Paul Erikson of Wesleyan University introduced selections from How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind, The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality, Chicago 2013.
The Working Group on the History of the Human Sciences meets monthly to discuss a colleague’s work in progress or to discuss readings that are of particular interest to participants.
Meetings are usually held at the Consortium offices in Philadelphia from 6:00 to 7:30 on third Wednesdays. Scholars located anywhere can also participate online.
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Past Meetings
Peter Collopy of UPenn introduced his "Infolding the Self: From Video Therapy to Video Art."
Jason Oakes of UPenn introduced his "Calculating the Population at Metropolitan Life and the Institute for Biological Research."
Greg Eghigian of Penn State introduced his "'A Transatlantic Buzz': Flying Saucers, Extraterrestrials, and America in Postwar Germany"
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.
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.
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