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SUMMARY:Finding the Human: The Social Theories of Early Cold War Memoranda
LOCATION:Cathedral of Learning 602\, Fifth Ave at Bigelow\, Pittsburgh\, 1
 5213
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Humanities Center and featuring faculty fellow\,
  Paul Johnson.\n\nFollowing the death of Franklin Roosevelt\, Harry S. Tr
 uman was thrown into the complex and unfamiliar caldron of the Second Wor
 ld War's end and the murmurings of a new global conflict with the Soviet 
 Union. Accordingly\, he commissioned a number of reports evaluating the c
 haracter of the Soviet threat\, among them George Kennan's famous "The So
 urces of Soviet Conduct" and Clark Clifford and George Elsey's "American 
 Relations with the Soviet Union." These\, along with other reports\, offe
 r interpretations of Soviet regime behavior informed by the author's own 
 interpretations of figures like Karl Marx\, G.W.F. Hegel\, and Gottlob Fr
 ege (among others). This paper looks at the rhetorical contours of the wo
 rld iterated in some of these memos to understand the philosophical assum
 ptions about the world that drove early Cold War decisionmaking\, and ult
 imately how the war would in part be conducted by the aggressive construc
 tion of a globalist consumer citizen.\n\nRespondents include Neepa Majumd
 ar from Film & Media Studies + Dr. Kyong-Min Son\, Associate Professor\, 
 Political Science & IR at the University of Delaware. This event will be 
 hybrid\, so you can attend it either in person in 602 CL or via Zoom as y
 ou prefer. Precirculated material for this colloquium will be available h
 ere about two prior to the event.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/11a6bf2c
 -ec5a-4830-a81e-e43a1283c353
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/11a6bf2c-ec5a-4830-a81e-e43a1283c353
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