Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
19-20 July 2019
Day 1
Session 1: Science Diplomacy and Geopolitical Influence
● Molly Silk (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK) “China’s Space Programme as a Tool of Diplomatic Influence.”
● Doubravka Olšáková (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic), “A Matter of Politeness: The Role of Soviet Ambassadors and ‘System Checks’ in Maintaining Influence in Czechoslovak Science after 1968.”
● Toto R. N. Matshediso (Department of Science and Technology, Pretoria, South-Africa), “Diplomats in science diplomacy: Promoting scientific and technological collaboration in international relations.”
● Giulia Rispoli, (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany), “Nuclear Winter’s Ambassadors: Between Earth-System Research and Nuclear Diplomacy.”
Session 2: Academic Institutions, Scientific Societies, and Diplomacy
●Roland Wittje (IIT, Madras, India), “IIT Madras as science diplomacy during the Cold War.”
● Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen (Arctic University, Tromso, Norway), “The other American embassy and ambassador: the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo, and Yenching University (Beijing).”
● Elena Sinelnikova (St. Petersburg Branch of S.I. Vavilov Institute for History of Science and Technology of Russian Academy of Sciences), “Soviet Diplomacy and the Russian Palestinian Society: How to Use a Scientific Society in Foreign Affairs.”
● Roberto Lalli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany), “Physicists as Diplomats: International Scientific Societies, European Integration and Prague 1968.”
Plenary Lecture
Finn Aaserud (Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen, Denmark), “Statesmen and Diplomats Encounter Niels Bohr.”
Session 3: Scientists and Diplomats in the Nuclear World
● Loukas Freris (National Technical University, Athens, Greece), “Alfred Maddock in Greece: Technical Assistance or Science Diplomacy?”
● Lif Jacobsen (Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen, Denmark), Julia Lajus & Irina Fedorova (National Research University, St. Petersburg, Russia), “Detecting the bombs: exchange of seismographic instruments between USA and the Soviet Union, 1961-1965.”
● Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK), “The Unflinching Mr. Smith and the Nuclear Age.”
● Matthew Adamson (McDaniel College, Budapest, Hungary), “Behind the smile: Bertrand Goldschmidt and the nuclear perspective of a reduced power.”
Session 4: Science Diplomacy, Advocacy, and Novel Diplomatic Channels
● Alison Kraft (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany) and Carola Sachse (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria), “The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs: A new intersection between science, politics and diplomacy.”
● Irina Fedorova (National Research University, St. Petersburg, Russia), “Soviet Scientists’ Participation in the Pugwash Movement.”
● Lucas Mueller (MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA), “Cancer Diplomacy.”
● Jonathan E. Forman (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague, Netherlands), “Banning Chemical Weapons: An Intersection of Science and Diplomacy.”
Day 2
Session 5: Scientists and Diplomats beyond Borders
● Beatriz M. Rius (Sorbonne University, Paris, France), “Between the oil industry and international science: the mediating and diplomatic role of marine geophysics in France during the 1960s.”
● Ariel Shangguan (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), “The Condition of Western Learning: on China’s quest for the scientificity and universality of knowledge.”
● Fernando García Naharro (University of Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany), “Shaping the Legitimated Expert: Scientific Mobility and the International Exchange of Publications Under Franco.”
● Iqra Choudry (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK), “‘Decolonizing’ Antarctica: science diplomacy and post-colonial discourse.”
Commission General Assembly
Session 6: Agents of Science Diplomacy
● Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK), “Science Diplomacy from the ‘Outside’: Scientists and China’s Foreign Affairs Infrastructure, 1949-1972.”
● Daniel Gamito-Marques (Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal), “A Scientific and Diplomatic Scramble for Africa: Barbosa du Bocage, colonial science, and the Berlin Conference of 1884–85.”
● Maria Rentetzi & Myrto Dimitrokali (National Technical University, Athens, Greece),“What is a Queen Doing at CERN? Science Diplomacy in Greece in Early 1960s.”
● Pete Millwood (LSE, London, UK), “‘An Extraordinarily Difficult Undertaking: Sino-American Diplomacy and China’s Reintegration into Globalized Science.”
Session 7: Contextualizing National Styles of Science Diplomacy
● Martin Emanuel (National Research University, St. Petersburg, Russia), “Establishing Swedish-Soviet Techno-Scientific Collaboration, ca 1960–80.”
● Henrik Knudsen (Danish National Archives, Copenhagen, Denmark), “Rockets over Thule? The Politics of Military Research and Rockets in Cold War Greenland.”
● Eiiti Sato, Iara Leite, Nicole Gayard & Julia Mascarello (University of Brazília; Federal University of Santa Catarina; Brazilian Center of Analysis & Planning; Federal University of Santa Catarina), “Brazilian diplomatic thought on science, technology and innovation: a preliminary overview.”
DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy 