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THURSDAY, 28 JUNE 2012
SHAFR Council Meeting: 8:00 AM – 12:45 PM, Conference Room 7
Teaching Committee Meeting: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, VIVO Restaurant Private Dining Room (see hostess)
Registration: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Ballroom Foyer
Book Exhibit: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Ballroom Foyer
Session I: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Panels 1-5)
Panel 1: Roundtable: Beyond the Monograph: Defining and Doing U.S. Foreign Relations Broadly
Chair: Christopher McKnight Nichols, University of Pennsylvania
Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Timothy Lynch, University of Melbourne
Dennis Merrill, University of Missouri-Kansas City
David Milne, University of East Anglia
Jenifer Van Vleck, Yale University
Panel 2: Forging Dialogues: Western NGOs and North-South Relations After Decolonization
Chair: Erez Manela, Harvard University
A Threatening Whisper: U.S. NGOs and the New International Economic Order
Paul Adler, Georgetown University
Taking Sides: American Protestant Missionary Responses to Angolan Decolonization and Civil War
Kate Burlingham, California State University, Fullerton
Imperial Intermediaries: CARE in Haiti after World War II
Patrick McElwee, Duke University
Parks and Poverty: Environmental NGOs, Decolonization, and Development in Post-Colonial East Africa
Stephen Macekura, University of Virginia
Comment: Ryan Irwin, Yale University
Panel 3: Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War
Chair: Kenneth Osgood, Colorado School of Mines
“The Monolith is No More”: American Perceptions of the Emerging Sino-Soviet Split
Jeffrey Crean, Texas A&M University
The China Question: Nuclear Testing and the American Response
John Huntington, Harmony School of Advancement
Pivot: U.S. Policy Reorientation After Sadat’s 1977 Jerusalem Trip
Daniel Strieff, London School of Economics
Comment: Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester
Panel 4: The Mexican Revolution, the United States, and the World: South-North Political and Intellectual Transfers, 1925-1945
Chair: Deborah Cohen, University of Missouri – St. Louis
American Ejidos: How Revolutionary Mexican Agrarianism Remade the Rural New Deal
Tore Olsson, University of Georgia
The Mexican Revolution, Latin America, and the Transformation of Hemispheric Politics: The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy at the Inter-American Conferences, 1923-1933
José Luis Ramos, University of Chicago
Interwar Internationalism in Latin America: Mexico and the Creation of the Postwar Multilateral System
Christy Thornton, New York University
Comment: Deborah Cohen
Panel 5: The Accidental Globalist: Lyndon Johnson’s Response to a Revolutionary Decade
Chair: Kyle Longley, Arizona State University
Postponing the Wind of Change: The American Response to Portugal’s African Empire in the 1960s
R. Joseph Parrott, University of Texas at Austin
“Before it is Too Late”: Land Reform in South Vietnam, 1956-1968
David Conrad, University of Texas at Austin
Building Fortress Israel: Lyndon Johnson and the First Offensive Arms Sales to Israel
Olivia L. Sohns, Cambridge University
Johnson and Kosygin at Glassboro: A Forgotten Step to Strategic Arms Limitation
Richard Dean Williamson, Louisiana State University
Comment: Mitchell Lerner, Ohio State University
BREAK: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Coffee and light refreshments served in the Ballroom Foyer, adjacent to the Book Exhibit.
Session II: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM (Panels 6-14)
Panel 6: Teaching Diplomatic History in the 21st Century
Sponsored by the SHAFR Teaching Committee
Moderator: Matt Loayza, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Experiences Teaching the History of U.S. Foreign Relations Online
Terry Hamblin, SUNY Delhi
Teaching History As It Unfolds
Molly M. Wood, Wittenberg University
Teaching with Presidential Recordings
Marc Selverstone, University of Virginia
Clickers and Class Participation
Nicole Phelps, University of Vermont
Panel 7: Making the Familiar Strange: Transnational Readings of Iconic American Texts
Please note that the panelists will be doing readings of single texts, which are available on the conference website, http://www.shafr.org/conferences/annual/2012-annual-meeting/.
Chair: Mark Bradley, University of Chicago
Stephen Foster, “Oh! Susanna”
Click here to hear a ca. 1925 recording.
Brian J. Rouleau, Texas A&M University
Grant Wood, American Gothic
Click here to view the painting.
