53rd Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences Preliminary Schedule
June 15‐17, 2021 (Virtual)
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Welcome: Larry and Barbara Stern, Co‐Chairs, Program Committee
15‐minutes, 9:45am – 10:00
Parallel Session #1A
Panel: Conflicting Frameworks of Knowledge: Taking Actions Against Gender Violence
90‐minute session, 10:00am – 11:30 EST
Organizer: Stephanie Pache, Universit. du Quebec à Montreal
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Citizen Activism, Psychiatry & the Law: Competing Modes in Crafting Sex Offender Laws, Jenifer
Dodd, Tennessee State University
Suppressing the Victim’s Guilt and the Mother’s Agency: Psych Categories Meet Mandatory
Protection Procedures in the Context of Conjugal Violence, Adeline Moussion, Birkbeck, University
of London
The Politics of Therapy: The Victim of Gender Violence as the Paradigmatic Patient of Feminist
Therapy, Stephanie Pache, Universit. du Quebec à. Montreal
Parallel Session #1B
Issues of Psychotherapy, Behavior Therapy, & Behaviorism
90‐minute session, 10:00am – 11:30 EST
Chair: Barbara Stern, Collin College
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Discussion of Uploaded Paper
“Psychological Détente”: Making Psychotherapy Respectable after the Counterculture, Michael Pettit, York University
Putting Psychotherapy in its Place: The Regionalization of Behavior Therapy in France, Switzerland and Belgium (circa 1970s‐1990s), Rémy Amouroux1, Lucie Gerber1, & Milana Aronov1
1University of Lausanne
Zing‐Yang Kuo (Guo Renyuan) (1898‐1970): The Pioneer of Behaviourism in China, Dangwei Zhou,
University College London, Health Humanities Centre
30‐minute breakfast, coffee, lunch break
Parallel Session #2A
Merit, Equality & Access to Resources in the United States
60‐minute session, 12:00pm – 1:00 EST
Chair: Larry Stern, Collin College
Zoom chat moderator: Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College
Personnel Crisis: Title VII Litigation, Validity Theory, and the Politics of Psychological Testing in 1970s America, Michael McGovern, Princeton University
Social Science, Equal Opportunity, and the American Educational Dream:
Debating James Coleman’s Equality of Educational Opportunity (1966), Kenneth Clark’s Dark Ghetto
(1965), and Peter Blau and Otis Duncan’s The American Occupational Structure (1967) in the Great Society Era, Leah Gordon, Brandeis University
Parallel Session #2B
Socialist Governmentality through Behavioral and Therapeutic Expertise
60‐minute session, 12:00pm – 1:00 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: Elissa Rodkey
Trauma of Revolution: A Communist Patient’s Management of Neurasthenia, Zhipeng Gao, Simon Fraser University & Dongmei Wang, Nanjing University
Behavioral Training for Socialist Leaders in the German Democratic Republic, 1970’s, Verena Lehmbrock, Erfurt University
30‐minute breakfast, coffee, lunch, snack break
Session #3: Cheiron Book Award
Martin Summers, Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental
Illness in the Nation’s Capital
60‐minute session, 1:30pm – 2:30 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: Elissa Rodky
Racialism, Racism, and Mental Health Care in United States History, Martin Summers, Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies
30‐minute coffee, lunch, snack dinner break
Parallel Session #4A
Symposium: The Tools of the Trade”: Evolving Methods, Apparatuses and Resources for the
Historian (1890‐2020)
90‐minute session, 3:00pm – 4:30 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Organizers: Ian Lubek and Christopher Green
Symposium Moderator: Cathy Faye
Historiographic tools in the Age of Paper: 1890‐1990, Ian Lubek, University of Guelph, Canada
The New Means of Historiographical Production: 1980‐2020, Christopher D. Green, York University,
Toronto, Canada.
