HISRESS 2023

Uppsala, Sweden, 9–10 June 2023

9 am – 9:30 am

Welcome and introductions

9:30 am – 10:20 am

Apostles of Growth: The Peregrinations of ‘Growthsmanship’ in South Asia (David Engerman)

10:30 am – 11:20 am

The Emancipatory Potential of National Accounting: Evidence From Nigeria’s First Independent National Account (Maria Bach [presenter] & Wilhelm Aminoff)

11:30 am – 12:20 pm

From the Language of National Development to the Language of Commerce: The Economics of English in U.S. Foreign Relations, 1945–1990 (Diana Lemberg)

12:30 pm – 2 pm

Lunch at Restaurant Matikum, in the English Park Campus, House 7

2 pm – 2:50 pm

Invisible Barriers in the Divided World: Episodes in the History of Soviet Game Theory (Ivan Boldyrev)

3 pm – 3:50 pm

Committed against the So-Called Evil: Amélie Mummendey’s Psychological Research on Aggression in Post-1968 Germany (Cécile Hauser)

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm

Coffee Break

4:20 pm – 5:10 pm

Poverty Research or Research Poverty? The Interaction Between Civil Society Researchers and Scientists Before, During and After the “Rediscovery of Poverty” in Postwar Belgium (Els Minne [presenter] & Kaat Wils)

7 pm

Conference Dinner at Restaurant Domtrappkällaren, S:t Eriks torg 15

9:30 am – 10:20 am

Flower Power Positivists: David Hawkins, Joseph Weis & the Social Development Model, 1963–1981 (Theo Di Castri)

10:30 am – 11:20 am

From “Future Metropolis” to “Future-Orientation”: Two Temporalities of Planning in Postwar America (Peter Ekman)

11:30 am – 12:20 pm

Selling the Soul of Things: Consumer Psychology, Dress, and a Marketable Self (Christopher Rudeen)

12:30 pm – 2 pm

Lunch at Cafe Victoria, in the Botanical Garden, Norbyvägen 12

2 pm – 2:50 pm

HISRESS discussion

3 pm – 3:50 pm

Placing the Individual in Time: Intellectual Decline, Social Science Research, and Antidiscrimination Law (Jamie Leach)

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm

Coffee Break

4:20 pm – 5:10 pm

An Untimely Meditation: F.A. Hayek and the Study of the Mind from the “Beiträge zur Theorie der Entwicklung des Bewußtseins” (1920) to The Sensory Order (1952) (Ohad Reiss-Sorokin)