HISRESS 2026
Geneva Graduate Institute, 11 & 12 June
Venue: Room S5 (Petal 1), Maison de la paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2 (Geneva Graduate Institute)
8:30 am – 9 am
Coffee and pastries
Welcome and introductions
9 am – 9:50 am
Peace and Police: Producing and Measuring Aggression in 1970s West Germany (Cécile Hauser, LMU München)
10 am – 10:50 am
Un mundo grueso y desordenado (Theo Di Castri, University of Cambridge)
10:50 am – 11:10 am
Coffee break
11:10 am – 12 pm
Taking Down the System: Teaching Systems as Social Science (Libby O’Neil, Mississippi State University)
12 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm
“The Technology Is so Far Ahead of the Educational Systems”: Social-Science Expertise, Linguistic Technologies, and Cold War Language Classrooms (Diana Lemberg, University of St. Andrews)
2:30 pm – 3:20 pm
Organization is the Message: The Media Theory of Organization in the Context of Postwar Social Science (Lisa Conrad, Leuphana University Lüneburg, and Axel Volmar, Charité – University Medicine Berlin)
7 pm
Conference dinner – Restaurant Cercle du Rhône
Rue de Saint-Jean 98, 1201 Genève
Venue: Room S5 (Petal 1), Maison de la paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2 (Geneva Graduate Institute)
8:30 am – 9 am
Coffee and pastries
9:00 am – 9:50 am
“Relativism” and “Rationalism” in French Sociology: The Reception of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (Natacha Demoule, Université Paris Cité)
10 am – 10:50 am
Making Care Work Out of Time Use: Time Use Surveys and the History of Unpaid Care Work (Julia Kowalski, University of Notre Dame)
10:50 am – 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am – 12:00 pm
The Theory of Increasing Returns and the Status of the Social Scientist at the End of the Cold War (Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan, Yale University)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm
Beyond Expected Utility: Standards of Behavior in Theory of Games (Juan Carvajalino, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis)