OSIRIS Workshop 2004
Science, Technology, and International Affairs: Historical Perspectives
Preliminary Program [as of March 22, 2004]
Friday, March 26,
2004
Welcome
Location for Friday Session: Riggs Library, Georgetown University
Please Note the Program Change for the Friday Evening Session!
6:00-6:15pm
John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology) and
Kai-Henrik Barth (Georgetown University):
Welcome from the organizers, organizational matters
Introduction
6:15-6:45pm
Kai-Henrik Barth (Georgetown University): Science, Technology, and
International Affairs: Building Bridges (introductory essay)
NEW! Evening Lecture
6:45-7:15pm
Ambassador Robert L. Gallucci (Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School
of Foreign Service, Georgetown University): Science, Technology, and International
Affairs: The North Korean Case
* * *
7:30-10:00pm
Dinner with all speakers.
Bangkok Bistro.
Location for Saturday Sessions: Old North 205, Georgetown University
8:00-9:00am
Continental breakfast in Old North 205
Morning Sessions: Chair Kathryn Olesko
First session: Science and Foreign Policy
9:00-9:35am
Clark A. Miller (University of Wisconsin):
"The Origins of Postwar American Foreign Policy for Science, 1938-1953"
9:35-10:10am
John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology):
"Science and Foreign Policy in Western Europe in the early Cold War: The
Role of the Administration and the Foundations"
10:10-10:45am
Ronald E. Doel and Kristine C. Harper (Oregon State
University):
"Prometheus Unleashed: Science as a Diplomatic Weapon in the Lyndon
B. Johnson Administration"
10:45-11:05am
coffee break
11:05-11:40pm
Kai-Henrik Barth (Georgetown University):
"Catalysts of Change: Scientists as Transnational Arms Control Advocates
in the 1980s"
* * *
11:40-12:00pm
Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University):
Producing the Osiris Volume 21
12:00-2:00pm
lunch at Old North
Afternoon Sessions: Chair Kai-Henrik Barth
Second session: International Security Issues
2:00-2:35pmSusan Wright (University of Michigan):
"Biodefense Policy and the Life Sciences, 1972-2004"
2:35-3:10pm
Lawrence Scheinman (Monterey Institute for International Studies):
"The Evolution of IAEA Safeguards: Science, Technology, and the Pursuit of International Security"
3:10-3:45pm
Anne C. Fitzpatrick (Los Alamos National Laboratory):
"High-Performance Computing and its International Implications"
3:45-4:05pm
coffee break
Third session: S&T and International Development Issues
4:40-5:15pm
Stuart Leslie and Robert H. Kargon (both Johns Hopkins University):
"Beyond Point Four: MIT Abroad"
5:15-5:50pm
Charles Weiss (Georgetown University):
"Science and Technology at the World Bank, 1968-85"
5:50-7:00pm
Break
7:00-9:30pm
Dinner with all speakers. Restaurant
"1789".
Location for Sunday Sessions: Old North 205, Georgetown University
Chair John Krige
Third session: S&T and International Development Issues (cont.)
8:00-9:00amContinental breakfast in Old North 205
9:00-9:35am
Itty Abraham (Social Science Research Council):
"The 'Strategic Enclave' Revisited: Science and Scientists in Postcolonial India"
9:35-10:10am
Alexis de Greiff (Universidad Nacional de Colombia):
"The Politics of Non-cooperation: The Boycott of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics"
Fourth session: Global Health and Biotechnology Issues
10:10-10:45amAlice Bullard (Georgia Institute of Technology):
"Humanitarian Aid and Mental Health: The Psychiatric Dilemma"
10:45-11:05am
coffee break
11:05-11:40am
Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University):
"Understanding Life; Regulating Life"
11:40-12:15pm
Jean-Paul Gaudilliere (INSERM, Paris):
"L'Exception sanitaire: Cancer, genes and patents in a global biotech world"
12:15-12:50pm
Nikolai Krementsov (Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia):
"From 'Hot War' Cooperation to Cold War Confrontation: US-Soviet Biomedical Relations in the 1940s"
12:50-1:00pm
Closing of the workshop
1:00-3:00pm
lunch with all participants
__________________________________________________________________ Acknowledgement: This meeting has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the National Science Foundation (NSF Grant SES-0326985 ) and of the Center for Peace and Security Studies (CPASS) at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.