MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History Helen Rozwadowski
University of Connecticut Frontiers of Discovery: Changing Meanings of “Frontier” from Frederick Jackson Turner to John F. Kennedy and Beyond The word “frontier” is both evocative and problematic. In the course of the 20th century its geographic reference shifted from the western United States to remoter places like Alaska and the polar regions. It also, figuratively, came to include the air, the ocean and outer space - and even the human mind, science, and knowledge in general. This paper explores the way that “discovery,” in the context of scientific research − which was not among the suite of meanings broached by Turner − became central to the meaning of “frontier.” Friday, December 3, 2010 2:30 to 4:30 pm Building E51 Room 095 Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing list contact [email protected].
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