Thursday, 22.03.2018
Introduction
Klaus Gestwa (Tübingen) and Stefan Guth (Tübingen)
Panel I: Three Worlds, One Atom?
Chair and Comment: Karena Kalmbach (Eindhoven)
Mara Drogan (Loudonville NY): Atoms for Peace and the Third World: Questioning the Cold War Framework
Elisabeth Röhlrlich (Vienna): The Limits of the Dual Mandate: Soviet Positions in the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Suppliers Group during the 1970s
Fabian Lüscher (Bern): Romashka and the Poetics of Soviet Nuclear Internationalism
Panel II: Atoms on Tour
Chair and Comment: Melanie Arndt (Regensburg)
Roman Khandozhko (Tübingen): Quantum Tunnelling through the Iron Curtain: The International Community of High Energy Physicists in the Soviet Nuclear City of Dubna
Carla Konta (Trieste): Yugoslav Nuclear Diplomacy Between the Soviet Union and the United States in the Early Cold War
Ivaylo Hristov (Plovdiv): The Soviet Technopolitical Influence in Eastern Europe. The Bulgarian Nuclear Power Program in the Shadow of the Soviet Union (1955–1989)
Panel III: Radiating Future: Nuclear Waste
Chair and Comment: Tanja Penter (Heidelberg)
Tatiana Kasperski (Barcelona): Not quite a ‘Green Lawn’: Controversial Definitions of Nuclear Waste in Contemporary Russia
Andrei Stsiapaniau (Vilnius): Nuclear Waste as Unclear Legacy. How to Classify and Manage Nuclear Energy Uses in Modern Russia?
Friday, 23.03.2018
Panel IV: Nuclear Technopolitics Past and Present
Chair and Comment: Julia Richers (Bern)
Natalia Melnikova (Ekaterinburg): Nuclear Industry in the USSR and Russia as a Point Of Intersection between State and Society, the Local and the International
Stefan Guth (Tübingen): Breeding Progress or ‘To the Pioneers of the Distant Future Fly our 20th-Century Dreams!’
Paul Josephson (Waterville): Putin’s Indefatigable Atom: Rosatom Powers Russia into the Twenty-Second Century
Panel V: Half-Lives, Short and Long
Chair and Comment: Susanne Bauer (Oslo)
Nestor Herran (Paris): Beyond Fallout: The OEEC and the Early Coordination of Radiation Monitoring in Western Europe
Laura Sembritzki (Heidelberg): You Break it, You Buy it? Policies of Nuclear Disaster Relief in the Southern Urals
Galina Orlova (Moscow/Vilnius): The Short Life of Isotopes in the USSR, the 1950–1960s
Final Discussion