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Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar

A Manhattan Project for the Planet: Cold War, Decolonization, and Earth Science in the 1950s


April 9, 2025
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery, Adolphus Busch Hall

Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar

A Manhattan Project for the Planet: Cold War, Decolonization, and Earth Science in the 1950s


April 9, 2025
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery, Adolphus Busch Hall
April 9, 2025
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery, Adolphus Busch Hall

The International Geophysical Year (IGY) scientific program revolutionized human knowledge about our planet in the 1950s. How has the IGY shaped understanding of our species' role in destabilizing global environmental systems? Join Benjamin Goossen to discuss the mid-century expansion of Earth Science in the context of the Cold War and the collapse of European empires.

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