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，该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且经常严重滥用的做法。这种运动容易受到严重的虐待，如在二战期间发生的那些。研讨会的重点是这样一个运动。它将于2020年3月28日在普吉特海湾大学举行。该研讨会的灵感来自于该大学的一名学生最近的一项发现，即与斯莱特自然历史博物馆同名的詹姆斯R。斯莱特在1920年至1951年期间教授了一门积极关注人类选择性繁殖的课程。研讨会的组织者邀请了一些最重要的历史学家在这个问题上普吉湾，以促进发展的历史观点的争议运动，特别注意文科院校的生物课程。研讨会通过提供一个场所，对困难的历史和问题进行深思熟虑的，历史上知情的讨论，非常及时，具有巨大的潜力，为具体的有益的社会成果。组织者将通过一个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一个关于美国运动历史的物理和在线展览奠定基础，这些运动倡导在地方，国家和国际各级的生物学课程中选择人类繁殖，由自然历史的斯莱特博物馆主办。 研讨会，“提倡将选择性育种科学应用于人类的美国运动”，将通过汇集知名学者，崭露头角的学者和新一代的本科生物学学生来推进知识，他们热衷于借鉴历史，努力确保关注社会正义，因为他们追求科学生活。研讨会将提供一个场所，就人类和美国生物学的选择性育种的历史，历史记忆的问题，以及谁是美国科学史上的纪念和为什么复杂，困难的对话。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高产领域。研讨会将汇集来自一系列学科的学者，包括历史学家和生物学家，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的问题。该奖项反映了NSF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.