Thursday, 23 November 2017
16.30-18.30
Presentation of the book Nuclear Italy. An International History of Italian Nuclear Policies during the Cold War, edited by Elisabetta Bini and Igor Londero, Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2017.
Discussants:
Elisabeth Roehrlich, University of Vienna
Gianrossano Giannini, University of Trieste
Angela Santese, University of Bologna
Friday, 24 November 2017
Morning session 9.30-13.00
Elisabeth Roehrlich, University of Vienna
The Spirit of Vienna: Superpower Cooperation at the International Atomic Energy Agency during the Mid-Cold War
Fabian Luescher, University of Bern
“Breaking Down all Barriers Erected in the Path of International Cooperation”: Soviet Atomic Science Diplomacy, 1955–1968
Elisabetta Vezzosi, University of Trieste
The Committee of Concerned Scientists: “Refusenik” Scientists and Soviet Nuclear Secrecy
Discussant: Lorenzo Mechi, University of Padua
Afternoon session 15.00-18.30
Stefan Guth, University of Tübingen
From Close Encounter to Close Contacts: Nuclear Techno-Diplomacy and Trans-Systemic Collaboration across the Bloc Divide and its Post-Soviet Aftermath, 1965-2015
Carla Konta, University of Trieste
Yugoslav Nuclear Diplomacy in the Early Cold War: Alliances, Ideologies and Realpolitik
Elisabetta Bini, University of Naples Federico II
Challenging Cold War Boundaries: The International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) between Bipolarism and Decolonization
Discussant: Francesco Cassata, University of Genoa
Discussion and closing remarks