When Will That Be Digitized? Archival Adventures in the Digital Age (2005‐2020), Cathy Faye, The
University of Akron
Parallel Session #4B
Politics and the Mind
90‐minute session, 3:00pm – 4:30 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
A Bumpy Ride to the Ballot: Phrenology and the Nineteenth Amendment, Erica Lilleleht, Seattle University Citizens, Subjects, and the Unsound of Mind, John Carson, University of Michigan
The Genius and Political Discourse. An Analysis of José Ingenieros’ El hombre mediocre, Victoria Molinari (CONICET, UBA, UNLP, Buenos Aires, Argentina
30‐minute coffee, lunch, snack, dinner break
Parallel Session #5A
The Diffusion of Concepts in the History of Psychology
60‐minute session, 5:00pm – 6:00 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
How Did Early North‐American Clinical Psychologists Get Their First Personality Test? Carl Gustav Jung, the Zurich School of Psychiatry and the Word‐Association Test s (1900‐1909), Catriel Fierro, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research / National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina
Drawing Professional Boundaries for Psychiatry in 1930s America: The Division of Psychiatric Education, Tara H. Abraham, University of Guelph, Canada
Parallel Session #5B
History of Psychology in Brazil
60‐minute session, 5:00pm – 6:00 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Mapping Brazil’s History of Psychology: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Articles Published in the Area (1996–2018), Guilherme Santos de Souza1, Jaqueline de Andrade Torres1, Rhenato Vargas da Fonseca Silva1, Fernando Andres Polanco2, & Rodrigo Lopes Miranda1
1Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, Brazil, 2Universidad Nacional de San Luis (UNSL), San Luis, Sana Luis, Argentina
A Radical Mutation in the Mental Health Practices in Brazil: The Psychiatric Reform Movement and New Government Techniques Based on Freedom, Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira: Titular Professor, Institute of Psychology, UFRJ‐Brazil
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Parallel Session #6A
Making Sense of Child Migration Schemes: The Canadian Home Child Movement (1869‐
1939)
90‐minute session, 10:00am – 11:30 EST
Organizer: Wendy Sims‐Schouten
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Who decides? Narratives of Emigration Decisions for Children Committed to State Care in England and
Wales in the Latter Decades of the Nineteenth‐Century, Annie Skinner, Oxford Brooked University, UK
“A Troublesome Girl is Pushed through” ‐ Making sense of Child Migration Schemes, Wendy Sims‐Schouten, University of Portsmouth, UK
“We need more of our own blood” – Home Children as Conduits for Maintaining an Empire or Building a Nation? Henderikus Stam, University of Calgary
Parallel Session #6B
Politics, People, and Projects in U. S. Social Sciences, 1940s to 1970s
90‐minute session, 10:00am – 11:30 EST
Chair: Larry Stern
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Social Science for What? Wasting Taxpayer Dollars, Winning Golden Fleece Awards, Mark Solovey, University of Toronto
Intergenerational Solidarity, Rivalry and Rupture in Social Science: The Merton‐Mills Relationship, Lawrence T. Nichols, West Virginia University
Discussion of Uploaded Paper
Edward Shils and Cold War Communication Research: The MIT Indian Intellectuals Project, 1953–1961, Jefferson Pooley, Muhlenberg College
30‐minute breakfast, coffee, lunch break
Parallel Session #7A
Video Tour and Panel Discussion: Touring the Psychology’s Feminist Voices Multimedia
Digital Archive: Please Don’t Ask “Where are the Women?”
60‐minute session, 12:00pm – 1:00 EST
Organizer: Alexandra Rutherford, York University
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Tour Guides and Panelists:
Alexandra Rutherford1, Tal Davidson1, Meghan George2, Vera Luckgei3, 1Zoë Martin, Susannah
Mulvale1, Elissa Rodkey4, Nora Ruck3, Kelli Vaughn‐Johnson1, Jacy Young5, & Lucy Xie6
1York University, 2Northwestern University, 3Sigmund Freud University, 4Crandall University,
5Quest University, 6University of Florida
Parallel Session #7B
Dreaming and Consciousness
60‐minute session, 12:00pm – 1:00 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
The Metaphor of the “Threshold” of Consciousness in Frederic Myers’ Theory of the Subliminal Self, Robert Kugelmann, University of Dallas
Knowledge’s Navel: A Nocturnal History of Human Sciences, Michael Roelli, University of Lausanne
30‐minute, coffee, lunch, snack break
Session #8: The Elizabeth Scarborough Lecture
Anne Vila, Pickard‐Bascom Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison
60‐minute session, 1:30pm – 2:30 EST
Chair: Kim Hajek
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
