HISRESS 2024
University of Pennsylvania, 31 May & 1 June
Room 300, Annenberg School for Communication
9 am – 9:30 am
Coffee and pastries
Welcome and introductions
9:30 am – 10:20 am
Fighting Poverty with Policy: The Center for the Study of Welfare Policy and the Battle for the Poor (Chris Loss, Vanderbilt University)
10:30 am – 11:20 am
Studying the Cop ‘like a slum youth:’ The Police Problem in Postwar US Social Science (Patrick Reilly, Vanderbilt University)
11:20 am – 11:40 am
Coffee Break
11:40 am – 12:30 pm
The Factory and the Farm: Efficiency, Productivity, and the Emergence of Management Studies (Kena Wani, National Law School of India University)
12:30 pm – 2 pm
Lunch
2 pm – 2:50 pm
Less Social or Less Intercalated?: Rethinking the Periodization of the Recent Social Sciences via the History of Prevention Science (Theo Di Castri, University of Cambridge)
3 pm – 3:50 pm
“At the Skin’s Edge”: Hildred and Clifford Geertz, Otherness, and the Craft of the Ethnographer (Matteo Bortolini, Università di Padova)
7 pm
Conference Dinner
La Fontana Della Citta
1701 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19103
30 minute walk | 20 minutes by subway | Apple Maps | Google Maps
menu (gluten-free and vegetarian entrees will be available)
9 am – 9:30 am
Coffee and pastries
9:30 am – 10:20 am
From the Field to the Self. French Anthropology, Social Psychiatry and the Ambiguous Study of Acculturation in the Age of Decolonization, 1950–1980 (Joshua Klein, Geneva Graduate Institute)
10:30 am – 11:20 am
The Possibility of Moral Autonomy: Stanley Milgram, Lawrence Kohlberg, and the Psychological Study of Morality in Cold War America (Eric Luckey, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
11:20 am – 11:40 am
Coffee Break
11:40 am – 12:30 pm
A. R. Lauer’s Signs on the Road: Psychology, Advertising, Hypnosis and the Politics of Visual Stimulation on the Interstate Highway (Jonathan MacDonald, Brown University)
12:30 pm – 2 pm
Lunch
2 pm – 2:50 pm
Peering into Intimate Spaces: Psy Scientists and their Observations of Child Rearing Practices in Uganda (1940–1970s) (Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah, Geneva Graduate Institute)
3 pm – 3:50 pm
Pedagogy for Young and Old (Jamie Leach, Carnegie Mellon University)
Sponsors
HISRESS gratefully acknowledges the support of our sponsors:
