El Instituto Interuniversitario López Piñero acogerá, los días 5 y 6 de junio, el encuentro Rethinking Space Diplomacy in the Cold War, en el marco del proyecto Guerra Fría y diplomacia científica de Estados Unidos en España, 1953-1986 (CNS2022-135608).

Organizado por Óscar J. Martín-García (INGENIO, CSIC – Universitat Politècnica de València) y Pedro Ruiz-Castell (Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero, Universitat de València), el encuentro podrá seguirse on-line a través de este enlace:

<https://uv-es.zoom.us/j/95166251277>
 

PROGRAMA:

THURSDAY 5 JUNE
10:00h - Welcome
10:30h - Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester): What is this thing called science diplomacy (and does it mean the same in space)?
12:00h - John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology): The many faces of science diplomacy: NASA and international collaboration in space
13:00h - Olga Dubrovina (University of Milan): Intercosmos and the practice of Soviet Space Diplomacy

16:00h - Bárbara K. Silva (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile): Cold Stars: International Astronomy and Science Diplomacy in 1960s Chile
17:00h - Tilmann Siebeneicher (Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung): Spacelab - European Science diplomacy in Cold War space
18:30h - Óscar J. Martín-García (INGENIO, CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València) & Pedro Ruiz-Castell (Institut López Piñero, Universitat de València): Cold War Orbits: NASA, Space Diplomacy and Francoist Spain

FRIDAY 6 JUNE
10:00h - Gemma Cirac (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Diplomacy in the clouds: Producing and sharing satellite weather data (nephanalyses) (mainly in France, early 1960s)
11:00h - Rósa Magnúsdóttir (University of Iceland): From Red October to Sputnik: The Origins of the Cold War Space Race
12:00h - Teasel Muir-Harmony (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum): Spaceflight as Soft Power: The Strategic Role of Project Apollo in U.S. Diplomacy During the Cold War
13:00h – Concluding remarks