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Week of Events
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UCSB’s History Associates “Much Ado about Nothing” Sponsored Lecture
UCSB’s History Associates “Much Ado about Nothing” Sponsored Lecture
Please join UCSB's History Associates at 12pm on October 2 in HSSB 4020 (the History Department's Conference Room) for lunch and a talk by Irwin Appel, Professor of Theater and Director of the BFA Actor Training Program at UCSB. We will then proceed to the nearby Studio Theater for the 2pm performance of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About […]
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“The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s” a talk by Andrew Jewett, Harvard University
“The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s” a talk by Andrew Jewett, Harvard University
Andrew Jewett's talk traces fears about science's cultural impact among intellectual and political leaders and ordinary citizens in postwar America. Jewett is the author of Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (2012). A copy of his paper can be found here.
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