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| Name | Léonard Laborie |
| Academic title(s) | Dr. |
| Institute | CNRS |
| Department | Sirice |
| Function | Research Fellow |
| Address | UMR Sirice, Campus Condorcet, 5 cours des Humanités |
| Zip code | 93322 Aubervilliers cedex |
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| Short biography |
Leonard Laborie is a Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR Sirice (Paris, France). He holds a PhD in contemporary history from Sorbonne University. His research focusses on the co-construction of communication networks and Europe since the 1840s (ANR-DFG project Europtt), and on European science diplomacy (H2020 project Inventing a shared science diplomacy for Europe). Leonard is a member of the LabEx EHNE “Writing a new history of Europe”, which is editing the Digital Encyclopedia of European History. He is founding managing editor of the open access Journal of Energy History, and co-editor of the Innovation and Diplomacy in Modern Europe series (De Gruyter Oldenbourg). He currently chairs ToE’s management committtee. |
| Recent publications |
with Stathis Araposthatis, “Governing Technosciences in the Age of Grand Challenges: A European Historical Perspective on the Entanglement of Science, Technology, Diplomacy, and Democracy”, Technology and Culture, vol. 61/1, 2020, p. 318-332. doi:10.1353/tech.2020.0005 with Christian Henrich-Franke, « Technology Taking Over Diplomacy? The ‘Comité Consultatif International (for) Fernschreiben’ (CCIF) and Its Relationship to the ITU in the Early History of Telephone Standardization, 1923–1947 », in Gabriele Balbi, Andreas Fickers (eds.), History of the International Telecommunication Union. Transnational techno-diplomacy from the telegraph to the Internet, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020, pp. 215-242. DOI: 10.1515/9783110669701-010. ⟨halshs-02868711⟩ with Richard R. John, “ ‘Circuits of Victory’: how the First World War shaped the political economy of the telephone in the United States and France ”, History and Technology, 35, 2019/2, p. 115-137, DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2019.1652960 with Philippe Vonnard, « De l’événement au rendez-vous médiatique européen : l’UEFA, l’UER et la Coupe des clubs champions de football (1956-1968) », 20&21. Revue d’histoire, n°142, 2019/2, p. 109-122. with Yves Bouvier (eds.), L’Europe en transitions. Energie, mobilité, communication, 18e-21e siècles, Paris, Nouveau Monde, 2016. with Pascal Griset, « Entre mondialisation et intégration européenne : origines et signature de la Convention sur le brevet européen (Munich 1973) », Bulletin de l’Institut Pierre Renouvin, n°44, 2016, p. 55-74. « Global commerce in small boxes: parcel post, 1878–1913 », Journal of Global History, 10, 2015. |
| Role in Tensions of Europe | |
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| Additional research interests | Science and innovation diplomacy |