Research Sessions 12-15

12. Session title: Changing Spatial Orders: Europe in the Face of Global Networks
Chair: Judith Schueler
Commentator: Andreas Fickers
Papers:
- John Cloud: The Paradoxes of Precise Geo-positioning for Citizens and States
- Ruth Oldenziel: Islands as Nodes: European Colonial Power Sharing with America during the Cold War
- Stefan Kaufmann: Border Regimes in the Era of Global Networks. On the Politics of Technologies of Monitoring Borders


13. Session title: Networks without Borders? Europe on the Cold War Divide
Organizer: Rhonda Hauben
Chair: Lars Heide
Commentator: Aristotle Tympas
Papers:
- Jay Hauben: Across an Ideological Divide: IIASA and IIASANET
- Ronda Hauben: Communicating Across the Boundaries of Dissimilar Networks: The Creation of the Internet and the Emergence of the Netizen
- Pál Germuska: Knowledge without Borders: Western Licences and Know-how in the Hungarian Defense Industry


14. Session title: Technological Styles and National Ambitions
Organizer: Paul Josephson
Chair: Eva Vamos
Commentator: Hakon With Andersen
Papers:
- Paul Josephson: Socialist Infrastructure in East Central Europe
- Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro: River Vuoksi: Industrialism and Water Regulation
- Evgeni Vodichev: The Role of Technical Assistance Projects in Overcoming Borders between the European Nations and Russia
- Alla Bolotova and Dmitry Vorobyev: Managing Natural Resources at the North: Changing Styles of Industrialization in the USSR


15. Session title: Roads and Networks: Connecting and Disconnecting Europe
Chair: Alec Badenoch
Commentator: Erik van der Vleuten
Papers:
- Hans Buiter: Urban Ring Roads: A Contested Concept
- Ekaterina Nikova: Roads Connecting, Roads Dividing: Infrastructure in South East Europe
- Álvaro Ferreira da Silva and Ana Cardoso da Matos: Networked Infrastructures in Portugal (1850-1920): Capital, Technology, and Skills Transfer

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