SHAFR 2011 Annual MeetingWaging War, Making Peace, Crossing BordersThursday, June 23, 2011 - 9:00am to Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 5:00pm This webpage has been deactivated but is being preserved for archival purposes. Conference ProgramPlease note that the program below is slightly outdated. [It does not include late updates made at the conference]. THURSDAY, 23 JUNE 2011 SHAFR Council Meeting: 8:00AM – 12:45PM (Maple Room) Registration: 10:00AM – 5:00PM (Dogwood Room) Teaching Committee Meeting: 11:00AM – 1:00PM (Laurel Room) Book Exhibit: 12:00PM – 5:00PM (Terrace Ballroom) Session I: 1:00PM – 3:00PM
Panel 1: Crossing Borders and Intersecting Empires Chair: Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College The Struggle for the Northern Border: British Occupation and Insurgency in the Old Northwest 1783-1796 John C. Kotruch, University of New Hampshire The Fenian Invasions: Territorial Sovereignty and Imperial Actors Skye H. Lynch, College of William and Mary The Friendly Address Movement and the Oregon Territory Boundary Dispute: Transatlantic Citizen‐Diplomacy, Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in the 1840s Wendy E. Chmielewski, Swarthmore College Peace Collection Comment: Daniel Margolies
Panel 2: 50 Years After: New Perspectives on the Vienna Summit of 1961 Chair: Christian Prosl, Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the United States The Austrians and the Vienna Summit of 1961 Barbara Stelzl-Marx, Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung John F. Kennedy and the Vienna Summit of 1961 Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans Nikita Khrushchev and the Vienna Summit of 1961 Mark Kramer, Harvard University Comment: Aviel Roshwald, Georgetown University
Panel 3: Non-State Actors and the Cuba Problem – Puppets or Puppeteers? Chair: James G. Hershberg, George Washington University Intervening Revolutions: The U.S. Approach to the 1933 and 1956-59 Cuban Upheavals Vanni Pettinà, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Fight for Unity and Power: The Cuban Exile Community and the Bay of Pigs Cristóbal Zúñiga-Espinoza, State University of New York at Stony Brook International Labor in British Guiana Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., Ohio Northern University The Limits of Solidarity: The United States and the Havana Tricontinental Conference, 1966 Eric Gettig, Georgetown University Comment: James G. Hershberg
Panel 4: Crossing the Pacific: Culture and Conflict Chair: Charles W. Hayford, Northwestern University Between Pacifism and Imperialism: The Frustration of the International Birth Control Movement Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, Brown University “Open Recipes Openly Arrived At”: Chinese Cooking and Sino-American Culture, 1921-1945 Charles W. Hayford, Northwestern University Complementary Private Diplomacy: The National Committee on United States-China Relations Norton Wheeler, Missouri Southern State University Comment: Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia College and State University
Panel 5: Countering the Protest: Domestic Supporters of the Vietnam War Chair: Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University “For God and Country”: The Soldier, the Veteran, the American Legion, and Vietnam Annessa Ann Babic, New York Institute of Technology Getting Rid of a Complex: The National Security State and the Politics of the Vietnam War Michael Brenes, City University of New York The Loyal Opposition: Lyndon Johnson, the Right, and Vietnam Seth Offenbach, The City College of New York Comment: Andrew Johns
Panel 6: Roundtable: Explaining the History of U.S. Foreign Relations: The Challenges and Rewards of Teaching Non-American Students Chair: David Painter, Georgetown University Karine Walther, Georgetown School of Foreign Service, Qatar Jeremy Gunn, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco Comment: Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas David Painter
Panel 7: Strategic Adjustment in the Bush Administration: Twenty Years Later Chair: Roman Popadiuk, Executive Director, George Bush Presidential Library Foundation “Our Enemy is Instability”: The Evolving Nature of George H.W. Bush’s New World Order Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University “First, Do No Harm”: Conservative Realism and U.S. Strategic Adjustment under George H.W. Bush Colin Dueck, George Mason University Beyond Containment? The Bush Administration’s Skeptical Approach to the CSCE Sarah B. Snyder, University College, London “Resumption of History”: The Rise and Fall of the New World Order, 1990-91 Bartholomew Sparrow, The University of Texas at Austin Comment: Roman Popadiuk Meena Bose, Hofstra University
