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History of Postwar Social Science Workshop

4 December 2015, 10:00 am4:30 pm

Programme:

10.00 – 10.50: Newton Mangled on a Bissett Home-made, Electrical

Computer: The Cold War, Social Science and Geography

Trevor Barnes (University of British Columbia)

Coffee break

11.20 – 12.10: How Realism Waltzed Off: Kenneth Waltz and the Cybernetic

Turn in International Relations Theory

Nicolas Guilhot (CIRHUS NYU)

12.20 – 13.10: The Great Cat Mutilation: Sex, Social Movements, and the

Utilitarian Calculus in 1970s New York City

Michael Pettit (York University)

Lunch break

14.40 – 15.30: Theory and Application in Common Pool Resource

Studies, 1960s-1980s

Paul Erickson (Wesleyan University)

15.40 – 16.30: Justice Without Romance: The History of the Economic

Analyses of Judges Behavior

Alain Marciano (University of Montpellier I)

Organisers

Roger Backhouse (reb@bhouse.org.uk) and Philippe Fontaine (fontaine@enscachan.fr). Supported by the CNRS European Scientific

Details

Date:
4 December 2015
Time:
10:00 am – 4:30 pm
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Venue

LAK 2.06
Lakatos Building
London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom
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Website:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/