In-Between Meeting Workshop. 11 September 2025

Connecting Europe through Science:
Themes, Policies, and Challenges

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)
at the University of Manchester 

Venue: Room 2.57, Second Floor, Simon Building

10:00–10:30 ◦ Introduction

Simone Turchetti: Introduction — Europe, science and making connections

10:30–11:30 ◦ Session 1

Chair: Simone Turchetti

Kostas Tampakis: Science, connectedness and the idea of Europe in 19th century Greece

Hugo Soares: Amphibious Circuits: Jean Painlevé in Portugal

11:30–12:00 Coffee break

12:00–13:00 Session 2

Chair: Gemma Cirac-Claveras

Erwin Neuenschwander: Mathematics and (Trans)Nationalism: The Parallel Rise of State and Science in Italy and Germany

Ana Simões, Hugo Soares: Eclipse on Paper: Circulation of News about the 1919 Total Solar Eclipse in the Press

13:00–14:00 Lunch break
(venue: Room 2.57, Second Floor, Simon Building)

Venue: Room 2.57, Second Floor, Simon Building

14:00–15:00 Session 3

Chair: Kärin Nickelsen

Roberto Lalli: Fusing Europe from EURATOM to ITER: A longitudinal network analysis of European cooperation in fusion energy research

Barbara Hof: Rethinking Europe from Below: Solidarity Research during the Vietnam War at CERN and Beyond

15:00–16:00 Session 4

Chair: Peder Roberts

Kärin Nickelsen: The Art of Dividing Labour: Coordination, Cooperation, Collaboration, and Competition in the Early Years of Genomics

Daniele Cozzoli: The Genesis of European Collaboration in Biology: From the IBP and EMBO to the EMBL

16:00–16:30 Coffee break

16:30–17:30 Session 5

Chair: Roberto Lalli

Doubravka Olšáková: Cold War Socialist Internationalism as a Model of Transnational Cooperation?

Jon Agar: European, national and regional politics of Diamond Light

17:30-18:00 Concluding Remarks

Kieron Flanagan and Elvira Uyarra (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, MIOIR).

For the venues’ location please check the University of Manchester campus map here

Simon Building is number 59 on the map

The workshop is generously supported by the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (MJMCE)

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