Panel 8: Civil(izing) Society: Public Opinion in American Foreign Relations Chair: Dirk Bönker, Duke University “It is to Public Opinion, and Nothing but Public! Opinion, that We Appeal”: The Practices of International Humanitarian Advocacy, 1880-1910 Ann Marie Wilson, Harvard University I Took Panama, Now You Justify it: Two Faces of Public Opinion in Early Twentieth Century International Law Benjamin Coates, Columbia University Public Opinion: Both Enemy and Friend in the “Peace with Mexico” Campaign, 1926-1927 Megan Threlkeld, Denison University Comment: Dirk Bönker
Panel 9: Refugee and Immigration Policy as Foreign Policy: From Open Arms to Suspicious Minds Chair: Jeffery B. Cook, North Greenville University Canadian Immigration Policy as Foreign Relations Julie F. Gilmour, McMaster University Settling the Displaced: Challenges of Baltic Refugee Immigration to American Foreign Policy Jonathan H. L’Hommedieu, University of Turku, Finland Refugees and Rebirth: U.S. Indochina Refugee Policy and American Foreign Relations after the Vietnam War Heather M. Stur, University of Southern Mississippi Emigration and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Cuban Case Jessica Faith Gibbs, University of Aberystwyth Comment: Stephen Porter, University of Cincinnati
BREAK: 3:00 – 3:30 PM Refreshments served in the Terrace Ballroom
Session II: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Panel 10: Performing Gender from Space to Berlin Chair: Petra Goedde, Temple University Performing Politics: Women and Pillbox Hats at Congress Hall, West Berlin, 1957 Victoria Phillips Geduld, Columbia University Making Space Masculine: NASA as a Diplomatic Tool for Gender Consumption, 1961-1966 Erinn McComb, Mississippi State University Gender and Statecraft in U.S.-Cuban Exceptionalism during the Cold War John Gronbeck-Tedesco, Ramapo College of New Jersey Comment: Petra Goedde
Panel 11: Rethinking the Impact of Refugees on Domestic and Foreign Policy Chair: Carl Bon Tempo, State University of New York at Albany Synchronizing Domestic and Foreign Policy Concerns: The Case of the 1980 Refugee Act David W. Haines, George Mason University The Distinction of Dragon-Boats: The Khmer Krom and the United States Trude Jacobsen, Northern Illinois University Encouraging Defection while Discouraging Admissions: Refugees from Hong Kong and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1950-1965 Philip E. Wolgin, University of California, Berkeley Comment: Carl Bon Tempo
Panel 12: Conflicting Desires: American Commitment to AID and Human Rights during the Cold War, 1945-1985 Chair: David Ekbladh, Tufts University Ike’s High-Wire Act: Balancing Europe, Decolonization and the Eisenhower Doctrine in Tunisia Theresa Romahn, Wilfrid Laurier University “The Cause of the World:” Lyndon Johnson and the New Purpose of America, 1963-1968 Jared Phillips, University of Arkansas Nexus: National Interest, Human Rights, Foreign Aid and U.S. Response to the “Genocide” in East Pakistan, 1971 Richard Pilkington, University of Toronto The Kirkpatrick Doctrine and Human Rights: Neoconservative Foreign Policy in the Reagan Administration Bianca Rowlett, University of Arkansas Comment: William Michael Schmidli, Bucknell University
Panel 13: New Interpretations of the Eisenhower Administration’s Policies toward Latin America Chair: Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma The Slow Road to Modernity: The Eisenhower Administration and the Question of Economic Development in Latin America Bevan Sewell, University of Nottingham Arc of Crises in the Andes?: The United States and the Origins of Neoliberalism, 1945-1961 James Siekmeier, West Virginia University Reexamining the Guatemalan Intervention: John Moors Cabot, Development, and Anti-Americanism Aaron Moulton, University of Arkansas – Fayetteville Comment: Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University
Panel 14: The U.S.-Sino-Soviet Triangle in the Third World Chair: Robert McMahon, Ohio State University Sino-American Competition in East Africa Gregg Andrew Brazinsky, George Washington University The Second Battle of Algiers: Aid and Ideology on the Road to the Second Bandung Jeremy Friedman, Princeton University The United States, the Second Bandung Conference, and the Struggle for the Third World, 1964-5 Eric Gettig, Georgetown University Comment: Robert McMahon
