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 - 2001
June 21-24, 2001 ~ Indiana University ~ Bloomington, Indiana
Thursday, June 21
Noon – 06.00pm. REGISTRATION (Willkie Residential Center, North Building)
03.30pm – 05.00pm. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
SYMPOSIUM: Uncovering the Interpersonal Context of Sex Research: Revelations from the Kinsey Archives
Chair: Henry L. Minton (Department of Psychology, University of Windsor)
Lynn Gorchov (Department of History, Johns Hopkins University), Alfred C. Kinsey and the American Association of Marriage Counselors: The Politics of Reform
Sarah E. Igo (Department of History, Princeton University), Human Subjects and Scientific Objects: Kinsey and His Correspondents
Henry L. Minton (University of Windsor, Department of Psychology), On the Thomas Painter Papers: An Invitation to Tell the Life Story of a Gay Activist
Discussant: John Bancroft (Director, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University)
06.00pm – 09.00pm. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
POSTER SESSION & OPENING RECEPTION
Geoffrey Blowers (Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong) and Serena Yang (Senior Honorary Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong), The Doctor and the Aristocrat: Thought Crimes and Psychoanalysis in pre-World War II Japan
Dennis Bryson (Department of American Literature and Culture, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey), Reconstructing the Subject: Foundation Projects Aimed at Promoting the "Socialized" Subject
David Devonis (Department of Psychology, Graceland University), Donald G. Paterson vs. I-94: A Psychologist in the Path of Progress
Susan Lanzoni (History of Science Department, Harvard University), A Short Biography of Existence: Ludwig Binswanger’s Existential Anthropology
Bryan Maier (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), The Role of James McCosh in God’s Exile from Psychology
Petteri Pietikainen (University of Helsinki), Utopia, Ideology, and Psychoanalysis: Wilhelm Reich and Erich Fromm in Search of True Values
Tatsuya Sato (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan), Miki Takasuna (Tokyo Kokusai University, Tokyo, Japan), Yasuo Nishikawa (Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan), Yuzero Motora and His Educational Clinical Psychology in Japan
Tara Tayyabhkan (Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire), Attending to Trauma as Cultural Trope and Clinical Category: Positive Feedback Cycles Since 1980
Hendrika Vande Kemp (Fuller Theological Seminary), G. Stanley Hall’s Graduate Students in Religion: Their Later Careers
Naoko Wake (Department of History, Indiana University), World Peace vs. National Security: Harry Stack Sullivan during the Second World War
Raymond Wolfe (Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Geneseo), Notes on Prometheus Wired: Causes and Consequences of Dumbing Down
Friday, June 22
07.30am – 8:30am. BREAKFAST (Willkie Residential Center)
09.00am -10.30am. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
PAPER SESSION: Politics and Power in the Development of the Behavioral Sciences
Chair: Kathleen Jones (Department of History, Virginia Polytechnic)
Jeff Sklansky (Department of History, Oregon State University), The Psychological Reconception of Freedom and Democracy in the Gilded Age: William James and John Dewey
Erica Lilleleht (Department of Psychology, Seattle University), Progress and Power: Exploring the Disciplinary Connections between Moral Treatment and Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Johann Louw and Catherine O’Brien (Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa), The Political Origins of Forensic Psychology: Have They Been Neglected?
10.30am – 11.00am. BREAK/REFRESHMENTS
11.00am -12.30pm. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
PAPER SESSION: The Social Sciences’ Engagement with the Cold War, Modernization and Development Theories
Chair: John Carson (Department of History, University of Michigan)
Martha Casas (The University of Texas of the Permian Basin), The President’s Science Advisory Committee of 1962 and its Support of a Scientific Approach to Teaching and Learning
Nicole Sackley (Department of History, Princeton University), Culture before Economics: Sociology, Anthropology, and the Theorization of Third World Development, 1945-1965
Laura Suski (Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University), Troubled Humanitarians: International Development After Slavery
12.30pm – 02.00pm.LUNCH (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
02.00pm – 03.30pm. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jan Goldstein (Department of History, University of Chicago), Religious Vie Intérieure or Scientific Introspection: Ernest Renan at the Seminary
Chair: Marlene Shore (Department of History, York University)
03.30 pm – 04.00pm. BREAK/REFRESHMENTS
04.00pm – 05.30pm. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
SYMPOSIUM: Universal Ambitions in a National Tradition? The French Human Sciences and Cultural Transfer at the Fin de Siècle
Chair: Raymond Fancher (Department of Psychology, York University)
Stéphanie Dupouy (Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne), Theories of Emotions: French Versions by Théodule Ribot and Georges Dumas
Fréderic Keck (Université de Lille III), Culture and Mentality: The Integration of German Kulturwissenschaften into French Positivism by L. Lévy-Bruhl