(Un)Naturalizing the Convulsionnaires in Eighteenth‐Century French Theology, Medicine, and Philosophy: Competing Narratives, Anne Vila, Pickard‐Bascom Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin‐ Madison
30‐minute, coffee, lunch, snack, dinner break
Parallel Session #9A
History of Psychology in Latin America
90‐minute session, 3:00pm – 4:30 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator:TBA
Indigenization of Psychological Concepts—Social Control and Social Counter‐Control: From James G. Holland to Celso Pereira de Sá, Roberta Garcia Alves1, Rodrigo Lopes Miranda1, & Lucas Ferraz Córdova2 1Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, Brazil, 2Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Whose History of Psychology? Historiographical Remarks about History of Psychology in Latin‐America, Luciano Nicolás García, Universidad de Buenos Aires – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas, Argentina
Looking Back from the Experience: What Oral History Can Teach Us About the Psychologisation Process in Bogata, Columbia, Hernán Camilo Pulido Martínez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá & Bruno Andres Jaraba Barros, Pontificia Universidad Bolivariana
Parallel Session #9B
New Histories of Race and Racism in Psychology
90‐minute session, 3:00pm – 4:30 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Examining the Naming Crisis of Porteus Hall: A Hawaiian Case Study of Race and Racism in Psychology, Ian J. Davidson, Concordia University of Edmonton (CUE)
Networking Race in the History Psychology, and Beyond, Christopher D. Green1, Andrew S. Winston2, Ingo Feinerer3, Nathaniel Tang1, & Jessica Ferrier1
1York University, 2University of Guelph, 3University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Parallel Session #10A
The Development and Dissemination of Anthropology
90‐minute session, 10:00am – 11:30 EST
Chair: Kim Hajek, Leiden University
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Anthropology on the Airwaves: Presenting ‘primitive societies’ on the BBC in the 1950s, Katherine Ambler, King’s College London
The Turn of Boasian Anthropology to the Individual and Psychology/Psychiatry Following The Mind of
Primitive Man (1911): Three Vignettes, Sam Parkovnick, Dawson College
The Batesons, father William and son Gregory, and Samuel Butler, Gerald Sullivan, Collin College
Parallel Session #10B
Tutorial: Doing History at the Archives of the History of American Psychology
90‐minute session, 10:00am – 11:30 EST
Chair:
Zoom chat moderator:
Doing History: Educational Resources from the Archives of the History of American Psychology, Lizette R. Barton, & Cathy L. Faye, Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Akron
30‐minute breakfast, coffee, lunch, snack break
With an informal session, “Editor’s Corner”: Hosted by Christopher Green, editor of The
History of Psychology and Alexander Rutherford, editor of the Journal of the History of the
Behavioral Sciences
Parallel Session #11A
Applying Psychological Terminology: Conflict and Controversy
60‐minute session, 12:00pm – 1:00 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Crowd Psychology and the Finnish Civil War in 1918, Petteri Pietikäinen, University of Oulu,
Finland
Conflicts over sexual compulsion in 1980s New York, James Walkup, Rutgers University
Parallel Session #11B
Formidable Interpretative Difficulties
60‐minute session, 12:00pm – 1:00 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Lack of Scientific Bases, Non‐existent Diagnoses: Credibility Crisis in Applied Psychology – Sensory
Processing Disorder: A Case Study, Zsuzsanna Vajda, professor emeritus, Budapest, Hungary
The Complicated Relationship Between LSD and the Ego in 1960s Psychiatry, Andrew Jones, University of Toronto
30‐minute coffee, lunch, snack, dinner break
Parallel Session #12A
Using Animal Subjects: Pigeons and Rats
60‐minute session, 1:30pm – 2:30 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Discussion of Uploaded Paper
A New Interpretation About the Termination of Skinner's Project Pigeon, José Eleutério da Rocha Neto & Bruno Angelo Strapasson
Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Tails of Heritage: Questioning the Lab Rat’s Long Past but Short History, Sharman Levinson, The
American University of Paris & Université d’Angers
Parallel Session #12B
Psychology in Literature & Film
60‐minute session, 1:30pm – 2:30 EST
Chair: TBA
Zoom chat moderator: TBA
Teaching “Madness in America”: Literature, Film, and Historical Narrative, Ben Harris, University of New Hampshire
“Psychology of the Individual”: P. G. Wodehouse and the Literary Dissemination of Psychology, Elissa N.Rodkey, Crandall University, & Krista L. Rodkey, Independent Scholar
15‐minute coffee, lunch, snack, dinner break
Business Meeting
60‐minutes, 2:45 – 3:45 EST
