'Super Bowl of the world conference circuit'? A network approach to high-level science and policy conferencing [0.03%]
“世界大会巡演的超级碗”？一种高层次科学与政策会议的网络方法
Sven Widmalm
Sven Widmalm
Elite conferences, such as the Nobel Symposia organized by the Nobel Foundation since 1965, have often put a premium on the uninhibited exchange of ideas rather than the broad exchange of information. Nobel Symposium 14, The Place of Value ...
Functional informality: crafting social interaction toward scientific productivity at the Gordon Research Conferences, 1950-1980 [0.03%]
功能性非正式化：1950至1980年戈登研究会议中朝向科学生产力的社会互动构建
Georgiana Kotsou
Georgiana Kotsou
In the early and mid-twentieth century, scientific conferences were a popular tool to establish communication between scientists. Organisational efforts, research and funds were spent defining what makes a productive and successful scientif...
'Visible' compulsions: OCD and the politics of science in British clinical psychology, 1948-1975 [0.03%]
"可见"的强迫行为：英国临床心理学中的OCD与科学政治（1948—1975）
Eva Surawy Stepney
Eva Surawy Stepney
This article historicizes a single stage in how the contemporary obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) category was built. Starting from the position that the two central components which make up OCD are 'obsessions' and 'compulsions', it ill...
Communicating science, mediating presence: reflections on the present, past and future of conferencing [0.03%]
科技传播与现场感受：会议的现状、过去和未来展望
Charlotte Bigg
Charlotte Bigg
The move online of almost all meetings in 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic threw into sharp relief the taken-for-granted centrality of conferences within scientific culture. While its impact on science has yet to be fully grasped, ...
Sean Nixon
Sean Nixon
The article reflects upon the observational practices and methods developed by the early exponents of ethology committed to naturalistic field study and explores how their approaches and techniques influenced a wider field of popular natura...
Jessica Reinisch
Jessica Reinisch
This paper looks at a genre of meetings that, while neither purely 'scientific' nor 'diplomatic', drew on elements from both professional spheres and gained prominence in the interwar decades and during the Second World War. It proposes to ...
Negotiating the norms of an international science: standardization work at the International Geological Congress, 1878-1891 [0.03%]
国际科学的规范协商：1878-1891年间国际地质大会上的标准化工作
Thomas Mougey
Thomas Mougey
In the second half of the nineteenth century, geologists created the International Geological Congress (IGC) to achieve the methodological and terminological uniformity that they thought their science lacked. Their desire to standardize the...
Negotiating conservation and competition: national parks and 'victory-over-communism' diplomacy in South Korea [0.03%]
协商保护与竞争：韩国国家公园和“战胜共产主义”外交政策
Jaehwan Hyun
Jaehwan Hyun
Focusing on South Korean biologists and their efforts to establish national parks in the 1960s and 1970s, I illuminate the ways in which they negotiated their relationship with the ecological diplomacy of the International Union for Conserv...
Jodhpur and the aeroplane: aviation and diplomacy in an Indian state 1924-1952 [0.03%]
附翼与外交：1924至1952年印度焦特布尔邦的航空活动
Aashique Ahmed Iqbal
Aashique Ahmed Iqbal
This paper is a study of the intersection between aviation and diplomacy in the semi-autonomous Indian state of Jodhpur in the final decades of British colonial rule in India. Jodhpur's Maharaja Umaid Singh established a major international...
A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870-1900 [0.03%]
獴和扁虱的肆虐：牙买加引进外来动物、生态灾难与自然平衡（1870—1900）
Matthew Holmes
Matthew Holmes
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, British colonists in Jamaica became increasingly exasperated by the damage caused to their sugar plantations by rats. In 1872, a British planter attempted to solve this problem by introducing the s...