Human Sciences (inactive)

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Participants at Consortium activities will treat each other with respect and consideration to create a collegial, inclusive, and professional environment that is free from any form of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation.

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Upcoming Meetings

There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.


Past Meetings

  • March 19, 2014

    Paul Erikson of Wesleyan University introduced selections from How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind, The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality, Chicago 2013.


  • February 19, 2014

    Peter Collopy of UPenn introduced his "Infolding the Self: From Video Therapy to Video Art."


  • January 15, 2014

    Jason Oakes of UPenn introduced his "Calculating the Population at Metropolitan Life and the Institute for Biological Research."


  • December 18, 2013

    Greg Eghigian of Penn State introduced his "'A Transatlantic Buzz': Flying Saucers, Extraterrestrials, and America in Postwar Germany"


  • October 16, 2013

    Tal Arbel of Harvard University introduced Joel Isaac's "Prologue" to Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn (Harvard University Press, 2012), 1-30; and his "Theorist at Work: Talcott Parsons and the Carnegie Project on Theory, 1949-1951," Journal of the History of Ideas 71/2 (2010): 287-311.


  • September 18, 2013

    Erika Milam of Princeton University introduced Henrika Kuklick's "Personal Equations: Reflections on the History of Fieldwork, with Special Reference to Sociocultural Anthropology", Isis 102/1 (2011): 1-33.


Group Conveners

  • Richard Shrake

     

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