Andrew Jewett, Harvard University, "The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s"

Event Date: 

Friday, October 7, 2016 - 1:00pm

Event Location: 

  • 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building

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).

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