Report for the Academic Year 1992-1993 - The Institute Libraries ...

THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
Market Keep Us out of Mischief or out of Happiness?" (review article on Robert
E. Lane, The Market Experience, 1991), Contemporary Sociology, 21/6, November
1992. His 1986 collection. Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays, was
published in a paperback edition, with a new preface by the author, by Harvard
University Press, 1992, and his Journeys toward Progress: Studies of Economic Policy-
Making in Latin America, which was first published in 1963, was reprinted by the
Westview Press. The Rhetoric of Reaction (1991), which had already been translated
into French, Italian, and Spanish, appeared in German and Portuguese editions.
Professor Hirschman participated in a conference on "Social Justice and Inequali-
ties" organized by the Commissariat General du Plan, Paris, in November 1992
and presented a paper, "La rhetorique progressiste et le reformateur" (Progressive
rhetoric and the reformer). This paper was published in the magazine Com-
mentaire, Summer 1993; subsequently, Professor Hirschman expanded it to a gen-
eral retrospective article on The Rhetoric of Reaction.
Professor Hirschman gave the II Mulino Lecture (a lecture sponsored annually
by the publishing house II Mulino) in Bologna and a Political Economy Lecture
at Harvard University. He also lectured at the universities of Coimbra (Portugal)
and Zurich (Switzerland).
In the fall semester of 1992, a group of social scientists at M.l.T. held a seminar
on the work of Professor Hirschman, with particular attention to his writings in
the field of economic development. The papers and transcripts of the discussions
were sent to Professor Hirschman, who presented some reflections, under the
title "A Propensity to Self-Subversion," at the last session of the seminar in
December. A volume of essays based on the seminar presentations may be
forthcoming.
During May and June, Professor Hirschman returned to the Wissenschaftskolleg
in Berlin as a permanent visiting fellow. In the course of the academic year he
received three honorary degrees: from the Universidad Internacional Melendez
Pelayo in Santander (Spain) in July 1992, from the University of Coimbra (Portugal)
in April 1993, and from the University of Paris-X (Nanterre) in May
1993.
During 1992-93 PROFESSOR JOAN SCOTT delivered papers at the Univer-
sity of Utrecht (Netherlands), the University of Sussex (England), and the Uni-
versities of Buffalo and Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She also gave papers at the
meetings of the American Historical Association and at the Berkshire Conference
of Women Historians. In October, Professor Scott was the keynote speaker at
the Food and Drug Law Institute Seminar in Washington, D.C. on "Women in
Clinical Trials of FDA Regulated Products: Who Participates and Who Decides?"
She conducted a seminar at the New York Psychoanalytic Association meetings.
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