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

contact: daniele.cozzoli@upf.edu

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