Category: Current Calls and Events
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STAND Events at ESHS/HSS 2026
Symposium — Science Diplomacy: Cooperation, Competition and Crisis Fifteen years after the Royal Society and AAAS first defined science diplomacy (2010), both organisations have returned to the subject to reassess its role amid ongoing geopolitical upheaval. In an era marked by plural worldviews and contested scientific authority, they, alongside actors such as the European Commission,…
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Call for Submissions: STAND Early Career Prize 2027
The Commission’s annual early career scholars (ECS) prize recognises outstanding essays addressing the history of science, technology and medicine in their diplomatic contexts. Our award aims to provide support and recognition for fresh voices in the field. Topics might include, but are not limited to: science diplomacy, international negotiations and cooperation in science, technology or…
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Call for Papers – Scientific Internationalism for National Interests: Power Dynamics in the History of Science and Diplomacy before World War II (2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting)
Title: Scientific internationalism for national interests: power dynamics in the history of science and diplomacy before World War II Organizers: Daniel Gamito-Marques (NOVA School of Science and Technology), Lif Lund Jacobsen (Danish Arctic Institute, Copenhagen) This symposium calls for papers promoting a historical and historiographical reconsideration of the notion of “scientific internationalism”, shifting the perspective…
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Call for Papers – Science Diplomacy in Times of Upheaval: Crisis, Contestation and Cooperation (ESHS/HSS 2026 Symposium)
Fifteen years after the Royal Society and AAAS first introduced the concept of science diplomacy, both organisations have returned to the subject to reassess its role in the face of ongoing geopolitical upheaval. Their recent reconceptualisation (Science Diplomacy in an Era of Disruption, 2025) alongside the European Commission’s new framework – A European Framework for…
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Call for Papers – Shifting Perspectives: Diversity, Geographies, and Possibilities in the Physical Sciences (ESHS/HSS 2026 Symposium)
Recent scholarship in the history of science has incorporated a broader range of actors, geographies, and materialities, leading to new methodologies, questions, and lines of inquiry. These developments have also pluralized the history of the physical sciences and challenged some of its canonical narratives. For the 2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh, we welcome submissions…