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The American Challenge. The impact of the US scientific, technological and industrial organization in Post-war Europe.

The American Challenge. The impact of the US scientific, technological and industrial organization in Post-war Europe.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities, Barcelona (Spain), 

December 15-16, 2011, room 20.053




Program:
  
Thursday, 15 December 2011

 Chair: Antoni Malet (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
(15:00 Wellcome address)

 15:15 Presentation
 Daniele Cozzoli (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

 15:30 - 16:15
Jon Agar (University College London)
How do we account for the predominance of US science? Seven kinds of answers

 16:15 -17:00
Veera Lisa Nisonen (European Institute Florence)
The American Challenge and the Difficult Advent of the Common European Research Policy"

 17:00 Coffee break

 17:30 - 18:15
chair: Agustí Nieto Galán (Universitat Atutónoma de Barcelona)

 John Krige ( Georgiatech, Atlanta)
"The Co-Construction of Transnational Networks in Space Science: NASA-West European Relations in the Early 1960s"

 18:15 - 19:00
Robert Bud (London Science Museum)
Pure and Applied Research in the Context of the Cold War
   

Friday, 16 December

Chair: Matteo Gerlini (University of Florence)
 09:30 - 10: 15
Giuliana Gemelli (Bologna University)
TBA

 10:15 - 11:00
Ludovic Tournès (Université de Paris Ouest)
American foundations and the Higher Education and Research System in France (1945-1965)

 11:00 - 11:30 Coffe break

 chair: TBA
11:30 - 12:15
Soraya de Chadarevian (University of California, Los Angeles)
Scientific relations between the US and the -UK post WW II.

 12:15 - 13:00
Mauro Campus (University of Florence)
The Marshall Plan and Industrial, Economic and Scientific Organization of Italy

 13:00 -15: 00 Lunch

 chair Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester)
 15:00 - 15:45
Mauro Capocci ("La Sapienza" University of Rome) - Fabio De Sio (Queen Mary University of London)
LIGB and the others. Creating a new space for science in Southern Italy.
  
15:45 -16:30
María-Jesús Santesmases (CSIC, Madrid)
Genetics during the Cold War: Body, technologies, images

 16:30 - 17:15
Daniele Cozzoli (UPF, Barcelona)
Penicillin in Postwar Europe

 17:15 - 17: 30 Coffe break
  
chair: Gilberto Corbellini (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
  17:30 - 18:00
Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester)
Sword, Shield and Buoys: the US, NATO and Oceanography in Europe, 1957-1973

18:00- 18:45
  Robert Marc Friedmann (University of Oslo)
Icy Shadows: American Cold-War Concerns and the Shaping of Norwegian Polar Research Policy


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