9:15 – 9:45 am
Light breakfast
9:50 – 10:40 am
Marcos Ramos (Yale University)
- Traumatized Knowledge: Violence and Cold War Psychology in Argentina
10:50 – 11:40 am
Marie Burks (MIT)
- The Taming of Conflict: The Evolution of a Concept in Cold War America
Coffee/tea break
12:00 – 12:50 pm
Marcia Holmes (Birkbeck, University of London)
- The New Utopians: Building a Behavioral Science of Man-Machine Systems at the System Development Corporation, 1956-1965
Lunch
2:30 – 3:20 pm
Matthew Linton (Brandeis University)
- The Empire of the West and the Empire of the East: Institutional Rivalry and Chinese Area Studies, 1945-55
3:30 – 4:20 pm
Harro Maas (University of Lausanne) & Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)
- Taming Maxwell’s Demon: The Bowman Committee and the Planning of Science for the Public Good
Coffee/tea break
4:40 – 5:30 pm
Edward Gitre (Virginia Tech)
- “The Root is Man”: Atomization, Concentration Camps, and Social Scientific Values after Hiroshima
9:15 – 9:45 am
Light breakfast
9:50 – 10:40 am
Kira Lussier (University of Toronto)
- Manager as Motivator: David McClelland and Ernest Dichter’s Management Training Seminars in 1970s America
10:50 – 11:40 am
Ishan Ashutosh (Indiana University)
- Dividing the World and Writing the Earth: Geography and Area Studies, 1945-1960
Coffee/tea break
12:00 – 12:50 pm
Daniel Bessner (University of Washington)
- Public Opinion, Propaganda, and the Prospects for Democracy: The New School and the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, 1934-1944
Lunch
2:30 – 3:20 pm
Thomas Meaney (Harvard University)
- Clifford Geertz and the Problem of Decolonization, 1953-1972
3:30 – 4:20 pm
Matthew Hoffarth (University of Pennsylvania)
- Burning Out the House: Job Stress, Organizational Politics, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory, 1975-2000