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)
