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Conference Venue:
Dachfoyer
Österreichisches Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv
Minoritenplatz 1
1010 Vienna

Sunday, 16 September 2012, 19:30

Film Presentation (Metro Kino, Vienna)
The Beginnings of the IAEA in Vienna 
Introduced by Leopold Kammerhofer and Marta Riess, IAEA Archives

Monday, 17 September 2012

9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome

10:00-12:30
Panel 1: The Early Years of International Nuclear Cooperation

Chair: Christian Ostermann (Washington)

David Holloway (Stanford): The Soviet Union and the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy: The Beginnings of International Control
Stephen Twigge (Kew): The Third Nuclear Power: The UK and the Creation of the IAEA
Elisabeth Röhrlich (Vienna): From New York to Vienna: The IAEA Headquarters in Austria
John Krige (Atlanta): Euratom and the IAEA: The Problem of Self-Inspection

14:30-17:00
Panel 2: The IAEA and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime

Chair: Leopoldo Nuti (Rome)

Xin Zhan (Changchun): China and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, 1964-1989
A. Vinod Kumar (New Delhi): The Indian Nuclear Program
Jo-Ansie van Wyk (Pretoria): The South African Nuclear Program and the IAEA
Robert Anderson (Vancouver): The Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Debates

17:30-19:30
Podium Discussion (in cooperation with DER STANDARD)

With Helmut Rauch (Atominstitut, Vienna), Joseph F. Pilat (Los Alamos National Laboratory), and Gudrun Harrer (DER STANDARD, Vienna)
Chair: Oliver Rathkolb (Vienna)

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

9:00-11:00
Panel 3: Grass-Roots Movements, Environmentalism, and the IAEA

Chair: Bernd Greiner (Hamburg)

Holger Nehring (Sheffield): The Politics of Security: Protests against Nuclear Weapons and International Relations in the 1950s and early 1960s
Jan-Henrik Meyer (Aarhus): The Question of Nuclear Safety and the Rise of Environmentalism in Western Europe: Transnational Perspectives
Karena Kalmbach (Florence): The IAEA and the Debate on the Health Effects of Chernobyl


12:00-14:00
Panel 4: Promoting the Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Technology

Chair: Carola Sachse (Vienna)

Gabriele Metzler (Berlin): Imagined Modernity: Nuclear Power and West German Society in the 1960s
Eugen Pfister (Vienna): "La domestication de l’atome c’est le steak grillé avec l’énergie nucléaire": Nuclear Optimism in European Newsreels 
J. Samuel Walker (Washington): Three Mile Island: The First Great Nuclear Power Crisis

14:00-15:00
Concluding Remarks
Oliver Rathkolb and Elisabeth Röhrlich


The conference is organized by the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.