The history of European Academies in the 20th century - video

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN ACADEMIES IN THE 20TH CENTURY:

STATE OF THE ART AND INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES

It is well known that international political relations as well as international scientific relations, also at the level of the academies, have always been closely intertwined. Between 2014 and 2018, the German National Academy Leopoldina, the Royal Society, and the Académie des Sciences conducted a joint research project on European Academies before, in, and after World War I. The project was organised as a series of workshops to be run in the respective countries, and, as a follow-up, a series of academic publications. The researchers involved were fully aware that we urgently need a larger comparative perspective on the history of European academies.
On this basis, the Leopoldina invited members, fellows or affiliates to seven European national academies in June 2018 to talk about such a research initiative. The participants agreed to be part of the initiative under the main title: “Academies and politics. Cold War and beyond”. All participants agreed to conduct workshops on a specific subject fitting the main topic. The first workshop in the research initiative will take place in Rome. The meeting is aimed at sharing historical outlines of participant institutions in the 20th century, and at the assessment of related state-ofthe-art historical research, also seeking to widen the perspective to other European institutions and projects, including the ongoing InSciDE Project, recently granted in the framework of Horizon 2020 Research Program.