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Программа конференции

Alternative Evolutionary Theories in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the International and Interdisciplinary Perspective

Location: Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Moika Emb. 48,
191186 St.-Petersburg, Russia

Date: 03-04.06.2004
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Vasily Strelchenko (St. Petersburg), Dr. Sergey Polatayko (St. Petersburg), Dr. G. Levit (Jena) & Dr. U. Ho?feld (Jena)
Support: Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russian Academy of Sciences

The following topics are subject to discussion at the Workshop:

• Scientific-Historical aspects of the alternative evolutionary theories and contributions discussing the "growth and fall" of the non-Darwinian theories as well as papers analysing their impact on the evolutionary biology in general and on the special biological fields.
• Contemporary Darwinism and the today's alternative theories. The important methodological issue is, in this context, is what sort of statements should the Darwinian evolutionary theory reject to be truly Darwinian. The scientific perspectives of the contemporary alternatives to the STE. Some representatives of the contemporary alternative schools will represent their recent research.
• Social-philosophical and cultural impacts of the evolutionary theory.

Thursday, 03.03.2004

18.00-21.00

"Ice-breaking" party at the department of "Anthropological Philosophy" of the Herzen University

Friday, 04.03.2004

9.30	Registration in the foyer of the Main Building of the University
10.00-10.15	Opening by the Vice-President of the University and Acad. A. A. Korolkov
10.15-10.30	Instead of Introduction: Evolution and Rationality by Vasily Strelchenko

Sessions:

Chair: S. Polatayko (St. Petersburg)

10.30-11.00	Darwinian - Spencerian ideology as the background to the current population ecology Alexei Ghilarov (Moscow)
11.30-12.00	Debates on Lamarckism in immunology in the 1950s-1960s Elena Aronova (Moscow)

Coffee Break

Chair: Lennart Olsson (Jena)

12.30-13.00	A New Non-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory Developed in the Far East and the Origin of Biosystems. Kunio Kawamura (Osaka, Japan)
13.00-13.30	J. Huxly and R. Goldschmidt J. M. Gall (St Petersburg)
13.30-14.30	Lunch

Chair: G. Levit (Jena)

14.30-15.00	Empirical evidence that Darwin is wrong: Douglas Melin and the Swedish Amazonas Expedition 1923-25. Lennart Olsson (Jena, Germany)
15.00-15.30	Early Anti-Darwinism in Russia: N. J. Danilevsky Sergey Polatyko (St. Petersburg)
15.30-16.00	The persistence of heresy: the concepts of directed evolution (orthogenesis) Igor Popov (St.-Petersburg)

Coffee Break

Chair: A. Ghilarov (Moscow)

16.30-17.00	Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Third Reich Uwe Ho?feld (Jena, Germany)
17.00-17.30	Evolution and Anthropogenesis Jurij Efimov (St. Petersburg)
17.30-18.00	"Science of Everything": German Morphology in the First Half of the 20th Century George Levit (Jena, Germany)

Conference language: English