HISRESS 2022

Toronto, 17–19 June 2022

9 am – 9:30 am

Welcome and introductions

9:30 am – 10:20 am

A Social History of the Center for Women’s Studies and Services in San Diego in the 1960s (Chris Loss)

10:30 am – 11:20 am

‘The Earning Gap and the Learning Gap’: Occupational and Opportunity Structures (Leah Gordon)

11:30 am – 12:20 pm

Field Goals: Three Elite Graduate Schools of Education and their Visions for the Future (Lucian Bessmer)

12:20 pm – 2 pm

Lunch

L’espresso Bar Mercurio – 321 Bloor St. West, outdoor patio (Apple | Google)

2 pm – 2:50 pm

Between Science and Sarvodaya: Social Welfare Policy and Phatic Expertise in 1960s India (Julia Kowalski)

3 pm – 3:50 pm

Tact, Tolerance, and Critical Power: How Personal Qualities Mattered in American Science, 1950–2000 (Kim Hajek, Sjang ten Hagen, & Herman Paul)

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm

Coffee Break

Dessert Lady Café – 1 Sultan St, outdoor seating (Apple | Google)

4:20 pm – 5:10 pm

Between Phenomenology and Social Science: The Development of Marcuse’s Theory of Technology (Charles Clavey)

6:45 pm

Conference Dinner

Via Mercanti – 188 Augusta Ave. (Kensington Market), terrace (Apple | Google)

9:30 am – 10:20 am

‘ A Machinery for Internationalizing Social Research’: Alva Myrdal, UNESCO, and the Bureaucratic Making of International Social Science (Per Wisselgren)

10:30 am – 11:20 am

‘A Catalytic Operation—SPACE, EARTH, BRAIN’: IBRO and the Politics of Cold War Neuroscience (Danielle Carr)

11:30 am – 12:20 pm

Media as Social Pedagogue: Role of Soviet Sociology in the Shaping of Public Space (Ekaterina Vasileva)

12:20 pm – 2 pm

Lunch

Como en Casa – 565 Yonge St., inside, but big windows opened. If you prefer it, you can also take your food to go, and eat it at the college courtyard (Apple | Google)

2 pm – 2:50 pm

HISRESS discussion

3 pm – 3:50 pm

Writing and Reading The Joyless Economy: Tibor Scitovsky’s Journey in American Academia, 1946 – 1996 (Viviana Di Giovinazzo)

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm

Coffee Break

Dessert Lady Café – 1 Sultan St, outdoor seating (Apple | Google)

4:20 pm – 5:10 pm

A Convenient Idea for an Inconvenient Truth: A Performative History of Emissions Trading (P.W. Zuidhof)

9:30 am – 10:20 am

Social Scientists in the Movement: Early Work on Environmental Justice, 1983–1992 (Andrew Jewett)

10:30 am – 11:20 am

Social Science, Bureaucracy, and the Realignment of American Politics: 1945-1968 (Casey Eilbert)

11:30 am – 12:20 pm

Problems of Adjustment: Morale and Mood in 1948 Palestine (Tal Arbel)

12:20 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

Aroma Espresso Bar – 1110 Bay St. (corner of Bay and Charles St.), outdoor seating (Apple | Google)

1:30 pm – 2:20 pm

Organized Urban Research: Interdisciplinary Infrastructures and the ‘Problem’ of Physical Planning, 1947–1971 (Peter Ekman)

2:30 pm – 2:50 pm

Wrapup