Sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley)
And the History of Health Sciences Program (UCSF)
D. Graham Burnett
Princeton University
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Globalizing Conservation in the Twentieth Century: Oceans, Whales, and the "Blue Planet"
By the early 1970s “saving the whales” had become the shared preoccupation of a diverse coalition of counter-culture activists, anti-war protestors, and rabble-rousing scientists. The resulting campaign shaped the global environmental movement in a critical period, and eventually resulted in an international moratorium on commercial whaling. This presentation will take up the question of cetacean conservation in the twentieth century, examining the history of the relationship between science and policy, and working to show how these animals became such powerful symbols of the changing human relationship to the natural world.
4:00PM
Monday, March 17, 2008
140 Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
Co-Sponsored with the Science, Technology, and Society Center
Office for History of Science and Technology, 543 Stephens Hall #2350
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2350
tel: (510) 642-4581, e-mail: ohst@berkeley.edu
