9:45 – 10:35 am
Per Wisselgren (Umeå University)
- From Utopian One-worldism to Geopolitical Intergovernmentalism: UNESCO’s Department of Social Sciences as an International Boundary Organisation, 1946–1955
10:45 – 11:35 am
Debbie Weinstein (Brown University)
- International Relations and Its Discontents: The Image of Human Nature in Post-World War II IR Theory
Coffee/tea break
12:00 – 12:50 pm
Benjamin Wilson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
- Keynes Goes Nuclear: Schelling, Strategy, and Stability
Lunch – Staff Dining room
2:30 – 3:20 pm
Catherine Herfeld (LMU Munich)
- Not More than Exchanging Tools: Early Encounters Between Mathematical Economists and the Behavioral Sciences Movement, 1950–56
3:30 – 4:20 pm
Marcia Holmes (Birkbeck, University of London)
- Legitimate Resistance: Cold War Brainwashing, Interrogation and the Behavioral Sciences
8:00 pm – Conference dinner
9:45 – 10:35 am
Arvind Rajagopal (New York University)
- The Global Career of the Communication Concept: A Cold War History
10:45 – 11:35 am
Devon Powers (Temple University)
- Thinking in Trends: The Birth of Trend Forecasting in the United States
Coffee/tea break
12:00 – 12:50 pm
Dana Simmons (University of California, Riverside)
- Impostor Syndrome and Achievement Worlds
Lunch
2:30 – 3:20 pm
Hannah Proctor (Birkbeck, University of London)
- Cold War Subjects: Reading the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System
3:30 – 4:20 pm
James Good (Durham University)
- The Idea of an Interdisciplinary Social Psychology: A Cold War Perspective