The International Workshop on Lysenkoism December 4-5, 2009
CUNY Graduate, Center Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Friday, December 4, 2009
CUNY Graduate center, 365 Fifth Ave., Room 9204/9205
9:30-10:00?Welcome, Introductory remarks CUNY Vice Chancellor for Research, Gillian Small
(Panel 1) Lysenko and Agriculture (1.45) 10:00-11:45
Chair: Deborah Coen, Barnard College
Jenny Leigh Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lysenko?s Legacy: Ignorance, Bliss, and the Persistence of Proletarian Science?
Stephen Brain, Mississippi State University
Lysenko and the Transformation of Nature?
Alexei Kouprianov, State University Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg
Networking Potato Vernalisation: Understanding the Modes of the Unity of Theory and Practice in the Soviet Agricultural Science of the 1930s
(Panel 2) The Reaction in the United States (1.20) 12:00-1:20
Chair: Chris Robinson, Bronx Community College, CUNY
Michael Gordin, Princeton University
How Lysenkoism Became Pseudoscience: Dobzhansky to Velikovsky?
Rena Selya, Independent Scholar
Defending Scientific Freedom and Democracy: The Genetics Society of America?s Response to Lysenko?
(Panel 3) The New Biology in Central Europe (1.45) 2:30-4:15
Chair: Frances Bernstein, Drew University
Miklos Muller, Rockefeller University
Lysenkoism in Hungary?
Michael Simunek, Charles University
Lysenkoism in Czechoslovakia?
William deJong-Lambert, Bronx Community College, CUNY; affiliate faculty, Harriman Institute
Lysenkoism in Poland
(Panel 4) Lysenko, Stalinism and Lamarckism (1.45) 4:30-6:15
Chair: Daniel Kevles, Yale University
Jonathan Brent, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Lysenko and the Plot Against the Jewish Doctors
Eduard Israelovich Kolchinsky, Director of St. Petersburg Branch of the S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Cultural Revolution in the USSR (1929-1932) and the Beginning of the Union of Prezent and Lysenko
Nils Roll-Hansen, University of Oslo
Lamarckism and Lysenkoism Revisited
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Columbia University, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
9:00-9:30?Welcome, Introductory remarks Harriman Institute Director Timothy Frye
(Panel 1) Lysenko and Genetics (1.20) 9:30-10:50
Chair: Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College; Harriman Institute
Audra Jayne Wolfe, University of Pennsylvania
Commemoration as Political Weapon, Or, Why We Think of Mendel as the Father of Genetics
Luis Campos, Drew University
Dialectics Denied: Muller, Lysenko, and the Fate of Chromosome Studies in Soviet Genetics
(Panel 2) Western Europe (1.15) 11:00-12:15
Chair: Bruno J. Strasser, Yale University
Francesco Cassata, University of Turin
The Price of Obedience: Italian Marxist Biologists Front of PCI?s Lysenkoism (1948-1953)
Leo Molenaar, Stichting Huis van Erasmus
Dutch Treat: The Reaction to Lysenkoism in Holland
(Panel 3) Germany (1.15) 1:15-2:30
Chair: Philipp Rothmaler, Bronx Community College, CUNY
Alexander von Schwerin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Lysenkoism and the Reform of Postwar West German Genetics
Ekkehard Höxtermann, Free University of Berlin
Lysenkoism in East Germany
(Panel 4) Asia & Latin America (1.45) 2:45-4:30
Chair: Joe Dauben, Lehman College; The CUNY Graduate Center
Laurence Schneider, Washington University, St. Louis
Lysenkoism in China 1950-1957: Party Authority vs. the Autonomy of Science
Arturo ArguetaVillamar, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México & Quetzal Argueta Prado, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Lysenko and Vavilov in Mexico and Latin America
Hirofumi Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Geneticist Hitoshi Kihara and His Particular Role in the Period of Lysenkoism in Japan
Concluding Discussion (4:45-6:30)
Elena Levina, Institute for the History of Science and Technology Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Nikolai Krementsov, University of Toronto
Loren Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Douglas Weiner, University of Arizona
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