Schedule

Location

University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center
41 rue des Grands Moulins
75013 Paris, France

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Closest RER/Metro: “Bibliothèque F. Mitterrand” (RER C/M 14)

Thursday, October 30

1:30 – 2:00 pm

coffee

2:00 – 2:50 pm

Bijan Warner (independent scholar) & Jefferson Pooley (University of Pennsylvania) – ”A Standpoint but not a Doctrine”: The Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations, 1959–1975

3:00 – 3:50 pm

Leah Gordon (Brandeis University) – Field Definition, Multidisciplinarity and Generalizability in the University of Chicago’s Committee on Education, Training, and Research in Race Relations, 1947–1956

3:50 – 4:10 pm: Break

4:10 – 5:00 pm

Philippe Fontaine (École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay) – Walking the Tightrope: The Committee on the Behavioral Sciences and Academic Cultures at the University of Chicago, 1949–1955

Friday, October 31

10:00 – 10:30 am: Welcome

coffee, tea and viennoiserie

10:30 – 11:20 am

Jefferson Pooley (University of Pennsylvania) – The University of Chicago Committee on Communication, 1942, 1948–1959: The Life and Death of an Interdisciplinary Field

11:30 am – 12:20 pm

Liping Wang and Zhengtao Zhang (Peking University) –
Becoming a “Strong” Committee: The Committee on Human Development, 1930s–1960s

12:20 – 2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00 – 2:50 pm

Jonny Bunning (Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique) – Death by Committee: Dual Stratification and the End of Home Economics at Chicago

3:00 – 3:50 pm

Stephen Turner (University of South Florida) – Inventing “Social Thought”

Contact: Philippe Fontaine | Michael Rossi

This workshop has received support from the IRN CNRS “THE,” the Interdisciplinary Object Science(s) and Culture(s): Knowledge Societies and Knowledge Mediation – SCult of the Université Paris-Saclay, and the University of Chicago France Chicago Center