The Metropolitan History Workshop presents a public lecture:

Landscapes of Knowledge:

History and the High-Tech Suburb,

from the Bay Area to Bangalore

Margaret Pugh O'Mara

Assistant Professor of History

University of Washington

Friday, Sept. 14, 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Angell Hall, Room G115

Margaret O'Mara is the author of Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005). Her lecture is drawn from a new book project about the metropolitan landscapes of knowledge production (university campuses, research parks, high-tech districts) through comparative analysis of the United States, China, and India.

For additional information, please contact Matt Lassiter at mlassite@umich.edu

or visit <http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/metro/metroworkshop.html>.