HSSB 4041

Name: “The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s” a talk by Andrew Jewett, Harvard University
Start: 2016-10-07T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2016-10-07T15:00:00-07:00
Location: HSSB 4041

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May 2017
May 6, 2017 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Dana Frank, History, UC Santa Cruz, leads an all day Op-Ed writing workshop

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Professor Dana Frank of UC Santa Cruz will be leading an all day op-ed writing workshop on Saturday, May 6th. This workshop, offered on an annual basis by the UCSB Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy, provides faculty and students with an opportunity to hone their op-ed writing skills, translating their historical expertise into opinion pieces […]
May 5, 2017 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Caitlin Rathe, History, UCSB, “Food Assistance Policies and the Transformation of the Public/Private Welfare State in the U.S. and Britain, 1972-1988”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

While completing her dissertation in history at UCSB, Rathe is affiliated with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development. She studies welfare and social policy in the twentieth century.
April 2017
April 24, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Amelia Brown (University of Queensland), Maritime Religion in Ancient Greek Culture

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Amelia Brown on Greek Maritime Religion
April 18, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Marriage and Ritual Performance among the Servants of the Babylonian Gods

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Talk by Bastian Still, Leiden University With more than 50,000 legal-administrative cuneiform tablets, the so-called Neo- Babylonian Period (c. 625-484 BCE) is one of the best-documented periods in the history of Mesopotamia, the region between Tigris and Euphrates. Unfortunately, this invaluable and very rich material rarely finds use in wider social-historical discourses, as cuneiform specialists […]
October 2016
October 7, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

“The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s” a talk by Andrew Jewett, Harvard University

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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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HSSB 4041

Events at this venue

May 2017

Dana Frank, History, UC Santa Cruz, leads an all day Op-Ed writing workshop

Caitlin Rathe, History, UCSB, “Food Assistance Policies and the Transformation of the Public/Private Welfare State in the U.S. and Britain, 1972-1988”

April 2017

Amelia Brown (University of Queensland), Maritime Religion in Ancient Greek Culture

Marriage and Ritual Performance among the Servants of the Babylonian Gods

October 2016

“The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s” a talk by Andrew Jewett, Harvard University

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