The next meeting of the History of Science reading group will be on
Tuesday, 19 November 2019, 5.30pm
Gordon Square (20) B03 Sem 1, 20 Gordon Square
(Note change of room - this room is accessed from the rear of Gordon Square, with no steps.)
The paper we will read is
"Dutch scientists and the UNESCO Statement on Race" by Bram Harkema and Fenneke Sysling, recently published in Studium, freely available online: http://doi.org/10.18352/studium.10181
The paper considers the response by the Dutch scientific community to the publication of the first UNESCO Statement on Race in July 1950, leading to their involvement in a second, revised statement published by UNESCO in June 1951. The paper gives an overview of these two statements, and focuses on how the Dutch scientific communities mobilised a response.
By way of background, the UNESCO statements are on their website. These Guardian and Wired articles may be interesting for contemporary perspectives.
This is the last scheduled History of Science reading group for this term, the next will be on Tuesday 14 January 2020, details to follow. There might be another Twitter reading group in the meantime, will let you know! Do get in touch if you have any suggestions for this or future reading groups.
We alternate the Tuesday evening slot with two reading groups on Philosophy of Science and Technology and Science and Belief. The STS departmental website lists all the reading groups run by students in the department.
Harkema, B. and Sysling, F., 2019. Dutch scientists and the UNESCO Statement on Race. Studium, 11(4). DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/studium.10181