Science, Technology and American Hegemony.

21 May 2008

Inter-Faculty Lecture Series: Seventh Cardwell Memorial Lecture on 27 May.

Professor John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tuesday 27 May 2008, 5.30-6.30 pm
Michael Smith Lecture Theatre (see campus map, building 71; access from Dover Street), followed by a reception.

This talk will describe how scientific and technological exchange between the United States and Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s served as an instrument of American foreign policy. The focus will be on domains in which there is a porous barrier between the civil and the military, notably nuclear and missile technologies.

John Krige is Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Professor Donald Cardwell (1919-1998) was the founding head of the Department of History of Science and Technology at UMIST from 1962. He was a pivotal figure in the academic study of technological history, both locally and internationally. In 1999 a Donald Cardwell Memorial Fund was set up, among its objectives to sponsor an annual lecture in Cardwell's name, hosted in turn by each of the Manchester institutions shaped by Cardwell's presence, and presented by a leading international figure in the history of technology.