31 May \;Pompeu Fabra University\, Barcelona 25/27 carrer Ramó\;n Trias Fargas\, room "Calsamiglia" 40.035\, Roger de Lluria Building \;
\n1 and 2 June Institut d'Estudis Catalans 47 carrer del Carme\, Barcelona \;
\nThe first day of the conference will be broadcasted in streaming at: \;http://www.upf.edu/shc/ \;
\nAttendance is free. No pre-registration is required. \;
\nOver the past two decades\, scholars in the history of science and science studies have produced a rich body of literature on the interplay between science\, the state\, and knowledge production in the cold war era. \; Subsequent studies have also begun to address a broader range of questions about scientists' political roles and identities\; the relationship of science to liberal democracy\; science\, internationalism\, and international relations\; hegemony and the post-colonial dimensions of cold war science\; and new cultural approaches to the study of science and the cold war. \; More recent works are moving in new and exciting directions\, from the earlier concern with institutions\, geopolitical objectives\, and the shaping of research agendas by the military. Part of our goal is to help move the field beyond its overly American-centered focus\, and beyond the boundaries of the U.S.-Soviet conflict\, by broadening the scope of analysis to other national and regional contexts\, as well as the transnational arena of international organization and global community. \;
\n"Dark Matters: Contents and Discontents of Cold War Science" will confront these and other issues by bringing together a representative international group of leading experts for a lively series of discussions about current research\, broader conceptual frameworks and questions\, and directions for future inquiry. \; The results will be disseminated more widely as a conference volume that will offer a prominent statement about the state-of-the-art in the history of cold war science.
\nInternational Scientific Committee
\nDieter Hoffman (Max-Planck-Institut fü\;r Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
\nAlexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia)
\nStuart W. Leslie (Johns Hopkins University)
\nAlbert Presas i Puig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
\nXavier Roqué\; (Universitat Autò\;noma de Barcelona)
\nJosé\; Manuel Sá\;nchez Ron (Universidad Autó\;noma de Madrid)
\nJessica Wang (University of British Columbia)
\nProgram
\nMay 31
\n9:00 &ndash\; 10:30: Setting the Agenda
\nAlbert Presas i Puig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Xavier Roqué\; (Universitat Autò\;noma de Barcelona) &ndash\; Welcome from the Hosts
\nJessica Wang (University of British Columbia) &ndash\; Opening Remarks on Behalf of the International Organizing Committee
\nJohn Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology) &ndash\; Towards a Transnational History of American Science in the Cold War
\n10:30 &ndash\; 12:30: Environments
\nPerrin Selcer (University of Michigan) &ndash\; The Cold War Origins of Spaceship Earth
\nMatthew Farish (University of Toronto) &ndash\; Military Science and Slow Violence in the Canadian Arctic
\nSimone Turchetti (University of Manchester) &ndash\; Deeply Concerned about the Environment: NATO and the Rise of Environmental Studies during the Cold War
\nCommentary: Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum\, Munich)
\n14:00 &ndash\; 16:00: Grass Roots Activities
\nKaren Rader (Virginia Commonwealth University) &ndash\; Museums as Democratizing Technologies: Cold War Science Education and the Model of the Exploratorium\, 1968-85
\nOlival Freire Jr. (SFBUI\, Brazil) &ndash\; From the Streets into the Academia: Political Activism and Reconfiguration of Physics Around 1970
\nSlava Gerovitch (MIT) &ndash\; Soviet Mathematics during the Cold War: A Parallel Social Infrastructure and Idealistic Ethos
\nCommentary: Paul Forman (Smithsonian Institution)
\n16:00 &ndash\; 18:00: Scientific Diplomacies
\nJosé\; Manuel Sá\;nchez Ron (Universidad Autó\;noma de Madrid) &ndash\; Theodore von Ká\;rmá\;n as a Cold War Missionary in Spain
\nKarin Zachmann (Technische Universitä\;t Mü\;nchen) &ndash\; Ambassadors of the New Ostpolitik? The European Society for Nuclear Methods in Agriculture in the 1970s
\nAmanda McVety (Miami University) &ndash\; The Rinderpest Campaign and Interspecies Internationalism
\nCommentary: Anoni Malet (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
\nJune 1
\n9:00 &ndash\; 10:30: Risks
\nAlison Kraft (University of Nottingham) &ndash\; Confronting Fallout: Contested Science in the Early Cold War
\nDaniele Cozzoli (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) &ndash\; \;Liaisons Dangereuses: \;Britain\, the Soviet Union\, and the Transfer of Knowledge Concerning Penicillin (1944 - 1948)
\nCommentary: Elena Aronova (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science)
\n10:30 &ndash\; 12:30: Nuclear Globalism
\nGisela Mateos and Edna Suarez (UNAM) &ndash\; Tensions between Becoming Nuclear and Promoting Denuclearization: Mexican Nuclear Politics 1950-1970
\nChristian Forstner (Universitä\;t Jena) &ndash\; Nuclear Fission and Austria&rsquo\;s Nuclear Energy Programs in a European Perspective
\nJahnavi Phalkey (King&rsquo\;s College) &ndash\; Towards Fusion: Atoms for Peace and Physics in India\, 1953-1959
\nCommentary: Cathryn Carson (UC Berkeley)
\n14:00 &ndash\; 16:00: Representing and Intervening
\nTrevor Barnes (University of British Columbia) &ndash\; Newton Mangled on a Bissett Home- made\, Electrical Computer: The Cold War\, Social Physics\, and Macrogeography in Mid- Twentieth Century America
\nJoy Rohde (University of Michigan) &ndash\; Thin Description: Reframing Cold War Social Science
\nRon Doel (Florida State University) &ndash\; Graphical Methods and Scientific Practice: What the Stommel Diagram Reveals about the Environmental Sciences in Cold War America
\nCommentary: Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia)
\n16:00-18:00: Experts and Advisors
\nSusan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania) &ndash\; Keeping Secrets\, Learning to Lie
\nAlexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia) &ndash\; Sakharov Revisited
\nSonja Amadae (Ohio State University) &ndash\; Taking the US from MAD to NUTS: How Escalation Dominance\, Unilateral Deterrence\, and Hegemony Displaced the Liberal World Order
\nCommentary: David Hounshell (Carnegie Mellon University)
\nJune 2
\n9:00-11:00: Borders\, Isolation\, and Circulation
\nMarí\;a Jesú\;s Santesmases (CCHS\, CSIC\, Madrid) &ndash\; Circulating Knowledge and Practices in the Atomic Age: Radioisotopes in Spain\, 1945-1955
\nDieter Hoffmann (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science) and George Vlakhakis (NHRF\, Athens) &ndash\; Achilles Papapetrou (1907-1987): A Cold War Physicist
\nXavier Roqué\; (Universitat Autò\;noma de Barcelona) &ndash\; The Trouble with Spain: Physics and Culture through Francoism
\nCommentator: Konstantin Ivanov (Institute for the History of Science and Technology\, Moscow)
\n11:00-12:30 Work-in-Progress Presentations
\nD.J. Kinney (Florida State University)\, Elizabeth Knowland (University of British Columbia)\, \;Patrick Vitale (University of Toronto)\, Clara Florensa (Universitat Autò\;noma de Barcelona)
\nGeneral Discussion
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