Schedule

Location

We will meet in the Room 3E31 at ENS Paris-Saclay.

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Welcome (coffee, tea and viennoiserie)

10:30 am – 11:20 am

Tiago Mata (University College London) – Reproduction numbers and the covid pandemic: modelling epidemics and commensurating social loss

11:30 am – 12:20 pm

Jonny Bunning (EHESS) – Personal choice: How to choose a spouse and kids according to Gary Becker (and other sociologists)

12:20– 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00 pm – 2:50 pm

Sophia Gröschel (Universität Bremen) – Selling chance: Gambling, social science, and the making of consumer markets in the Federal Republic of Germany since the 1970s

3:00 pm – 3:50 pm

Jonathan MacDonald (Brown University) – Hidden influencer or social engineer? Ernest Dichter, culture and personality, and pop-psych

3:50 pm – 4:10 pm

Tea/coffee break

4:10 pm – 5:00 pm

Laura Stark (Vanderbilt University) – Pragmatic normalcy: Creating the White norm through the “associational state,” 1950–1980

This workshop has received support from the CNRS and France 2030 ANR-11-IDEX-0003 programme

Contact: Philippe Fontaine