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STAND Early Career Prize 2025
The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy is pleased to announce that Ezequiel Sosiuk has been selected as recipient of its 2025 Early Career Prize for the paper ‘Diplomatic Concepts: Origins and Consequences of the United States-Brazil Shrimp Conservation Agreement (1972-1977)’. The paper provides a clear historical example of how science can actually structure international agreements and relations,…
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Special Issue: ‘Decentring Science Diplomacy: Cases from Asia’ (BJHS)
British Journal for the History of Science has published the Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy’s fifth special issue project, based its ‘De-Centring Science Diplomacy: Cases from Asia’ virtual mini-workshops, January and May 2021. The project and special issue has been co-organised and co-edited by Aya Homei and Gordon Barrett. Introduction Gordon Barrett and Aya Homei,…
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New STAND Book Series with Oxford University Press
The DHST Commission on Science, Technology, and Diplomacy is pleased to announce the launch of a new book series with Oxford University Press. Science, Technology, and International Affairs encourages innovative studies on the influence science and technology have had on international affairs. The series takes an interdisciplinary approach to decenter traditional histories of science and…
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Call for Submissions: STAND Early Career Prize 2025
STAND ECS Prize The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND) recognizes outstanding papers by early career scholars addressing the history of science, technology and medicine in their international contexts. Since the inaugural award was announced in 2022, the annual STAND ECS award aims to provide support and recognition for fresh voices in the field.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…