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The R. Lowry Dobson Memorial Lecture featuring Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks

Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks presents "Scholars and Spies: The University and the Predicament of Worldly Knowledge." Nicholas B. Dirks is not only the University's 10th chancellor but also a faculty member in the College of Letters & Science. This lecture examines how knowledge about the world beyond North America and Europe was limited, at best, in the United States until World War II. The war propelled a concern to join other world powers in developing a full-fledged intelligence service, and, in turn, the institutional foundations for academic knowledge as well. The history of what has become known as "area studies" provides perspective not only on the strategic considerations that made it possible, but also on the political conditions that govern the constitution of academic priorities for knowledge more generally. This lecture reviews this history and evaluates the implications for thinking through the new demands of globalization, in the larger context of an acceptance (and embrace) of the worldly nature of knowledge both in the academy and outside.