Science Communication and the Dissemination of Knowledge in Cold War

Greece
Hybrid Workshop
IKYDA project (no. 57628081)

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 | Central European standard time

09:50 – 10:00 Introductory Words by the Organizers

Maria Rentetzi & George Vlachakis

10:00 – 10:40 Kostas Tampakis | Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic

Research Foundation
Science communication for a Christian nation: The journal “Aktines”
and the Christian Union of Scientists (1946 to 1974)

10:40 – 11:20 Danae Karydaki | University of Thessaly

‘A mental re-baptism in the font of national traditions and ideals’:
psy-sciences communication in post-Civil War Greece

11:20 – 11:40 Coffee Break

11:40 – 12:20 Maria Rentetzi, Loukas Freris, Ekaterina Rybkina | FAU

George Vlachakis, Iraklis Vogiatzis, Konstantinos
Konstantopoulos | Hellenic Open Univesity
“Gagarin Save Us”: Yuri Gagarin's Visit to Athens in 1962 and space
exploration as a cold war battlefield

12:20 – 13:00 Zinovia Lialiouti | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

A means to an end or a means in itself? Nuclear science and space
exploration in the context of US Cultural Diplomacy towards Greece,
1957-1967

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break

15:00 – 15:40 Eirini Karamouzi | University of Sheffield & Dionysis Chourchoulis

| Ionion University
Talking nuclear in Greece from the energy crisis to the end of the
Euromissiles, 1973-1987

15:40 – 16:20 Christos Mais | University of Thessaly

The Ford Foundation in Greece: An Overview

16:20 – 17:00 Concluding Discussion and next steps