The Second International Workshop on

4:00-6:00: Panel 8
11:00-12:30: Panel 10
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. Miklos Muller, Professor Emeritus, Rockefeller University, USA
“Translating Olga Lepeshinskaya: The Story of a Hungarian Biologist”
Dr. Slava Gerovitch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
“The Chance Encounter: A Mathematician Enters the Lysenko Controversy”
Technology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
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
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
Dr. Petr Hampl, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science,
Charles University, The Czech Republic
Dr. Elena Solomonovna Levina, S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and
“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
“Lysenkoism in the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences – the case of
Vladimír J.A. Novák and Ivan Málek”
Alexei Kojevnikov, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Tomáš Hermann, Institute for Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the
Dr. Nils Roll-Hansen, University of Oslo
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”
10:30-11:00: Coffee
Dr. Nikolai Krementsov, University of Toronto, Canada
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.
The Second International Workshop on
Lysenkoism
Thursday-Sunday, June 21-24, 2012
Marietta Blau Saal, University of Vienna Main Building,
Dr. Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria
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”
11:00-11:30: Coffee
11:30-1:00: 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
3:30-4:00: Coffee
11:00-11:30: Coffee
“Current attempts to exonerate Lysenkoism and their causes”
4:00-6:00: Panel 4
11:30-1:00: Panel 6
1:00-2:00: Lunch
Dr. Cristiana Oghina-Pavie, Université d’Angers, France
“Michurin in Romania: Lysenkoism Applied to Fruit Tree Breeding”
Dr. William deJong-Lambert, Bronx Community College, CUNY; Affiliate Faculty,
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”
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 23
8:30: 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”
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”