Workshop: Science Communication and the Dissemination of Knowledge in Cold War Greece
IKYDA project (no. 57628081)
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Schedule
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 | Central European standard time
09:50 – 10:00 Introductory Words by the Organizers
Maria Rentetzi & George Vlachakis
10:00 – 10:40 Kostas Tampakis | Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation
Science communication for a Christian nation: The journal “Aktines” and the Christian Union of Scientists (1946 to 1974)
10:40 – 11:20 Danae Karydaki | University of Thessaly
‘A mental re-baptism in the font of national traditions and ideals’: psy-sciences communication in post-Civil War Greece
11:20 – 11:40 Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:20 Maria Rentetzi, Loukas Freris, Ekaterina Rybkina | FAU
George Vlachakis, Iraklis Vogiatzis, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos | Hellenic Open Univesity
“Gagarin Save Us”: Yuri Gagarin’s Visit to Athens in 1962 and space exploration as a cold war battlefield
12:20 – 13:00 Zinovia Lialiouti | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
A means to an end or a means in itself? Nuclear science and space exploration in the context of US Cultural Diplomacy towards Greece, 1957-1967
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 – 15:40 Eirini Karamouzi | University of Sheffield & Dionysis Chourchoulis | Ionion University
Talking nuclear in Greece from the energy crisis to the end of the Euromissiles, 1973-1987
15:40 – 16:20 Christos Mais | University of Thessaly
The Ford Foundation in Greece: An Overview
16:20 – 17:00 Concluding Discussion and next steps