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

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>Please join us tomorrow (TUESDAY 10/23) 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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