• Call for Submissions: STAND Early Career Prize 2026

    The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND) recognizes outstanding papers by early career scholars addressing the history of science, technology and medicine in their international contexts. Since the inaugural award was announced in 2022, the annual STAND ECS award aims to provide support and recognition for fresh voices in the field. Topics might include,…

  • Call for Papers – Scientific Internationalism for National Interests: Power Dynamics in the History of Science and Diplomacy before World War II (2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting)

    Title: Scientific internationalism for national interests: power dynamics in the history of science and diplomacy before World War II Organizers: Daniel Gamito-Marques (NOVA School of Science and Technology), Lif Lund Jacobsen (Danish Arctic Institute, Copenhagen) This symposium calls for papers promoting a historical and historiographical reconsideration of the notion of “scientific internationalism”, shifting the perspective…

  • Call for Papers – Science Diplomacy in Times of Upheaval: Crisis, Contestation and Cooperation (ESHS/HSS 2026 Symposium)

    Fifteen years after the Royal Society and AAAS first introduced the concept of science diplomacy, both organisations have returned to the subject to reassess its role in the face of ongoing geopolitical upheaval. Their recent reconceptualisation (Science Diplomacy in an Era of Disruption, 2025) alongside the European Commission’s new framework – A European Framework for…

  • Call for Papers – Shifting Perspectives: Diversity, Geographies, and Possibilities in the Physical Sciences (ESHS/HSS 2026 Symposium)

    Recent scholarship in the history of science has incorporated a broader range of actors, geographies, and materialities, leading to new methodologies, questions, and lines of inquiry. These developments have also pluralized the history of the physical sciences and challenged some of its canonical narratives. For the 2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh, we welcome submissions…

  • STAND Events at ICHST 2025

    M09 | 008 STAND Business Meeting(Friday, July 4, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM, Archway, Theatre 3) N07 | 008 Connections, Synergies, and Tensions in Science Diplomacy, Panel 1(Friday, July 4, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Archway, Theatre 1) Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University), ‘Japanese Ornithologists in the Pacific: The Remaking of Japanese Sovereignty and Trans-Pacific…

  • STAND Early Career Prize 2025

    The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy is pleased to announce that Ezequiel Sosiuk has been selected as recipient of its 2025 Early Career Prize for the paper ‘Diplomatic Concepts: Origins and Consequences of the United States-Brazil Shrimp Conservation Agreement (1972-1977)’. The paper provides a clear historical example of how science can actually structure international agreements and relations,…

  • Special Issue: ‘Decentring Science Diplomacy: Cases from Asia’ (BJHS)

    British Journal for the History of Science has now published online and in print the Commission on Science, Tehcnology and Diplomacy’s fifth special issue project, based its ‘De-Centring Science Diplomacy: Cases from Asia’ virtual mini-workshops held between January and May 2021. The project and special issue has been co-organised and co-edited by Aya Homei and Gordon…

  • New STAND Book Series with Oxford University Press

    The DHST Commission on Science, Technology, and Diplomacy is pleased to announce the launch of a new book series with Oxford University Press. Science, Technology, and International Affairs encourages innovative studies on the influence science and technology have had on international affairs. The series takes an interdisciplinary approach to decenter traditional histories of science and…

  • Call for Submissions: STAND Early Career Prize 2025

    STAND ECS Prize The Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND) recognizes outstanding papers by early career scholars addressing the history of science, technology and medicine in their international contexts. Since the inaugural award was announced in 2022, the annual STAND ECS award aims to provide support and recognition for fresh voices in the field.…

  • STAND at ESHS 2024

    STAND has sponsored two symposia for the 11th European Society for the History of Science, held 4-7 September 2024 at UPF Campus de la Ciutadella, Barcelona, Spain. Additionally, the commission has sponsored two lunchtime events: an Early Career Researcher Gathering on Thursday, September 5, 13:00-14:00 (Room 40.004) to support networking and active STAND opportunities for…