[Daviscenter-list] Workshop: Understanding the Soviet Space Race

Dear Affiliates, Faculty, Staff and Students- The Outreach Program at the Davis Center is pleased to announce a one-day workshop devoted to Understanding the Soviet Space Race. The workshop will feature four lectures devoted to the origins and history of the Space Race in the USSR (for more details, please see complete agenda below). The workshop is free and open to the public. Full day attendance is not required, but RSVPs are appreciated. Workshop, Understanding the Soviet Space Race Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program Friday, April 27, 2012 9am--4pm *Note location* 61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 9:00-9:30 AM Welcome and Introductions Cris Martin, Davis Center 9:30-11:00 AM Lecture: Two Russian Revolutions: Science, Technology, and the Early Soviet State Maya Peterson, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the History of Science, Harvard University 11:00-11:15 AM Break 11:15-12:45 PM Lecture: Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Culture, and the Origins of the Space Race Asif Siddiqi, Associate Professor of History, Fordham University 12:45-1:30 PM Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 PM Lecture: A History of Russian Technology: Is Space an Exception? Loren Graham, Senior Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University 2:30-3:45 PM Lecture: Soviet Cosmonauts in a Propaganda Machine: The Human Side of a Public Icon Slava Gerovitch, Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, MIT *For more information about this workshop or to RSVP, please contact Cris Martin at clmartin@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:clmartin@fas.harvard.edu>.* --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu http://www.facebook.com/DCRES