• STAND Early Career Prize 2024

    The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy is pleased to announce that Jiya Pandya is recipient of its 2024 Early Career Prize for the paper ‘Disability as Geopolitics: India, the UN, and Transnational Welfare’. Out of a strong set of submissions, two further papers were selected for recognition as Honourable Mentions: Sungeun Kim, for ‘Bridging…

  • Call for Papers and Panels, ICHST 2025 Symposium: ‘Connections, Synergies, and Tensions in Science Diplomacy’

    The DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy is making a call for expressions of interest for participation in a symposium to be held as part of ICHST 2025. This conference is set to be held in New Zealand in a hybrid format, so we are looking for prospective participants who would be able to present either in-person or…

  • Call for Papers – Science Diplomacy: Searching for a Deeper Past (ESHS 2024 Symposium)

    11th ESHS Conference, 4–7 Sept 2024, Barcelona (Spain), Theme: Science, Technology, Humanity, and the Earth Call for Abstracts – Symposium Title: Science Diplomacy: Searching for a Deeper Past Organizers: Daniel Gamito-Marques (NOVA School of Science and Technology), Lif Lund Jacobsen (Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen) Session Description This symposium organized by the…

  • STAND Members Presenting at 1st CLIMASAT Workshop

    When: 6th October 2023, 08:30-18:00 CET.   Where: Institut d’història de la ciència [uab.cat] at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. It will be possible to join the conference online here [teams.microsoft.com].   Presenters involved in STAND include: Johan Gärdebo (University of Cambridge), ‘Baltic Battleground: Geopolitics of Swedish Environmental Data, 1975–1995’ Doubravka Olšáková (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences), ‘Bringing Data Back to…

  • Special Issue: ‘Science, Technology and Visual Diplomacy’

    British Journal for the History has published a special issue on ‘Science, Technology and Visual Diplomacy’ sponsored by the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy (Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2023). It is based on a STAND-organised symposium for 9th European Society for the History of Science Conference. Introduction: ‘Power to the Image! Science,…

  • Circulation and Exchange in Science and Diplomacy: Updated Programme

    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)…

  • STAND Early Career Prize 2023

    The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy is pleased to announce that Dr Alma Igra is recipient of its 2023 Early Career Prize for her paper ‘British Scientific Humanitarianism in Vienna: Milk and Standards in Exchange‘. Out of an exceptionally strong set of submissions, two additional papers merited recognition as Honourable Mentions: Timothy Sim, for…

  • STAND-Sponsored Panel at HSS: ‘Inclusion and Exclusion in Scientific Internationalism’

    History of Science Society 2022 Annual Meeting (Chicago), Saturday, November 19, 9:00 to 10:30am, Drake Hotel, Floor: Mezzanine, Parkside Session Abstract: In recent years, historians of science have explored more the internationalization of science, especially through the examination of international collaborations and multi-lateral initiatives. This is partly because of their significance in shaping the global…

  • Call for Papers: Circulation and Exchange in Science and Diplomacy

    3rd Conference of the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy 19-21 July 2023 | University of São PauloCo-hosted with the Department of Political Science of University of São Paulo (DCP/FFLCH-USP) The DHST Commission of Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND) exists to promote and coordinate interdisciplinary historical studies on the relationships between science, technology and…

  • ESHS 2022 Symposia, ECR Lecture & STAND General Meeting

    STAND is sponsoring a pair of symposia at the 10th Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, held in Brussels, 7-10 September 2022. The first is a pair of panels on ‘Science Diplomacy and Politics’ and the second is a trio of panels on ‘The Politics of Data, Environments, and Infrastructures’. Sam…