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In this talk, Dr. Egle Rindzeviciute will discuss her new book 'The Power of Systems' (Cornell UP, 2016).  In The Power of Systems, Egle Rindzeviciute introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, an international think tank established by the U.S. and Soviet governments to advance scientific collaboration.

From 1972 until the late 1980s IIASA in Austria was one of the very few permanent platforms where policy scientists from both sides of the Cold War divide could work together to articulate and solve world problems.  The book shows how computer modeling, cybernetics, and the systems approach challenged Soviet governance by undermining the linear notions of control on which Soviet governance was based and creating new objects and techniques of government.

About the speaker: Dr. Egle Rindzeviciute trained in art history, management and political science in Vilnius, Moscow and Budapest, before receiving a PhD in Culture Studies from Linköping University in Sweden, 2008. She is now a Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, London. She is also affiliated as a honorary research fellow with the  (GRI), the University of Gothenburg and she is an Associate Professor (docent) at the , Linköping University, Sweden. Dr. Rindzeviciute is a friend of the Fringe Centre at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº SSEES. 

A seminar hosted by the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº SSEES Russian Studies Seminar Series.

Convenors: Philippa Hetherington (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº SSEES) and (Loughborough)