Organized by the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy
23 July 2020 (NB: The schedule is based on the British Summer Time [BST], not GMT)
9:00-9:45am – Science Diplomacy Commission AGM: Morning Session
Topics for Discussion: introduction, updates, scholarly outputs, globalising and diversifying the commission
10:00-11:00am – Panel 1: Cooperation or Competition? Nationhood and Scientific Diplomacy
Katrin Heilmann (PhD Candidate, King’s College London) – ‘Soviet Science Diplomacy?: Warsaw Pact Civil Defence Cooperation’
Jaehwan Hyun (Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute Berlin) – ‘“Establishing a National Park in the Demilitarized Zone”: Nature Conservation and Science Diplomacy in Cold War South Korea’
Yue Liang (PhD candidate, SUNY Binghamton) – ‘Science Diplomacy and Hydraulic Infrastructure in Early Communist China’
Liu Xiao (PhD candidate, Bristol University) – ‘Diplomacy and Meteorology: Negotiation between China and Japan on the Recovery of Qingdao Observatory, 1918-1931’
11:00-12:00pm – Panel 2: Science Diplomacy Between and Beyond Nations
Richard Brown (Research Associate, York University) – ‘DDT and the Atomic Bomb: Two Cases of Scientific Collaboration in War’
Francis Newman (MPhil candidate, University of Cambridge) – ‘“Science as a diplomatic weapon”: The Royal Society and scientific freedoms in Sino-British exchanges, 1961-1966’
Gabriela Radulescu (PhD candidate, Technische Universität Berlin/ Max Planck Institute) – ‘Communication with (Extra)Terrestrial Intelligence: Science Diplomacy during the Cold War (1960-1976)’
Kichun Kang (PhD candidate, Seoul National University) – ‘Building Nation with Science: Science cooperation and aid between USA and Republic of Korea in the late 1960s and the 1970s’
Joyce Koranteng-Acquah (MPhil candidate, University of Manchester) – ‘Achieving Food Security Through Agriculture Policy Development’
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2:00-3:00pm – Panel 3: Science and Public Diplomacy
Irina Nastasă-Matei (Junior Lecturer, University of Bucharest) – ‘Cultural diplomacy in Europe during the Cold War’
Maria Pavlova (Senior researcher, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)) – ‘Science diplomacy in Russian-Polish historical debate’
Andrew Thomas (British Interplanetary Society) – Formal and Informal Diplomacy in the Chinese Space Programme’
Molly Silk (PhD candidate, University of Manchester) – ‘Cultural Products of the Chinese Space Endeavour’
Ian Varga (PhD candidate, Florida State University) – ‘From on the Moon to around the World: Apollo Astronauts as Public Diplomats’
3:00-4:00pm – Panel 4: Location, Adaptation and Transfer
Vedran Duančić (Postdoctoral Researcher, the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) – ‘Behind and Across the Curtains: How and What Yugoslavia Learned About American Big Science in the Early Cold War’
Robert-Jan Wille (Postdoc Researcher and Lecturer at the Freudenthal Institute of Utrecht University) – ‘Managing Germany’s position as central power in global meteorology: Hugo Hergesell’s meteorological Realpolitik before and after the First World War’
Geoffrey Durham (PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania) – ‘Russia and the Internationalization of the Metric System, 1850s-1890s’
Bárbara K. Silva (Professor at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, FONDECYT Researcher (National Commission on Scientific and Technological Research)) – ‘Cold Stars in Chile. Astronomy and Politics in the Global Cold War’
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4:30-5:15pm – Science Diplomacy Commission AGM: Afternoon Session
Topics for Discussion: resumé of the morning session, early career scholar involvement and support, future officers and activities of the Commission, meeting opportunities in the coming year
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