HISTORY OF RECENT SOCIAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE 

* École normale supérieure de Cachan
* Pavillon des jardins, salle des conférences
* Friday, 13 June to Saturday, 14 June
* http://hisress.org 

This two-day conference, hosted at the École normale supérieure de Cachan, is organized as a series of one-hour, single-paper sessions attended by all participants. The schedule is copied below, and can be found online at:

http://hisress.org

The organizing committee consists of Jamie Cohen-Cole (George Washington University), Philippe Fontaine (ENS Cachan), Nicolas Guilhot (CIRHUS - NYU), and Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College).

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FRIDAY, JUNE 13

9:50 – 10:40 am
* Fabian Link (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
* Re-constitutionalizing social sciences in postwar-Frankfurt: Social knowledge between reeducation, democratization and “anti-totalitarianism”

10:50 – 11:40 am
* Alice White (University of Kent)
* From warfare to welfare: Constructing a science of human relations in post-war Britain

Coffee/tea break

12:00 – 12:50 pm
* Till Düppe (University of Quebec at Montreal)
* Koopmans in the Soviet Union

Lunch

2:30 – 3:20 pm
* Bregje van Eekelen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
* Creative intelligence: US military investments in undisciplined thought, 1945–1965

3:30 – 4:20 pm
* Eric Hounshell (UCLA/Uni-Konstanz)
* Fordism and the postwar social sciences: The Edsel studies at the Columbia BASR

Coffee/tea break

4:40 – 5:30 pm
* Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger (University of Zurich)
* Floods, sociology and Cold War: On the history of social science disaster research, 1949–1979

SATURDAY, 14 JUNE

9:50 – 10:40 am
* Thibaud Boncourt (European University Institute)
* Transnational science as a weapon: A comparative perspective on the history of European social science organisations

10:50 – 11:40 am
* Michele Alacevich (Columbia University)
* Not a knowledge Bank: The divided history of development economics and development organizations

Coffee/tea break

12:00 – 12:50 pm
* Jenny Andersson (Sciences Po)
* A new non-science of the future: Futures studies and the limits of human reason, 1968–2000

Lunch

2:30 – 3:20 pm
* Elizabeth More (Harvard University)
* Sex role socialization and the intellectual history of American feminism

3:30 – 4:20 pm
* Tracy Teslow (University of Cincinnati)
* Race: Bodies and cultures in American anthropology, museums and popular culture

Coffee/tea break

4:40 – 5:30 pm
* Peter Sachs Collopy (University of Pennsylvania)
* From visual anthropology to video therapy