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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)