Let us have done with the past and its bickering and face the future. To the British we must be grateful for one splendid gift of which they were the bearers, the gift of science and its rich offspring.
Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography (p.436)
Speaker: Rose Sebastian, Bajaj Family Fellow, Mittal Institute
Moderator: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
Rose Sebastian’s postdoctoral project proposes to analyze the national science museums in independent India as sites of display and dissemination of a distinctively postcolonial policy and culture of science. This interdisciplinary project aspires to bring together the analytical approaches of Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS). It extends the concepts of postcolonial hybridity and ambivalence to cultures of science, and analyses the co-production of the technoscientific and the political in postcolonial India from an STS framework.
