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的有争议的、往往是粗暴的做法。这种运动很容易受到严重滥用的影响，比如发生在二战期间的那些。研讨会的焦点就是这样一场运动。它将于2020年3月28日在普吉特湾大学举行。这次研讨会的灵感来自该大学一名学生最近的一项发现，即斯莱特自然历史博物馆的同名人物詹姆斯·R·斯莱特教授了一门课程，该课程积极关注1920年至1951年期间人类的选择性繁殖。研讨会组织者邀请了这一期的一些最顶尖的历史学家来到普吉特湾，以促进对这场有争议的运动的历史观的发展，特别是对文科学院的生物学课程的关注。通过提供一个场所，对困难的历史和非常及时的问题进行深思熟虑的、了解历史的讨论，研讨会具有取得具体有益社会成果的巨大潜力。组织者将通过教育网站和博物馆展览分享研讨会的成果；研讨会的讨论将为创建由斯莱特自然历史博物馆主办的关于美国运动历史的实物和在线展览奠定基础，这些运动倡导在地方、国家和国际一级的生物课程中选择性地饲养人类。这场名为“美国倡导将选择性繁殖科学应用于人类的运动”的研讨会将通过聚集知名学者、后起之秀的学者和热衷于借鉴历史的新一代本科生生物学学生来推进知识，他们在追求科学生活的同时，努力确保关注社会正义。研讨会将提供一个复杂而困难的对话场所，讨论人类选择性繁殖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纪念谁及其原因。在科学史上，人类选择性繁殖的历史在过去几代人中一直是一个生产力很高的领域。研讨会将汇集包括历史学家和生物学家在内的一系列学科的学者，研究人类选择性繁殖的历史，以及更普遍的关于大学校园纪念和历史记忆的问题。这些跨学科对话创造新的洞察力和联系的潜力是巨大的。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.