Programme
Monday, 14 September 2014
8:30–9:00 Nametag pickup and coffee
9:00–9:15 Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University)
Introductory remarks
9:15–9:45 Personal introductions
FIRST SESSION: Bodies: Scientific Ideals and Science Politics
9:45–10:30 Keynote: Rüdiger Graf (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany)
Détente Science? Transformations of Knowledge and Expertise in the 1970s
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–11:30 Dirk Thomaschke (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany)
Providing Genetic Services: Prenatal Diagnosis, Human Genetics Experts, and Space in Denmark and Germany during the 1970s
11:30–12:00 Giulia Frezza/Mauro Capocci (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Science and Medicine in the Factory: Occupational Health and the Critique of Scientific Knowledge in the 1970s Italy
12:00–12:30 Discussion
12:30–13:30 Lunch
SECOND SESSION: Regions and Environmental Narratives
13:30–14:15 Keynote: Mark Carey (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA)
Feminist Glaciology: Rethinking Power, Knowledge, and Ice in the 1970s
14:15–14:45 Coffee break
14:45–15:15 Christian Kehrt (Helmuth-Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany)
”Maybe Never Again Krill”: Germany´s Antarctic Expeditions in the 1970s
15:15–15:45 Peder Roberts/Lize-Marié van der Watt (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden)
From Khaki to Green? Arctic Science in the 1970s
15:45–16:00 Short break
16:00–16:30 Julia Lajus (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Soviet High-Level Experts and their Perception of the Western Left-Wing Vision of ”Environmental Crisis”
16:30–17:00 Janet Martin-Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Politicizing climate: Rhetoric, aims and actions in the UK
17:00–17:30 Discussion
19:00 Dinner at Restaurant ”Langhoff&Juul” (for the organiser’s account)
Tuesday, 15 September 2014
THIRD SESSION: Institutions and Institutional Transformations
9:00–9:45 Keynote: Elke Seefried (Institut für Zeitgeschichte Munich and Universität Augsburg, Germany)
The 1970s as a Turning Point in the History of Future Studies (preliminary title)
9:45–10:15 Coffee break
10:15–10:45 Sverker Sörlin (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden)
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Emerging Global Climate Change
10:45–11:15 Jennifer Beckman, Katarina Nordström (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Scale and expertise in Swedish and Nordic environmental institutionalisation, 1970-1984
11:15–11:45 Isabell Schrickel (Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany)
Cooperation without Consensus? Integrated Scientific Approaches at IIASA, 1972–1978
11:45–12:15 Discussion
12:15–13:15 Lunch
FOURTH SESSION: Governments: Research Programmes, Politics, and Expertise
13: 15–14:00 Keynote: Michael Egan (McMaster University Hamilton, Canada)
Crisis Disciplines and the Science of the Environmental Crisis
14:00–14:15 Coffee break
14:15–14:45 Gabriel Henderson (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Fearing the Tickle-Down – The Development of the National Climate Program Act of 1978
14:45–15:15 Jennifer Hubbard (Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada))
Canadian Marine Science and the ”Chaining of Prometheus”
15:15–15:45 Discussion
15:45–16:00 Break
16:00–17:00 Commentary by Libby Robin (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
and final discussion