Panel 15: Historicizing U.S.-Middle East Relations in the Post-9/11 Era Chair: Peter L. Hahn, Ohio State University Bridging an Imaginary Divide: Transnational Dissent and the 1958 U.S. Intervention in Lebanon Maurice Jr. Labelle, University of Akron America’s Great Game: The CIA, Arabism, and the Middle East in Early Cold War Hugh Wilford, California State University, Long Beach The Ghosts of Development Past and Present: The United States and Jordan’s East Ghor Canal Nathan Citino, Colorado State University “We Will Get Wheat from Somewhere”: Food Aid and the U.S.-Egyptian Relationship in the 1960s Robert Rakove, Colgate University Comment: Melani McAlister, George Washington University
Panel 16: The Global Footprint of the U.S. Military Chair: Edwin A. Martini, Western Michigan University Between Desire and Protest: Prostitution and Concubinage in U.S. Military-Cuban Relations, 1941-1945 Michael E. Donoghue, Marquette University American Expatriates and the Vietnam War in Great Britain Joshua D. Cochran, University of Iowa “A Haven for Lost Souls”: Hong Kong in the Vietnam War Peter E. Hamilton, University of Texas at Austin Comment: Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Panel 17: Missionaries, Minstrels and Pirates in 19th Century U.S. Foreign Relations Chair: Amy S. Greenberg, Penn State University Crossing the Pali: Hawaiian Missionary Children as Immigrants in America and their Role in U.S. Colonial Expansion, 1820-1898 Joy Schulz, University of Nebraska In the Wake of Jim Crow: Maritime Minstrelsy and American Racial Nationalism Abroad Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University “This Barbarous Coast Called Barbary, the Weakness of Their Garrisons, and the Effeminacy of Their People”: American Attitudes toward the Barbary Pirates, 1796-1805 Jason Zeledon, University of California at Santa Barbara Comment: Amy S. Greenberg
Panel 18: Roundtable: The Cold War, Third World, and International History Chair: Cemil Aydin, George Mason University International Society and its Discontents Jeffrey Byrne, University of British Columbia The “New” Cold War International History and the Third World Paul Chamberlin, University of Kentucky Imperial History, International History, and America’s Role in the World Ryan Irwin, Yale University Decolonization and Area Studies: A View from Africa Christopher J. Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Rise of a New Human Rights Regime: Toward a Transnational History of the Vietnam War Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, University of Kentucky
WELCOME RECEPTION: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM (Outside Lawn) Sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell in honor of the 35th anniversary of Diplomatic History All registrants are invited to attend. In case of inclement weather, the reception will be held in the Lower Level Foyer, outside the Plaza Ballroom.
PLENARY SESSION: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Plaza Ballroom B) 9/11, the War on Terror, and U.S. International History Andrew Bacevich, Boston University Mary Dudziak, University of Southern California Dina Khoury, George Washington University Melani McAlister, George Washington University Marilyn Young, New York University
FRIDAY, 24 JUNE 2011 Diplomatic History Editorial Board Meeting: 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM (Laurel Room) Book Exhibit: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Terrace Ballroom) Registration: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Dogwood Room) Refreshments: 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Terrace Ballroom) Session III: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Panel 19: Roundtable: Historical Lenses for the War in Afghanistan Marilyn B. Young, New York University Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University Aaron B. O’Connell, United States Naval Academy Michael Cotey Morgan, United States Naval War College
Panel 20: U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Spanish-Speaking World, 1945-1963 Chair: Jonathan Rosenberg, CUNY-Hunter College The American Message to Franco Spain, 1953-1963 Pablo León-Aguinaga, Georgetown University “To paint America warts and all?” Public Diplomacy and American Studies in Spain, 1945-1960 Francisco J. Rodríguez, George Washington University Cold in the Federal District. American Public Diplomacy in Mexico (1945-1955) José A. Montero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid “No More Cubas”: The Kennedy Administration, Public Diplomacy and the Struggle for the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean Basin Matt Jacobs, Ohio University Comment: Neal Rosendorf, Independent Scholar
