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1:00-2:00 LUNCH 2:00-3:30: 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” 3:30-4:00: COFFEE 4:00-6:00: 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. Slava Gerovitch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA “The Chance Encounter: A Mathematician Enters the Lysenko Controversy” 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 9:00-10:30: 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 Frame- work, and the Restructuring of Life Sciences (onset, institutions and pro- tagonists)” 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” 10:30-11:00: COFFEE 11:00-12:30: PANEL 10 Dr. Miklos Muller, Professor Emeritus, Rockefeller University, USA “Translating Olga Lepeshinskaya: The Story of a Hungarian Biologist” Dr. Elena Solomonovna Levina, S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia “Genetics and geneticists in the USSR: from the VASKhNIL Session (1948) to the All-Union Meeting (1988)” Gabor Pallo, Budapest University of Technology & Economics, Visual Learning Lab, Hungary “From Berlin to Moscow: Forced Shifts in the Orientation of Hungarian Biology” Dr. Habil András Fodor, Georgikon Faculty, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Pannonia, Hungary “Lysenkoism in Hungary: A Personal Account” 12:30-1:30: FINAL PANEL DISCUSSION Dr. Kirill Rossiianov, Institute of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology, Russian academy of Sciences, Russia 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 has been funded by a Science Technology and Society grant from the National Science Foundation. Without NSF support the organization of this meeting would not have been possible. Thanks also to the Faculty of Cultural and Historical Studies at the University of Vienna for their support, and a special thanks to Mitchell Ash and Carola Sachse for agreeing to host the workshop. I am very grateful as well to Jérôme Segal as well to helping me manage the numerous details that go into organizing a conference. Finally, thanks once again to Darren Byler for a fantastic job designing the conference materials. LYSENKOISM The Second International Workshop on Thursday-Sunday, June 21-24, 2012 Marietta Blau Saal, University of Vienna Main Building, Dr. Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria

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1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:30: 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”

3:30-4:00: coffee

4:00-6:00: PaneL 8Dr. 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. Slava Gerovitch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA“The Chance Encounter: A Mathematician Enters the Lysenko Controversy”

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 249:00-10:30: 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 Frame-work, and the Restructuring of Life Sciences (onset, institutions and pro-tagonists)”

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”10:30-11:00: coffee

11:00-12:30: PaneL 10

Dr. Miklos Muller, Professor Emeritus, Rockefeller University, USA“Translating Olga Lepeshinskaya: The Story of a Hungarian Biologist”

Dr. Elena Solomonovna Levina, S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia“Genetics and geneticists in the USSR: from the VASKhNIL Session (1948) to the All-Union Meeting (1988)”

Gabor Pallo, Budapest University of Technology & Economics, Visual Learning Lab, Hungary “From Berlin to Moscow: Forced Shifts in the Orientation of Hungarian Biology”

Dr. Habil András Fodor, Georgikon Faculty, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Pannonia, Hungary “Lysenkoism in Hungary: A Personal Account”

12:30-1:30: finaL PaneL Discussion

Dr. Kirill Rossiianov, Institute of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology, Russian academy of Sciences, Russia

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 has been funded by a Science Technology and Society grant from the National Science Foundation. Without NSF support the organization of this meeting would not have been possible. Thanks also to the Faculty of Cultural and Historical Studies at the University of Vienna for their support, and a special thanks to Mitchell Ash and Carola Sachse for agreeing to host the workshop. I am very grateful as well to Jérôme Segal as well to helping me manage the numerous details that go into organizing a conference. Finally, thanks once again to Darren Byler for a fantastic job designing the conference materials.

LySENKOISMThe Second International Workshop on

Thursday-Sunday, June 21-24, 2012Marietta Blau Saal, University of Vienna Main Building,

Dr. Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria

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Thursday, June 216:00 p.m.: opening reception Arkadenhof, University of Vienna

Friday, June 22(Papers 20-25 minutes each)

8:30: Welcome and opening remarks

9:00-11:00: Panel 1Dr. 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”

11:00-11:30: coffee

11:30-1:00: Panel 2Dr. 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”

1:00-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:30: Panel 3Dr. John Marks, The University of Nottingham, England “Epigenetics and Plasticity: Lessons from Lysenkoism”

Dr. Olga Elina, N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, Russia“Lysenkoism and Agricultural Biology in the Soviet Union”

Dr. Mark Tauger, West Virginia University, USA“Soviet famines, agricultural research, and the Soviet green revolution”

3:30-4:00: coffee

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Dr. Cristiana Oghina-Pavie, Université d’Angers, France“Michurin in Romania: Lysenkoism Applied to Fruit Tree Breeding”

Dr. Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University, England“Lysenkoism in Romania”

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 238:30: WeLcome anD oPening remarks

9:00-11:00: 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”

11:00-11:30: coffee

11:30-1:00: 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”