Brooke L. Blower, Boston University
Excerpts from the Papers of George F. Kennan
Click here to read excerpts from the Kennan papers
Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
Graham Greene’s The Quiet American
Click here to read excerpts from The Quiet American
Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Comment: Mark Bradley
Panel 8: Revolutionizing Regional Relations? Postcolonial U.S. Foreign Policy towards the Middle East and South Asia
Chair: Robert McMahon, Ohio State University
Challenging Mandate Colonialism: American Diplomacy in Egypt and the Levant, 1917-1923
Max Reibman, University of Cambridge
Linking South Asia to the Persian Gulf: American Plans for a New Order
Ezra Davidson, New York University
Confronting South Asia’s Decolonization: The United States and Pakistan-Afghan Relations in the Early Cold War
Elisabeth Leake, University of Cambridge
Comment: Zachary Lockman, New York University
Panel 9: Women in a Post-Revolutionary World, 1919-1929
Chair: Serge Ricard, Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III)
Rebuilding Internationalism in Europe: American Women, Feminist Pacifism, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1919-1923
Andrew M. Johnston, Carleton University
International Woman Suffrage Alliance and European Revolutions, 1918-1920
Claire Delahaye, University of Tours
War as Revolution: Italian Feminism, the New Postwar Order and the Rise of Fascism
Daniela Rossini, University of Rome III
Comment: Carol C. Chin, University of Toronto
Panel 10: Cold War Development: Ideologies, Policies, Practices
Chair: Thomas “Tim” Borstelmann, University of Nebraska
“Lily White”: Overseas Relief and Development, African Americans, and the Early Cold War, 1945-1960
Joshua Hideo Mather, Saint Louis University
The Global Housing Crisis and American Aided Self-Help Programs in Taiwan and South Korea, 1949-60
Nancy Haekyung Kwak, University of California, San Diego
Developing the American Foreign Aid Ideology: The American Civil Rights Movement and the Discourse on Foreign Aid during the Early Cold War
Amanda Elaine Schlumpberger, University of Kansas
Comment: David Engerman, Brandeis University
Panel 11: Connecting Foreign Relations and Domestic Law in the Early Republic
Chair: Lauren A. Benton, New York University
“The Means of Preventing Disputes with Foreign Nations”: The Federal Courts and Foreign Relations in the 1790s
Kevin Arlyck, New York University
Sovereignty, Neutrality, Non-recognition: International Economic Policy after Haitian Independence
Julia Gaffield, Duke University
Race and Rights in Anglo-American Relations: A Diplomatic Antecedent to Dred Scott
Michael Schoeppner, American Council of Learned Societies
Comment: John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School
Panel 12: Responding to the Revolution: The United States Confronts the People’s Republic of China, 1946-1961
Chair: Sergey Radchenko, University of Nottingham, Ningbo
History from the Middle: Student Interpreters, Chinese Revolutions, and the Making of the “Lost Chance” Myth, 1902-1946
Nathaniel Davis, Southern Illinois University
The Soviet Pattern in the Chinese Dust: The Origins of the American Non-recognition Policy, 1948-1950
Brian Hilton, Texas A&M University
Stateless in Shanghai: The International Refugee Organization, the Chinese Civil War, and the People Caught in Between, 1946-1957
Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Policing the World: China Policy during the Eisenhower Administration, 1953-1961
Jingbin Wang, Elizabeth City State University
Comment: Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, Department of State
Panel 13: The longue dureé of U.S. Anti-Communism Abroad: Culture, Resistance, and Collapse
Chair: Alessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas
Ideological and Cultural Pillars for the “American Century”? American Studies and the Early Cold War, 1939-1951
Francisco J. Rodríguez Jiménez, George Washington University
The U.S. and Dutch Anti-Communism
David J. Snyder, University of South Carolina
An American “Lenin Institute”? Congress and the Failed Initiative to Found an Anticommunist “Freedom Academy,” 1959-1967
Andreas Etges, Freie Universität Berlin
Comment: Alessandro Brogi
Panel 14: The American Left and Global Revolution since the 1960s
Chair: Van Gosse, Franklin and Marshall College
Take Me To Havana: Airline Hijacking and the Allure of Revolutionary Cuba in 1960s America
Teishan Latner, University of California, Irvine
One, Two, Many Revolutions: Global Revolution and the American Left in the Vietnam Era
Caitlin Casey, Harvard University
Revolution and Reactions in Central America in the 1980s: Responses by the Reagan Administration and the Central America Solidarity Networks
Francis Robert Shor, Wayne State University
Comment: Martin Klimke, New York University Abu Dhabi
PLEASE NOTE: THE WELCOME RECEPTION AND PLENARY WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT.
Buses will begin departing from the back lobby of the hotel (parking garage side) at 5:30 PM to transport everyone to the University of Connecticut campus. The buses will return to the Marriott Hartford Downtown at the conclusion of the plenary session. If you wish to drive yourself, a handout with driving directions and parking information will be available at the registration table and online on the conference website.
WELCOME RECEPTION: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM, Student Union Lobby
Sponsored by the University of Connecticut
PLENARY SESSION: 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM, Student Union Theatre
Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations: Reflecting on the 1991 and 2004 Editions While Looking Forward
Chair: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
Discussants: Thomas G. Paterson, University of Connecticut
Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University
Nick Cullather, Indiana University
Christopher Dietrich, University of Texas at Austin
Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California
Robert McMahon, Ohio State University
Emily S. Rosenberg, University of California at Irvine
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University
FRIDAY 29 JUNE 2012
Registration: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Ballroom Foyer
Book Exhibit: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Ballroom Foyer
Diplomatic History Editorial Board Meeting: 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast: 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM, Ballroom C
Sponsored by the Teaching Committee
Please join members of the Teaching Committee for an informal breakfast and an opportunity to talk with other SHAFR members about teaching strategies, classroom resources, educational technology, and other pedagogical issues.
