Colloque de Cheiron et ESHHS

Cheiron and ESHHS joint virtual meeting

July 9-11

Cheiron (The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences) and ESHHS (The European Society for the History of the Human Sciences) are pleased to announce the program and the opening of registrations for their joint virtual meeting, to be held July 9-11. Session times have been chosen to allow a maximum number of scholars to participate, from time zones across the Americas and Europe.

You can find further details of the program below, and on the ESHHS website: eshhs.eu.

Registration is free, but participants must register to receive access to conference materials and online sessions. Register at the following link: https://forms.gle/ZNNUgj87Afw3b93H9

For any questions, please contact the Program Chairs at cheiron.eshhs.2020[at]gmail.com.

Thursday 9 July

(UK, Ireland, Portugal): 15:30-17:30 / (Central Europe): 16:30-18:30

Welcome & Mixed Session: Human Sciences and Social Reform

- LIVE TALK + DISCUSSION: Psychologization in and through the women’s movement: Consciousness-raising in Austrian feminist activism in 1970s. Nina Franke & Nora Ruck

- LIVE TALK + DISCUSSION: Franco Basaglia, the “New psychiatry” and the refusal of psychotherapy. Andrea Romano & Renato Foschi 

- DISCUSSION OF UPLOADED PAPER: Sociology and Social Ethics at Harvard: The Department that Might Have Been. Lawrence T. Nichols

(UK, Ireland, Portugal): 18:00-19:00 / (Central Europe): 19:00-20:00

Cheiron Book Prize Session: Empathy: A History by Susan Lanzoni. 

Friday 10 July

(UK, Ireland, Portugal): 15:00-16:45 / (Central Europe): 16:00-17:45

Live Session: Intellectual Influences & Interdiscplinarity

- The Durkheimians and the Critique of “Biological Sociology”. Daniela Barberis 

- Unconscious Inferences in Experimental Psychology: Peirce and Wundt. Claudia Cristalli 

- Interdisciplinarity as an Editorial Strategy? The Case of the “Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences” (1930-1935). Marie Linos 

(UK, Ireland, Portugal): 17:15-18:30 / (Central Europe): 18:15-19:30

Live Session: Children as Moral Agents

- Child’s Autonomy or Control? The Deployment of Behaviour Modification in Child Psychiatry, France, 1970s. Milana Aronov

- Constructing the Moral Infant in American Medical and Scientific Discourse, 1850s- 1920s. Elisabeth Yang 

Saturday 11 July

(UK, Ireland, Portugal): 15:00-16:00 / (Central Europe): 16:00-17:00

Mixed Session: Cold War Psychology

- DISCUSSION OF UPLOADED PAPER: Boris Parygin’s Personality Social Psychology. Irina Mironenko 

- LIVE TALK + DISCUSSION: Was Linda a Feminist? Nuclear Dread, Dual Process Theories, and the End of Cold War Cognition. Michael Pettit 

(UK, Ireland, Portugal): 16:30-18:00 / (Central Europe): 17:30-19:00

Mixed Session: The Personal Factor

- LIVE TALK + DISCUSSION: A Crisis of Spirit: How Philip Brickman Experienced and Confronted the 1970s Crisis in Social Psychology. Benjamin Wegner. 

- DISCUSSION OF UPLOADED PAPER: William McDougall and Psychoanalysis. Sam Parkovnick 

- DISCUSSION OF UPLOADED POSTER: A Memoir: Maslow and the Brandeis Psychology Department: 1962 through 1965. Kenneth Feigenbaum