| Start Date: | 6/16/2014 | Start Time: | 8:00 AM |
| End Date: | 6/17/2014 | End Time: | 4:00 PM |
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Event Description
The Center for Science Technology and Society, Drexel University and the University of California Berkeley Office for History of Science and Technology presents In-n-Out California: Circulating Things and the Globalization of the West Coast.
Scholars interested in the history of the West Coast have thoroughly explored the material culture of California. Square tomatoes, rockets, dams, surf boards, cyclotrons, LSD, or iPods are all common ingredients in the making of historical narratives of the Golden State. Strangely enough, many such narratives have too much of a local flavor: they don't fully acknowledge the global circulation of those things that have produced California.
This workshop deals with the double process of getting things In-n-Out of California, pointing, for example, to the ways, on the one hand, that Californian agribusiness relied on a constant supply of new varieties of crops brought into the state by plant hunters crossing many disparate regions of the globe, while, on the other hand, its standardized products, be it oranges, avocados or wine, were shipped to international markets and became cases in point in the globalization of food. We point to globalization in the double sense that those things were the result of multiple trajectories originating from all over the world converging in California, at the same time that many things found their way out of California to produce what is commonly perceived as the globalized world.
Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Office for History of Science and Technology and the Drexel University Center for STS. |
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Location:
Drexel University, Disque Hall Room 109, 32 South 32nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19135 |
Audience:
FacultyPublicGraduate Students |
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