InsSciDE Case Studies: Discussion Materials for Thursday 24 March 2022

InsSciDE Case Studies of Science Diplomacy: Tools for Teaching, Training and Everyday Practice

Thursday 24 March 2022 | 10:00-17:00 GMT
Interactive in-person session. Limited capacity – register to be listed for a spot.

On Thursday 24 March, Day 3 of the conference, the spotlight sets on InsSciDE’s historical case studies from the forthcoming book of Harmonized Case Studies. In this highly dynamic session, case study authors, invited experts and public attendees engage with the research to identify cross-cutting themes and present-day applications for teaching, training and everyday practice.

Spanning the project themes of Health, Space, Security, Science Diplomats and more, the cases dissect power structures and vested interests that drive science diplomacy, question the very notion of a ‘science diplomat’, and probe the alleged capacity of science diplomacy to champion global challenges.

Practitioners’ voices are particularly desired in the debates to help test and enhance the cases’ relevance to present and future science diplomacy practice and teaching.

Cross-cutting themes

Power asymmetries
Instrumental relations or co-shaping?
Institutions and networks
Infrastructure and diplomatic objects
Imagined spaces: Europe, the American Hemisphere
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Case Compilation – Abstracts & Conclusions

Delve into excerpts of the cases in preparation for the workshop. Click below to download the compilation document.

Case Studies in Focus
See the above compilation of abstracts and conclusions, to serve as a basis of the session.
Some cases are already published as academic papers – check them out here.

The Ways and Means of ITER: Reciprocity and Compromise in Fusion Science Diplomacy
Anna Åberg
Enacting Soft Power: Cartoons, Technodiplomacy and the 1890 British Ultimatum to
Portugal
Maria Paula Diogo, Paula Urze, Ana Simões
Space Diplomacy in the Cold War Context: How It Worked on the Soviet Side
Olga Dubrovina
Attached to Diplomacy: French and German Explorers and the Birth of the Science Attaché
Before the First World War
Léonard Laborie
Science as Power in the Scramble for Africa: Europe’s Utilization of Scientific Networks in the Diplomatic Colonization of Africa in the Late Nineteenth Century
Daniel Gamito-Marques
Dealing with the Plague in Oporto, 1899: Building a European Health Diplomacy: A Comprehensive Approach
Céline Paillette
The Role of Data in Global Vaccination Governance: A Matter for Health Diplomacy
Anna Pichelstorfer & Katharina T. Paul
Science Diplomacy in the Field: An Immersion in the Life of Science Counselors of the EU
Pierre-Bruno Ruffini
Science Diplomacy in the Republic of Letters: The Naturalist Abbé Correia da Serra
Ana Simões & Maria Paula Diogo
Blood Diplomacy: Values and Standards in a Vital Public Health Infrastructure
Katerina Vlantoni