Seminar: Science for Competition among Powers
10 March 2022
Science diplomacy is not always about cooperation, nor is it a particularly new phenomenon.
Daniel Gamito-Marques’ case study on science diplomacy during the ’Scramble for Africa’ illustrates these points particularly well, dissecting the role that geographical knowledge and scientific networks played in European imperial powers gaining territory and influence in Africa in the 19th century.
Gamito-Marques will be discussing his research on 10 March as part of an online seminar series organized by DHST Commission on History of Science, Technology and Diplomacy.
Read the case study “Science for Competition among Powers: Geographical Knowledge, Colonial-Diplomatic Networks, and the Scramble for Africa”.
If you would like to participate in the seminar, please write in advance to beatriz.martinez_rius@sorbonne-universite.fr.
Full program of the online seminar series, organized by Beatriz Matinez-Rius in the DHST Commission on History of Science, Technology and Diplomacy.
February 10, 2022: Introduction and discussion of the paper: Matthew Adamson and Roberto Lalli, “Global perspectives on science diplomacy: Exploring the diplomacy-knowledge nexus in contemporary histories of science”, Centaurus, vol. 63, 1 (February 2021).
March 10, 2022: Daniel Gamito-Marques (Nova University, Lisbon): “Science for Competition among Powers: Geographical Knowledge, Colonial-Diplomatic Networks, and the Scramble for Africa”.
April 14, 2022: Grigoris Panoutsopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens): “Investigating CERN’s Science Diplomacy in the Midst of the Cold War: The Case of CERN-Serpukhov Experiment”
May 12, 2022: TBD
June 9, 2022: ECR Prize from the Commission on History of Science, Technology and Diplomacy
18 February 2022
