IV International Workshop “A Comparative Study of Nuclear Energy Programs from the 1940s until the 1970s"
Organized
by the History of Science Unit, UPF
Barcelona,
May 7-8., 2015
Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Campus Ciutadella - Room 40.035 (Sala de Graus Albert
Calsamiglia)
Workshop Description
The birth and diffusion of nuclear science
and technology are probably among the most far-reaching and significant
changes in the organizational forms, social and economic role, structure,
and contents of science and technology during the 20th century. The
complexity and demands of the nuclear energy option in terms of
technology, industry, economics and politics constitute strong enough
reasons to examine it from a wide variety of perspectives. The aim of
interdisciplinary historical reflection on the development of the atomic
programs which is proposed in this Conference is to make a paradigmatic
contribution to the generation of a framework of analysis for the
assessment of new policies of technological development in general, and
of that of energy in particular.
From this point of view, it is important
to think over the nature of the nuclear development programs between the
1950s and the 1980s in order to determine their internal dynamics, to
establish their defining characteristics and to be able to bring the
results to the present-day discussion. The aim of the Conference is to
provide a comparative historical and systematic study of the development
and impact of nuclear programs in those European countries which hoped
to reach higher levels of industrial and economic development by
fostering nuclear power during the post-war period. This Conference will
help to show the historical character of processes of technological
development, as well as the need to deploy co-ordinated economic theories
and models in order to understand historical processes of
techno-scientific and industrial development in contemporary societies.
Because of the characteristics of nuclear energy, the results of this
Conference will be of great interest to politicians, the administrators
of scientific and industrial policies, sociologists of science and
technology, historians of technology and science and of economics, and
general historians of 20th-century Europe.
Invited speakers:
John Dimoia, NUS (Singapur)
Ivaylo Hristov, Plovdiv University
"Paisii Hilendarski" (Bulgaria)
A.
Vinod Kumar, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (India)
Gisela
Mateos, UNAM (Mexico)
Diego
H. de Mendoza, UNSAM (Argentina)
Đuro Miljanić,
Institut Ruđer Bošković (Croatia)
Carlo
Patti, Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brazil)
Albert Presas i Puig, Universitat Pompeu
Fabra (Spain)
Information
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Departament
d'Humanitats
Jaume I
Building (Ciutadella Campus)
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona
Phone: +34 93 542 16 29
Fax: +34 93 542 16 20
08005 Barcelona
Phone: +34 93 542 16 29
Fax: +34 93 542 16 20
Sponsored by MINECO - HAR2012-39260
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PhD Albert Presas i Puig
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona