[Sci-tech-public] Loren Graham: STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk on October 23rd, MIT @ 12:00 noon

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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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