Programme

Thursday, 20 November

From 2pm: Conference Registration

3.00-3.30pm Introduction Kerstin Brückweh/Benjamin Ziemann

3.30pm-5.30pm

Public Keynote Lecture: Lutz Raphael (University of Trier): Experts, Ideas and Institutions: Main Trends in embedding the Human Sciences in Western Societies since the 1880s

5.30-6.30pm Wine Reception at the HRI

Friday, 21 November

9am-12.30pm Panel 1: Social and Penal Policy

Peter Becker (University of Linz), New Members of the Research Family? Neurosciences and their Presence in Criminological Debates

Bengt Sandin (University of Linköping): Abortion Crimes, Social Engineering of Sexuality and Welfare Policy in Sweden 1860 - 1960

Julia Moses (Oxford University): Compensation and Legal and Scientific Expertise about Workplace Accidents, 1880-1920

Martin Lengwiler (University of Basel): From Standards to Co-ordination: Universalism, International Organisations and the Limited Convergence of Welfare States in the 20th Century

Ted Porter (UCLA): How Society Became Statistical

Commentator: Richard Wetzell (German Historical Institute, Washington DC)

12.30pm-2pm Lunch

2pm-6pm Panel 2: Diagnosis and Therapy

Elizabeth Lunbeck (Vanderbilt University): Narcissism as Social Critique

Greg Eghigian (Penn State University): Rehabilitation: Thoughts on the History of a Twentieth-Century Social Project

Mathew Thomson (University of Warwick): Psychology and the Engineering of Society in Twentieth-Century Britain

Harry Oosterhuis (University of Maastricht): Self-Development and Civic Virtue: Psychiatry, Mental Health, and Citizenship in the Netherlands (1870-2005)

Katharine Norris (American University, Washington, DC):

Commentator: Sabine Maasen (University of Basel)

Saturday, 22 November

9.30am-1pm Panel 3: Organizations, Polling and Marketing

Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt University): Hearing the Masses. The Modern Science of Opinion

Anja Kruke (Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn): Polls in Politics. Restructuring the Body Politic in West Germany, 1940s to 1980s

Kerstin Brückweh (German Historical Institute London): How to Streamline a Diverse Society: Market Research, Opinion Polling and Social Classification in Britain

Emil Walter-Busch (University of St Gallen): Business Organizations, Foundations, and the State as Promoters of Applied Social Sciences. The Cases of the USA and Switzerland, 1900-1950

Stefan Schwarzkopf (Queen Mary, London): The ‘Consumer Jury’: Historical Origins, Theoretical Implications and Social Consequences of a Marketing Myth

Commentator: Felix Keller (University of Zürich)

1pm-2pm Lunch

2pm-3pm: Thematic Wrap-Up and Final Discussion, chaired by Dirk Schumann and Richard Wetzell