Program Schedule

Paper presenters: 10 minutes

Discussants: 15 minutes

General discussion: one hour

 

Friday, June 3rd, Martin Johnson House

8:30 am Breakfast for conference presenters
9:00 Opening Remarks
9:15 - 11:00 First Panel: Evidence: Contested, Stabilized
  Coffee Break
11:15 - 1:00 Second Panel: Expertise: Constructed, Contested
  Lunch
2:30 - 4:15 Third Panel: Numbers, Technique, States
7:00 Party at Martha Lampland's house

 

Saturday, June 4th, Matrin Johnson House

8:30 Breakfast in Martin Johnson's House
9:15 - 11:00 Fourth Panel: Recruitmentology: The Science of "Joining Up"
  Coffee
11:15 - 1:00 Fifth Panel : Advocacy, Activism, Knowledge
  Lunch
2:30 - 4:30 Final Discussion Session: Mary Morgan, Ted Porter

 

List of Panels

Evidence: Contested, Stabilized

Patrick Carroll Constructing Social Economy as a Moral Counter to Economics in Mid-nineteenth Century Social Science paper
Tom Waidzunas Scientific Controversies over Gay Youth Suicide paper
Alison Wylie Philosophy from the Ground Up: Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology paper
Sophia Efstathiou Discussant  

Expertise: Constructed, Contested

Tal Golan Who's the Expert on the Human Soul? Psychologists and Jurists circa 1900 paper
Simon Cole Science and Technology Studies on Trial: Dilemmas of Expertise paper
Steve Luis Social Science, the Supreme Court, and the Myth of the Brandeis Brief paper
Lisa Cartwright Discussant  

Recruitmentology: The Science of "Joining Up"

Steve Epstein Leaning on the Social Sciences: Clinical Trials and the Science of ‘Recruitmentology' paper
Miriam Padolsky The Science of "Behaviour Change": Knowing and Changing Society in Climate Change Campaigns paper
Martha Poon From Operations Research to Revenue Scores: How consumer credit scoring has become the social science of the finance industry paper
Andy Lakoff Discussant  

Numbers, Technique, States
Anat Leibler Economic Statistics as Technology of Distance. On the Americanization of Israel's Economy during the '50s paper
Martha Lampland Formalizing Practices: False Numbers and other Forms of Knowledge paper
Timothy Mitchell Work of Economics: How a Discipline Makes its World paper
Michael Bernstein Discussant  

Advocacy, Activism, Knowledge

Grace Davie Towards a History of the Everyday Life of Social Science Knowledge in Twentieth-Century South Africa paper
John Torpey Entrepreneurs of Memory: Uses of the Past in Contemporary Political Controversies over Historical Injustices paper
Jessica Wang Social Science, Social Facts, and the Persistence of Reform: William O. Douglas and the Protective Committee Study in the 1930s paper
Minakshi Menon Discussant