• Publications by ECR Seminar Presenters

    Chu, Leo. “With and against the Grain: The Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center and Modest Narratives of Green Revolution in Taiwan, 1963–2002.” Agricultural History 97, no. 3 (2023): 448-477. Forgiarini, Luca. ‘Unstable Bonds: CERN’s Relations with its Peripheral Member States, 1950s-1960s’, Journal of European Integration History. [2024 – under publication] Freris, Loukas. “‘Through Diplomatic…

  • ECS activities archives

    Background to ECS Initiatives Postgraduate students and early career (unestablished) scholars are an important part of the STAND community. The Commission has sought to support them through a range of initiatives. This has included holding a science diplomacy-focused Global Online Workshop on 23 July 2020 for postgraduate and early career scholars. From April to November…

  • Special Issue: ‘Gender in Science Diplomacy beyond Global North and South’ (The Hague Journal of Diplomacy)

    The Hague Journal of Diplomacy has published the Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy-sponsored special issue project. The forum issue, based on presentations at the STAND 3rd Conference, ‘Circulation and Exchange in Science and Diplomacy’, in July 2023, has been co-edited by Aya Homei and Janina Onuki. Introduction Gender in Science Diplomacy beyond Global North…

  • STAND Events at ESHS/HSS 2026

    Symposium — Science Diplomacy: Cooperation, Competition and Crisis Fifteen years after the Royal Society and AAAS first defined science diplomacy (2010), both organisations have returned to the subject to reassess its role amid ongoing geopolitical upheaval. In an era marked by plural worldviews and contested scientific authority, they, alongside actors such as the European Commission,…

  • Call for Submissions: STAND Early Career Prize 2027

    The Commission’s annual early career scholars (ECS) prize recognises outstanding essays addressing the history of science, technology and medicine in their diplomatic contexts. Our award aims to provide support and recognition for fresh voices in the field. Topics might include, but are not limited to: science diplomacy, international negotiations and cooperation in science, technology or…

  • Call for Submissions: STAND Early Career Prize 2026

    The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND) recognizes outstanding papers by early career scholars addressing the history of science, technology and medicine in their international contexts. Since the inaugural award was announced in 2022, the annual STAND ECS award aims to provide support and recognition for fresh voices in the field. Topics might include,…

  • Call for Papers – Scientific Internationalism for National Interests: Power Dynamics in the History of Science and Diplomacy before World War II (2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting)

    Title: Scientific internationalism for national interests: power dynamics in the history of science and diplomacy before World War II Organizers: Daniel Gamito-Marques (NOVA School of Science and Technology), Lif Lund Jacobsen (Danish Arctic Institute, Copenhagen) This symposium calls for papers promoting a historical and historiographical reconsideration of the notion of “scientific internationalism”, shifting the perspective…

  • Call for Papers – Science Diplomacy in Times of Upheaval: Crisis, Contestation and Cooperation (ESHS/HSS 2026 Symposium)

    Fifteen years after the Royal Society and AAAS first introduced the concept of science diplomacy, both organisations have returned to the subject to reassess its role in the face of ongoing geopolitical upheaval. Their recent reconceptualisation (Science Diplomacy in an Era of Disruption, 2025) alongside the European Commission’s new framework – A European Framework for…

  • Call for Papers – Shifting Perspectives: Diversity, Geographies, and Possibilities in the Physical Sciences (ESHS/HSS 2026 Symposium)

    Recent scholarship in the history of science has incorporated a broader range of actors, geographies, and materialities, leading to new methodologies, questions, and lines of inquiry. These developments have also pluralized the history of the physical sciences and challenged some of its canonical narratives. For the 2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh, we welcome submissions…

  • STAND Events at ICHST 2025

    M09 | 008 STAND Business Meeting(Friday, July 4, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM, Archway, Theatre 3) N07 | 008 Connections, Synergies, and Tensions in Science Diplomacy, Panel 1(Friday, July 4, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Archway, Theatre 1) Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University), ‘Japanese Ornithologists in the Pacific: The Remaking of Japanese Sovereignty and Trans-Pacific…