Session III: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Panels 15-22)
Panel 15: U.S. – Middle East Relations during the Late Cold War
Chair: Peter L. Hahn, Ohio State University
American Evangelicals, Lebanese Militias and Media
Laila Ballout, Northwestern University
Challenging the Realpolitik: The Impact of Human Rights on U.S.-Iran Relations, 1973-1976
Vittorio Felci, University of Florence
Fears of Dependence: Arab Oil in American Politics during the 1970s
Victor McFarland, Yale University
Gunboats, Diplomacy, and After Hours: U.S.-Israeli Relations, late 1970s-early 1980s
Shaul Mitelpunkt, University of Chicago
Comment: Salim Yaqub, University of California at Santa Barbara
Panel 16: Borderlands Encounters: Nineteenth-Century Crossings into Mexico
Chair: Ned Blackhawk, Yale University
Reluctant Imperialists: U.S. Soldiers Encounter Mexico, 1847
Amy S. Greenberg, Penn State University
Struggles for Place and Space: Kickapoo Traces from the Midwest to Mexico
Kristin L. Hoganson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Borderland Arms Trade and Crises of State Sovereignty in Mexico and the United States
Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley
Comment: J. A. Hernández, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Panel 17: Outer Space, Classical Music, and a Collision Sport: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War
Chair: Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University
Astronauts as Diplomats: The Apollo Goodwill World Tours
Teasel Muir-Harmony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Musicians as Rhetorical Surrogates in Eisenhower’s Cold War: Iceland, 1954-1959
Emily Abrams Ansari, University of Western Ontario
Hockey, Canada and the Limits of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy
John Soares, University of Notre Dame
Comment: John Sbardellati, University of Waterloo
Panel 18: Roundtable: U.S. Foreign Relations in the Aftermath of the Reagan Revolution
Chair: Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University
Chester Pach, Ohio University
Jeremy Kuzmarov, University of Tulsa
Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University
Jason Colby, University of Victoria
Panel 19: The Relevance of Race and Memory to Wilsonianism
Chair: Kathleen Burk, University College London
Nothing Cuts So Deep as a Civil War: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Woodrow Wilson’s Approach to the Great War
Samuel L. Schaffer, Yale University
A Certain Blindness: The Relevance of Race to Woodrow Wilson’s Political Vision
Trygve Throntveit, Harvard University
“A Slow Disentanglement from the Past”: Woodrow Wilson and the Japanese Quest for Racial Equality at the Paris Peace Conference
Robert G. Kane, Niagara University
Comment: Lloyd E. Ambrosius, University of Nebraska
Panel 20: From Words to Deeds: Actualizing Human Rights in the Wake of the Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s
Chair: Carol Anderson, Emory University
Seeking Evolution, Not Revolution in Apartheid South Africa: The AFL-CIO and South African Unions, 1979-1984
John Stoner, University of Pittsburgh
A New Moral Shield or Something More? Understanding the Origins of Congressional Human Rights Consciousness in the 1970s
Rachel Traficanti, University of Connecticut
Exceptional Circumstances: Jimmy Carter and the Salvadoran Crisis, 1977-1981
Adam Wilsman, Vanderbilt University
Comment: Carol Anderson
Panel 21: After the Nuclear Revolution, Part I: American Efforts to Confront the Challenges of the Postwar Era
Chair: Michael Gordin, Princeton University
Re-Harnessing the Atom: Early British and American Efforts to Control Nuclear Science vis-à-vis Farm Hall
Mary McPartland, George Washington University
Caught in the Circle of Secrecy: Failed Attempts at Classification Reform in the Early Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1950
Alex Wellerstein, American Institute of Physics
The Nuclear Imperative: U.S. Policy on Exporting Nuclear Power in the 1950s
Mara Drogan, University at Albany (SUNY)
Comment: Michael Gordin
Panel 22: Varieties of American Foreign Relations in the Early Republic
Chair: Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, Department of State
Major General Anthony Wayne’s Siege of the British Army at Fort Miamis: Empires on the Brink of War, August 1794
John C. Kotruch, University of New Hampshire
U.S. Army Officers Anticipate the War of 1812
Samuel Watson, United States Military Academy
Ad Hoc Foreign Policymaking of the Early Republic: Thomas H. Perkins’s Boston-Smyrna-Canton Opium Trade and Congressional Rejection of Aid for Greek Independence
Michael E. Chapman, Peking University
Comment: Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire
LUNCHEON: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, BALLROOM C
Pre-registration and tickets required.
