[CfP] Diplomatic Studies of Science: The Interplay of Science, Technology and International Affairs After the Second World War  (8-9 November 2021; Deadline 13 June 2021)

To submit a paper to the 2021 Cain Conference, please send a 250-word abstract and a two-page CV to the following email address: Cainconference2021@sciencehistory.org. The deadline for submissions is June 13, 2021. Decisions will be made by July 7, 2021. Travel and accommodation subsidies will be available to contributors. Following the conference Prof. Rentetzi will invite contributors to submit draft manuscripts of approximately 5,000 words for publication in an edited volume.

Maria Rentetzi is the chair for science, technology and gender studies in the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Theology at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany. She has been trained as a physicist and as a historian of science and technology. Her research focuses on two intertwined areas of inquiry: the investigation of the politically and historically situated character of technoscience and the critical examination of gender as a major analytic category in technoscientific endeavors. As part of her ERC Consolidator Grant project Rentetzi currently leads the development of what she calls “The Diplomatic Studies of Science.” This is a highly interdisciplinary field of research at the intersection of science and technology studies, history of science, diplomatic history, political sciences, and international affairs. Before joining FAU, she was a guest professor at the Technische Universität Berlin and a Professor for History and Sociology of Science and Technology at the National Technical University of Athens.

Please send all enquiries to Daniel Jon Mitchell, Director of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, Science History Institute, at dmitchell@sciencehistory.org.

Diplomatic Studies of Science: The Interplay of Science, Technology and International Affairs After the Second World War  (8-9 November 2021)