[Sci-tech-public] STS Colloquium & Schedule of Events for October 6-10

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Monday, October 06, 2008

STS COLLOQUIUM -- Knowing the Cold War Enemy

Speaker: David Engerman, Brandeis University

Time: 4:00p–6:00p

Location: 
<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51-095&mapsearch=go>E51-095

This lecture is part of the STS Fall 2008 
Colloquia on "Cold War Knowledges: A New Look"

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.

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.

The schedule of events for the week of October 
6th is available on the STS website: 
http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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