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 2023, STAND organized a book writing workshop to offer mutual feedback on ongoing book proposals to focus on developing writing skills.
Thanks to generous funding from the DHST, we have been able to regularly offer travel bursaries supporting postgraduate and early career participants in order to support them presenting at STAND-sponsored panels, symposia, and conferences.
*** STAND ECR 2025-2026 Schedule ***
22 January 2026, 2pm CET – Presenter: Olivia Wynne Houck (MIT), Paper: “From Stepping Stones to Outposts: Debates about Greenland, Iceland and the Western Hemisphere, 1940-1941”
19 March 2026 (2pm CET- Presenter: Diego Hurtado-Torres (Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago). Paper: tbc
16 April 2026 (2pm CET) – Presenter: Laura Royer (Uppsala University). Paper: tbc
30 April 2026 (time tbc) – Presenter: Jules Siran. Paper: Hungarian Engineering Education and the Global Cold War (1960s-1990s)
7 May 2026 (time tbc) – Presenter: Victor Rafael Limeira da Silva (Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (MAST) in Rio de Janeiro). Paper: Anthropological Expeditions in Twentieth-Century Brazil: Ethnographic Objects and Collections in the
Transnational Relations of Science and Museums
21 MAY 2026, 2pm CET – Presenter: Sara Bassanelli (Politecnico di Torino), Paper: ‘Negotiating Standards in Physics: The Diplomatic Case of Electrical Units (1920s-1960s)‘.
*** STAND ECR 2024-2025 Schedule ***
3 October 2024, 14:00 CET – Seminar discussion on: ‘The role and relevance of non-state actors in science diplomacy’. Introduction: Barbara Hof. Speakers: Péter Marton, Néstor Herran, Doubravka Olšáková, Matthew Adamson
7 November 2024, 14:00 CET – Virtual Seminar – Presenter: Tijana Rupcic (Central European University) Paper: ‘The Technomanagerial Paradigm in Yugoslavia: Examining the Interplay of Concept and Practice in Socialist Development’
5 December 2024, 14:00 CET – Virtual Seminar – Presenter: Giacomo Simoncelli (Sapienza University of Rome). Paper: Diplomacy of “the search for the ideal influenza vaccine” International relations around immunisation against the pandemic influenza threat.
6 Feb 2025, 14:00 CET – Virtual Seminar – Presenter: Isabella Bonaventura (Federal University of São Paulo). Paper: Latin American scientific networks in the first years of the SBPC (1948 – 1951)
6 March 2025, 14:00 CET – Virtual Seminar – Presenter: Christina Roberts (University of California, Santa Barbara). Paper: NASA’s Spacemobile – Science Diplomacy of the everyday
3 April 2025, 14:00 CET – Virtual Seminar – Presenter: Luca Forgiarini (Utrecht University). Paper: Building the pyramid: CERN and the Europeanisation of high-energy physics in the 1960s and 1970s
5 June 2025, 14:00 CET – STAND Early Career Prize Session – Presenter: Dr. Ezequiel Sosiuk (Universidad Maimónides & CONICET), prize winner- Paper: Diplomatic concepts: origins and consequences of the United States-Brazil Shrimp Conservation Agreement (1972-1977). Second presenter: Jens Amborg (Uppsala University), honourable mention- Paper: Animal geopolitics: race smuggling and sheep diplomacy in eighteenth-century Europe
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