IREX Alumni Symposium: Science, Technology, and the Public in Russia

[Anne Marie Hvid]

IREX Alumni Symposium: Science, Technology, and the Public in Russia

February 12, 1999; 1:00 - 5:00pm
Hosted by University of Texas (Austin), 
Center for Russian and East European & Eurasian Studies

Science and technology have played central and often quite visible roles in
the creation of a modern state and society in Russia, but those roles have
been little understood. This symposium will explore a few of the many ways
science and technology have functioned in the Russian public sphere: the
ways in which science and technology have shaped public discourse about
modern life, about the relative autonomy of the public, and about public
perceptions of state legitimacy and authority.

In discussing the role of science and technology in society and politics we
hope to encourage further interdisciplinary contact between the natural and
applied sciences on the one hand and the humanities and social sciences on
the other. At UT-Austin, CREEES is hoping to interest students in Russian
area studies programs in the promising fields of  Russian and East European
science policy, technology transfer and commercialization, and
environmental protection, and we hope to generate interest among students
in engineering and the natural sciences in  research opportunities in the
Russian and East European region.

Presenters
·Doug Weiner (University of Arizona): A Little Corner of Freedom:  Ecology
and Nature Protection under Soviet Rule
·Joseph Bradley (University of Tulsa):  Science and Technology at the
Moscow Exposition
·Nathan Brooks (New Mexico State University): Chemists, Chemistry and
Industry in Prerevolutionary Russia
·Jonathan Coopersmith (Texas A&M):  Technology and the Collapse of the
Soviet Union
·Andrei Balaban (Academy of National Economy, Moscow):  The
Commercialization of Technology in Post-Soviet Russia

Commentators
·Daniel Orlovsky (Southern Methodist University)
·Bruce Hunt (University of Texas, Austin)
·Joan Neuberger (University of Texas, Austin)

Please RSVP to Robert Cronin at rcronin at irex.org or contact:

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
Geography 106 A1600
Austin, TX 78712
Phone: (512) 471-7782
Fax: (512) 471-3368

The event is open to the public

University of Texas is a National Resource Center for 
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 
sponsored by the US Department of Education (Title VI).

For information about IREX please visit our Web site at http://www.irex.org
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Anne Marie Hvid
Editor, Electronic Publishing
IREX, International Research & Exchanges Board
1616 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: (202) 628-8188
Fax: (202) 628-8189
E-mail: amhvid at irex.org
Web: http://www.irex.org
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