Please join us on Tuesday, October 23rd, for an STS Brown Bag Lunch
Talk at 12:00 noon in E51-275:
Recent Reforms in Russian Science and Higher Education
Loren Graham, MIT
Abstract
The current attempts to reform science and higher education in Russia
shed much light on the question "What are the Optimal Forms of
Organization of Scientific Research and Higher Education?" After
adopting a radically different model from that of the United States,
Russians currently are trying to find ways to organize research and
higher education that both grow out of their own traditions and also
represents "best practices" abroad.
Bio
Loren Graham is professor emeritus of history of science at MIT. He
has published many articles and books, including one that was a
finalist for a National Book Award. He was awarded the Sarton Medal
for lifetime
achievement by the History of Science Society. This talk is based on
a section of his forthcoming SCIENCE IN THE NEW RUSSIA (spring,
2008), co-authored with the Russian scholar (and former STS fellow)
Irina Dezhina. He currently is writing a book entitled NAMING GOD,
NAMING INFINITIES, co-authored with the French mathematician
Jean-Michel Kantor (and former fellow of the mathematics department
of MIT). The latter book is on the different receptions given to set
theory in France and Russia connected with French "rationalism" and
Russian "mysticism." Another of his books, about Native American
history, is currently being made into a feature-length movie. He
does much of his work in a remote lighthouse on an island in Lake
Superior, often working at night by kerosene lamps.
Feel free to bring your lunch; we'll provide coffee and dessert.
Talk location: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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