Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, B
Drawing on extensive archival research and over 70,000 pages of government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, David Price examines multiple ways that American anthropologists produced knowledge consumed by military and intelligence agencies during the Cold War. Among the historical relationships documented by Price are the use of CIA funding fronts to finance unwitting anthropologists working in areas of interest to the CIA, secret collaborations between professional societies and the CIA, and instances of anthropologists, or CIA agents posing as anthropologists, using fieldwork as a front for collecting intelligence.
Hosted by Cultural Studies Colloquium.
Sponsored by Cultural Studies, Global Affairs, University Life, Interdisciplinary Curriculum Collaborative, & Sociology and Anthropology.
