3rd Conference of the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy
19-21 July 2023 | Inova USP – Centro de Inovação da USP, University of São Paulo
Co-hosted with the Department of Political Science of University of São Paulo (DCP/FFLCH-USP)
Programme *
Wednesday 19 July 2023
09.00-09.45 Breakfast/coffee **
09.45-10.00 Welcome (by Prof. Janina Onuki)
10.00-12.00 Session 1 ENGINEERING NEGOTIATIONS IN THE FABRIC OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ***
Chair: Lif Jacobsen
Leonardo Faggion Novo: ‘Diplomatic architectures: the role of the Pan-American Congresses of Architects for American foreign relations in the Interwar period’
Nicolás López Cvitanic: ‘Hydroelectricity, Heritage and Global Networks: A study of three Chilean National Monuments’
Roque Manuel Jimenez Sumalave: ‘Social movements as science diplomacy actors: Description of the Colombian anti-fracking movement and its influence on decision-making’
Ramnath Reghunadhan: ‘Science Technology and Innovation Diplomacy of the Belt and Road Initiative In ASEAN Countries: Impact and Implications for Indo-US Relations’
12.00-13.00 Lunchtime
13.00-15.00 Session 2 THE DIPLOMACY OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Chair: Doubravka Olsakova
Irina Fedorova: ‘IAEA and the Eastern bloc: the circulation of nuclear knowledge through technical assistance, study groups and training courses’
Alice Naisbitt: ‘Development, aid and national identity: the British Council’s science diplomacy in the Global South, ca. 1960-1990’
Felipe Trujillo B.: ‘Sciences for Development, Development for Scientists. ECLAC in Chile ́s technical cooperation initiatives (1950s)’
Matthew Adamson: ‘The IAEA, Scientific Programming, and Global Synoptic Visions’
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17.30 Session 3 PARLEYS OF SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGE AND ITS GLOBAL IMPACT
Chair: Matthew Adamson
Ron Doel: ‘Joining the Global Club: Ghana, the International Geophysical Year, and the Diplomatic Utility of Environmental Sciences Knowledge’
Isabella Bonaventura: ‘Rocha e Silva and Ribeiro do Valle: physiology and pharmacology between Brazil and Argentine (1940 – 1966)’
Jingfei Zhang: ‘The opening-up of seismology in China to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s’
Gordon Barrett: ‘Situating Dorothy Needham in Sino-British Science Diplomacy, 1944-1972’
Thursday 20 July 2023
10.00-12.00 Session 4 WHY IS PHYSICS SO ‘DIPLOMATIC’?
Chair: Roberto Lalli
Climério Paulo da Silva Neto: ‘A Nobel for Détente? Science diplomacy in the 1964 Physics Nobel Prize’
Gloria Maritza Gómez Revuelta: ‘Latin American Science in the Global Cold War: Contributions within the International Geophysical Year’
Barbra Miguele de Sá, Carlos Alberto Chaves & Ivã Gurgel: ‘Travels and exchanges: an analysis of Brazilian physicists from FFCL-USP based on the cases of Mario Schenberg and Sonja Ashauer’
Antonio A. P. Videira: ‘The History of Latin-American Center for Physics between 1962 and 1972’
12.00-13.00 Lunchtime
13.00-15.00 Session 5 SCIENCE DIPLOMACY BONDS, LEGAL KNOTS
Chair: Simone Turchetti
Zviko Manjengwah: ‘The role of dedicated hubs in making multi-stakeholder science diplomacy a norm in sub-Saharan Africa’
Hermano do A. Pinto Neto: ‘Legal Instruments for Science Diplomacy: The Case of the EU Agreements for Scientific Cooperation and the treaty with Brazil’
Cecilia Ibarra: ‘South-North collaboration from the South American scientists’ network for air quality modeling’
Hèctor Isern Alsina: ‘Negotiating data sharing at the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites’
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17.30 PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Chair: Aya Homei
Keynote: Barbara Silva, ‘Circulation, Exchange and Diplomacy in the History and Politics of Latin America’
Friday 21 July 2023
09.30-10.15 STAND General Assembly (over coffee and pastries)
10.30-12.30 Session 6 EMBASSIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Sam Robinson
Jaehwan Hyun: ‘The Migratory Animal Pathological Project and the Emergence of Trans-Asian Ornithology in Cold War Asia’
Mariana Cruz Fonseca and Jorge Lossio: ‘Rise and fall of North-American interest in scientific research on the cinchona plant in Peru in the context of World War II’
Carolina da Cunha Rocha: ‘The agrarian Brazilian science diplomacy: State agrarian experts and the scientific diplomatic mission in Paraguay (1930-1945)’
Lif Jacobsen: ‘A floating embassy, comparing the three Danish Galathea marine expeditions 1845, 1950 and 2007’
12.30-13.30 Lunchtime
13.30-15.00 Session 7 EQUITY AND NON TRADITIONAL ACTORS
Chair: Gordon Barrett
Deborah Marconcini Bittar: ‘The Foundations of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation: a gendered history of “science diplomacy”‘
Luciana Vieira & Silvia Figueirôa: ‘Women in scientific and diplomatic networks: the role of Branca Fialho (1896-1965) in the organization of the Maison du Br.sil at the Cit. Internationale Universitaire de Paris in the 1940s’
Elisabeth Epping and Gabriela Gomes Coelho Ferreira: ‘Comparing Science Diplomacy strategies of the Global North and the Global South – unravelling interactions by drawing on Science and Innovation Centres’
15.15-16.15 CONCLUSION: Long term perspectives and discussions
(Everybody is welcome)
* Please note that slight changes might occur. We will confirm the final programme nearer the time.
** Snacks and drinks are available 9am-4pm
*** session formats: 15 mins presentation per paper followed by 30 mins general Q&A and discussion)
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