Requiem for the Common Man
Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado, Boulder
SHAFR President
Session IV: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Panels 23-30)
Panel 23: South Vietnamese Nationalism and Nation Building
Chair: Lien-Hang Nguyen, University of Kentucky
National Identity and Cold War Politics in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963
Nu-Anh Tran, University of California at Berkeley
Ngo Dinh Diem’s Anticommunism and the South Vietnamese State
Jessica M. Chapman, Williams College
Nationalism, Anticommunism, and Anti-Americanism in Wartime Saigon: The Case of the Weekly Đời [Life], 1969-1972
Tuan Hoang, Cal State University San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus
See it Through with Nguyen Van Thieu: The Nixon Administration Embraces a Client Dictator in South Vietnam, 1969-1974
Joshua Lovell, McMaster University
Comment: Edward Miller, Dartmouth College
Panel 24: Perspectives on Imperial Rule: The United States in the Philippines in the Early Twentieth Century
Chair: Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Legal Archipelago of U.S. Occupation: American Military Justice and the Colonial State in the Philippines, 1898-1902
Clara Altman, Brandeis University
The Dilemma of “Accountable” State-building: Establishing Education Institutions in Colonial Taiwan versus the Philippines in the Early Twentieth Century
Reo Matsuzaki, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University
Make Trade, Not War: Marketplaces and Market Relations in the U.S. Colonial Philippines
Rebecca Tinio McKenna, University of Notre Dame
Codifying Religion: The Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes and American Imperial Rule in the Philippines, 1901-1913
Karine Walther, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar
Comment: Anne Foster, Indiana State University
Panel 25: Anticolonial Solidarities in the Long View: The Black Freedom Struggle and Imperialism from the Interwar Years through the Cold War Era
Chair: Allison Blakely, Boston University
Moscow’s New Negro, and Vice Versa: Interwar Circulations of Black Radicalism in the Context of the Global Cold War
S. Ani Mukherji, University of California at Los Angeles
People’s Diplomacy: Vicki Garvin and Third World Solidarity Politics in China, 1964-1970
Dayo F. Gore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and University of California, San Diego
The Anticolonial Front Encounters McCarthyism
John Munro, St. Mary’s University
Foundations of Solidarity: African American Activists and the Cuban Revolution in the Early 1960s
Sarah Seidman, Brown University
Comment: Elizabeth Esch, Barnard College
Panel 26: Pacific Currents
Chair: Noelani Arista, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Tentacular Touches: Kaona and Late-Nineteenth Century Hawaiian Politics
Luukia Archer, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
“To Send Them Out Improved and Even Better Than When They Came Here”: Circulating Bureaucrats from Indian Country to Micronesia
Joshua Levy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ka Hoku O Osiania: Reclaiming the Hawaiian Kingdom’s Place in Oceania
Lorenz Gonschor, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Comment: Mary Renda, Mount Holyoke College
Panel 27: Militarism at Home and Abroad: The Legacy of the American Revolution
Chair: Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Manufacturing Independence: Government Promotion of Domestic Production during the American Revolution
Robert F. Smith, Northampton Community College
The Society of the Cincinnati and the Legacy of Warfare in American Political Culture, 1783-1800
John L. Dwiggins, University of Pennsylvania
The Legacy of the American Revolution and the Origins of the War of 1812
Andrew J. B. Fagal, Binghamton University, SUNY
Comment: Robert Martello
Panel 28: Policing the Globe: International Law Enforcement and Drug Control in the Age of American Empire
Chair: William B. McAllister, Office of the Historian, Department of State, and Georgetown University
Organizing Violence in East Asia: The Philippines Under Ferdinand Marcos
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Harvard University
Locating the Origins of the “War on Drugs” in the Revolutionary Aftermath of World War II
Suzanna J. Reiss, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Junkies in the Shining City: Exceptionalism and Addiction in the American Century
Matt Pembleton, American University
Unjust Aftermath: Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering in Post-Noriega Panama
Jonathan Marshall, Independent Scholar
Comment: William B. McAllister
Panel 29: U.S. Empire in National, International, and Transnational Histories
Chair: Marilyn B. Young, New York University
The Wilsonian Seduction: Nation and Empire in U.S. Global Histories
Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
The Imperial Presidency and its Critics: The Domestic Politics of American Empire
Michael Allen, Northwestern University
The Betrayal of U.S. Exceptionalism: The Arab Nakba in Palestine and the Invention of U.S. Empire in Lebanese Imaginations
Maurice Jr. Labelle, University of Akron
Comment: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
Panel 30: Rethinking the Cold War in Japan
Chair: Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University
Rethinking the “Reverse Course”: Taking off a Cold War Lens
Hajimu Masuda, National University of Singapore
The San Francisco Peace Treaty: Transforming U.S. –Japanese Relations from Postwar to Cold War
Jennifer M. Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rethinking the U.S. Japan Alliance in the Aftermath of the 1960 Security Treaty Crisis
Nick Kapur, Harvard University
The Revolution from Above Betrays the Revolution from Below in U.S.-Allied Occupied Japan: The “Reverse Course” and Korean-Japanese Anti-War Solidarity during the Korean War
Deokhyo Choi, Cornell University
Comment: Hiroshi Kitamura, College of William and Mary
COFFEE BREAK: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Coffee break sponsored by Cornell University Press
Cornell University Press is pleased to announce that three new volumes in the United States in the World series are available this spring. Please join series editors Mark Philip Bradley, David C. Engerman, and Paul A. Kramer as they celebrate Dirk Bönker, Militarism in a Global Age, Jason Colby, The Business of Empire, and Seth Jacobs, The Universe Unraveling, at Cornell’s table in the Book Exhibit, located in the Ballroom Foyer.
