On Thursday, September 18th from 4:00-5:30 pm, Professor John Krige of Georgia Tech’s School of History, Technology, and Society will deliver this year’s inaugural STS colloquium talk.
Krige’s talk is titled “Embedding the National in the Global: U.S.-French Relationships in Space Science and Technology in the Early 1960s.” The talk will take place in Buchanan Tower Room 1197.
Abstract
The practice of transnational history, with its emphasis on the interconnectedness of the “world,” suggests that we resituate (perhaps efface?) the nation-state as unit of analysis. This paper uses collaboration in space science and technology between US and France in the early 1960s as a platform to think about the role of the nation state in the transnational production/circulation of knowledge. It argues that, at least in a strategic field like space, the national security state plays a key role in regulating the circulation of knowledge in the transnational field, whose geography is defined by the foreign policies of the governments concerned.
