Cape Cod - Annual Summer Luncheon
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Annual Summer Luncheon
with
Edward D. Melillo
Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies
speaking on
Biopiracy in the Age of Empires
Friday, August 14, 2015
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Eastward Ho! Country Club
325 Fox Hill Road
Chatham, MA 02633
508-945-9230
$45 per person
$20 for young alumni (2009-2015)
Complimentary for new students and their families and current students
Includes meal, tax and gratuity
Cash bar available
$20 Association dues (optional)
Association dues help offer a book award to deserving local high school graduates.
R.S.V.P. by August 7, 2015 and indicate your choice of cod, stuffed chicken or vegetarian entrees.
Europe's empires were as much botanical enterprises as they were political, social, and economic projects. Professor Melillo's talk explores three instances of imperial biopiracy--or the robbery of indigenous environmental knowledge and protected organisms--during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These biological thefts not only changed colonial landscapes, they profoundly altered our global environment.
Questions? Please contact Jeff Dykens '75, P'08 at
jdykens@capecodhealth.org or (774) 836-3436