Session V: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM (Panels 31-38)
Panel 31: Connecting With the Public: Federal Government Outreach Programs in a “Revolutionary” Era
Chair: David Herschler, Office of the Historian, Department of State
Robert J. Dalessandro, U.S. Army Center of Military History
David Hatch, National Security Agency
Kristin Ahlberg, Office of the Historian, Department of State
Jessie Kratz, National Archives and Records Administration
Panel 32: Humanitarian Intervention and the Spanish-American War
Chair: Reut Yael Paz, Humboldt University of Berlin
Humanity’s “Other”: The Changing Image of the U.S. Intervention in Cuba, 1898
Mark Swatek-Evenstein
The Practice of Humanitarian Intervention in the 19th Century: The United States and the European Powers Compared
Fabian Klose, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
“Fleeing Women and Children”: Gender and the Rhetoric of Humanitarian Intervention
Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, University of Cologne
Comment: Reut Yael Paz
Panel 33: “My country right or wrong…but when wrong to be set right”: Dissent and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1960s and 1970s
Chair: Jonathan Nashel, Indiana University, South Bend
The Veteran Voice in American Foreign Policy: From Silence to Dissent, 1961-1971
Anna Armentrout, University of California, Berkeley
Morality and Foreign Policy during the 1960s: The Search for a Humane Diplomacy
Brian McNeil, University of Texas at Austin
“A Higher Patriotism”? The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and its Dissenting Views of American Foreign Policy, 1965-1974
Erin Black, University of Toronto
The Spirits of ’76: Public Diplomacy, the Bicentennial, and Dissenting Memories of the American Revolution
Todd Bennett, East Carolina University
Comment: Kelly Shannon, University of Alaska Anchorage
Panel 34: Designing, Developing, and Selling the Tropics: U.S. Travel Cultures in the Twentieth Century
Chair: Dennis Merrill, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Surfing the Empire: Alexander Hume Ford, Tourism, and Imperial Consolidation in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai’i
Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Constructing a Tropical Paradise during the Cold War: San Juan’s La Concha Hotel and the Havana Riviera
Erica N. Morawski, University of Illinois-Chicago
Normalizing Suharto’s Indonesia: Development, Tourism, and Crafts in Bali
Bradley R. Simpson, Princeton University
Comment: Dennis Merrill
Christopher Endy, California State University-Los Angeles
Panel 35: The Oil Revolution: Nationalism, Corporations and U.S. Foreign Policy
Chair: Doug Little, Clark University
Expanding the Carter Doctrine: U.S. Oil Interests Around the Globe
Michael T. Klare, Hampshire College
U.S. Oil Policy in the Early Cold War: Intervention in Venezuela, 1941-1948
Mark Seddon, University of Sheffield
A Revolution Denied: Overcoming the Nationalization of Iranian Oil
Ellen Wald, Boston University
Comment: David S. Painter, Georgetown University
Panel 36: Development Agendas in International Society, 1940-1980
Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University
Modernizing Empires? Comparing the British, the French and the Portuguese Colonial Developmentalism since 1940
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Brown University/Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
Addressing “Imperial Inequalities” in the International Political Economy: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 1964-1976
Christopher Dietrich, University of Texas at Austin
The Global South in Search of Influence: The Case of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Victor Nemchenok, University of Virginia
Comment: Erez Manela, Harvard University
Panel 37: Roundtable: Is Indian History Part of the History of American Foreign Relations?
Chair: Emily S. Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine
Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley
Ned Blackhawk, Yale University
Paul Rosier, Villanova University
Alexandra Harmon, University of Washington
Comment: Emily S. Rosenberg
Panel 38: Roundtable: War and Peace in Vietnam
Chair: Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin
Pierre Asselin, Hawaii Pacific University
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, University of Kentucky
Pierre Journoud, Institute for Strategic Research, Ecole Militaire
James Hershberg, George Washington University
REFRESHMENT BREAK: 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Coffee and light hors d’oeuvres served in the Ballroom Foyer, adjacent to the Book Exhibit.
PLENARY SESSION: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, BALLROOM C
Journalism and the End of Diplomatic History
Chair: David Engerman, Brandeis University
Speaker: Fred Kaplan, Slate
Responses: Marilyn B. Young, New York University
David Zierler, Office of the Historian, Department of State
SATURDAY, 30 JUNE 2012
Registration: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Ballroom Foyer
Book Exhibit: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Ballroom Foyer
SHAFR Breakfast: 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM, Ballroom C
Sponsored by the Membership Committee, the Committee on Women in SHAFR, and the Committee on Minority Historians
Get to know SHAFR Council members and find out about the work of our committees during an informal breakfast.
