COLD WAR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
University of Pennsylvania
Nov. 9-11, 2000
Programme:
THURSDAY, NOV. 9
7 PM Conference Welcome
7:30 PM Welcome Reception
FRIDAY, NOV. 10
8:30 Breakfast refreshments
9-10:45 Session I
Kristen Haring, Harvard University, " 'Knitting our Activities into the National
Needs': How Amateur Radio Thrived in the Cold War"
Edward Jones-Imhotep, Harvard University, "'Dispatches from the Border: Cold-War
Electronics and the Reliability of Ionospheric Knowledge in Canada"
Jeffrey Engel, University of Wisconsin, "Aviation Technology: The Precedent
Setting Cold War Export"
11:15-12:30 Session II
David Serlin, National Library of Medicine, " 'Reconstructing the 'Hiroshima
Maidens": Plastic Surgery and Technological Modernity in Postwar Culture"
Diana Mincyte, University of Illinois, "The Black and White War: The
Naturalization of Chemical Industry in Soviet Lithuania"
12:30-2 LUNCH at Logan Hall with participants
2-3:45 Session III
Gerard Fitzgerald, Carnegie Mellon University, "In the Shadow of the Atom:
United States Biological Weapons Research, 1940-1955"
Elena Levina, S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Sciences and Technology,
"The Cold War and Detent as Factors in the Development of New Directions
in Soviet Experimental Biology, 1950-1970"
John Terino, University of Pennsylvania, "Under the Shadow of Spreading Ivy:
The Military-Academic Complex at Penn in the 1960s."
4:15-5:30 Session IV
Josef Reindl, University of Munich, "Western Advances and Socialist Borders:
GDR Biomedical Research and the Rise of Molecular Biology, 1945-1960"
Mark Solovey, Harvard University, "National Science Policy and American Social
Science at the Dawn of the Cold War Era: Hitching a Ride on the Coattails
of the Natural Sciences"
No formal evening activities. Civil Defense films shown by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
at 8:30.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11
8:30 Breakfast refreshments
9-10:45 Session V
David Jones, Harvard University, "Navajo Tuberculosis and the Ideology of
Cold War Medicine"
Amy Staples, Middle Tennessee State University, "The Cold War and Malaria:
The World Health Organization's Malaria Eradication Program"
Erin Koch, New School for Social Research, "Microbes, Markets, and Medicines:
Confronting Tuberculosis in post-Soviet Georgia"
11:15-12:30 Session VI
Wim van Meurs, University of Munich, "Soviet Ethnography and the American
Indians"
Thomas Zeller, University of Pennsylvania, "The German Autobahn as Metaphor
and Means of Cold War Competition"
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