THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PAST IN THE OUTLINES OF THE FUTURE
Mo, 4 November
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18:00 - 19:30
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Conference Hall 2
(Pavilion 7)
Russian State University for the Humanities
Why is it important to remember the past while creating the future? The discussion titled “The Experience of the Past in the Outlines of the Future” focuses on the practical potential of studying the history of Russian science. Experts will not only refer to ideas and events from the past but will also characterize its contributions to the present and the technological future of the country. We invite you to discuss “grand” projects that were ahead of their time, the Soviet experience of scientific and technological forecasting, the vast knowledge accumulated about the history of domestic science, and the relevant formats for presenting this knowledge to society and future researchers.
The roundtable was prepared as part of the Working with Experience and Designing the Future Initiative.
Questions for discussion
- Is a technological future possible without understanding the experience of the past? Is it only historians who study it?
- What projects from the past were ahead of their time, why were there no fears of fantasizing in the USSR, and what did this lead to?
- Why did plans for scientific and technological progress turn into forecasts and programs? How did this affect current scientific policy?
- How can we communicate the experience of technological solutions and developments to society in an engaging way?
- How can we prepare historical scientific and technical documents for future researchers, ensuring the collection and analysis of existing data?
Moderators
Evgenia Dolgova
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Center for the History of Russian Science and Technological Development, Russian State University for the Humanities
Speakers
Adrian Maldonado Repetto
Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation in the United Mexican States
Albert Efimov
Vice President and Director of the Innovation Research Department at PJSC Sberbank, Head of the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at MISIS University, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences
Ilya Sidorchuk
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Alexander Sorokin
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Dean of the St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences, HSE University, Network Research Center “Man, Nature, Technologies”
Ekaterina Streltsova
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Director of the Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of S&T and Innovation at the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, HSE University
Irina Belykh
Co-founder, Program Director of FANK, the Contemporary Science Film Festival, Curator of the “Science as Art” initiative within the Decade of Science and Technology
Mikhail Gribovsky
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor at Tomsk State University
Konstantin Frumkin
Candidate of Cultural Studies, Coordinator of the Association of Futurologists
Valeria Sliskova
Junior Research Fellow, Russian State University for the Humanities; Head of the Archive at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences
