{"id":403,"date":"2015-08-19T11:49:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T10:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=403"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:22:48","slug":"professor-to-curate-major-exhibition-on-secret-science-during-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2015\/08\/19\/professor-to-curate-major-exhibition-on-secret-science-during-the-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor to curate major exhibition on secret science during the Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ulf Schmidt and Professor (emeritus) David Welch from the School of History have been given the \u201cgreen light\u201d to curate a major exhibition on \u201cThe War of Nerves: Secret Science during the Cold War\u201d in collaboration with Wellcome Collection.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-404\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2015\/08\/Defence-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-404\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2015\/08\/Defence-Poster-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"US Civil Defense Poster (1951)\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2015\/08\/Defence-Poster-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2015\/08\/Defence-Poster.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Civil Defense Poster (1951)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Current plans envisage the exhibition to open first at the Wende Museum, Los Angeles, before moving to the new, much\u00a0expanded\u00a0exhibition space at Wellcome Collection, London. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of public engagement\u00a0events and conference activities.<\/p>\n<p>Further details and exhibition dates will be included\u00a0here as soon as they are announced.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Professor Schmidt&#8217;s work within this area, including his new book, see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2015\/07\/14\/school-launches-new-secret-science-a-century-of-posion-warfare-and-human-experiments-book\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ulf Schmidt and Professor (emeritus) David Welch from the School of History have been given the \u201cgreen light\u201d to curate a major exhibition on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2015\/08\/19\/professor-to-curate-major-exhibition-on-secret-science-during-the-cold-war\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39518,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}