Membership Committee Meeting: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Conference Room 7
Session VI: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Panels 39-46)
Panel 39: Argentina and the United States from Dictatorship through Democracy (and back), 1963-1988
Chair: Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas
Making Friends with Perón: Developmentalism and State Capitalism in U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1970-1975
David Sheinin, Trent University
Losing Control: The United States, Argentina, and the Rise of Social Revolution, 1966-1969
Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University
Democrats and Double Standards: The Reagan Administration, Human Rights, and U.S.-Argentine Relations
William Michael Schmidli, Bucknell University
Comment: Michael Donoghue, Marquette University
Panel 40: Diplomacy and the Politics of Chinese Mobility and Inclusion during the Cold War
Chair: Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cold War Diplomacy, Asian American Citizenship, and the Paradox of Hawaiian Statehood
Ellen D. Wu, Indiana University
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Chinese Refugees in Hong Kong, 1949-59
Glen Petersen, University of British Columbia
Refugee Relief as Anti-Communist Critique: The 1962 Parole of Chinese
Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas at Austin
Comment: Meredith Oyen
Panel 41: Waiting for a Star to Fall: U.S. Aid to Eastern Europe during the Soviet Era
Chair: Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, University of Cologne
The Diplomacy of Charity: U.S. Humanitarian Aid and the Rebirth of Poland, 1918-1920
Denis Clark, University of Oxford
Building Tito-Land: U.S. Foreign Aid and Yugoslav Exceptionalism, 1948- 1963
Louie Milojevic, American University
Holes in the Curtain: Western Foundations, Democracy Assistance and the Rise of Eastern European Civil Society
Lisa Heindl, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science
Comment: David S. Foglesong, Rutgers University
Panel 42: Slavery, Expansion, and Diplomacy: Southern Priorities in Antebellum and Civil War Foreign Policy
Chair: Jay Sexton, University of Oxford
“A Kindred Slave-Holding Republic”: Reconsidering the South’s Cuba Diplomacy in the 1850s
Matthew Karp, University of Pennsylvania
The Diplomacy of Secession
Brian Schoen, Ohio University
Self-Assertion: Fashioning the Foreign Policy of the Confederacy
Adrian Brettle, University of Virginia
Comment: Jay Sexton
Panel 43: Roundtable: Ronald Reagan, Intelligence, and the End of the Cold War
Chair: Richard Immerman, Temple University
Peter Clement, Deputy Director for Intelligence for Analytic Programs, CIA
Douglas MacEachin, former Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA
David Lodge, former analyst, CIA
Nicholas Dujmovic, CIA Historian
Panel 44: After the Nuclear Revolution, Part II: Global Challenges to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
Chair: Campbell Craig, Aberystwyth University
Politics of Peaceful Nuclear Explosions: The Dominance of the “Peaceful” Narrative in India’s Nuclear Policy in the 1960s and 1970s
Kapil Dhanraj Patil, Jawaharlal Nehru University
The Brazilian Opposition to the NPT, 1967-1969
Carlo Patti, University of Florence and Fundação Getulio Vargas
British-U.S. Constructive Engagement Policy towards South Africa’s Nuclear Past
Lucky Asuelime, University of Kwazulu Natal
Comment: Campbell Craig
Panel 45: Roundtable: Researching and Writing Histories that are International and Transnational, Diplomatic and Local
Chair: Kristin L. Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Master Narrative of Microhistories?: Reconciling the Grand and the Local in the History of Inter-American Relations
Rebecca Herman, University of California, Berkeley
Lighting Out for the Territories: Transnational History and the U.S. Overseas Empire
Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University
Dangerous Divides: International Security and Policing the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1940-1955
Andy Eisen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comments: Kurk Dorsey, University of New Hampshire
Melani McAlister, George Washington University
Panel 46: Philanthropy, Empire, and Manliness: Recognizing International Law, 1899-1935
Chair: Sarah B. Snyder, University College London
International Law and American Pro-Boers
Jennifer A. Sutton, Washington University in St. Louis
Neither Jingoes nor Pacifists: Legitimizing International Law through Professional Manhood, 1905-1917
Benjamin A. Coates, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fortunes of a Profession: American Foundations and the International Law Community, 1910-1935
Katharina Rietzler, Cambridge University
Comment: Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California
LUNCHEON: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, BALLROOM C
Pre-registration and tickets required.
George F. Kennan: The Promises – and Pitfalls – of Authorized Biography
John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University
Session VII: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Panels 47-54)
Panel 47: Debating “Good Occupations” Uplift, Humanitarianism, and the Problem of Policing in American Occupations
Chair: Mary Renda, Mount Holyoke College
Military Government: A “Good Occupation”?
