Workshop on The History of Postwar Social Sciences

Workshop on The History of Postwar Social Sciences,
November 1st, 2010, 10 am to 4.30 pm,
Room T206, Lakatos Building, London School of Economics
Supported by Leverhulme Trust Research Networks Grant.
Organisers: Roger Backhouse (reb@bhouse.org.uk) and Philippe Fontaine (fontaine@ens-cachan.fr)

Programme

"The Evolving Notion of Relevance: An Historical Perspective to the ‘Economics-Made-Fun’ movement" Jean-Baptiste Fleury (EconomiX-Cachan H2S)

"Race, Liberalism, and Social Science: The 1965 Daedalus Conference on the ‘Negro American’" Daniel Geary (Trinity College Dublin)

"Deconstructing Cold-War anthropology" Peter Mandler (Cambridge)

"The Small Group: A Focal Point of Midcentury Social Science" Daniel Immerwahr (University of California Berkeley)

"‘A Typological Menagerie’: Post-war Psychoculturalists and the Triumph of the (American) Social-scientific Imagination" Ed Gitre (University of Virginia)