Conference | The International Conference on Lysenkoism

A conference on science and Trofim Lysenko.

8:30-9:00—Coffee

9:00-9:30—Welcome, Introductory remarks Vice Chancellor for Research, Gillian Small

9:30-11:15 (Panel 1): Lysenko and Agriculture - Chair: Deborah Coen, Barnard College. With 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”

11:30-12:50 (Panel 2): The Reaction in the United States Chair: Chris Robinson, Bronx Community College. With Michael Gordin, Princeton University, “How Lysenkoism Became Pseudoscience: Theodosius Dobzhansky and the Evolutionary Critique”; Rena Selya, Independent Scholar, “Defending Scientific Freedom and Democracy: The Genetics Society of America‟s Response to Lysenko”

1:50-3:35 (Panel 3): The New Biology in Central Europe Chair: Frances Bernstein, Drew University. With Miklos Muller, Rockefeller University, “Lysenkoism in Hungary” -Michael Simunek, Charles University, “Lysenkoism in Czechoslovakia”; William deJong-Lambert, Bronx Community College; affiliate faculty, Harriman Institute, “Lysenkoism in Poland”

3:45-5:30 (Panel 4): Lysenko, Stalinism and Lamarckism Chair: Daniel Kevles, Yale University. With 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”