Susan Carruthers, Rutgers University, Newark
Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Political Violence in the Occupations of Japan and South Vietnam
Jeremy Kuzmarov, University of Tulsa
“A Precedent Worth Setting”: The U.S. Military and Humanitarian Operations
Jana K. Lipman, Tulane University
Comment: Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panel 48: Roundtable: New Research in the History of Women’s Transnational and International Social Movements: Using the New Online Archive and Database, Women and Social Movements, International — 1840 to present
Chair: Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York, Binghamton
Women in the WIDF (or: The Long Arm of HUAC: Finding the Women in the WIDF)
Francisca de Haan, Central European University
The Moral Imagination(s) of the Black International: Zora Neale Hurston, Addie Hunton, and Paulette Nardal
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University
Fighting for Peace in an International City: Organized Women and Disarmament Efforts in Geneva, 1931-1945
Denise Ireton, SUNY Binghamton
Untold Stories: The United Nations Decade for Women, 1975-1985
Judith Zinsser, Miami University of Ohio
Comment: Kathryn Kish Sklar
Panel 49: American Humanitarianism in the Aftermath of Asian Revolutions, 1950s-1970s
Chair: Paul A. Kramer, Vanderbilt University
The Religious Dimensions of Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement
Melissa Borja, Columbia University
“Free (from the inside)”: American Voluntary Organizations, Asian Children, and the Cold War
Sara Fieldston, Yale University
From Orphan Evacuation to Big Business: The Institutionalization of Korean Intercountry Adoption
Arissa Oh, Boston College
Comment: Paul A. Kramer
Panel 50: Commerce and Diplomacy in the Nineteenth Century
Chair: David Nickles, Office of the Historian, Department of State
Immigrants and the Changing Role of the Dutch Consular Network in the U.S., 1850-1900
Michael J. Douma, Florida State University
Exceptions of Trade Within an “Empire of Law”: The Uneven Path to Foreign Trade Zones and Other Anomalous Zones in U.S. Foreign Policy since the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Daniel S. Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College
The Emily Incident and Sino-Anglo-American Trilateral Relations in the Early Nineteenth Century
Li-Fan Lee, National Tsing Hua University
Comment: Eileen Scully, Bennington College
Panel 51: Foreign Influences and Interventions in the Bolivian Revolution of 1952
Chair: Bevan Sewell, University of Nottingham
U.S. Dollars, Mexican Social Science: Indigenous Community Development and Modernization Theory in the Bolivian Andes, 1953-1965
R. Matthew Gildner, University of Texas at Austin
Britain, the United States, and the Bolivian National Revolution
Olivia Saunders, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London
Public Relations and the Manipulation of Foreign Policy: U.S. Government Support for the Bolivian Revolution
Joel Wolfe, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Waging the Campaign of Truth: The United States, the Bolivian Revolution, and the Political Culture of Containment
Kevin Young, SUNY Stony Brook
Comment: Ann Zulawski, Smith College
Panel 52: Beyond Containment: George Kennan as Writer and Thinker
Chair: Richard H. Immerman, Temple University
Kennan and the Dilemmas of War Short of War
Kaeten Mistry, University of East Anglia
George Kennan as Courtesan Writer
Hannah Gurman, New York University
George Kennan: An Anti-American Life
David Milne, University of East Anglia
Comment: David A. Mayers, Boston University
Panel 53: Religion and Cold War Foreign Policy
Chair: Andrew Preston, Cambridge University
Sacred Suspicion: Religion, Bureaucratic Culture, and the Origin of the Cold War, 1928-1948
Yvonne Hunter, McMaster University
Cold War, Hot Rights: American Religious Freedom and the Road to Helsinki
Anna Su, Harvard Law School
With God on Their Side: The Catholic Revolution against the Arms Race
Henry Maar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Comment: Seth Jacobs, Boston College
Panel 54: The Global Revolution in the Third World?
Chair: Amy Sayward, Middle Tennessee State University
The First War for Suez: The Muslim Brotherhood, the Free Officers, and the End of Empire in Egypt
Paul Chamberlin, University of Kentucky
The Allure of Globalism: Third Worldism, Non-Alignment, and the Failure of Afro-Asianism
Jeffery Byrne, University of British Columbia
Imagining Nation, State, and Order in the Early Cold War
Ryan Irwin, Yale University
Comment: Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin
BREAK: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Sponsored by Alexander Street Press
Coffee and light refreshments served in the Ballroom Foyer, adjacent to the Book Exhibit.
Resource Demonstration, Ballroom C, 3:30 – 5:30 PM
Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar, editors of Women and Social Movements, International- 1840 to present, will demonstrate how to use this archive and database.
