Friday, 29 October
13:30-14:00 Reception
14:00–15:00
Welcome by Betty Jean Craige (UGA Center for
Humanities and Arts) and Margaret Paxson (Kennan Institute)
Keynote address by Loren R. Graham
(MIT), “The Russian
Academy
of Sciences in Historical and Comparative Perspectives”
15:15-17:15
Simon Werrett (University
of Washington),
“Transits and transitions – Russian astronomy and politics in 1874”
Konstantin Ivanov (Tula State Pedagogical University) “The First Steps of
Astrophysics in the USSR: The Moscow
Astrophysical Institute”
Joseph Bradley (University of Tulsa), “Science in the city: The founding of the Moscow Polytechnical Museum”
Coffee break
17:30–19:30
Elizabeth Hachten (University of Wisconsin), “The Contested Legacies of Il’ia Il’ich
Mechnikov/Elie Metchnikoff/Elias Metschnikov”
Kirill Rossiianov (Institute for
History of Science and Technology, Moscow), “Taming the Primitive: Elie
Metchnikov and his discovery of Immune Cells”
Lloyd Ackert (Yale University), “A ‘classic’ in
émigré status: The curious intellectual authority of Sergei
Vinogradskii in the 1930s”
Saturday, 30 October
9:30-11:00
Olga Valkova (Institute for History of Science and Technology, Moscow),
“Struggle between ‘national’ and ‘international’ parties in
Russian scientific community in the second part of the 19th
century”
Elizabeth Haigh (Saint Mary’s University, Canada), “Nationalism and the Foundation of the
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences”
Coffee break
11:15-13:15
Daniel Todes (Johns Hopkins University),
“Laboratory Life before and after 1917: the Case of Ivan Pavlov”
Nathan Brooks (New
Mexico State University),
“Chemistry in the Soviet Union under Stalin”
Olga Elina (Institute for History of
Science and Technology, Moscow) “The Nazis,
Lysenko, and Seeds: Devastation of Soviet Plant Breeding Institutions during
World War II”
13:30-14:30 Lunch served.
Lunch-time lecture and discussion
Jonathan Coopersmith (Texas A&M University),
“The dog that did not bark during the night: The “normalcy” of Russian,
Soviet, and post-Soviet science and technology”
14:30–15:50
Anna Krylova (Duke University), “Organic
Bolshevism: Beyond Marx and the Enlightenment, 1880-1920”
Olival Freire Jr. (Federal University
of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, and Dibner Institute, MIT), “Marxism and Quantum Controversy:
Responding to Max Jammer’s Question”
16:00-18:00
James T. Andrews (Iowa
State University),
“Envisioning and Mythologizing the Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Russian
Popular Culture, and the Roots of Soviet Cosmonautics, 1880-1935”
Asif A. Siddiqi (Carnegie Mellon University),
“Science outside the Academy: Konstantin Tsiolkovskii and his Alternative
Discursive Network”
Slava Gerovitch (MIT), “The New Soviet
Man in a Man-Machine System: The Technical Intelligentsia, Automatic Control,
and the Space Race”
Coffee break
18:10-19:30
Susan Smith-Peter (The College of Staten Island / CUNY), “Statistics
as Social Criticism in mid-Nineteenth Century Russia”
Benjamin Nathans (University
of Pennsylvania), “A. S.
Esenin-Vol’pin and the origins of the Soviet Human Rights Movement”
Sunday, 31
October
9:00-11:00
Trude Maurer (Universität
Göttingen, Germany), “Russian
and German Universities during World War I”
Baichun Zhang, with Fang Yao and
Jiuchun Zhang, (Institute for History of Natural Sciences, China), “Technology transfer from the Soviet
Union to
P.R. China in the 1950s”
Elizabeth Bishop (University of Texas at Austin), “From the USSR to the Nile Valley: Landscapes from
Above”
Coffee break
11:15-13:15
Elizabeth English (Louisiana State University),
“Vladimir Shukhov and the invention of Hyperboloid Structures”
Chris Bissell (Open
University, UK), “Ebbs and flows: international
communications in the Russian and Soviet control engineering communities 1890
to 1960”
Sonja Schmid (Cornell University) “Setting the
stage for nuclear power: how international arguments shaped the identity of
Soviet technical intelligentsia”
13:30 Lunch and concluding discussion for those who have time
Click
here to see abstracts of conference presentations
and
three pre-circulated papers by Bishop, Coopersmith and Freire
The Conference is made
possible by the generous support from the
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and
the University of Georgia Center for Humanities and Arts
Organizing Committee:
Michael D. Gordin (Princeton University)
Karl P. Hall (Central European University, Budapest)
Alexei B. Kojevnikov (University of Georgia, Athens GA)
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