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
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