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SUMMARY:The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series: Truman’s Bomb and the Making of the Atomic Presidency
DESCRIPTION:When we think of the importance of the atomic bomb to the Truman presidency\, we think of Truman’s weighty decision regarding the use of the weapon on Japan. But historians have known for decades that the narrative of “the decision to use the bomb” is largely mythical\, and his actual role was mostly peripheral. But despite this\, Truman did make several decisions during the war that would have vast consequences for the future of nuclear weapons\, decisions that still resonate today. This talk will look at the making of the Atomic Presidency during the Truman administration: the regulations\, norms\, and procedures that invest the power to destroy the world in a single man alone\, which continue to govern our world to this day. \nAlex Wellerstein is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the College of Arts and Letters at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken\, New Jersey. He received his PhD from the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2010\, and has BA in History from the University of California\, Berkeley. He is completing a manuscript on the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States\, under contract with the University of Chicago Press. He is the author of “Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog\,” the creator of the heavily-used nuclear weapons effects simulator website NUKEMAP\, and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s Elements blog\, among other outlets for his more popular writing. \n\nSponsored by the Badash Lecture Fund and the IHC’s Machines\, People\, and Politics Research Focus Group.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-lawrence-badash-memorial-lecture-series-trumans-bomb-and-the-making-of-the-atomic-presidency/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:RFG Talk: The Double Consciousness of Henry Box Brown in Four Acts
DESCRIPTION:If Henry Box Brown is known to contemporary audiences\, then it is as the slave who achieved freedom by mailing himself in a box from Virginia to Philadelphia in 1849. While critics have explored this incredible event\, less attention has been focused on Brown’s subsequent life as the performer of a moving diorama in England\, a mesmerist\, and a prestidigitator. Taking up his fascinating boxing experience\, but also shedding more light on his later “acts\,” as I call them\, I argue that Brown used his performances of the black body to construct a new idea of “double consciousness\,” Du Bois’s classic term for the psychological splitting of African-American subjectivity. By exploring the way that Brown used his performative acts to construct a conscious body—minding the body\, as it were—I argue that he offered a new “onto-possibility\,” as Jane Bennett calls it\, one that traded the ontological clarity of mind-over-body for the more capacious\, if murkier\, understanding of a mind-in-body ontology. Double consciousness thus becomes not a matter of psychological splitting\, I argue\, but rather the discovery of consciousness not in the mind alone\, but also in the often-objectified body of the chattel slave. In this way\, Brown’s performative ventures—as someone emerging theatrically from a box\, as a curator of his panorama\, as a black magician—makes double consciousness a wedge for telling an alternative history of black identity formation in the nineteenth century. \nMatthew Rebhorn is Roop Distinguished Professor of English at James Madison University. He is the author of Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier (Oxford University Press\, 2012) and has recently completed Minding the Body: The Animate Body in Antebellum American Literature (Oxford University Press\, under contract). \nSponsored by Literature and the Mind (UCSB\, English); American Cultures and Global Contexts Center (UCSB\, English); the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Slavery\, Captivity\, and the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/rfg-talk-the-double-consciousness-of-henry-box-brown-in-four-acts/
LOCATION:2635 South Hall\, South Hall\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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