Wednesday, June 12
17:00-22:00 Drop-in Dinner & Drinks at Missing Falls Brewery (540 S. Main St; kitchen closes 21:00)
N.B. The National Museum of Psychology is open until 20:00
Thursday, June 13
13:00 Registration (Cummings Center, 73 S. College Street)
14:00 Women Psychologists Between Exceptionality and Particularity (room 307; Chair: Stéphanie Pache)
Examining a decisive moment in feminist research on gender in 1970s American psychology (Ann Johnson, University of St. Thomas)
The “progressive” mother: Leta S. Hollingworth and feminist eugenics (Michael Stead, York University)
Untold Lives of a Third-Generation Woman in Psychology: Evalyn F. Segal (1932-2017) (Ed Morris, University of Kansas)
15:30 Break (room 308)
16:00 Adjusting psy disciplines to the 20th century (room 307; Chair: Alan Tjelveit)
Interwar American psychiatry and the rise of therapeutic self-help literature (Matthew McLaughlin, University of Toronto)
Analysis in Extremis: The Crisis of the Ego and the Politics of Analytic Therapy Between the Wars (Phillip Henry, University of Chicago)
From “Anaclitic Object-Choice” to “Attachment Security”: The Development of a Psychological Concept in Late Modernity (Bican Polat, NYU Shanghai)
17:30 Reception at the Cummings Center (1st floor, lobby)
The National Museum of Psychology will be open!
Friday, June 14
8:30 Coffee (room 308)
8:45 Welcome remarks (room 307)
9:00 Concurrent Session: Importing Techniques and Physics into Psychology (room 307; Chair: David Robinson)
Comparisons between the Subconscious (not Unconscious) and the development of Modern: Physics as a model of Science for Psychology during the late 19th and early 20th century (Robert Roff, clinical psychologist)
Mental energetics and Psychophysical Parallelism: A study on the reception of energy conservation in German Experimental Psychology (Leonardo Niro, University of Essex)
9:00 Concurrent Session: Advancing the History of Clinical Psychology (room 204; Chair: Hendrika Vande Kemp)
Empowering Through Art: Mary Kathleen “Mickie” McGraw and the Art Therapy Studio (Christian Lewis and Jennifer L. Bazar, Cummings Center for the History of Psychology)
Transforming the Boulder Conference: Continuity and Discontinuity in Interpretations of the Science-Practice Relationship in Clinical Psychology (Alan Tjeltveit)
The Feminine Mask and Gendered Behavior in the Novels of Gillian Flynn (Olivia Kurylo, The University of Akron)
10:30 Break (room 308)
11:00 The Making of Modern Social Sciences (room 307; Chair: Jennifer Bazar)
Marx in London and ‘Ethnographic Seeing’: Reflections on his maturing philosophical anthropology (Robert Williams, The University of Akron)
Slaves of Rockefeller: Progressivism, “Scientific” Education, and the New York City School Riots of 1917 (Christopher Green, York University)
Defining a “Harvard Approach” to Social Science: The Cabot, Henderson and Parsons Seminars, 1926-1950 (Lawrence Nichols)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Book Prize (room 307; Chair: Alan Tjeltveit)
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale University Press) – Mike Jay
15:00 Break & Poster Session (room 308)
The History of Social Psychology in 100 Years (James Blair, Elmira College)
Learning from students: A novel way to study research programs (Chabrian Tanguay & Alex Beaujean, Baylor University)
15:30 Concurrent Session: Reflecting on Neglected Moments of Psychology’s Past (room 307; Chair: Vinny Hevern)
The First Psychological Autopsy: Lydiard Horton’s 1929 “On College Disappearances: The Analysis of a Case” (Hendrika Vande Kemp)
Memory centre of the institute of psychology (UFRJ): Rescue and preservation of old laboratory histories (Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
“Kodak Girls” and “the frequent role of the officially non-scientist wife” (Arlie Belliveau, York University)
15:30 Concurrent Session: Psychology Takes Flight: Exploring the Role of Psychologists during World War II (room 204; Chair: Jill Morawski)
Qualities of a “bon pilote”: Exploring U.S.-French Collaborations to Select and Classify Aircrew in WWII (Cassidy Kuhar & Jennifer L. Bazar, Cummings Center for the History of Psychology)
Melton’s Contradiction: The Evolution of Three Apparatus Tests used in the Army Air Forces Psychology Program during World War II (Rita Sausmikat, The University of Akron)
Applied Psychology Takes Off: The Birth of Human Factors (Joseph M. Kaltenthaler & Jennifer L. Bazar, Cummings Center for the History of Psychology)
17:00 Break
17:15 Movie Night with popcorn! (room 307)
Saturday, June 15
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Human Nature and its Subjects (room 307; Chair: Ed Morris)
The Beginnings of the American Space Program: Research Contributions from Human Physiology and Comparative Psychology (Patrick Drumm, Ohio University Lancaster)
Controversy at the Boundaries: The Instinct Controversy c.1890-1930 (Caitlin Mace, University of Pittsburgh)
The Demise of Exceptional Subjects in Psychology: The Case of Clever Hans (Daniela Barberis, North Central College)
10:30 Break (room 308)
11:00 Psychology in its Institutional Making (room 307; Chair: Ian Davidson)
The Rise of Null Hypothesis Significance Tests as the Gold Standard of Statistics in Psychology Textbooks (Spencer Arshinoff, York University)
How Do Intellectuals Write About Intellectual Disability? (Heather Murray, University of Ottawa)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Scarborough Lecture (room 307; Chairs: Stéphanie Pache and Jill Morawski)
The Entanglement of Scientific Racism and Organized Antisemitism in the Career of Roger Pearson (Andrew S. Winston, University of Guelph)
15:00 Break (room 308)
15:30 Psychology Beyond the Laboratory (room 307; Chair: Cathy Faye)
Mind Your Boundaries: The Emergence and Flourishing of a form of Psychological Life (Jill Morawski, Wesleyan University)
Achieving Procrastination: Constructions and the Working Subject (Ian Davidson, Concordia University of Edmonton)
Feminist Psychologists and Therapeutic Culture: A Transatlantic Conversation on the Psychologization of Feminism (Stéphanie Pache, Université du Québec à Montréal)
17:00 Break (room 308)
17:15 Cheiron Business Meeting (room 307)
18:30 Reception at Quaker Station (135 S. Broadway) + Book Auction to support student travel to Cheiron (auctioneer: Dave Devonis)
Sunday, June 16
9:00-11:00 Farewell Breakfast on campus (location to be announced)
Secure meal ticket through registration