This workshop explores long-running historical questions of how scholars should assess the historical actors they study — in this case, scientists — whose behaviors often fell short of what we consider ethical by today’s standards. We draw on the recent work of historian Jan Goldstein, who has called for an “empirical history of moral thinking,” as we examine the histories of scientific research involving Indigenous communities. 8:30 am - Breakfast 9:30 - Welcome and Introductions: Adam Warren (UW) and Julia Rodríguez (New Hampshire) 10 am - Contentious Encounters
Karin Rosemblatt (Maryland, College Park), “Between Cuauhtémoc and Cortés: Eulalia Guzmán, Masculinity and Politics in Cold War Mexico”
Micah Oelze (Florida International), “The Dangers of a Novel Science: Ethnography as Fictional Adventure in 1930s Brazil and its Ethical Implications”
Chair: Sebastián Gil-Riaño (Pennsylvania)
Discussants: José Antonio Lucero (UW), Josh Reid (UW), and Laura Stark (Vanderbilt) 11:45 am - Lunch 12:45 pm - Refashioning the Other
Maile Arvin (Utah), “The Science of Settling Wayward Girls in Territorial Hawai’I”
Sarah Walsh (Washington State), “The Problem of Brazilian Anthropology: Gilberto Freyre and the Legacy of Racial Hierarchy”
Chair: Stephen Casper (Clarkson)
Discussants: Sara González (UW), Dian Million (UW), and Hans Pols (Sydney) 2:30 pm - Coffee 2:45 pm - States, Science, and Sovereignty
Eve Buckley (Delaware), “Overpopulation or Overconsumption? A Brazilian Scientist’s Critique of Early Cold War Overpopulation Discourse”
Rosanna Dent (New Jersey Institute of Technology), “Bureaucratic Vulnerability: Indigenous Sovereignty, State Interests, and Research Regulation in Brazil”
Chair: Ileana Rodríguez-Silva (UW)
Discussants: María Elena García (UW), Ben Silverstein (Australian National), and Jonathan Warren (UW) 4:40 pm - Synthesis and Counterpoints
Warwick Anderson (Sydney), Jean Dennison (UW), and Gabriela Soto-Laveaga (Harvard) 5:30 - Reception If wishing to attend, please RSVP to Adam Warren at awarren2@uw.edu. |