CHEIRON,
named after the wise centaur of Greek myth, was formed in October 1968 to promote the international cooperation and multidisciplinarystudies in the history of behavioral and social sciences |
 - PAST PROGRAMS - 2000
Thirty-second Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
June 22-25, 2000
University of Southern Maine
Thursday, June 22
10.00 a.m. -- 06.00 p.m. Registration
12.30 p.m. -- 02.30 p.m. Symposium I: Wilhelm Wundt in History
Chair: Robert W. Rieber (John Jay College, CUNY)
Arthur L. Blumenthal (Berkeley College of NYC), Wundtian Archaeology: Unearthing the Bones of Wundt's Theory
David K. Robinson (Truman State University), Reaction-time Experiments in Wundt's Institute and Beyond
Miki Takasuna (Yamano College), The Wundt Collection in Japan
Discussant: Robert W. Rieber (John Jay College, CUNY)
02.30 p.m. -- 03.00 p.m. Break
03.00 p.m. -- 04.00 p.m. Paper Session I: Natural History and Natural Science: Cases of embodied logics of movement and pain
Chair: Al Fuchs (Bowdoin College)
Mary Mosher Flesher (Smith College), Human Walking as a Distinctive Species Variation on Cuvier's Animal Pursuit: The Role of Locomotion Science in Bain's Psychology
Robert Kugelmann (University of Dallas), Pain as a Sensation
04.00 p.m. -- 04.15 p.m. Break
04.15 p.m. -- 06.15 p.m. Paper Session II: The Laboratory and the Clinic, Activists and Government Administrators: Emotion, Sexuality, Euthanasia, and the "Heroin Experiment"
Chair: Elizabeth Scarborough (Indiana University South Bend)
Otniel E. Dror (Getty Research Institute), The Clog in the Machine: Emotion and Disorder in the Laboratory and Clinic
Henry L. Minton (University of Windsor), Alfred A. Gross and George W. Henry on Homosexual Adjustment: Homophile Voice and Psychiatric Authority
Trudy Dehue (University of Groningen), Testing Policies. On the History of "Social Experimentation"
Ian Dowbiggin (University of Prince Edward Island), "Under Control of Reason": Eugenics, Euthanasia and Birth Control in America, 1930-1970.
06.30 p.m. -- 08.30 p.m. Poster Session and Reception
Convener: Ian Lubek (University of Guelph)
Dariush Arai and Floyd W. Rudmin (University of Tromso), Which Question is Correct? A History of Item Analysis by Classical and Modern Methods
Adriana Silvia Benzaquén (University of British Columbia), Buffon, Childhood, and the "Natural History of Man."
Paromita Chakravarti (University of Oxford), Juan Huarte's Examination of Men's Wits, (1594) and the historiography of mental disability
David Devonis (Graceland College) Martin Luther Reymerts: A Psychological Life in Service
Patrick Drumm (Ohio University), The Trade-off between Internal and External Validity in The Ape and the Child: Was Winthrop Kellogg on the Verge of Recognizing Indeterminacy in Psychological Research?
Antonio M. Ferreri (Università degli Studi de Roma "La Sapienza"), The Influence of William James's Thought on Italian Psychology
David A. Gallo and Stan Finger (Washington University), The Impact of a Musical Instrument and Its Inventor on Psychology: Franklin, Mesmer, and the Glass Armonica
Nancy K. Innis (University of Western Ontario), Functional Contextualism: B.F. Skinner, E.C. Tolman, and S.C. Pepper
Pat Jindrich (University of Wisconsin-Parkside), Donald Laird's 800 Publications: Pioneering Popularization of Graphomania?
Robert Kugelmann (University of Dallas), The New Psychology and Neo-Thomism
Erica D. Palmer and Stan Finger (Washington University St. Louis), ADHD in the Eighteenth Century: "Mental Restlessness" as reported by Dr. Alexander Crichton
Floyd Rudmin (University of Tromso), Historical Notes from the Dark Side of Cross-Cultural Psychology: II. Research as Espionage
Neftali Serrano (Wheaton College), A History of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies: 1954-1965
Hans Van Rappard (Vrije Universiteit), When the New Does Not Eliminate the Old
Andreas Westerwinter (Leipzig University), The presence of Wilhelm Wundt in French Humanities or long-term effects of the Crise allemande de la pensée française
William R. Woodward (University of New Hampshire), Julian Jaynes: His Life and Ideas -- in text and on audiotape
Friday, June 23
08.30 a.m. -- 9.30 a.m. Paper Session III: Science, Religion, and Politics in Matters of Social Morality and Education
Chair: Marlene Shore (York University)
John I. Brooks III (Fayetteville State University), The Durkheimians and the Fifth Section of the Ecole Pratuqye des Hautes Etudes
Richard T. von Mayrhauser, The Triumph of Administration: The Origins of Standardized Testing in the Boston Schoolmaster Controversy of 1845
09.30 a.m. -- 09.45 a.m. Break
9.45 a.m. -- 11.45 a.m. Symposium II: Bringing Psychology Home: Psychology and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century
Chair: Deborah J. Coon (University of New Hampshire)
Benjamin Harris (University of Wisconsin -- Parkside), From Industrial Psychology to Ladies Home Journal: The Popular Psychology of Donald A. Laird
Jill G. Morawski (Wesleyan University), To Make a Father: Psychological Beliefs Guiding the Selection of Sperm Donors, 1935-1985
Phyllis A. Wentworth (University of New Hampshire), The Reincarnation of the Old Time Orphan Asylum
Discussant: Wade Pickren (American Psychological Association)
11.45 a.m. -- 01.00 p.m. Lunch
01.00 p.m. -- 02.30 p.m. Keynote:
