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Thursday, June 21
6:00 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 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”
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 3
Dr. 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
4:00-6:00: Panel 4
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
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”
Saturday, June 23
8:30: Welcome and Opening remarks
9:00-11:00: Panel 5
11:00-11:30: Coffee
11:30-1:00: Panel 2
Dr. Kaori Iida, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Sokendai, Japan
“The Lysenko Controversy in Postwar Japan: From ‘Democratic’
Discussions to ‘Undemocratic’ Polarization”
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. 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”