Call for papers: “Astronomy and astronautics under dictatorial regimes”
ASTRONOMY AND ASTRONAUTICS UNDER DICTATORIAL REGIMES
24–25 September 2015
Instituto de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia
López Piñero University of Valencia, Valencia (Spain)
Submissions are invited for the conference/workshop
“Astronomy and astronautics under dictatorial regimes” on topics related to the
development of astronomy, astrophysics and astronautics during
twentieth-century dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. During the last
decades, historians have shown an increasing interest in the study of the
relations between science, politics and power under such regimes. While the
cases of physics and life sciences have been thoroughly investigated, the
science of the universe has so far received little attention. In this sense,
the workshop aims at exploring to what extent astronomy and astronautics have
contributed to shape and define twentieth-century dictatorships and
totalitarian regimes. Submissions are invited on (but not limited
to) the following topics:
- International collaboration: problems and
opportunities.
- Observatories, institutions and the shaping of regimes.
- Amateur astronomy: sociability and popularization.
- Imperialism and colonialism: expeditions and
discourses.
- Aeronautics, astronautics and the conquest of space.
The workshop language is English. Paper presentations
will be 30 min.
Please send abstract proposals of no more than 200 words
to the email address below before 15 July 2015. Include a short biography
highlighting main research interests (max. 50 words).
For proposals and inquiries, please contact:
Pedro Ruiz-Castell, pedro.ruiz-castell@uv.es
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Pedro Ruiz-Castell
Institut d'Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència López
Piñero Universitat de València Plaça Cisneros, 4
46003 València (Spain)
Tel. (+34)963926236