12.00 Lunch, registration and introduction (Simone Turchetti)
12.35 Session one: Science diplomacy and international organizations
(chaired by Matthew Adamson)
Gordon Barrett (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK), From Party to Party-State: The Chinese Communist Party’s Evolving Science Diplomacy at the World Federation of Scientific Workers, 1946-1956
Doubravka Olšáková (Institute for Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague), Science Diplomacy and Dissent Culture in Eastern Europe
Sabine Clarke (Department of History, University of York, UK) Competitive collaboration: how did Britain and America deploy experts in an attempt to shape the post war future of the Caribbean?
13.55 Session two: Nuclear diplomacy (chaired by Sam Robinson)
Matthew Adamson (McDaniel College, Budapest Campus, Budapest, Hungary), Uranium, Diplomacy, and Nuclear Reach
Simone Turchetti (CHSTM, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK), Friends in fission: The Brazilian atomic energy project and its backers in North America and Europe, 1950-1975
14.50-15.10 Coffee Break
15.10 Session three: Environmental diplomacy (chaired by Doubravka Olšáková)
Iqra Choudhry (CHSTM, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK), Science Diplomacy and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Sam Robinson (Department of Sociology, University of York, York, UK), Anticipating Ocean Exploitation and the Law of the Sea (1968-84)
16.05 Session four: Science diplomacy from past to present (chaired by Simone Turchetti)
Janina Onuki and Amanda Domingues (Institute for International Relations, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil), The perspectives of scientific diplomacy in Brazil: the case study of the State of São Paulo
Sara Giorgi (independent researcher, European Medicines Agency, London, UK), Science diplomacy in the time of Brexit: Italy-UK scientific relations
17.00 Concluding Remarks
Kieron Flanagan (Alliance Manchester Business School - Innovation Management and Policy Division, University of Manchester)
17.30 End of proceedings