We ask to please register in advance with
christa.wirth@hist.uzh.ch.

Prerequisite: reading of below-listed pre-selected texts; link to online file box with texts will be received upon registration. Max. number of participants: 30

Time: 16.15 - 18.00, Universität Zürich, KO2 - F175

Reading List:
Mandatory Reading:
- Engerman, David C. Social Science in the Cold War. In: Isis, 2010, 101, pp. 393-400.

- Porter, Theodore M. Foreword: Positioning Social Science in Cold War America. In: Solovey, Mark, Cravens, Hamilton (Eds.). Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. ix-xv.

- Solovey, Mark. Cold War Social Science: Specter, Reality, or Useful Concept? In: Solovey, Mark, Cravens, Hamilton (Eds.). Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 1-22.

- Solovey, Mark. Riding Natural Scientists’ Coattails Onto the Endless Frontier: The SSRC and the Quest for Scientific Legitimacy. In: Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, 2004/4, 40, pp. 393-422.

- Solovey, Mark. Project Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution: Rethinking the Politics – Patronage – Social Science Nexus. In: Social Studies of Science, 2001/2, 31, pp. 171-206.

Voluntary Reading:
- Boldyrev, Ivan, Kirtchik, Olessia. On (Im)permeabilities: Social and Human Sciences on Both Sides of the “Iron Curtain.” In: History of the Human Sciences, 2016/4-5, 29, pp. 3-12.

- Solovey, Mark. Senator Fred Harris’s National Social Science Foundation Proposal: Reconsidering Federal Science Policy – Social Science Relations, and American Liberalism during the 1960’s. In: Isis, 2012/1, 103, pp. 54-82.