• STAND Early Career Prize 2023

    The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy is pleased to announce that Dr Alma Igra is recipient of its 2023 Early Career Prize for her paper ‘British Scientific Humanitarianism in Vienna: Milk and Standards in Exchange‘. Out of an exceptionally strong set of submissions, two additional papers merited recognition as Honourable Mentions: Timothy Sim, for…

  • STAND-Sponsored Panel at HSS: ‘Inclusion and Exclusion in Scientific Internationalism’

    History of Science Society 2022 Annual Meeting (Chicago), Saturday, November 19, 9:00 to 10:30am, Drake Hotel, Floor: Mezzanine, Parkside Session Abstract: In recent years, historians of science have explored more the internationalization of science, especially through the examination of international collaborations and multi-lateral initiatives. This is partly because of their significance in shaping the global…

  • Call for Papers: Circulation and Exchange in Science and Diplomacy

    3rd Conference of the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy 19-21 July 2023 | University of São PauloCo-hosted with the Department of Political Science of University of São Paulo (DCP/FFLCH-USP) The DHST Commission of Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND) exists to promote and coordinate interdisciplinary historical studies on the relationships between science, technology and…

  • ESHS 2022 Symposia, ECR Lecture & STAND General Meeting

    STAND is sponsoring a pair of symposia at the 10th Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, held in Brussels, 7-10 September 2022. The first is a pair of panels on ‘Science Diplomacy and Politics’ and the second is a trio of panels on ‘The Politics of Data, Environments, and Infrastructures’. Sam…

  • ‘International Symposium on the History of Science Diplomacy in 20th Century China’ Programme

    ‘International Symposium on the History of Science Diplomacy in 20th Century China’ Programme

    Co-Sponsored by STAND and Peking University Department of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 19 and 20 March 2022PKU Zhongguanyuan Global Village and Online Day 1 (Saturday, 19 March) 8:00-8:30 Opening Ceremony Moderator: ZHANG Li / 张藜 (Professor, Peking University) Welcome Address  Dr. Simone Turchetti (President, DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy) Professor HAN Qide /…

  • Pete Millwood Awarded Inaugural STAND Early Career Prize

    The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy is pleased to announce that Dr Pete Millwood has been awarded its inaugural Early Career Prize for his paper ‘A Source of Vernacular Knowledge or a Final Frontier for Globalized Science? American and Chinese Discourses on Science in the People’s Republic of China, 1971–1978’. He will be presenting his…

  • Statement on Ukraine

    As a Historical Commission promoting peaceful understanding through scientific collaboration, research, and scholarly exchange, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Together with scholarly communities around the world, we express the greatest concern for Ukraine and protest the aggression by the Russian Government. We also note the open letter…

  • STAND Secretary Dr Matthew Adamson Gives 4S Backchannels Interview

    Dr Matthew Adamson (McDaniel College, Budapest) has given an interview for the Society for Social Studies of Science’s Backchannels blog. In it, Dr Adamson discusses many of the STAND commission’s activities relating to the history of science diplomacy, especially those related to science diplomacy in the global South.

  • Call for Papers: The Politics of Science Diplomacy Symposium

    2022 European Society for the History of Science Conference, Brussels, 7-9 September The STAND Commission calls for paper proposals on science diplomacy issues aligned to the main 2022 ESHS conference theme on science policy and the politics of science.  Core literature on science diplomacy contends that utilizing science in the diplomacy arena enables rising above…

  • De-Centring Science Diplomacy: Cases from Asia Mini-Workshops

    Mini-Workshop 1 (22 January 2021) Presenters: Jaehwan Hyun, ‘“A National Park in the Demilitarized Zone”: Victory over Communism Diplomacy and Nature Conservation in Cold War South Korea, 1961-1973’ Yue Liang, ‘Technology Diplomacy in Early Communist China: Visiting the Jingjiang Flood Diversion Project in 1952’ Shawn Liu, ‘Diplomacy and Meteorology: China, Japan, and the Dispute over…