Wednesday, 31 May 2023
13:45 – 14:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Johannes Feichtinger (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Introductory Remarks
Rainer Godel (Leopoldina) on the European Academies Research Initiative
Johannes Feichtinger (Austrian Academy of Sciences) / Michal Šimůnek (Czech Academy of Sciences/National Technical Museum Prague) on the Vienna Conference

14:30 – 16:00
Panel 1
The “Anschluss” of 1938 and its Impact on Science Organization
Chair: Mitchell G. Ash (University of Vienna)

Johannes Feichtinger / Siegfried Göllner (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
A “Friendly Takeover”? The Liquidation of the Austrian Education and Research System after the “Anschluss”, and its Impact on Science Organization

Dieter Hoffmann (MPI for the History of Science/Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin)
A Hostile Takeover? The History of the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying in the period following the “Anschluss” (1938–1945)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00
Panel 2
The Nazification of University Research in Occupied Countries
Chair: Piotr Szlanta (Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna)

Aisling Shalvey (Leopoldina)
“Dethroning the Sorbonne”: Creating the Reichsuniversität Straßburg and the Nazification of Science in Occupied Alsace

Piotr Majewski (Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw)
Secret University: People, Management, Research. The University of Warsaw, 1940–1944: A Case Study

18:00 – 18:30 Coffee Break

18:30 Key Note
Mitchell G. Ash (University of Vienna)
Science Policy Changes in Times of Political Upheaval
Chair: Karl Grandin (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

Thursday, 1 June 2023
9:30 – 11:00
Panel 3
Nazi Research Policy in Occupied Countries
Chair: Martin Franc (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Michal Šimůnek (Czech Academy of Sciences) / Miloš Hořejš (National Technical Museum Prague)
A New Infrastructure for the New Reich: On Contexts of the First Oil Pipeline in Bohemia and Moravia, 1941–1945

Christophe Eckes (Université de Lorraine)
Recruiting French Mathematicians for the Zentralblatt and the Jahrbuch: An Example of Nazi Scientific Policy in Occupied France

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00
Panel 4
Institutional Policy in Neutral and Occupied Countries
Chair: Dieter Hoffmann (MPI for the History of Science/Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin)

Karl Grandin (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Belligerent Suitors – Scientific Courtship in the Middle of the War: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1943

Céline Fellag Ariouet (Université de Lorraine)
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) 1933–1960: An International Scientific Organization near Paris, from the Rise of National Socialism to Postwar Reconfigurations

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break
Meeting of the Steering Committee of the European Academies Research Initiative

14:30 – 16:00
Panel 5
Soviet and German Science Policy in the Soviet Union and its Sphere of Interest
Chair: Michal Šimůnek (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Viktoriya Sukovata (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)
Soviet Science and Scientists during World War II: Challenges and Achievements

Erki Tammiksaar (Estonian University of Life Sciences)
German and Soviet Science Policy and Science in Estonia from the 1920s to the 1960s

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:45
Panel 6
1945: Fractures and Continuities
Chair: Giovanni Paoloni (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)

Annalisa Capristo (Centro Studi Americani, Rome)
Reknitting “the Ties Broken by the Storm”? Italian Scientists and the Consequences of Anti-Jewish Persecution Before and After 1945

Martin Franc (Czech Academy of Sciences)
The Era of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and its Influence on the Postwar Organization of Non-University Academic Institutions

Georgy S. Levit (University of Jena)
From the Third Reich to the GDR: Surviving Totalitarian Regimes as Hangers-On

20.00 Conference Dinner

Friday, 2 June 2023
9:30-10:15
Panel 7
Science Policy in a Neutral Country
Chair: Rainer Godel (Leopoldina)

Sven Widmalm (Uppsala University)
Neutral Science Policy: The Case of Sweden

10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:15
Panel 8
Science Reconstruction in a Non-Aligned State
Chair: Claude Debru (Académie des sciences)

Dragomir Bondžić (University of Belgrade)
The Development of Nuclear Science in Yugoslavia after the Second World War (1945–1960)

Aleš Gabrič (University of Ljubljana)
The Shaping of Slovenian Science Policy after the Second World War

12:15-13:45 Lunch Break

13:45-16:00
Panel 9
Science Diplomacy in Cold War Europe
Chair: Heiner Fangerau (University of Düsseldorf)

Nils Hansson / Thorsten Halling (University of Düsseldorf)
Bridging the Baltic Sea: Insights into Scientific Networks and Knowledge Transfer in the Baltic Sea Region during the Cold War via Travel Reports and Oral History

Claude Debru (Académie des sciences)
Some Remarks on the Scientific Relationships between France and the Eastern Bloc Countries, 1945–1966

Sandra Klos (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
The Exchange of Scientists in Cold War Europe as a Means of Diplomacy across the Iron Curtain, 1965–1991: The Austrian Scientific Exchange Program in Context

16:00 Closing Remarks