Wednesday, June 21, 2017
The Conference Program Was as Follows:
Cheiron: International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences
49th Annual Meeting
Mississippi State University (Starkville, MS)
June 22-25, 2017
Local Hosts: Courtney Thompson, assisted by Alexandra Hui and Alan Marcus
Mississippi State University
Program Chair: Jacy L. Young
Thursday June 22
1:00-2:30 Paper Session: Mental Health and Adjustment (Mitchell Memorial Library Auditorium)
Chair: Nancy Digdon
Jennifer Bazar
Claimed by the War: The Loss of New York’s Psychopathic Laboratory
Alan C. Tjeltveit
Interpreting the Boulder Conference: The Development of Normative Visions of the Science–Practice Relationship in Clinical Psychology
Jonathan MacDonald
Reel Guidance: Midcentury Classroom Films and Adolescent Adjustment
2:30-3:30 Break and Poster Session (John Grisham Room)
Posters:
Riviane Borghesi Bravo and Raquel Martins de Assis
The Formation of Personality and the Construction of Character: The Appropriation of Lazursky´s Work in Brazil
David Devonis
The Evolution of the Concept of Tolerance in US Psychology, 1900-1950 and Beyond
3:30-5:00 Paper Session: Philosophy and Faith (Mitchell Memorial Library Auditorium)
Chair: Jennifer Bazar
Nancy Digdon
American Mental Philosopher, Joseph Haven’s Natural Science of Psychology and Phenomena of Will
Robert Kugelmann
Pragmatism and Thomism: The Personal and Professional Relationship between Adolf Meyer and Thomas Verner Moore
Elissa Rodkey and Krista Rodkey
Family, Friends, and Faith-Communities: Intellectual Community and the Benefits of Unofficial Networks for Marginalized Scientists
5:30-9:00 Reception at Alan Marcus’
Friday June 23
7:30-8:30 Breakfast (John Grisham Room)
8:30-8:45 Welcome from Local Host, Courtney Thompson (Mitchell Memorial Library Auditorium)
8:45-10:15 Paper Session 1: Contemporary Issues in Social Science (Mitchell Memorial Library Auditorium)
Chair: Elissa Rodkey
Stephanie Pache
Violence as Health Issue: A Political History (United States, 1980-2010)
Jill Morawski
On Replication: Is the Current “Crisis” Repeating the Past?
Jacy L. Young and Peter Hegarty
Sexual Harassment and the Sexual Politics of Experimental Social Psychology
10:15-10:30 BREAK (John Grisham Room)
10:30-12:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Paper Session 1: Heads, Brains, and Minds (Mitchell Memorial Library Auditorium)
Chair: Barbara Stern
Erica Lilleleht
Butting Heads? Gendering the Theories and Practices of American Phrenology
Tabea Cornel
Left-Handed Complements: Forging Connections between Handedness, Speech Ability, and Brain Asymmetry around 1900
Shayna Fox Lee
Psychology’s Own Mindfulness: Ellen Langer, the Rise of Scientific Interest in Meditation, and the Social Politics of Researching ‘Active Noticing’
Paper Session 2: Social Science (Grisham Room)
Chair: Cathy Faye
Lawrence T. Nichols
Louisa Catherine Pinkham: Integrating Psychological Therapies with Sociological Practice
Lauren Kapsalakis
A Community Test-Tube of American Civilization: Burt and Ethel Aginskys’ Social Science Field Laboratory (1939-1947)
Leila Zenderland
Producing Transnational Social Science in a Segregated City: Studying “Race and Culture” at Fisk
12:00-12:30 Cheiron Book Prize (Mitchell Memorial Library Auditorium)
Chair: Jerry Sullivan
Susanna Blumenthal, Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture
12:30-1:15 Lunch (Grisham Room)
1:15-2:30 Elizabeth Scarborough Lecture (Mitchell Memorial Library Auditorium)
Chair: Jacy L. Young
Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University
Towards an Ethics of Sexual Citizenship
2:30-2:45 BREAK (John Grisham Room)
2:45-4:30 Symposium: One Tree with Two Trunks: The Intertwining Histories of Criminology and Psychology (Mitchell Memorial Library Auditorium)
Organizer: Phyllis Wentworth
Chair: David Devonis
Courtney Thompson
The Profile Which Speaks: From the Anatomical to the Psychological in the History of Criminology
David Devonis
Sources of Eclecticism in Prison Reform: Angie Lillian Kellogg’s Reviews of the Literature Regarding Crime, Punishment, and Prisons in the Psychological Bulletin, 1914-1920
Phyllis Wentworth
Criminology and Psychology in the mid-1960s: The Case of the Draper Project
Discussant: David Devonis
4:30-4:45 BREAK (McCool 111 Anteway)
4:45-6:15 Paper Session: Philosophical, Theoretical, and Critical Perspectives (McCool 111)
Chair: Shayna Fox Lee
Michael R.W. Dawson, Cor Baerveldt, and Evan Shillabeer
Training Generalist Scientists: Joseph R. Royce, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, and Their Plan for the Core Seminar of a Theoretical Psychology Center
Saulo de Freitas Araujo
The Relevance of the History of Psychology to Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Chetan Sinha
The Politics of Indigenous Psychology in India: Critical Perspective
6:15-6:30 BREAK (Anteway of McCool 111)
6:30-7:30 Cheiron Film Night (McCool 111)
Cathy Faye, Lizette Royer Barton, and Jodi Kearns
The IQ Zoo
Saturday June 24
7:30-8:30 Breakfast (Anteway of McCool 111)
8:30-10:30 Paper Session: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality (McCool 111)
Chair: Phyllis Wentworth
José María Gondra
O.H. Mowrer’s First Research Project: The Missouri “Sex Questionnaire”
Rémy Amouroux
Was the French Psychoanalyst Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) a Freudian Orthodox?
Rodrigo Lopes Miranda, Ana Maria Del Grossi Ferreira Mota, and Robson Batista Dias
“Adjustment Problems” and “Mental Health” in the Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicotécnica (1949-1968): A Case Study on Homosexuality
James Walkup
AIDS, Psychotherapy, and Struggles Over the “Gay Mind”
10:30-10:45 BREAK (Anteway of McCool 111)
10:45-11:45 Business Meeting (McCool 111)
11:50 CHEIRON TRIP
Mississippi Delta Excursion with Lunch on the Road
Including stops at: Museum of the Mississippi Delta in Greenwood, the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, the Crossroads Art and Cultural Center, the Hopson Plantation and Commissary, and the Ground Zero Blues Club
6:45 Banquet
Sunday June 25
8:00-9:00 Breakfast (Anteway of McCool 111)
9:00-10:30 Roundtable: The View from Mississippi: Diversity in Research and Activism in the Social Sciences (McCool 111)
Organizer and Moderator: Courtney Thompson, Assistant Professor, History
Rachel Allison, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Carolyn Holmes, Assistant Professor, Political Science and Public Administration
Kimberly Kelly, Director, Gender Studies; Associate Professor, Sociology
Nicole Rader, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences; Associate Professor, Sociology
10:30-10:45 BREAK (Anteway of McCool 111)
10:45-12:15 Paper Session: 19th and Early 20th Century Psychology (McCool 111)
Chair: Larry Stern
William R. Woodward
What Lotze meant to American Psychology
Hendrika Vande Kemp
Early Content Analysis of Dreams: Technological Challenges, and Lydiard Horton’s 1914 “Inventorial Record Form for the Analysis of Dreams” and a Decimal System of Classification
Sam Parkovnick
William McDougall on Instincts