Conferences

HoNESt members present at Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Conference in St. Louis (USA) on the 12 October 2018

Transnational history of nuclear technology and society research findings from the HoNESt project are presented and discussed at the Society for the History of Technology’s Annual Conference at the panel “Nuclear Europeans: Transnational approaches to the history of a contested Technology” organised by Arne Kaijser from KTH Stockholm.

Programme:
Paul Josephson (Colby College): Society-Industry Relations in the Nuclear Industry, 1950s-present
Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum): Nuclear Energy: A Public Technology
Arne Kaijser (KTH Royal Institute of Technology): Nuclear installations at borders
Karl-Erik Michelsen (Lappeenranta University of Technology): Transnational governance of nuclear power in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Iron Curtain

The entire conference programme can be found here.

HoNESt at World Congress of Economic History, Boston, 29 July – 3 August 2018

HoNESt partners Mar Rubio and Joseba della Torre organised a panel “The atomic business: Industrial, financial and economic issues of the development of nuclear power over the 20th century” at the World Economic History Congress Waves of Globalization at the MIT.

For more information about the panel access this link)

La RUCHE Conference, Lyon, June 13-15, 2018

HoNESt researcher Jan-Henrik Meyer of the University of Copenhagen discusses insights from the HoNESt project on the challenges and delights of interdisciplinary work at the international conference “Writing Environmental History in the 21st century: Sources, Methods and Practices” of the French Network on Environmental History La RUCHE, Lyon, June 13-15, 2018.

SOCMAYS Conference, Zaragoza, 6 October

HoNESt researchers Josep Espluga and Béatriz Medina presented their comparative research on societal perception of nuclear power in 7 countries "Las dimensiones sociales de los riesgos nucleares. Reflexiones a partir de la comparación entre siete países europeos" at the V Encuentro Intercongresual SOCMAYS - Sociología, Medio Ambiente y Sociedad (Spanish Federation of Sociology). Zaragoza (Spain), 6 October 2017.

Nuclear Technopolitics in the Soviet Union and Beyond, Tübingen, Germany, March 22-23, 2018

HoNESt partner Natalia Melnikova (RAS) took part in the conference “Nuclear Technopolitics in the Soviet Union and Beyond”, Tübingen, Germany, March 22-23, 2018 with a report "Nuclear Energy in the USSR/Russia as a point of crossing the State and the Society, Local and international". The Cahiers du Monde Russe are willing to publish a complete special issue on the topic of this conference (December 2019, volume 60, issue 2–3).

The report of the conference is available on the Hsozkult website.