Panel 21: Negotiating Revolution: The United States and Mexico, 1910-1945 Chair: Darlene Rivas, Pepperdine University Sewage and Squatters: The Chamizal in U.S.-Mexican Relations, 1910-11 Amelia M. Kiddle, Wesleyan University Intervening for the “Starving Innocents”: Food Aid as Wilsonian Foreign Policy in the Mexican Revolution Julia Irwin, University of South Florida “Embassy of Ideas”: The Benjamin Franklin Library, Educational Reform, and the Development of the Mexican State Julie Prieto, Stanford University Evicting the Good Neighbor: Colorado’s Depression-Era Effort to Deport Alien Labor Derek R. Everett, Metropolitan State College of Denver Comment: Seth Fein, Columbia University and New York Public Library
Panel 22: Ideas and Empire, Ideas of Empire: Rethinking the Objectives of U. S. Public Diplomacy Chair: Mark Bradley, University of Chicago “Beliefs and Desires of Whole Peoples and Areas were being Shaped Anew”: Theorizing the Origins of U. S. Public Diplomacy Justin Hart, Texas Tech University Other Voices, Other Rooms? The Proliferation of Eisenhower-era Public Diplomacy, the End of European Empire, and the Creation of the “Third World” Jason Parker, Texas A&M University Managing Empire: Toward a Theory of U.S. Public Diplomacy David J. Snyder, University of South Carolina Comment: Mark Bradley Sheyda Jahanbani, University of Kansas
Panel 23: Making Peace across the Atlantic: German-American Cultural Relations after WWII Chair: Petra Goedde, Temple University Writing German Literature after Auschwitz Holger Löwendorf, Temple University Another Transatlantic Alliance? Conservative American and German Historians after 1945 Philipp Stelzel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Duke University Inscribing West German History into the Minds of Young Americans Jacob S. Eder, University of Pennsylvania Comment: Bernd Schaefer, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Cold War International History Project
Panel 24: Allegations, Myths, Rumors and Denials: The Central Intelligence Agency and the Profession of Journalism Chair: Richard Immerman, Temple University American Journalism and the CIA: The Case of Tad Szulc Richard Aldrich, University of Warwick Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Harrison E. Salisbury and the CIA: The New York Times, Journalistic Integrity and the End of a Friendship Matthew Jones, University of Nottingham “The Foreign Hand”: Representations of the CIA in Indian Literature and Journalism Paul McGarr, University of Nottingham Comment: Hugh Wilford, California State University at Long Beach
Panel 25: Peacemaking between Adversaries: The Mechanics of U.S.–PRC Rapprochement and Normalization, 1968-1978 Chair: Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State The Media and U.S.-Chinese Rapprochement Guolin Yi, Wayne State University The Chinese Domestic Factor in Sino-U.S. Rapprochement, 1968-78 Pete Millwood, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford The Nixon Administration, the People’s Republic of China, and the United Nations Angela Torelli, University of Perugia Comment: Chris Tudda
Panel 26: Roundtable: Not all Politics is Local: Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations Chair: Ralph Levering, Davidson College The Legacy of Free Security Campbell Craig, University of Aberystwyth Elections and Partisan Politics Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University Presidential Decision Making M. Elizabeth Sanders, Cornell University Culture, Politics, and Foreign Relations Andrew Falk, Christopher Newport University Non-state Actors and Public Opinion Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester
Panel 27: The Evolution of American Cultural Diplomacy in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Paris Salons, Dresden Wild West Shows, and World Expos Chair: Alessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas America in Paris: Cultural Diplomacy and the Evolution of American Nationalism, 1810-1860 Joseph Eaton, National Chengchi University A Wild West Ball in a German City: German-American Interactions before World War I Nadine Zimmerli, University of Wisconsin-Madison America in a $10-Million Nutshell: Cultural Diplomacy at the 1967 and 1970 World Expos Gregory M. Tomlin, George Washington University Comment: Alessandro Brogi
LUNCHEON: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Plaza Ballroom B – tickets required)
