Ecologies of Knowledge/Ecologies of Power: Environmental Science, Public Health, and Transnational Organizations in the Cold War Era

World History Association 5
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Concourse D (Hilton New York)
Chair:
Edward C. Rafferty, Boston University
Radiant Agriculture for the Developing World: Negotiating Grain Irradiation Technology at the United Nations
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Clemson University
Tragedies of Technocracies: Decolonization and the World Health Organization’s Malaria Pre-Eradication Campaign in Colonial Mozambique, c.1960–67
Jessica Dionne, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Inventing “Spaceship Earth”: Cold War Technologies and the Birth of Global Environmentalism
Richard Samuel Deese, Boston University
The Chicken and the Egg: The Growth and Development of the World Health Organization’s Influenza Surveillance Network
George Dehner, Wichita State University