Schedule

Location

All sessions, breakfast, and lunch will be held in Room 113 of the Social Sciences Building

Friday, March 27

7pm–8:30pm

Reception at the JB Duke Hotel bar

Saturday, March 28

8:50am–9:20am

Breakfast (in workshop room)

9:20am–9:30am

Introduction – Steve Medema, Duke University, and Philippe Fontaine, ENS Paris-Saclay

9:30am–10:20am

“The Sciences of Choice and the Invention of Modern Freedom” – Sophie Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania

10:35am–11:25am

“Measuring Detachment and Discontent: The Operationalization of Alienation in Postwar Social Science” – Charles Clavey, Harvard University

11:40am–12:30pm

“Personal Choice: How to Choose a Spouse and Kids, According to Gary Becker (and Other Sociologists)” – Jonny Bunning, École des hautes études en sciences sociales

12:30pm–2pm

Lunch

2pm–2:50pm

“Aspirational Mathematics and the Behavioral Sciences: The Columbia Behavioral Models Project, 1952–1957” – Jeff Pooley, University of Pennsylvania

3:05pm–3:55pm

“‘More Options than Butterflies’: Economic Man Meets Geology and Biology in the 1970s” – Paul Erickson, Wesleyan University

7pm–9pm

Dinner at Vin Rouge