HISRESS 2025
University of Amsterdam, 6 & 7 June
Venue: Humanities Lab, Main Room Ground Floor, Bushuis Building, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam [Apple | Google]
9:30 am – 10 am
Coffee and pastries
Welcome and introductions
10 am – 10:50 am
How an Applied Knowledge Culture Earned a Place at Harvard: The Invention of the Public Policy Profession, 1964–1975 (Lucian Bessmer, Harvard University)
11 am – 11:50 am
Bonds Beyond Borders: Transnational Child Development Expertise in Cold War Czechoslovakia, 1950s–1960s (Kateřina Lišková, Czech Academy of Sciences)
11:50 am – 12:10 pm
Coffee Break
12:10 pm – 1 pm
When and Why Does Economics Begin to Take Other Disciplines Seriously? The Case of Market Design (Ivan Boldyrev, Radboud University)
1 pm – 2:30 pm
Lunch (on site)
2:30 pm – 3:20 pm
Sample Surveys Come in from the Cold: Social Data, Governance, and the 1970s Survey Boom in Communist Europe (Alexander Langstaff, New York University)
7 pm
Conference Dinner
Restaurant Incanto, Amstel 2, 1017 AA Amsterdam [Apple | Google]
Venue: Potgieterzaal, Ground Floor, University Library, Singel 421–427, Amsterdam [Apple | Google]
9 am – 9:30 am
Coffee and pastries
9:30 am – 10:20 am
From Breast to Nation: Colonialism, Child-Rearing and the Scientification of Child Feeding Practices in Kenya and Uganda (Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah, Geneva Graduate Institute)
10:30 am – 11:20 am
Making a New Midwifery (Liora Goldensher, Virginia Tech)
11:20 am – 11:40 am
Coffee Break
11:40 am – 12:30 pm
American Indian Anthropology from the Study to the Court of Law: Alfred Kroeber and “Indians of California” Land Claims Case (Eric Hounshell, independent scholar)
12:30 pm – 2 pm
Lunch
Café Luxembourg, Spui 24, 1012 XA Amsterdam [Apple | Google]
2 pm – 2:50 pm
Indigenizing Anthropology in Non-Western Countries, 1960s–1980s (Stéphane Dufoix, Université Paris-Nanterre, & Klara Öberg, Halmstad University)
3 pm – 3:50 pm
Indexing Human Capital: Concretizing Concepts at the World Bank (Jonny Bunning, École des hautes études en sciences sociales)