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History of Postwar Social Science Workshop

2 December 2016

Programme

10:10–11:00 Alice White (University of Kent): “Consultants and coal in postwar Britain: The Tavistock Institute and mining methods”
11:00–11:30 Tea/coffee break
11:30–12:20 Laura Stark (Vanderbilt University): “Knowing without showing the minds of others: A reassessment of postwar methods in the social sciences”
12:30–14:00 Lunch break
14:10–15:00 Marcia Holmes (Birkbeck, University of London): “Criteria for conflicts: ‘Human engineering’ air traffic control in the postwar United States”
15:10–16:00 Niklas Olsen (University of Copenhagen): “The emergence of consumers’ sovereignty in economic textbooks after 1945”

Organisers

Roger Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine.

Supported by the CNRS European Scientific Coordination Network (GDRE #711)

Organiser

CPNSS

Venue

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