About the Lecture: A history of what happened to global science after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, tracing the role of science in perestroika, glasnost, and Gorbachev’s Soviet Union, as well as following the paths of Soviet scientists in the successor states to the Soviet Union, the former Communist bloc, and the West (especially the United States, Germany, and Israel) in the ensuing decades.”
About the Speaker: Michael Gordin is Dean of the College and Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History in the History Department at Princeton University, where he specializes in the history of modern science. Currently, Professor Gordin is working on a history of what happened to global science after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, tracing the role of science in perestroika, glasnost, and Gorbachev’s Soviet Union, as well as following the paths of Soviet scientists in the successor states to the Soviet Union, the former Communist bloc, and the West (especially the United States, Germany, and Israel) in the ensuing decades.
Sponsored by Department of History. Reception to follow.