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<h1><font size=4><b>Monday, October 06, 2008 <br><br>
</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">STS COLLOQUIUM -- Knowing the Cold
War Enemy</b></font></h1>Speaker: David Engerman, Brandeis
University<br><br>
Time: 4:00p–6:00p <br><br>
Location:
<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51-095&mapsearch=go">
E51-095</a> <br><br>
This lecture is part of the STS Fall 2008 Colloquia on "Cold War
Knowledges: A New Look" <br><br>
ABSTRACT: "Knowing the Cold War Enemy" examines the heart of
Cold War social science in the United States. Soviet Studies, after all,
came into being only as American-Soviet antagonisms escalated in the late
1940s; the field received dollars and documents from many government
agencies, including CIA, Air Force, Army, RAND, and other
national-security organs. Yet the impact of this attention was
surprising; pulling together scholars with a variety of backgrounds and
political views, Soviet Studies produced its most interesting and
significant work while receiving such funds - and went into intellectual
(as well as fiscal) decline as external funding dried up in the late
1960s. This project demonstrates the complexity and contradictions of
federal support for the social sciences during the Cold War. <br><br>
David C. Engerman is Associate Professor of History at Brandeis
University. He is the author of Modernization from the Other Shore:
American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development (Harvard,
2003. He edited and introduced a new edition of The God That Failed
(Columbia, 2001), and co-edited Staging Growth: Modernization,
Development, and the Global Cold War (contributing an article, "East
Meets West: The Center for International Studies and Indian Economic
Development"). His next book, "Know Your Enemy: American
Sovietology and the Making of the Cold War," will be published by
Oxford University Press.<br><br>
<font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>The schedule of events for the week of
October 6th is available on the STS website:
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<a href="http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html" eudora="autourl">
http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html<br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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