“I was thinking, as I often do these days, of war”: The United States in the 21st Century Session IV: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Panel 28: Soviet and American Cultural Ambassadors Melting the Cold War Chair: Laura A. Belmonte, Oklahoma State University Into the Ferment: International Correspondents’ Alliances across the Iron Curtain Dina Fainberg, Rutgers University Slaves or Masters? The Bolshoi’s Spartacus and the U.S.-Soviet Exchange of 1962 Lauren Erin Brown, High Point University “Walking the Tightwire”: Soviet Embassy Diplomats and Lecture Tours in America’s Heartland Michael V. Paulauskas, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Comment: David C. Engerman, Brandeis University
Panel 29: The U.S. Imagines the Muslim World Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California at Santa Barbara Sold Out? U.S. Foreign Policy and the Kurdish Revolt, 1972-1975 Bryan Gibson, London School of Economics Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, & Afghanistan: A Historical Analysis of “Freedom” in U.S. Foreign Policy Andrew Hammond, University of Warwick Condemning “Gender Apartheid”: The Taliban, Feminist Activism, and the Clinton Administration Kelly Shannon, LaSalle University Comment: Salim Yaqub
Panel 30: Sacred Foundations: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Chair: Seth Jacobs, Boston College The American Century in the Service of the Human Millennium: Woodrow Wilson, the League of Nations, and Our Future Anarchy Matthew Phillips, Kent State University The American Origins of International Religious Freedom Anna Su, Harvard Law School Belief in Belief: American Views of Religion and U.S. Relations with Saudi Arabia in the 1950s Rian Bobal, Texas A&M University Jimmy Carter and the Role of Religion in the Camp David Accords Darren J. McDonald, Boston College Comment: Steven P. Miller, Webster University
Panel 31: Gender and the New Biography: Lives and Careers of Women Diplomats, 1924 – 1970 Chair: Charles Stuart Kennedy, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training “Women are not Adapted to this Sort of Work”: Adventures of the First American Female Diplomat Molly Wood, Wittenberg University Gender and Consular Work: The Life and Diplomatic Career of Constance Ray Harvey Beatrice McKenzie, Beloit College Maria Wierna and Dao Thi Tom: Polish and Vietnamese Women in the World of Cold War Diplomacy and Beyond Margaret Gnoinska, Troy University Comment: Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University
Panel 32: The American Way of Law in War since the 1890s Chair: Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University The United States and the Laws of War at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Brian Cuddy, Cornell University The Struggle to Fight a Humane War: The United States, the Korean War, and the 1949 Geneva Conventions Sahr Conway-Lanz, Yale University Non-Combatants and the American Ways of War Neta Crawford, Boston University Comment: Mary Dudziak, University of Southern California
Panel 33: Between Colonialism and Cold War: The United States and Southeast Asia Chair: Bradley R. Simpson, Princeton University “Partly Disguised Imperialism”: Critical American Reactions to the 1946 Transfer of Power and the Early Years of Philippine Independence Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University When America Remained at Peace: The Cognitive Calculus Theory of Decision-Making and Indochina, 1953-1954 Lori Helene Gronich, George Washington University “We Had Principles, We Had Sympathies, and We Had Hopes”: The United States and Indonesia, 1945-1947 Irene Vrinte, Cornell University Comment: Bradley R. Simpson
Panel 34: FRUS In The World, Part One: New Research on the Foreign Relations of the United States Series, The Long Nineteenth Century Chair: William B. McAllister, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Publicizing Foreign Relations in Time of War: The Foundation of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series Aaron W. Marrs, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State “Charming Volumes for Summer Outings”: FRUS and the Transformation of American Foreign Policy, 1870-1900 Comment: Howard Jones, University of Alabama J.C.A. Stagg, University of Virginia
Panel 35: Roundtable: Bearing the Burden: John F. Kennedy at 50 Years Chair: Stephen G. Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas Marc Selverstone, University of Virginia Doug Little, Clark University Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, San Diego State University Isabelle Vagnoux, Aix-Marseille Université Jennifer Walton, Granite State College
