Histories of Science and Technology
Alice Naisbitt, A New Pattern Has Emerged’: the British Council’s Transnational Science in the Post-Colonial Era
Alice Naisbitt is a doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester. Her research explores how the British Council, a non-state ‘soft power’ organisation, utilised strategies amounting to ‘science diplomacy’ in the pursuit of particular post-colonial and Cold War objectives and policies.
Gabriella Rago, Fusion Valley: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and the territories (2006-2012)
Gabriella is a PhD candidate at the University of Turin. Her research looks at the history of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) since the end of the Cold War.
Date:
15 November 2023, 14:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscO-pqzouGdGqhZWy8azQC4yBKvE0iLbA
Speakers:
Alice Naisbitt (University of Manchester),
Gabriella Rago (University of Turin)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Organisers:
Madeleine Jane (University of Oxford),
Adrita Mitra (Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
admin@oxfordtghs.com
Hosts:
Suchintan Das,
Adrita Mitra (Oxford)
Part of:
Transnational & Global History Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Adrita Mitra
