Research Sessions 5-8

5. Session title: Technologies in 'Developed Socialism': Crossing the Internal and External borders
Organizers: Ivan Tchalakov and Valentiva Fava
Chair: Pascal Griset
Commentator: Karen Freeze
Papers:
- Valentiva Fava: Automobiles vs Dollars: Selling Socialist Cars in Western Markets: Some evidence from the ŠKODA-auto case
- Ivan Tchalakov: Selling and Buying Technologies to the West: Bulgarian Institute for Metal Technologies and IZOT Co.
- Todor Galev: Military-related Technological Innovations in Bulgaria during Socialism: Beyond Ideological and Political Borders: The ARCUS Military Plant Case

6. Session title: Colonial knowledge Exchange in European and Post-Colonial Delevopment
Organizers: Maria Paula Diogo, Harro Maat and Donna Mehos
Chair: Frank Schipper
Commentator: Milena Veenis
Papers:
- Jahnavi Phalkey: "The Lack of Scientific Liaison": A.V. Hill and Science Research in Colonial India
- Donna C. Mehos and Suzanne Moon: The New Internationalism?: Circulating Experts and Expertise in the Post-Colonial Context
- Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Paula Silva and Wim Ravensteijn: Engineering, Colonial Empire and European Power: The Cases of Portugal and the Netherlands

7. Session title: Consumption in Eastern Europe
Chair: Ruth Oldenziel
Commentator: Dobrinka Parusheva
CANCELLED! Paper by Malgorzata Mazurek has been moved to Session 4.

8. Session title: Contested Water: Technological Systems, Water Quality and the Environment
Organizer: Nil Disco
Chair: Pál Germuska
Commentator: Arne Kaijser
Papers:
- Viktor Pal: Technology and the Politicisation of Water in Central-East Europe after 1945
- Nil Disco: Accepting Father Rhine? Technological Fixes, Vigilance, and Transnational Technopolitics as "European" Strategies of Dutch Municipal Water supplies 1925-1975

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