Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey: A Free Online Discussion, 23 October
Jeff Pooley
Please join us for a free online discussion of Mariano Zarowsky’s From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication: Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey, newly translated from its original Spanish and published as an open access book. The session, sponsored by mediastudies.press, will include simultaneous English-Spanish interpretation.
Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey: An Online Discussion
23 October 2025, 14:00 UTC (10 am EDT/11 am Buenos Aires/4 pm Paris): 60 minutes
Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/94536961890
Discussants:
Mariano Zarowsky, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Peter Simonson, University of Colorado Boulder
Sarah Cordonnier, Université Lyon II
Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University
Janet Wasko, with Jeremy Swartz, University of Oregon
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Description
Join Mariano Zarowsky, Peter Simonson, Sarah Cordonnier, and Janet Wasko (with Jeremy Swartz) for a discussion of Zarowsky’s From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication: Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey, recently translated into English by William Quinn and published as an open access book with a new Foreword by Simonson. This Zoom session marks the publication of the translation with a discussion of the work’s significance by the panelists.
Zarowsky’s book follows Armand Mattelart’s intellectual trajectory through Cold War geopolitics and the rise of critical communication studies in Latin America and Europe. First published in Spanish, Zarowsky’s study traces Mattelart’s path from his early work in demography and law, through his political engagement in Salvador Allende’s Chile, to his later role in shaping debates in France and globally on media, cultural politics, and transnational communication. The book offers a rich account of Mattelart’s life and work, and the shifting political, institutional, and epistemological contexts that shaped his thinking and progressive activism. Along the way, it illuminates his distinctive style of research in relation to Anglophone political economy and other strands of critical research. In doing so, Zarowsky positions Mattelart as a theorist whose work emerged from—and continues to speak to—global struggles over culture, knowledge, and power and relations between the Global North and South. As the first English edition of Zarowsky’s landmark study, the book will appeal to scholars of critical communication studies, Latin American and transnational cultural theory, and those working on the history of the social sciences across global contexts.
Mariano Zarowsky is a researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). His research intersects the history of intellectuals, communication studies, and political culture in Argentina and Latin America. He is the author of Allende en la Argentina: intelectuales, prensa y edición entre lo local y lo global (1970–1976) (2023), and Los estudios en comunicación en la Argentina: ideas, intelectuales, tradiciones político-culturales, 1956–1985 (2017).
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Johnson, Ann
2026 Meeting
The 58th Annual Meeting of Cheiron – The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences – will be held virtually from Thursday, June 25th through Saturday, June 27th, 2026. The theme of the meeting will be “Cheiron without Borders.” Mike Pettit is the program chair for the 2026 meeting.
Due to the many increased challenges facing us (such as concerns about safe border crossings and diminished travel support from universities), we have decided an online meeting is the most feasible and accessible option for 2026. This is not a permanent change to the annual meeting. As part of our virtual gathering, we plan on hosting a dedicated session where the membership can exchange ideas about how best to sustain in person meetings long term.
Call for Papers
CHEIRON invites submissions of papers, thematic symposia, panels, roundtables, workshops and posters that deal with an aspect of the history of the human, behavioral or social sciences or related historiographical and methodological issues.
Guidelines for submission
Submissions should include the following: name, email and institutional affiliation of all authors. Please indicate clearly on the top of the page the submission type: oral presentation, round table or workshop.
- Proposals for oral presentations should contain a 500- to 600-word abstract in English plus a short bibliography. If the presentation itself will be given in a language other than English, please indicate this in your proposal.
- Proposals for a session, workshop or round-table should contain a 500–600 word rationale of the event, plus a short bibliography, as well as a short abstract for each individual contribution to the event
Submissions must be received no later than February 13th, 2026, 5 pm EST.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of April 2026.
To submit proposals and abstracts, please use the following online form:
We also encourage members of Cheiron to consider attending some of the following in person meetings of Societies with overlapping interests with ours.
Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA Div 24) 2026 Spring Meeting
Theme: Madness, Mysticism, and the Reenchantment of Psychology
Toronto, Canada
May 14-16, 2026
https://www.apadivisions.org/division-24/news-events/call-proposals-meeting
International Society for Theoretical Psychology Biannual Meeting
Theme: Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics
New York City, USA
June 8 – June 12, 2026
https://www.pratt.edu/events/istp-2026-conference-theorizing-in-dark-times-art-narrative-politics/
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Johnson, Ann
2026 Cheiron Book Prize Competition
Cheiron welcomes – and encourages – authors and publishers to submit entries for Cheiron’s upcoming Book Prize Competition. Eligible works include original book-length historical studies, written in English, and published after October 15, 2024. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2025.
Subject matter should focus on either specific or more general aspects of the social and behavioral sciences including, but not limited to, histories of psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, sociology, and social statistics, as well as historical biographies of scholars in these areas.
Works that focus primarily on the history of medicine or history of education are not suitable entries, unless they are strongly tied to the history of the social/behavioral/human sciences. Edited collections or anthologies are not eligible, nor are conventional textbooks.
Submissions will be judged on the basis of their scholarly character, depth of research, and the importance of their contribution to their field of study.
Both authors and publishers can submit entries for the award. Members of Cheiron, too, can nominate titles, and this is encouraged as well. If you know of a book that merits consideration, please contact the book award committee chair and we will contact both the author and the publisher.
The author of the winning book will receive $500 and be expected to discuss their work in a session solely devoted to the Book Prize at Cheiron’s next annual meeting, which will be held as a virtual (Zoom) meeting June 25 through June 27, 2026. Announcements of the award will be widely circulated to relevant journals and organizations.
To submit a nomination, please email Ian Davidson: ian.da...@concordia.ab.ca
Ian Davidson and Heather Murray
Cheiron Book Award Committee co-chairs
David Robinson
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Johnson, Ann
Cheiron’s Young Scholar Award Committee is pleased to announce that Catriel Fierro, Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, has been chosen to receive the 2025 Young Scholar Award for his paper, “Bringing Something to the (Turn)table: Carl Rogers’ Psychotherapy Research Program and Phonographic Sound Recording Projects in Psychology in the 1930s.”
This paper examines why Carl Rogers’ phonographic recording project in psychotherapy research became canonical while similar efforts by contemporaries such as Harold Lasswell, Earl Zinn, and Felix Deutsch faded into obscurity. Drawing on previously unexamined archival materials, Fierro situates Rogers’ Ohio State University program within the broader landscape of 1930s U.S. phonographic research in psychotherapy. The paper shows that Rogers’ canonization resulted not only from individual genius, but also from the convergence of distinctive epistemic aims, institutional autonomy, effective use of student manpower, and strategic public dissemination.
The committee commends this paper as exceptionally well written. Fierro’s historiographical sophistication, methodological rigor, and artful use of primary sources make his analysis as compelling as it is intellectually engaging.
2025 Cheiron Young Scholar Award Committee
Zed Gao (chair), Verena Lehmbrock, Michael Pettit
David Robinson
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Vincent Hevern
Professor, Psychology Dept.
Le Moyne College
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Zed Zhipeng Gao
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Catriel Fierro
Regarding the paper: it’ll take some time before I shape it up for publication. In the meantime, I’m happy to share the current version with anyone interested (I’ve already sent a copy to Vincent).
See you soon, and kind regards,
Catriel
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Hugo Klappenbach
Dr. Hugo Klappenbach
Ex-Profesor Titular de la Universidad Nacional de San Luis (UNSL)
Ex-Investigador Principal del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Ex-Vice Director del Instituto de Ciencias Computacionales, Cognitivas, Psicológicas y Sociales (ICOPS)
Ex Presidente de la Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología (2015-2017)
Ex Presidente de la Sociedad Argentina de Historia de la Psicología (2019-2021)
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