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SUMMARY:The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series: Science\, Freedom\, and the Cold War: A Political History of Apolitical Science
DESCRIPTION:Why do so many U.S. scientists continue to lean on the language of apolitical science\, even as political leaders display less and less interest in scientists’ claims to expertise\, or even the existence of facts? In a new book\, Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science\, historian Audra J. Wolfe suggests the answer lies in Cold war propaganda. \nFrom the late 1940s through the late 1960s\, the U.S. foreign policy establishment saw a particular way of thinking about scientific freedom as essential to winning the global Cold War. Throughout this period\, the engines of U.S. propaganda amplified\, circulated\, and\, in some cases\, produced a vision of science\, American style\, that highlighted scientists’ independence from outside interference and government control. Working (both overly and covertly\, wittingly and unwittingly) with governmental and private organizations\, U.S. scientists tried to come to terms with the meanings of “scientific freedom” and “U.S. ideology.” More often than not\, they ended up defining scientific values as the opposite of Communist science. \nScience\, in this view\, was apolitical. \nThe Cold War ended long ago\, but the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and politics in the United States. \n  \n \nAudra J. Wolfe\, Ph.D. is a Philadelphia-based writer\, editor\, and historian.  She is the author of Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science (2018) and Competing with the Soviets: Science\, Technology\, and the State in Cold War America (2013). Her articles have appeared in both scholarly and more popular venues\, including the Washington Post\, The Atlantic.com\, Slate\, and the popular podcast American History Tellers. \nWolfe holds a Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania (2002). Previously\, she studied biochemistry and chemistry at Purdue University (B.S.\, 1997). She has taught courses on Cold War science as well as science and the media at the University of Pennsylvania. As a publishing professional\, Wolfe has worked at the University of Pennsylvania Press\, Rutgers University Press\, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation\, where she additionally served as executive producer for an award-winning podcast\, Distillations. Her editorial and publishing consulting company\, The Outside Reader\, supports the work of scholars and scholarly publishers. \nAdditional information and a full CV are available on Wolfe’s website\, http://audrajwolfe.com. She tweets @ColdWarScience. \nCosponsored by the Lawrence Badash Memorial 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-science-freedom-and-the-cold-war-a-political-history-of-apolitical-science/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Machines, People, and Politics,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Epistemological Revolution in Japan's Long 1968
DESCRIPTION:A focus on student actors has often led historians of Japan to dismiss the idea of epochal change in “the long 1968.” This talk adopts the perspective of the older generation of Japanese social scientists to show these years as a watershed in the basis of authoritative knowledge. The existing historiography often presents these scholars as reactionary. I show how they\, in concert with their colleagues abroad\, actually anticipated and indeed accelerated epistemological revolution. \nBorn in the two decades from 1900-1920\, “transwar” social scientists assumed leadership of their disciplines in the 1930s and maintained intellectual hegemony across the chronological divide of World War II. They were linked by shared demographic characteristics and\, more importantly\, through a common commitment to objectivity. Transcending the domestic intellectual community\, conviction in objectivity drew together a transnational network of scholars able to trust and engage with each other’s work. I show how\, during the 1960s\, their critiques of the postwar order (that they themselves had built) led to the dethronement of objectivity as the hallmark of epistemological legitimacy\, and to their own exit from the universities. I conclude by looking at their younger replacements\, who inaugurated subjective\, activist\, and particularist paradigms of knowledge. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Reinventing Japan Research Focus Group\, the East Asia Center\, the Department of History\, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-epistemological-revolution-in-japans-long-1968/
LOCATION:2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies\, SSMS UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Reinventing Japan,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190426T133000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Border-Crossings at the Intersection of Narrated and Narrating Landscapes: Linguistic Brokers Witnessing and Enduring the U.S. Spatio-Temporal Politics of Migrant Worker Illegality in the American Heartland
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores bilingual women’s social and narrative positioning as informal linguistic brokers (or community interpreters) in a rural town dependent on the industrial processing of fresh kosher meat-products. Specifically\, it addresses how these women as “community accountants” employed reflexive interdiscursivity and oriented to different modernist chronotopes to re-analyze the cultural politics of migrant labor (Bakhtin 1981; See Chávez 2015; Dick 2010\, 2017; Perrino 2011; Reynolds 2017). Their accounts shed insight into what happens when legal recognition of migrant labor is withheld/deferred and how this influences the chronic conditions of exhaustion and ambivalence that shape the social reproductive and linguistic labor necessary in supporting a diverse international migrant workforce in transnationally intertwined rural political economies (Povinelli 2011; McElhinny 2016). The study combines ethnography with poetic approaches to narrative dialogically produced through interviews. Analyses feature two contrasting case studies of native and foreign-born women and highlight how they grappled with maintaining and sustaining relationships that were socially fraught and required different kinds of border-crossing work to affectively identify with both migrant and native-born town residents. \nJennifer F. Reynolds is Professor of Anthropology and a faculty member in Linguistics and the Latin American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. She is a linguistic anthropologist who examines the relationship(s) between quotidian discourse practices and social and linguistic reproduction\, with a focus on indigenous Guatemalans in transnational circuits of migration. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Language\, Interaction\, and Social Organization (LISO) Research Focus Group and the Mellichamp Global Dynamics Initiative
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-border-crossings/
LOCATION:1205 Education\, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,LISO (Language, Interaction, and Social Organization),IHC Research Focus Groups
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