Andreas Westerwinter (Center for Advanced Studies Leipzig/Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne), Paris 1900: Negotiating Local Academic Politics in International Settings: The International Congresses of Philosophy and Psychology
Tudor Dining Hall, Indiana Memorial Union
07.00pm. CASH-BAR RECEPTION
07.30pm. CHEIRON ANNUAL BANQUET
AFTER-DINNER EVENT:
James H. Capshew (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University), Honoring John Burnham’s Term as Editor of Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
John Burnham (Department of History, Ohio State University), The History of the Psychiatric Couch Cartoon: A Summer Re-run
Saturday, June 23
07.30am – 08.30am. BREAKFAST (Willkie Residential Center)
09.00am – 10.45am. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
PAPER SESSION: A Modern Alchemy? Contributions of Chemistry, Exoticism, Antimodernism, and Consumerism to the Human Sciences
Chair: Alfred Fuchs (Department of Psychology, Bowdoin College)
Henning Schmidgen (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), Between Chemical Laboratory and Clinic: The Experimental Knowledge of Wilhelm Wundt, 1851-1856
John I. Brooks, III (Department of Government and History, Fayetteville State University), The Durkheimians and Religious Studies in France
Ian Nicholson (Department of Psychology, St. Thomas University), A "Character" in Constantinople: Gordon Allport, Personality and Antimodernism in American Psychology
Alexandra Rutherford (Department of Psychology, York University), B.F. Skinner’s Technology of American Life: From the Consumer Culture to the Counterculture, 1940s-1970s
10.45am – 11.00am. BREAK/REFRESHMENTS
11.00am – 12.30pm. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
PAPER SESSION: Conceptualizing Identity: Childhood, Adoption, and Human Relations
Chair: Betty Bayer (Department of Psychology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Adriana Silvia Benzaquén (Department of History, University of British Columbia), Buffon, Natural History, and the Scientific Study of Childhood
Ellen Herman (Department of History, University of Oregon), How Child Adoption Got a Psychology of Its Own
Laura Kim Lee, (University of California, Los Angeles), Sensitivity Training at the University of California, Los Angeles and TRW Systems Group, 1954-1970
12.30pm – 02.00pm. LUNCH (Eigenmann Residential Center Ambrosia Room)
02.00pm – 04.00pm. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
PAPER SESSION: Human Nature: Red in Tooth and Claw?
Chair/Discussant: Leila Zenderland (American Studies Department, California State University, Fullerton)
Neil Jumonville (Department of History, Florida State University), Determinism in Human Nature: From William Graham Sumner to Edward O. Wilson
Andrew Winston (Department of Psychology, University of Guelph), The Boas Conspiracy: The History of the Behavioral Sciences as Viewed From the Extreme Right
Nadine Weidman (History of Science Department, Harvard University), The Aggression Instinct: Human Nature, Science, Popularization and Liberal Politics in the 1960s
John P. Jackson (Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado), The Association for the Preservation of Freedom of Choice and the Political Uses of Racial Prejudice
04.00pm – 04.30pm. BREAK/REFRESHMENTS
04.30pm – 05.30pm. BUSINESS MEETING (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
05.30pm – 06.30pm. BOOK AUCTION (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
06.30pm –0 9.00pm. SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE POPS: HISTORIC WOODBURN HOUSE
Hoagy Carmichael Tribute Cabaret & American Heartland Cook-Out
Performance by the Café Jazz Society
Sunday, June 24
07.30am – 08:30am. BREAKFAST (Willkie Residential Center)
09.00am – 10.30am. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
SYMPOSIUM: Hacking Through the "Psychic Jungle": An Expedition Report
Chair: Ellen Dwyer (Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University)
Benjamin Harris (Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire), Psychology Magazines Between the World Wars: Social Mission! Intellectual Force! Profitability!
Karina Corradi, (Department of Psychology, DePaul University), Reading -- and Misreading -- the Modern Psychologist and Psychology: Health! Happiness! Success!
Nicole Barenbaum (Department of Psychology, University of the South), "Embryo Science," "Scientific Art," or Pseudoscience: Gordon Allport, A.A. Roback, and Graphology
10.30am --11:00 am.BREAK/REFRESHMENTS
11.00am – 12.30pm. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
SYMPOSIUM: Applications of Social Science to Rebuilding Civil Society
Chair: Michael Sokal (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Zsuzsanna Vajda (Szeged University, Hungary), Education, Democracy and Educational Sciences in Hungary
Ian Lubek (Department of Psychology, University of Guelph) and Mee Lian Wong (National University of Singapore), Past Genocide, Present Interventions: History, Personal Narratives, and Social Science Action Research in Cambodia
William R. Woodward (Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire), Intervention in Rwanda: A Critique of the Political Science Literature since 1990
Discussant: Wendy Lambourne (University of Sydney, Australia)
12.30pm. (Eigenmann Residential Center: Ambrosia Room)
ON-SITE BOX LUNCH
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