Conference: Historical Memory: A Puget Sound Symposium on American Movements that Advocated Applying Selective Breeding Science to Humans

该奖项支持一个关于美国运动的研讨会，这些运动倡导将选择性育种科学应用于人类而不是动物种群，这种做法存在争议，而且经常被严重滥用。这些运动容易受到严重的虐待，比如二战期间发生的那些。这次研讨会的重点就是这样一个运动。它将于2020年3月28日在普吉特海湾大学举行。这次研讨会的灵感来自该校一名学生最近的一项发现，该发现与该校斯莱特自然历史博物馆（Slater Museum of Natural History Museum）同名的詹姆斯·r·斯莱特（James R. Slater）在1920年至1951年期间教授了一门积极关注人类选择性育种的课程。研讨会的组织者邀请了一些在这个问题上最重要的历史学家到普吉特海湾，以促进对这一有争议的运动的历史观点的发展，特别关注文理学院的生物学课程。通过提供一个对困难的历史和问题进行深思熟虑、了解历史的讨论的场所，研讨会具有巨大的潜力，可以产生具体有益的社会成果。主办方将通过教育网站和博物馆展览分享研讨会的成果；研讨会的讨论将为在斯莱特自然历史博物馆举办的美国运动历史的实体和在线展览提供基础，这些运动倡导在地方、国家和国际层面的生物学课程中进行人类的选择性繁殖。这场名为“倡导将选择性育种科学应用于人类的美国运动”的研讨会将通过汇集知名学者、崭露头角的学者和新一代生物学本科学生来推进知识的发展，这些学生渴望在追求科学生活的同时，借鉴历史，努力确保对社会正义的关注。研讨会将提供一个场所，进行复杂而困难的对话，讨论人类选择性育种和美国生物学的历史，历史记忆的问题，以及在美国科学史上被纪念的人及其原因。在科学史上，人类选择性育种的历史在过去几代人里一直是一个非常多产的领域。研讨会将汇集包括历史学家和生物学家在内的各学科学者，研究人类选择性繁殖的历史，以及有关大学校园纪念和历史记忆的更普遍问题。这些跨学科的对话创造新的见解和联系的潜力是巨大的。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a symposium on American movements that have advocated for the controversial and often grossly abusive practice of applying selective breeding science to human rather than animal populations. Such movements have been susceptible to gross abuses such as those that occurred during WW2. The focus of the symposium is on one such movement. It is to be held on March 28, 2020 at the University of Puget Sound. The symposium is inspired by a recent discovery by one of the university’s students that the namesake of its Slater Museum of Natural History Museum, James R. Slater, taught a course that focused positively on the selective breeding of humans from 1920-1951. The symposium organizers have invited some of the foremost historians in this issue to Puget Sound to facilitate the development of an historical perspective on the controversial movement with particular attention to the biology curricula of liberal arts colleges. The symposium has tremendous potential for specific beneficial societal outcomes through providing a venue for thoughtful, historically-informed discussions of difficult histories and issues that are very timely. The organizers will share the results of the symposium via an educational website and museum exhibit; the symposium discussions will provide a foundation for the creation of a both a physical and online exhibit on the history of American movements that have advocated selective breeding of humans in biology curricula at the local, national and international level to be hosted by the Slater Museum of Natural History. The symposium, "American Movements that Advocated Applying Selective Breeding Science to Humans," will advance knowledge by bringing together established scholars, up-and-coming scholars, and a new generation of undergraduate biology students keen to draw on history in their efforts to ensure attention to social justice as they pursue lives in science. The symposium will serve to provide a venue for complex, difficult conversations regarding the history of selective breeding of humans and American biology, the problems of historical memory, and who is commemorated in the history of American science and why. Within the history of science, the history of the selective breeding of humans has been a highly productive field over the past few generations. The symposium will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines, including historians and biologists, to examine the history of selective breeding of humans as well as more general problems concerning commemoration and historical memory on college campuses. The potential of these interdisciplinary conversations to create new insights and connections is large.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.