Scientific exchange in the Baltic Sea region during the Cold War – an ongoing transnational Oral History Project

• Authors: Felicitas Söhner , Thorsten Halling , Nils Hansson

Abstracts

EN

Science communication, especially science diplomacy, is seen as a means to remain in the conversation in times of political crisis, including the Cold War era. In this paper, drawing on experiences from an ongoing oral history project within the ‘Bridging the Baltic’ network, which is interested in knowledge transfer during the Cold War and afterwards in northern Europe, we look at pitfalls of international interview projects in medicine, e.g. the influence of the chosen language in international interview projects.

Keywords

EN

Baltic Sea; European History; History of Science; Cold War; Narratives; Methodology

• Publisher: Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość”
• Journal: Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 26-35

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Felicitas Söhner

• Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf

• https://orcid.org/0000000343910090

author

Thorsten Halling

• Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf

• https://orcid.org/0000000217431611

author

Nils Hansson

• Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf

• https://orcid.org/0000000301674763

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26774/wrhm.331

Biblioteka Nauki

31803984