HISRESS 2022

Toronto, 17–19 June 2022

9 am – 9:30 am

Welcome and introductions

9:30 am – 10:20 am

A Social History of the Center for Women’s Studies and Services in San Diego in the 1960s (Chris Loss)

10:30 am – 11:20 am

‘The Earning Gap and the Learning Gap’: Occupational and Opportunity Structures (Leah Gordon)

11:30 am – 12:20 pm

Field Goals: Three Elite Graduate Schools of Education and their Visions for the Future (Lucian Bessmer)

12:20 pm – 2 pm

Lunch

L’espresso Bar Mercurio321 Bloor St. West, outdoor patio (Apple | Google)

2 pm – 2:50 pm

Between Science and Sarvodaya: Social Welfare Policy and Phatic Expertise in 1960s India (Julia Kowalski)

3 pm – 3:50 pm

Tact, Tolerance, and Critical Power: How Personal Qualities Mattered in American Science, 1950–2000 (Kim Hajek, Sjang ten Hagen, & Herman Paul)

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm

Coffee Break

Dessert Lady Café1 Sultan St, outdoor seating (Apple | Google)

4:20 pm – 5:10 pm

Between Phenomenology and Social Science: The Development of Marcuse’s Theory of Technology (Charles Clavey)

6:45 pm

Conference Dinner

Via Mercanti188 Augusta Ave. (Kensington Market), terrace (Apple | Google)

9:30 am – 10:20 am

‘ A Machinery for Internationalizing Social Research’: Alva Myrdal, UNESCO, and the Bureaucratic Making of International Social Science (Per Wisselgren)

10:30 am – 11:20 am

‘A Catalytic Operation—SPACE, EARTH, BRAIN’: IBRO and the Politics of Cold War Neuroscience (Danielle Carr)

11:30 am – 12:20 pm

Media as Social Pedagogue: Role of Soviet Sociology in the Shaping of Public Space (Ekaterina Vasileva)

12:20 pm – 2 pm

Lunch

Como en Casa565 Yonge St., inside, but big windows opened. If you prefer it, you can also take your food to go, and eat it at the college courtyard (Apple | Google)

2 pm – 2:50 pm

HISRESS discussion

3 pm – 3:50 pm

Writing and Reading The Joyless Economy: Tibor Scitovsky’s Journey in American Academia, 1946 – 1996 (Viviana Di Giovinazzo)

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm

Coffee Break

Dessert Lady Café1 Sultan St, outdoor seating (Apple | Google)

4:20 pm – 5:10 pm

A Convenient Idea for an Inconvenient Truth: A Performative History of Emissions Trading (P.W. Zuidhof)

9:30 am – 10:20 am

Social Scientists in the Movement: Early Work on Environmental Justice, 1983–1992 (Andrew Jewett)

10:30 am – 11:20 am

Social Science, Bureaucracy, and the Realignment of American Politics: 1945-1968 (Casey Eilbert)

11:30 am – 12:20 pm

Problems of Adjustment: Morale and Mood in 1948 Palestine (Tal Arbel)

12:20 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

Aroma Espresso Bar1110 Bay St. (corner of Bay and Charles St.), outdoor seating (Apple | Google)

1:30 pm – 2:20 pm

Organized Urban Research: Interdisciplinary Infrastructures and the ‘Problem’ of Physical Planning, 1947–1971 (Peter Ekman)

2:30 pm – 2:50 pm

Wrapup