Historical Epistemology:
Four Generations of Graduate Students Reflect on Their Craft
May 17 – May 19, 2018
Conference Schedule
Thursday
May 17, 2018
Royce 314
9.00-9.20 Welcome Address: David Sabean, UCLA
9.20-9.40 Introductory Remarks: Simon Teuscher, University of Zurich
9.40-11.10 Panel 1: Trust, Emotion, and Creativity
Chair and Commentator: Jan Reiff, UCLA
Jesse Sadler (Independent), Trust as a Category of Analysis in Early Modern Economic Exchange
Britta McEwen (Creighton University), Emotion in Movement: Shame, Sympathy, and Single Motherhood in Vienna, 1880-1930
Ann Goldberg (University of California, Riverside), The Assembly Line and the Psychoanalyst’s Couch: Epistemology and the History of Creativity
11.10-11.40 Coffee Break
11.40-13.10 Panel 2: Experience and the Body
Chair and Commentator: Russell Jacoby, UCLA
Dana M. Polanichka (Wheaton College), “Because of my Continual Illnesses and Other Circumstances”: Sin and Illness in a Mid-Ninth-Century Carolingian Text
Robert Brain (University of British Columbia), Dominating the Body, Mastering the Past: Rudolf zur Lippe and the Epistemology of Modern History
Ritika Prasad (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Missing Bodies? Questions about Quantification and “Experience”
13:10-14:10 Lunch Break (Royce 306 Patio)
14.10-15.40 Panel 3: Understanding Belief
Chair and Commentator: Scott Waugh, UCLA
Matthew Vester (West Virginia University), Knowing/Believing, Microanalysis, and Spatiality
Samuel Keeley (UCLA), Knowing Beliefs: Measuring the “Epistemic Concept” of Piety in Spaces of Communication
Emily Anderson (Independent Scholar), Evangelizing Socialism in Rural Japan: Imagining Utopia during the Russo-Japanese War
15.40-16.10 Coffee Break
16.10-18.00 Panel 4: Strategies of Representation and Narration
Chair and Commentator: Stefania Tutino, UCLA
Jay Goodale (Bucknell University), Strategies for Making Sense of Evidentiary Fragments and Constructing Micro-Histories
Alexandra Garbarini (Williams College), “Unprecedented”: Concepts and Narratives about Mass Violence and the Holocaust
Thomas Stock (UCLA), The Problem of Historical Conditions: Challenging Epistemological Assumptions in North Korean Studies
Jason Coy (College of Charleston), Historical Epistemology and Collective Memory: The Early Modern Witch-Hunts and Strategies of Representation
Friday
May 18, 2018
Royce 314
9.00-10.30 Panel 5: Practices and Production of Knowledge
Chair and Commentator: Andrea Goldman, UCLA
John Mangum (Houston Symphony), Beethoven’s Fifth in Contrasting Programmatic Contexts
Teresa Barnett (UCLA), Dancing about Architecture: Performing the Sensorium in Postwar Design
Kierra Crago-Schneider, (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), Teaching the Holocaust in the Age of Contemporary Racial Violence
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.50 Panel 6: Libraries and Archives
Chair and Commentator: Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA
Michael J. Sauter (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas), Relocating “Global” Knowledge: Colonial Latin American Libraries and the European Spatial Imagination
Ben Marschke (Humboldt State University), Archives as “Epistemic Things.” Early Modern Religious Movements as “Model Organisms.”
Roii Ball (UCLA), Inner Colonization and Settler-Colonialism: Initial Steps in Historical Epistemology
Jason Lustig (UCLA), Epistemologies of the Archive
12.50-14.30 Lunch Break (Royce 306 Patio)
14.30-16.00 Panel 7: Historical Knowledge and the Study of People
Chair and Commentator: Kathryn Norberg, UCLA
Richard Bowler (Salisbury University), Physiocratic Science and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Baden: Reconstructing the History of a Scientific Experience
Juan Garza (UCLA), Indians and Intellectuals, An Unconventional Ethnographic Event: Methods, Discourses and the Origins of Mexican Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century
Marjan Wardaki (UCLA), Circulation and Research in Transcultural Spaces: The Scientist as a Traveler, 1919-1945
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Panel 8: Interpreting Translation, Taste, and Obsession
Chair and Commentator: David Luebke, University of Oregon
Claire Gilbert (Saint Louis University), Inventing Translation and Translating History
Kevin Goldberg (Weber School), Epistemology in the Wine Trade
Lucia Staiano-Daniels (UCLA), What is Experience and why is Military History Obsessed with It?
Saturday
May 19, 2018
Royce 314
9.00-10.30 Panel 9: The Exemplary, Singular, and Exceptional
Chair and Commentator: Peter Baldwin, UCLA
Daphne Rozenblatt (Max Planck Institute for Human Development), Symptoms Between Medical and Historical Epistemologies
Eric Hounshell (UCLA), The Singular Case
Jared McBride (UCLA), The Returns of Khaim Sygal
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 Panel 10: Historical Epistemic Things
Chair and Commentator: Theodore Porter, UCLA
Robert Batchelor (Georgia Southern University), Ghost Shells or Sound Suits: The Tahitian Mourner and the Tungus Shaman Costumes as Epistemic Things
Amy Woodson-Boulton (Loyola Marymount University), The Idea of the Totem in the History of British Anthropology: Or, Disciplinary Development in the Age of Empire
Matt Matsuda (Rutgers University), Deep Blue Sea: Genomes and Genealogies in Oceania
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break (Royce 306 Patio)
13.30-15.20 Panel 11: Implications of the Tellings of History
Chair and Commentator: Muriel McClendon, UCLA
Adam Lawrence (Southern California Institute of Architecture), Geschichte in der Endzeit
Matthew Lauer (UCLA), The Indoctrinated, the Resigned, and the Restive: Three Archetypes of Microhistorical Narration Reflected in Korean Sources
Daniel Hurewitz (Hunter College), Visiting the Sins of the Fathers: The Ethical Implications of Historical Revelation
Claudia Verhoeven (Cornell University), The Terrible, Wonderful Roots of History 15.20-
15.50 Coffee Break
15.50-17.20 Panel 12: Histories and Critiques of Historical Epistemology
Chair and Commentator: Ivan Berend, UCLA
R. Joseph Holt (UCLA), Enlightenment Epistemology and/or Historical Epistemology: On Human Cognition in Adam Smith and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Jared Poley (Georgia State University), The History of Probability and the Probability of History
Lindsay Alissa King (UCLA), Fake News, Media Bias, and the Problem with Facts in the Rise of the Commercial Press
17.20-18.00 Concluding Remarks: Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University
