What we shall tentatively term the 'Homos sapiens paradigm' emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War as a means of ensuring the sustainability of the restored peace. The 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race and its subsequent, numerous reformulations rested on two key universalist characteristics of the international organisation: the common origin of all human beings in Homo sapiens; and the idea of science as a universal way of knowing. This workshop aims to discuss the transnational construction of this paradigm, as well as the scientific and cultural artefacts that helped establish it from the 1920s onwards. To this end, we will examine the involvement of scientists both within their national scientific contexts, and in international scientific networks and programmes.

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