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SUMMARY:The politics of STS: instituting science studies in the age of Col
 d War - Elena Aronova (University of California\, San Diego)
DTSTART:20111123T130000Z
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CONTACT:Leon Rocha
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will focus on two transnational organisations -
  the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) and the United Nations Educationa
 l\, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - and the ways these ove
 rtly political organisations sought to provide the conceptual framework an
 d institutional niche(s) for history of science / science studies in the a
 ge of Cold War. I will ask what legacy(ies) did these undertakings leave a
 nd will attempt to suggest some answers to this question.\n\nSpeaker Biogr
 aphy: Elena Aronova is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Cal
 ifornia\, San Diego. Her dissertation is entitled 'The Cold \nWar Roots of
  Science Studies: Studies of Science in the USA\, UK and the Soviet Union\
 , 1950s-1980s'\, and she is supervised by Professors Naomi Oreskes and Cat
 hy Gere.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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