Session VIII: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM (Panels 55-62)
Panel 55: Choreographing the Cold War: Dance, Revolution, and the U.S. Government
Chair: Penny von Eschen, University of Michigan
Slaves or Masters? The Bolshoi’s Spartacus and the U.S.-Soviet Exchange of 1962
Lauren Erin Brown, Marymount Manhattan College
Choreographing the Middle East: The Martha Graham State Department Tours, 1955, 1967, and 1974
Victoria Phillips Geduld, Barnard College, Columbia University
Race and Revolution: African-American Modern Dance as a Cold War Weapon
Elizabeth Aldrich, Library of Congress
Comment: Penny von Eschen
Panel 56: Roundtable: Revolutions in Relief: American-led Humanitarianism in the Great War Era
Chair: David Ekbladh, Tufts University
The Disaster of War: Civilian Relief and the Meaning of Calamity
Julia Irwin, University of South Florida
“Quaker Liebesgaben” or American “Child-Feeding”: Nationalism and Humanitarian Aid in Austria and Germany, 1919-1921
Tammy M. Proctor, Wittenberg University
Soup Kitchens, Orphanages, and the Making of a Middle Class: American Relief Work in Beirut and Mount Lebanon During World War I
Melanie S. Tanielian, University of California, Berkeley
Humanitarians on Holiday: Everyday Interactions Between Aid Givers and Aid Receivers in Occupied Belgium and the Nature of American Neutrality
Thomas D. Westerman, University of Connecticut
Comment: Branden Little, Weber State University
Panel 57: Colorlines: Routes of Race in the American Trans-nation
Chair: Jenifer Van Vleck, Yale University
The Blackface World: The Global Contours of Nineteenth-Century Minstrelsy
Theresa Runstedtler, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
“Monkey Mad”: Chimp Shows, Race, and the Species Line
Daniel E. Bender, University of Toronto
“Chicago Could be the Vienna of American Fascism”: The Political Culture of Black Anti-Fascism before World War II
Davarian L. Baldwin, Trinity College
Comment: Jenifer Van Vleck
Panel 58: Cuba’s Global Revolution: International Perspectives on the Cold War
Sponsored by the Membership Committee
Chair: David Schmitz, Whitman College
Letting El Jefe in the Hen House: Global Revolution and the Cuban Pavilion at Expo 67
Asa McKercher, University of Cambridge
The Cuban Revolution: Nationalism vs. U.S. Hegemony in the Context of Cold War 1959-1962
Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, University of Havana
U.S.-Cuban Relations at the Turning Point: British and Czechoslovak Perspectives
Jaroslav Fiala, Charles University
Comment: Leandro Morgenfeld, University of Buenos Aires and Instituto del Servicio Exterior de la Nación
Daniela Spenser, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
Panel 59: Martial Materials. The Quest for Strategic Resources and the Emergence of the Postwar Order
Chair: David S. Painter, Georgetown University
Tribute in Kind? The Marshall Plan and the American Strategic Materials Program
Mats Ingulstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“Friendship May Rise and Wane, but Interests Endure”: Anglo-American Conflict and Cooperation During the Congo Crisis
Alanna O’Malley, European University Institute
Italian, U.S., and French Oil Politics in the Mediterranean during the Algerian War, 1958-1962
Elisabetta Bini, European University Institute
Comment: David S. Painter
Panel 60: Change or Continuity? U.S.-Asia Relations in the Age of Revolution, 1911-89
Chair: J. Garry Clifford, University of Connecticut
When Economics Becomes “High” or Emotional Politics: Japan-U.S. Relations at the End of the Bretton Woods World, 1971-76
Taka Daitoku, Northwestern University
China’s Foreign Relations at Cold War’s End: A Reassessment
Sergey Radchenko, University of Nottingham, Ningbo
“Traitors of Proletarian Internationalism”: North Korean, Indochinese, and Mongolian Reactions to the East European Revolutions in 1989
Balázs Szalontai, East China Normal University
Comment: Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder
Panel 61: Food Revolutions: Food Diplomacy during the Age of Revolution, 1776-1840
Chair: Robyn Shotwell Metcalfe, University of Texas at Austin
“So Inconsistent with Those Equitable Principles by Which We Professed to be Governed”: Nova Scotian-Temne Victual Warfare in Sierra Leone
Rachel Herrmann, University of Texas at Austin
Feeding a Revolution: Grain Shortage, Food Sovereignty, and Independence in Venezuela, 1808-1815
Edward Pompeian, College of William and Mary
Tempest in the Rice Pot: Atlantic Appetite and American Agribusiness in Revolutionary Foreign Policy
Denna Clymer, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Comment: Robyn Shotwell Metcalfe
Panel 62: Modernization’s Discontents: Alternate Visions of U.S. Modernization in the Middle East
Chair: Bradley R. Simpson, Princeton University
Building a New Jerusalem: The YMCA Re-envisions Palestine, 1920-1936
Michael Limberg, University of Connecticut
Whose Modernization is it, Anyway? American Books and Modernization in Nasser’s Cairo
Erin Glade, University of Chicago
Competing Visions of Modernization: The Kennedy Administration and Iran
Matthew Shannon, Temple University
A Toast to Progress: The U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship in the 1970s
Paul Reed Baltimore, University of California, Santa Barbara
Comment: Sheyda Jahanbani, University of Kansas
CLOSING RECEPTION: 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM
Reception at the Old State House, 800 Main Street, Hartford.
Please join us as we close out the conference with some light refreshments and a tour of Hartford’s Old State House. Tickets are not required and there is no fee to attend.
Walking directions: Exit the hotel to the right onto Columbus Avenue. Cross Grove Street and pass the science museum. Turn left onto State Street and the Old State House is straight ahead up two blocks. It is a 5-10 minute walk.