Abstracts
Princeton's Program in the History of Science Workshop, 2006
Science at the Crossroads: Geopolitics, Marxism, and Seventy-Five Years of Science Studies
Keynote Panel:
Gary Werskey
75 Years of Science Studies: Revisiting the 1931 London Congress
Philip Kitcher, Columbia University
Science Studies and the Disavowal of Politics
Panel 1:
The History of the 1931 Congress: Marxism and Science
Chris Chilvers, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen
Something Wicked This Way Comes': The 1931 Congress and the Russian Delegation
Anna K. Mayer, University of Florida
On Immaterial Communism
Panel 2:
Marxism and Science Studies
Helena Sheehan, Dublin City University
After the Congress: The Influence of Marxism on Science Studies- Ideas, Interactions, Biographies, Reverberations
Loren Graham, MIT
Can We Now, at last, Normalize the Study of Marxism and Science?
Panel 3:
Colonialism, Science, and Development
Ravi Rajan, UC-Santa Cruz
Science, State and Violence: An Indian Critique Reconsidered
Suzanne Moon, Colorado School of Mines
Considering ' Eastern Development':
Science, Technology, and Communist Activism in Southeast Asia c. 1930
Michael Adas, Rutgers University
Imposing Modernity
Panel 4:
Scientists as Disciplinary and Social Critics
Mae Wan Ho, Open University
Liberating Knowledge
David Western, African Conservation Centre, Kenya
Tragedy of the Commons or Pristine Wilderness?
Changing Views of Pastoralism, Wildlife and Local Knowledge in the African Savannas