The Second International Workshop on Lysenkoism, hosted by the University of Vienna, took place June 21-24, 2012.
Here is the official program and proceedings are copied below:
2nd Lysenkoism Conf.Program. w final changes. date change.pdf
Thursday, June 21
7:00—Opening Reception Hosted by the University of Vienna
Friday, June 22
8:30—Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 to 11:00—Panel 1
Dr. Laurent Loison, Centre François-Viète, Université de Nantes, France
“Monod, Lysenkoism, and the Concept of Cellular Memory”
Dr. Stéphane Tirard, Centre François Viète d’épistémologie et d’histoire des sciences et des techniques – Université de Nantes, France
“The Case of the French Lysenkoism: an Ideological Dogma Different From the French Neolamarkism”
Dr. Francesco Cassata, University of Genoa, Italy
“In The Name of Freedom: Italian genetics and the Lysenko controversy (1948-1953)”
Dr. Victoriano Garza-Almanza, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
“Lysenko and Ochoterena: Notes about the influence of Lysenkoism on the teaching of Biology in Mexico”
11:00 to 11:30—Coffee
11:30 to 1:00—Panel 2
Dr. Michael Gordin, Princeton University, USA
"Lysenko Unemployed: 1965-1976"
Dr. Kirill Rossiianov, Institute of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology, Russian academy of Sciences, Russia
“Theory, Practice, and Ideology in Late Stalinist Discourse about Science:
Rethinking the Lysenko Affair”
Dr. 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, Russia
“Current Attempts to Exonerate Lysenkoism and Their causes”
1:00 to 2:00—Lunch
2:00 to 3:30—Panel 3
Dr. Mark Tauger, West Virginia University, USA
“Soviet Famines, Agricultural Research, and the Soviet Green Revolution”
Gabor Pallo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Visual Learning Lab, Hungary
“From Berlin to Moscow: Forced Shifts in the Orientation of Hungarian Biology”
Dr. Daniel Kevles, Yale University
Invited Talk—“Eugenics and Lysenkoism”
3:30 to 4:00—Coffee
4:00 to 6:00—Panel 4
Dr. Cristiana Oghina-Pavie, Université d'Angers, France
“Michurin in Romania: Lysenkoism Applied to Fruit Tree Breeding”
Dr. Piotr Köhler, Institute of Botany, The Jagiellonian University, Poland
“Propaganda of Lysenkoism in Trybuna ludu”
Dr. Agata Strządała, University of Opole, Poland
“From Michurinism to Lysenkoism: Terminology of the New Biology as an Example of Newspeak”
7:00—Conference Dinner, Zum Martin Sepp
Cobenzlgasse 34
1190 Wien - Grinzing
Saturday, June 23
8:30—Welcome and Opening remarks
9:00 to 10:30—Panel 5
Dr. Kaori Iida, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Japan
“The Lysenko Controversy in Postwar Japan: From ‘Democratic’ Discussions to ‘Undemocratic’ Polarization”
Dr. Hirofumi Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
“The Early Stage of the Lysenko Controversy in Japan: Japan’s Recovery From the Delay in the Field of Genetics”
Dr. Tsuyoshi Fujioka, Doshisha University, Japan
“The Origin of the Japanese Lysenkoites”
10:30 to 11:00—Coffee
11:00 to 12:30—Panel 6
Dr. William deJong-Lambert, Bronx Community College, CUNY; Affiliate Faculty, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, USA
“Why Did J.B.S. Haldane ‘Support’ Lysenko?”
Dr. Luis Campos, Drew University, USA
“Dialectics Denied: Lysenkoism, Muller, and the Fate of Chromosomal Mutation”
Dr. Mikhail B. Konashev, S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
“Lysenko, 7th International Genetics Congress [in Moscow] and American Geneticists”
12:30 to 1:30—Lunch
1:30 to 3:00—Panel 7
Dr. Margaret Peacock, The University of Alabama, USA
“The Survival of Mendel in the Lysenkoist Classroom, 1934-1964”
Dr. Patricia Simpson, University of Hertfordshire, England
“Lysenko, ‘Michurinism’ and Art at the Moscow Darwin Museum 1930s-1950s”
Lukas Joos, Master of Arts, University of Zurich, Switzerland
“The Rise of T. D. Lysenko to the Presidency of VASKhNIL in Light of its
Coverage in the Newspaper Pravda: On the Description of Scientific Matters in the Press Organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) from 1927 to 1938”
3:00 to 3:30—Coffee
3:30 to 5:30—Panel 8
Dr. Björn Felder, The University of Göttingen, Germany
“Lysenkoist eugenics?: Anti-eugenics propaganda contra applied eugenics in the Soviet Union of the 1930s to 1950s”
Dr. Aglica Edreva, Institute of Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
“1949 and the Triumph of Lysenkoism in Bulgaria”
Dr. Dinko Mintchev, Institute for Science Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
“Scientific Ethics and Genetics: Bulgarian Philosophers and Lysenkoism”
7:00—Conference Dinner, Zum Martin Sepp
Cobenzlgasse 34
1190 Wien - Grinzing
Sunday, June 24
9:00 to 10:30—Panel 9
Dr. Petr Hampl, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University, The Czech Republic
“Lysenkoism in the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences – the case of Vladimír J.A. Novák and Ivan Málek”
Dr. Tomáš Hermann, Institute for Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, The Czech Republic
“Lysenkoism in Czechoslovakia as Part of a Totalitarian Ideological Framework, and the Restructuring of Life Sciences (onset, institutions and protagonists)”
Dr. Marco Stella, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University, The Czech Republic
“Allotment gardening in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. From Subsistence and Leisure to Ideology”
10:30 to 11:00—Coffee
11:00 to 1:30—Panel 10
12:30 to 1:30—Final Panel Discussion
Dr. Alexei Kojevnikov, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Nikolai Krementsov, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Nils Roll-Hansen, University of Oslo
The Second International Workshop on Lysenkoism is free and open to the public. Special thanks to the National Science Foundation for a Science, Technology and Society grant which is funding the meeting, and to the University of Vienna for their generosity and for hosting. For further information contact William deJong-Lambert William.deJong-Lambert@bcc.cuny.edu; WRL4@columbia.edu.
Photographs from the Second International Workshop on Lysenkoism
Hirofumi Saito, Eduard Kolchinsky and William deJong-Lambert
Nils Roll-Hansen, Nikolai Krementsov and Alexei Kojevnikov
Bjorn Felder and Francesco Cassata
Mitchell Ash and Laurent Loison
The Audience
Stéphane Tirard
William deJong-Lambert and Kirill Rossianov
Dinko Mitchev and Aglica Edreva
30 x 30 centimeter bas relief of Ivan Michurin, Gheorghe Munteanu, 1963; The sculptor was the great uncle of Cristiana Oghina-Pavie
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