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CMU Colloquium on Cold War Science & Technology

Fall 1996 Schedule

• September 17 -- David R. Jardini, Neuberger & Berman, Inc., "Out of the Blue Yonder: The Transfer of Systems Thinking from the Pentagon to the Great Society, 1961-1965."
  4:30-6:00 p.m., Dean's Conference Room, BH246A.
• October 2 -- David A. Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon University, "How the Cold War Shaped the Economics of Innovation."
  3:30-5:30 p.m., PH A20.
• October 18 -- Dolores Augustine, St. Johns University, "The Making of the East German Engineer, 1949-1971."
  3:30-5:30 p.m., Dean's Conference room, BH246A.
• November 1 -- Allan Needell, National Air and Space Museum, "Scientist, Sailor, Statesman, Spy: Compartmentalization and the Career of Lloyd V. Berkner."
  3:30-5:30 p.m., Dean's Conference Room, BH246A.
• November 15 -- Richard Samuels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "'Rich Nation, Strong Army': National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan During and After the Cold War."
  3:30-5:30 p.m., Dean's Conference Room, BH246A.
• November 22 -- Paul Forman, National Museum of American History, "Cold War Science in Postmodern Perspective."
  3:30-5:30 p.m., History Seminar Room, BH254A.
• December 6 -- Ellen Herman, Harvard University, "The Career of Cold War Psychology."
  3:30-5:30 p.m., Dean's Conference Room, BH246A.
• December 11 -- Li Ping Bu, West Virginia State College, "Cultural Exchange and the Cold War."
  1-3 p.m., Dean's Conference Room, BH246A.

   

Spring 1997 Schedule

• January 24 -- Daniel Guttman, Executive Director of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, and Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, "TRUST IN GOVERNMENT: THE DAWN OF THE COLD WAR AS A TEMPLATE FOR TODAY'S DILEMMAS OF DISCLOSURE AND CONSENT."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• February 7 -- Bruce Hevly, University of Washington, Seattle,"THE COLD WAR IN REGIONAL CONTEXT: CONSIDERING HANFORD'S CULTURE OF PRODUCTION."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• February 14 -- Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Carnegie Mellon University, "AT THE CROSSROADS OF MAGIC AND POSITIVISM: THE SOCIAL IMAGINATION OF NUCLEAR DISASTER RESEARCHERS IN THE 1950S." (Co-sponsored with the Center for Cultural Analysis)
  Room to be announced.
• February 28 -- Mitchell Ash, University of Iowa, Iowa City, "DENAZIFYING SCIENTISTS -- AND SCIENCES -- IN POSTWAR GERMANY."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• March 14 -- Judyth Twigg, Virginia Commonwealth University, "COLD WAR MILITARY TECHNOLOGY: A COMPARISON OF US, SOVIET AND JAPANESE STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• March 21 -- John Beatty, University of Minnesota, "GENETICS IN THE ATOMIC AGE."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• April 4 -- Jessica Wang, University of California, Los Angeles, "ATOMIC ESPIONAGE AND COLD WAR HISTORIOGRAPHY."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• April 25 -- Daniel Fox, Director of the Milbank Memorial Fund, "HEALTH POLICY, THE COLD WAR AND THE WELFARE STATE IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES." (Co-sponsored with The Heinz School of Public Policy and Management)
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.

(The Fall 1997 schedule is unavailable.)

Spring 1998 Schedule

• January 23 -- John Cloud, UC Santa Barbara, "Through a Glass Darkly: US Civilian Versus Military and Intelligence Remote Sensing, 1958-1997."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• January 30 -- Daniel Fox, The Milbank Memorial Fund,"The Marshall Plan and the Welfare State in Britain and the United States."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• February 13 -- Lillian Hoddeson, University of Illinois, "Reconceiving the Super-Conducting Super-Collider: The Central Design Group and Big Science in the Late Cold War, 1943-1988."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• February 18 -- Peter Galison, Harvard University. "".
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• February 27 -- Paul Edwards, Stanford University, "Early Computer Models of Global Phenomena: Weather, Climate, and Planetary Limits."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• March 6 -- Martin Sherwin, Tufts University, "Hiroshima and the Politics of History, 1945-1995."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• March 20 -- Christopher Simpson, American University, "Psychological Warfare Programs and the Emergence of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in the United States."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• April 10 -- Allen Kaufmann, University of New Hampshire and MIT Arms Control Project, "Fighting the Cold War the Liberal Way: The Formation of the Private Arsenal Systems, 1920-1960."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.
• April 24 -- Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania, "The Repatriation of Atomic Bomb Victim Body Parts to Japan: Natural Objects and Diplomacy."
  3:30-5:30, History Seminar, BH 254A.