Conference: Dark Matters: Contents and Discontents of Cold War Science

众所周知，国家在塑造科学研究方面发挥着关键作用。国家和科学如何相交的不准确可能会错误地描述科学和权力之间的关系，错误地将当代国家与科学的互动视为与过去的彻底创新决裂，并在塑造科学方面将注意力从非国家行为者身上移开。为了理解国家与科学的关系，社会科学家、政策制定者和科学史学家在二战后的几十年里一直严重依赖于对科学和国家的概念化，即所谓的冷战科学。在这种描述中，苏联和美国之间的冲突是国家与科学关系的关键决定因素，因此，当冷战结束时，科学与国家关系发生了戏剧性的变化。冷战科学的分析人士最近对这一框架提出了质疑，并对长期和持久的地缘政治趋势--包括非殖民化和国际主义世界秩序的演变--如何塑造并继续塑造科学提出了新的看法。这次会议的目的是通过聚集广泛的科学和权力分析家来交流新的全球视角，分享关于知识和权力的复杂动态的新知识，并调查科学探究的文化层面，以加强对冷战中的科学的理解，质疑冷战框架的基本有效性，并对长期的科学-国家-权力关系产生新的见解。黑暗事物会议为从事不同国家、地区、组织和学科背景的学者提供了一个难得的机会，让他们跨越专业化的界限，鼓励思想的交叉滋养，并促进未来的合作研究。会议论文被编入学生可读的编辑后的卷中，作为科学研究、科学政策和科学史的知名分析家的资源。

States are known to play a critical role in shaping scientific research. Inaccuracies in how states and science intersect can mischaracterize relationships between science and power, incorrectly treat contemporary state-science interactions as thoroughly innovative breaks with the past, and draw attention away from non-state actors in shaping science. To understand state-science relationships, social scientists, policymakers, and historians of science have relied heavily on a conceptualization of science and states in the decades following the second world war known as cold war science. In this characterization, the conflict between the USSR and the US was the critical determinant of state-science relations, and consequently, when the cold war ended, science-state relations changed dramatically. Analysts of cold war science have recently raised questions about this framework, and have shed new light on how long-term and durable geopolitical trends, including decolonization and the evolution of an internationalist world order, have shaped and continue to shape science. The goal of this conference is to build on this recent scholarship by bringing together a wide range of analysts of science and power to exchange new global perspectives, share new knowledge of the complex dynamics of knowledge and power, and to investigate cultural dimensions of scientific inquiry, in order to enhance understanding of science in the cold war, question the basic validity of the cold war framework, and generate new insights about long-term science-state-power relationships. The Dark Matters conference offers a rare opportunity for scholars working on diverse national, regional, organizational, and disciplinary contexts to cross the boundaries of specialization, encourage cross-fertilization of ideas, and foster collaborative research in the future. Conference papers are incorporated into an edited volume accessible to students and that serves as resource for established analysts of science studies, science policy, and history of science.