Elizabeth Lunbeck (Princeton University), Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Law: The Case of Nymphomania, 1910-1980
Chair: Betty Bayer (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
02.30 p.m. -- 03.00 p.m. Break
03.00 p.m. -- 04.30 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSION: Paper Session IV: (Inter) disciplinary. History and Psychology: Inventions, Secrets, and Experts
Chair: Michael Sokal (National Science Foundation)
Jamie Cohen-Cole (Princeton University), The Cognitive Revolution and The Morals of Interdisciplinary Research
Mary Brown Parlee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cybernetics, Communications Engineering, and Chomsky: Post-WWII Reconstructions of Psychological Knowledge and Psychological Experts at MIT, 1948-1962
Gary Hardcastle (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point), The Cult of Experiment: The Psychological Round Table, 1936-1941
03.00 p.m. -- 04.30 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSION: Paper Session V: History, Nations and Reconstructions of Theory and Practice in Psychology
Chair: John Burnham (Ohio State University)
Geoffrey H. Blowers (University of Hong Kong), "To be a big shot or to be shot": Z. Y. Kuo's other career
Matthew D. Davis (The University of Texas), Exposing a"Picture of Neglect and Antagonism": Herschel T. Manuel and his De facto Center on Mexican American Education at the University of Texas
Lawrence J. Friedman (Indiana University), 'A Curious Period of Time': The Psychoanalytic Emigration from the Holocaust
05.00 p.m. -- Book Auction
07.00 p.m. -- 09.00 p.m. Book Session: James Capshew's Psychologists on the March
Chair: John Carson (University of Michigan)
Ellen Herman (University of Oregon),
Franz Samelson (Kansas State University)
Leila Zenderland (California State University)
Author James Capshaw Responds (Indiana University)
Discussant: John Carson (University of Michigan)
09.00 p.m. -- 11.00 p.m. Social Hours
Saturday, June 24
08.30 a.m. -- 10.15 p.m. Symposium III: The 'Interdisciplinarity' of Psychopathology
Chair: Mari Jo Buhle (Brown University)
Susan Lanzoni (Harvard University), Phenomenology in Psychiatry: The Case of Ludwig Binswanger
Rachael Rosner (Harvard University), James Jackson Putnam and the Legacy of Liberal Protestantism in Early American Psychotherapy
Debbie Weinstein (Harvard University), The Challenge of Intersubjectivity: The Role of Systems Theory in the Emergence of Family Therapy
Rose Cleary (University of Southern Maine), John Bowlby: Ethologist or Psychoanalyst? (And why the distinction still matters)
10.15 a.m. -- 10.30 a.m. Break
10.30 a.m. -- noon Symposium IV: Science, Scandal, and Statistics: Surveying Sexual Behavior in the U.S., 1920-1955
Chair: Miriam Reumann (Brown University)
Mary Ann Fitzwilson (University of Missouri-Columbia), Unwitting Allies on the Cultural Front: Max F. Meyer, Harry Elmer Barnes, and the Moral Role of the Social Sciences in the 1920s
Miriam Reumann (Brown University), What Counts: Statistics and Professional Authority in American Sex Research, 1929-40
Sarah Igo (Princeton University), Sexual Subjects: Kinsey's Reports and the Making of a Social-Scientific Public
Discussant: Diana E. Long (University of Southern Maine)
Noon -- 01.00 p.m. Lunch
01.00 p.m. -- 02.30 p.m. Symposium V: Historiographical Issues in the Histories of Psychology and Religion: Ann Tave's Fits, Trances, & Visions
Chair: Wade Pickren (American Psychological Association)
Ann Taves (Claremont School of Therapy)
Phyllis Wentworth (University of New Hampshire)
Deborah Johnson (University of Southern Maine)
Hendrika Vande Kemp (Fuller Theological Seminary)
02.30 p.m. -- 02.45 p.m. Break
02.45 p.m. -- 04.15 p.m. Paper Session VI: History, Psychology and Race
Chair: Nadine Weidman (Harvard University)
Jay Garcia (Yale University), "The Present Revolt": Kenneth Clark and the 1960s
Stephen D. Berger (Springfield College), The Clarks, the Lawyers, and the Road to Brown: Insights, Questions and Problems from Recent Works
John P. Jackson, Jr. (University of Colorado), Should We Abandon the Social Construction of Race?
04.15 p.m. -- 05.15 p.m. Business Meeting
05.40 p.m. Bus (to Reception and Banquet site) leaves conference site
06.30 p.m. -- Reception and Banquet -- USM Stone House, Freeport, Maine
Sunday, June 25
08.45 a.m. -- 09.45 a.m. Paper Session VII: Psychoanalysis and Behaviorism
Chair: Nancy Innis (University of Western Ontario)
David D. Lee (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), A Comparative History of Psychoanalysis and Behaviorism, 1895-1945
Alexandra Rutherford (York University), B. F. Skinner and the auditory inkblot: The rise and fall of the verbal summator as a projective technique
9.45 a.m. -- 10.00 a.m. Break
10.00 a.m. -- 12.00 noon Symposium VI: Mental Hygiene and Psychology
Chair: Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania)
Emily Cahan (Wheelock College), Between Religion and Science: Social Ethics at Harvard, 1906-1931
Kathleen W. Jones (Virginia Polytechnic), Toward a History of Youth Suicide: The 1927 Campus Suicide "Wave" and the Mental Hygiene Movement
Hans Pols (University of New Hampshire), Mental Hygiene Courses in Psychology, 1924-1960
Julia Grant (James Madison College), When Boys Aren't Boys: The Impact of Sexuality Research on the Mental Hygiene of Childhood, 1900-1940
12.00 noon Lunch
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