Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 1084052
Behind and Across the Curtains: How and What Yugoslavia Learned About American Big Science in the Early Cold War
Behind and Across the Curtains: How and What Yugoslavia Learned About American Big Science in the Early Cold War // Science Diplomacy: Global Online Workshop and Roundtable
online, 2020. (predavanje, nije recenziran, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Behind and Across the Curtains: How and What Yugoslavia Learned About American Big Science in the Early Cold War
Autori
Duančić, Vedran
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni
Skup
Science Diplomacy: Global Online Workshop and Roundtable
Mjesto i datum
Online, 23.07.2020
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran
Ključne riječi
socialist Yugoslavia ; history of science ; science diplomacy ; Lysenkism ; Milislav Demerec
Sažetak
The Soviet–Yugoslav split of 1948–49 and Yugoslavia’s subsequent “opening to the West” have received much scholarly attention, though almost exclusively through the lens of high politics and diplomacy, with little regard for how the process unraveled “on the ground.” By focusing on a seemingly low-key science diplomacy episode from the early 1950s, I will elaborate on the process form a bottom-up perspective and on what it meant for biology and genetics. Parallel to the official diplomacy that was taking first steps aiming at bringing Yugoslavia and the U.S. closer, the Croatian-born American geneticist, Milislav Demerec (1895–1966), director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, played a discrete but important role in “un-doing” Soviet influences among Yugoslav scientists. At a time when the global Cold War science diplomacy was becoming increasingly ambitious, this was a small but effective enterprise. Demerec got involved in a controversy about Lysenkoism at the University of Sarajevo, setting in motion a chain of events that in facilitated the later, state-sponsored diplomatic efforts. While the official scientific diplomacy was slow to yield results, here the effects were seen quickly, and the episode raised politically sensitive issues that high diplomacy often worked hard to suppress.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Povijest
POVEZANOST RADA
Projekti:
IP-2016-06-6762 - Hrvatska znanstvena i filozofska baština: transferi i aproprijacije znanja od srednjeg vijeka do dvadesetog stoljeća u europskom kontekstu (HZIFBTIAZOSVDDSUEK) (Dugac, Željko, HRZZ - 2016-06) ( CroRIS)
Ustanove:
Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti
Profili:
Vedran Duančić
(autor)