About this Event
1 AMHERST ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
https://ssp.mit.edu/events/2026/new-weapons-between-utopia-and-apocalypse-an-intellectual-history-1860s-1970sProfessor Elena Kempf, from the MIT History Department, will give a presentation at the MIT Security Studies Program's Wednesday Seminar.
Summary:Professor Kempf will discuss the modern history of weapons prohibitions, examining the techno-utopian, techno-optimist, and techno-pessimist responses to new weapons developments between the 1860s and 1930s.
(no dial in possible, livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/@mitsecuritystudiesprogram5272/streams)