Panel 36: Pacific Collisions and Collusions: From the Manchurian Crisis to the Early Cold War Chair: Arnold A. Offner, Lafayette College The Desperate Diplomat: Saburo Kurusu and the Pacific War, November-December 1941 J. Garry Clifford, University of Connecticut, and Masako Rachel Okura, Columbus State University Fidgeting over Foreign Policy: Henry L. Stimson and the Mukden Incident of 1931 Michael E. Chapman, University of Beijing Bridging the Pacific: The Ideological Underpinnings of the U.S.-Australian Relationship, 1933-1953 Travis Hardy, University of Tennessee Comment: Justus Doenecke, The New College of the University of South Florida
BREAK: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Refreshments served in the Terrace Ballroom
Session V: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Panel 37: Nuclear Diplomacy – Nuclear Defense Chair: William Burr, National Security Archive About Creating and Maintaining Nuclear Deals: American-German Nuclear Relations from the NPT to SALT to NATO’s Dual Track Decision (1967-1982) Oliver Bange, MGFA, Potsdam European Nuclear Decision-Making? The United States, Nuclear Non-Proliferation and the European Option, 1968-1974 Ralph Dietl, Queen’s University Belfast NATO Modernization at the Time of Détente: A Test of Ambiguity? Marilena Gala, University Rome III NATO’s Strategic Change: A West German Dilemma Dieter Krüger, MGFA, Potsdam Comment: William Burr
Panel 38: The United States and Israel, 1957-1973: Diplomacy and Strategy From the West Bank to the Red Sea Chair: Sonja Wentling, Concordia College “An Existential Issue:” Israel, America and the West Bank’s Future, 1957-1967 Avshalom Rubin, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Fear of Peace: Israel’s Foreign Policy of Deception in the Aftermath of the June 1967 Six Day War Avi Raz, University of Oxford The United States and Israel, 1958-1973: Red Sea Strategy Zach Levey, University of Haifa; University of Colorado at Boulder Comment: Sonja Wentling
Panel 39: America From the Outside: Transnational and International Perspectives Sponsored by the SHAFR Membership Committee Chair: Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder Doing Business with Colonels: The Nixon Administration’s Response to Boumediene’s Petroleum Nationalisations of 1971 Mohammed L. Ghettas, London School of Economics “Hardship Cases” and Migrant Aid Agencies: The National Conference of Social Work and the International Conference of Private Organisations for the Protection of Migrants, 1924-1928 Yuki Oda, Columbia University U.N., U.S. and NYC: Global, National and Local Implications of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, 1945-1946 Tilman Pietz, University of Köln Comment: Yujin Yaguchi, University of Tokyo Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna Michael Hopkins, University of Liverpool
Panel 40: Roundtable: History and Moral Responsibility Chair: John Prados, National Security Archive Robert McMahon, Ohio State University Mike Sherry, Northwestern University Marc Jason Gilbert, Hawaii Pacific University Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University
Panel 41: Putting Faith in the American Century: Francis Miller’s Lost Cause Chair: Dianne Kirby, University of Ulster “No Ordinary War”: Francis Pickens Miller, Operation Sussex, and the Shadow War Against Hitler Rorin Platt, Independent Historian Francis P. Miller and the Rise of American Atlanticism, 1930-1950 Emiliano Alessandri, Brookings Institution A Higher Form of Collectivism: Francis Miller’s Love/Hate Relationship with America Mark Edwards, Spring Arbor University Comment: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
Panel 42: The Politics of U.S. Military Assistance to Latin America, 1953-1970 Chair: Hal Brands, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Counterinsurgency on the Pampas: U.S.-Argentine Military Relations, 1960-1970 William Michael Schmidli, Bucknell University The Bombs of September: Eisenhower, Foreign Aid and the Breakdown of U.S.-Cuba Relations, 1957-1958 Jorge Rivera Marín, Cornell University Foreign Aid as Militarization: Developmentalism and the Making of the 1964 Bolivian Coup d’État Thomas Field, London School of Economics and Political Science Comment: Hal Brands
Panel 43: FRUS In The World, Part Two: New Research on the Foreign Relations of the United States Series, The Twentieth Century in Comparative Perspective Chair: Michael J. Hogan, University of Illinois “A Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened”: The Politics of the Yalta FRUS “The War of Documents” and the Professionalization of the Editor’s Work: A Comparative View Sacha Zala, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences Comment: Richard Immerman, Temple University Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, San Diego State University
