Schedule

Location

Bibliothèque Durkheim

Welcome: 10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

coffee, tea and viennoiserie

Session One: 10:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

Bijan Warner (Independent Scholar) – A Chicago School of Modernization Theory: The Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations, 1960–1975

Session Two: 11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.

Jonny Bunning – Death by Committee: Dual Stratification and the End of Home Economics at Chicago

Lunch: 12:20 p.m. – 2 p.m.

Session Three: 2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

Susannne Schmidt (Humboldt University Berlin) – Delay of Gratification: The Marshmallow Test, Race, and Personality, 1950–Today

Session Four: 3:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.

Christian Dayé (Graz University of Technology) – Hans Speier’s Journeys in Germany and Austria After the End of World War II and the Concept of Actors in Social Science Historiography: An Essay Against Moralism

Session Five: 4:10 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Chris Renwick (University of York) – Objectivity and Measuring Poverty in late 1960s Britain: Peter Townsend, the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust,
and Poverty in the United Kingdom

Contact: Philippe Fontaine