123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Ecologies of Knowledge/Ecologies of Power: Environmental Science, Public Health, and Transnational Organizations in the Cold War Era

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

Papers:

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, Northeastern University

The Chicken and the Egg: The Growth and Development of the World Health Organization’s Influenza Surveillance Network
George Dehner, Wichita State University

Comment:

The Audience

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