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DESCRIPTION:Just Watching: Cold War Science and the Ethics of Observation\n
 	Heather K. Love (University of Pennsylvania)\n\nKeynote presentation of th
 e 3rd Annual 91ֱ�� Queer Research Colloquium\n	\n	Co-sponsorship with LLC/I
 GSF\n\nAbstract: This essay considers ethological research on communicatio
 n in the human and natural sciences after WWII\, looking at the two-way tr
 affic between “animal sociology” and naturalistic accounts of group intera
 ction among humans. Ranging from discussions of the signaling behavior of 
 homosexual geese at the Macy Conferences on “Group Processes” to Laud Hump
 hreys’ in situ research on sex in public restrooms in the 1960s\, this pap
 er argues that observational research offered an alternative to psychologi
 cal accounts of both human and animal motivation\, and in many cases resul
 ted in less stigmatizing and non-essentialist accounts of non-normative be
 havior. While it may seem especially perverse to champion observation duri
 ng the Cold War\, I argue that the emphasis on militarized surveillance ha
 s obscured the diverse and contradictory uses of observation in this perio
 d. This essay is taken from my book project\, Underdogs\, which traces the
  roots of queer studies in post-WWII social science.\n\nBio: Heather Love 
 received her A.B. from Harvard and her Ph.D. from the University of Virgin
 ia. Her research interests include gender and sexuality studies\, twentiet
 h-century literature and culture\, affect studies\, sociology and literatu
 re\, disability studies\, film and visual culture\, and critical theory. S
 he is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer Histo
 ry (Harvard) and the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (“Ret
 hinking Sex”) and the co-editor of a special issue of Representations ('De
 scription Across Disciplines'). She has written on topics including compar
 ative social stigma\, compulsory happiness\, transgender fiction\, spinste
 r aesthetics\, reading methods in literary studies\, and the history of de
 viance studies. She is currently completing a book on practices of descrip
 tion in the humanities and social sciences after World War II.\n
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LOCATION:Room 260\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue 
 Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Speaker Series & 91ֱ�� Queer Research Colloquium | Heather Love 'J
 ust Watching: Cold War Science and the Ethics of Observation'
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