L'Università degli Studi di Trieste a ESOF2020

This joint proposal exhibits synergies between members of the Department of Humanities of the University of Trieste (in collaboration with the Academia Europaea: www.acadeuro.org ) and the National Institute of Oceanography and AppliedGeophysics (in collaboration with The World Academy of Sciences: https://twas.org) . It is designed as an interactive, multidisciplinary round table with two interrelated parts (with an East/ West and North/South topicality), each of them last 45’ (5’ introduction, 20-30’ for one or two rounds of moderator’s questions with speakers’ answers, and 10 for questions from the floor). The basis of the proposal is the belief and understanding that in the post Covid-19 world, science has taken on a central role in world diplomacy to address a global challenge that disregards national borders, and bears controversially upon individual, academic and social freedoms: While some times building bridges, at others deepening gaps between democracies and other forms of governments. The pandemic has developed open access to scientific knowledge and know-how, data sharing and evidence-based policy making: and yet a pervasive issue is whether Covid-19 is the latest spectre of the Cold War to surface in tensions between West and Middle East. The policy perspective of Part One uses history as a prism with foci on science and society: 1. looking back to the historical role of science diplomacy during the Cold War’s SCIENTIFIC DIPLOMACY FOR FREEDOM: INTER-CULTURAL DIALOGUE FOR SCIENCE 4 th September 2020 6.00 - 7.30 PM Trieste Convention Center, Room 28H Porto Vecchio, Trieste Department of Humanities