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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Writing Pugwash Histories.From Hiroshima and Nagasaki
to Kabul and Gaza Workshop, Vienna, May 10-12, 2012
> H-ASIA
> August 31, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Workshop Writing Pugwash Histories. From Hiroshima and
> Nagasaki to Kabul and Gaza, Vienna, May 10-12, 2012
>
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> Call for papers Writing Pugwash Histories. From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to
> Kabul and Gaza
>
> Location: Austria
> Workshop Date: 2011-10-31
> Date Submitted: 2011-08-23
> Announcement ID: 187361
>
> First Call for Papers: Workshop
> Writing Pugwash Histories.
> From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Kabul and Gaza
>
> Sponsored by: Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna,
> and Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung (AKHF) Conveners: Silke
> Fengler (University of Vienna), Alison Kraft (Egenis, University of
> Exeter), Holger Nehring (University of Sheffield, AKHF), and Carola Sachse
> (University of Vienna) Keynote speaker: Matthew Evangelista (Cornell
> University) In cooperation with: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World
> Affairs (contact: Sandra Ionno Butcher), Vereinigung Deutscher
> Wissenschaftler (VDW, contact: Reiner Braun)
>
> Dates: 10-12 May, 2012 Venue: University of Vienna Conference language:
> English
>
> Deadline for proposals (one page plus brief CV): 31 October, 2011
>
> For nuclear physicists, chemists and technicians, the hundreds of
> thousands of civilian victims of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima
> and Nagasaki cast a painfully sharp light on the military and biopolitical
> consequences of their work during the Second World War. In the nuclear
> arms race between the Cold War superpowers, many nuclear scientists felt
> able, justified and indeed called upon to campaign against the continued
> development and deployment of nuclear weapons. Those scientists included
> some who had themselves helped to develop the atom bomb.
>
> Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
>
> Among the various national and transnational groupings working against
> nuclear war, the Pugwash movement stands out. Even today, it evokes the
> July 1955 manifesto that was drafted by Bertrand Russell and co-signed by
> Albert Einstein just before his death. The movement took its name from the
> location of its first meeting, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia in
> summer 1957. So far, 59 Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
> and numerous workshops have been held in various regions of the world.
> From the beginning, the movement aimed to bring together eminent
> scientists, scholars, politicians, diplomats and government advisers
> across the hostile frontiers of the Cold War. The Pugwashites wanted to go
> beyond the exchange of diplomatic notes or military force, instead using
> the shared language of science to evaluate the risks of nuclear armament,
> develop solutions to regional conflicts and exert influence on national
> governments with the goal of promoting world peace.
>
> The themes addressed by the Pugwash conferences have diversified to
> reflect the changing problems facing international politics climate
> change; crises of energy, food and natural resources. Since the movement
> was founded its membership structure has also changed, as have the
> scientific disciplines and professions of its members, its objectives,
> methods and modes of cooperation, and its role within the debates of
> global politics.
>
> Pugwash movement: History or histories
>
> To date, the history of the Pugwash movement has been told largely through
> chronological accounts, memoirs and partial studies of national Pugwash
> groups. Writing a comprehensive history of the movement is perhaps not
> possible at the present time. On the one hand, the informal structure of
> the Pugwash movement means it is known only to a relatively small
> audience, and has attracted little attention from historians even since
> the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the movement and its secretary
> general, Joseph Rotblat, in 1995. On the other, although the Pugwash
> movement has an international presence, it is embedded in very different
> scientific, social and political configurations in different countries and
> regions. As a result, it seems neither possible nor desirable to write a
> single, unified narrative of the movement's peace-policy successes and
> global political significance.
>
> Instead, what we need are multi-faceted histories written from a range of
> distinct national and regional perspectives. Only in this way will
> historians be able to fully understand the distinctive character of the
> Pugwash movement in the long term, its survival through time and across
> such profound political changes and its contributions to international
> dialogue. From its inception, Pugwash oscillated between an elitist claim
> to universal scientific expertise, links with transnational movements for
> peace and against nuclear weapons, and integration into the local
> political establishments. It therefore offers an outstanding opportunity
> to consider national and international connections between science and
> politics, which became increasingly complex during the second half of the
> twentieth century. Analysing these interrelations from a transnational
> perspective necessitates a large, cooperative network of historians, able
> to take a range of different thematic and regional approaches.
>
> Objectives of the workshop
>
> The wide and diverse literature on the Cold War by political historians,
> historians of science and historians of diplomacy has hitherto yielded
> only a small number of informative studies of the Pugwash movement (these
> include Evangelista 1999; Kubbig 2004; Butcher 2005; Braun 2007). The
> proposed workshop intends to form a springboard for a more broadly based
> engagement with the topic. Our objectives include:
> - to exchange information regarding existing research and ongoing projects
> relating to the history of the Pugwash movement in various different
> countries,
> - using completed, current and planned research projects as a point of
> entry, to discuss history of science and political history dimensions of
> the Pugwash movement,
> - to examine methodological approaches, the state of documentation and
> questions around archival sources relevant to Pugwash.
>
> Who is invited?
>
> We invite proposals from scholars in the history of science, social and
> political history, and related disciplines. You should either have worked
> directly on the history of the Pugwash movement or addressed it in the
> course of other research. Proposals related to ongoing PhD or postdoctoral
> projects are particularly welcome.
>
> Please submit a one-page proposal and brief CV in English to
> office_sachse.zeitgeschichte@univie.ac.at by 31 October, 2011. We will
> notify selected participants in November 2011. Papers of no more than
> 3,500 words must be submitted, in English, by 31 March, 2012.
>
> Funding is still pending. We hope to be able to cover travel costs for up
> to ten participants (max. 400 each).
>
>
> Prof. Dr. Carola Sachse
> Institut fr Zeitgeschichte
> Universitt Wien
> Spitalgasse 2, Hof 1
> A-1090 Vienna
>
> Dr. Silke Fengler
> Institut fur Zeitgeschichte
> Universitt Wien
> Spitalgasse 2, Hof 1
> A-1090 Vienna
> silke.fengler@univie.ac.at
>
> Dr. Alison Kraft
> ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis)
> University of Exeter
> Byrne House, St. Germans Road
> Exeter
> EX4 4PJ
> alison.kraft@nottingham.ac.uk
>
> Office:
>
> Martina Schmied
> Institut fr Zeitgeschichte
> Universitt Wien
> Spitalgasse 2, Hof 1
> A-1090 Vienna
> office_sachse.zeitgeschichte@univie.ac.at
>
> Email: a.kraft@exeter.ac.uk
>
>
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