The seminar will take place in the Sala de Graus II of the Edificio de Ciencias\/Biociencias at 16h00.<\/p>\n
I would like to draw your attention and invite you to a special seminar organized in partnership with the Centre d\u2019Hist\u00f2ria de la Ci\u00e8ncia (CEHIC) of the UAB this Spring on March, 22nd, 2012. <\/strong><\/p>\n Prof. Josephson<\/strong>, from Colby College in the United States, will present his recent research in an open seminar called “You cannot fool (mother) Nature: The political and cultural roots of (natural) disasters.”<\/p>\n Paul Josephson<\/strong>, a specialist in the history of 20th century science and technology, teaches at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA.\u00a0 He has written several books about science, technology and nature, increasingly from a comparative perspective.\u00a0 His last books were an evaluation of technological utopianism under socialism (Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?) and a biography of Nobel laureate in physics, Zhores Alferov (Lenin’s Laureate).\u00a0 He is finishing an environmental history of Soviet arctic conquest, 1930-1990.<\/p>\n Below is a short summary of Prof. Josephson’s talk: The seminar will take place in the Sala de Graus II of the Edificio de Ciencias\/Biociencias at 16h00. I would like to draw your attention and invite you to a special seminar organized in partnership with the Centre d\u2019Hist\u00f2ria de la Ci\u00e8ncia (CEHIC) of the UAB this Spring on March, 22nd, 2012. Prof. Josephson, from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“Natural disasters are hardly the stuff only of nature, nor behave in an unpredictable fashion.\u00a0 Rather natural disasters involve human presence \u2013 their villages, homes, cemeteries, businesses, factories, schools and hospitals \u2013 and their science and engineering.\u00a0 The way they organize agriculture, build structures, and attempt to control nature to limit its capricious fury is central to natural disasters.\u00a0 To call something natural without seeing humans as part of it, ignores not only the epistemological aspect, but also the physical and psychological.\u00a0 It also avoids recognizing the interaction of politics \u2013 of class, race and gender \u2013 with science and nature in all disasters”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"