'A multifaceted diamond’ out of steel : exhibiting the European Communities at Expo 67
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the 1960s, the European Communities’ Joint Press and Information Service promoted the newly established European institutions (The European Coal and Steel Community – ECSC – in 1951, the European Economic Community – EEC – and Euratom in 1957) with a variety of cultural diplomacy initiatives. These addressed both the citizens of their Member States and audiences outside of the Community territory. In this article, I look at the latter, by examining the pavilion that was developed for World Expo 1967 Montreal. After briefly introducing Expo 1967, and its theme “Man and his World” (Terre des Hommes), I discuss how the European Communities’ pavilion came into being, and how a specific image of the European Communities was developed with a North American audience in mind. A description of the pavilion’s exhibition and its main messages is complemented with a close analysis of the pavilion’s aim to connect Europe’s reputation as the Old Continent, historically and culturally rich, with Community-driven technological and economic innovation. Finally, I explore how the pavilion and its messages were received, and how the Joint Service reflected on its participation in Expo 1967.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".