrial and imperial Britain in the first half of the 19th century.

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Contact Tom McDonough tmcdonou@binghamton.edu, chair of M+VW-TAE or visit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jjj0QzkJFutAlLsrYjaa8BpbGCYDUPun/view?usp=sharing

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