Panel 44: Asian Allies and Asian Foes: Emerging American Visions of Cold War Asia Chair: Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University Reconstructing Orientals: Friendship, Foreign Aid, and the Missionary Legacy in Cold War South Korea Sang Chi, Santa Clara University “Why?” is for Yalta: Deconstructing the Right’s Critique of Postwar Settlement in East Asia Joyce Mao, Middlebury College To the Edge and Back: Communist China’s Entry into the Korean War and U.S. Political Culture, 1950-1951 Kevin Y. Kim, Stanford University Comment: Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu, Michigan State University
Panel 45: Traffic: The Movement of Commodities Across Borders Chair: Serge Ricard, Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Paris III Sweet Land of Contraband: Sugar Smuggling and America’s Outward State, 1865-1901 Andrew Wender Cohen, Syracuse University Transnational Movement(s): Trade in, Opposition to, and Control of Opium in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1890-1940 Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University American Sportsmen Behaving Badly: The Regulation of Illicit Hunting and Collecting Overseas, 1900-1934 Noah Cincinnati, Johns Hopkins University Comment: Serge Ricard
PLENARY SESSION: 6:00-8:00 PM (Plaza Ballroom B) The WikiLeaks Phenomenon and U.S. Foreign Relations Scott Shane, Washington Bureau Chief, New York Times Tom Blanton, Director, National Security Archive Daniel Baer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University
SATURDAY, 25 JUNE 2011 SHAFR Breakfast: 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM (Walnut Room) 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. Book Exhibit: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Terrace Ballroom) Registration: 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Dogwood Room) Refreshments: 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Terrace Ballroom) Membership Committee Meeting: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Laurel Room)
Session VI: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Panel 46: Aftermath of War: The Politicization of Personal and Social Relations in the United States After the Korean War Chair: Michael Allen, Northwestern University Battling the Military Jim Crow: Thurgood Marshall and the Racial Politics of the NAACP during the Korean War Lu Sun, Vanderbilt University Pied Piper Leads Orphans to the United States: Rescuing Korean Orphans through Intercountry Adoption Hannah Kim, University of Delaware Institutionalizing Cold War Worldview during the Korean War Period Masuda Hajimu, Cornell University Comment: Gregg Brazinsky, George Washington University
Panel 47: Decolonization, Cold War and the Assault on the Vietnamese Body: Socio-Cultural Approaches Chair: Mark Bradley, University of Chicago “Hell in a Very Small Place”: Cold War and Modern Warfare’s Assault on the Southern Body, The Case of Dien Bien Phu Christopher Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal Cold War in a Vietnamese Village Heonik Kwon, London School of Economics The Violated Vietnamese Body in the Mekong Delta, 1945-54 Shawn McHale, George Washington University Comment: Mark Bradley
Panel 48: Zen Masters, War Brides, and a Kamikaze Pilot: The Role of Interpersonal Relations in Furthering Peace Between the U.S. and Japan After World War II Chair: Naoko Shibusawa, BrownUniversity Immigrating with Japanese Culture: Japanese War Brides and the “Japan Boom” in 1950s America Masako Nakamura, University of Connecticut Lost in Translation: Japanese Fulbright Students as Cultural Interpreters Shuji Otsuka, North Central College Zen Is Not A Cult: The First Zen Institute and America’s Zen Boom of 1957-1960 Meghan Warner Mettler, Towson University Comment: Naoko Shibusawa
Panel 49: Lions, Liaisons, and Lectures, Oh My! Anticolonial Engagements in Cold War America Chair: Thomas (”Tim”) Borstelmann, University of Nebraska Imperial Nostalgia: Zoo Keeping, Animal Dealing, and African Liberation in the Early Cold War John M. Kinder, Oklahoma State University Meeting with the Enemy: Women Strike for Peace’s Tactics to End the War in Vietnam, 19651968 Jessica M. Frazier, Binghamton University Kennedy’s Balancing Act: The Black Freedom Struggle, the Fourth Dimension of Foreign Policy, and Portugal’s African Territories Carla R. Stephens, Temple University Comment: Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University
Panel 50: Expect the Unexpected: Americans in Germany during the Cold War Chair: Martin Klimke, German Historical Institute Post-1945 and Pre-Cold War: Cold War Conflicts and the American Prosecution of Germany’s Forced Labour Past Christiane Grieb, University College London “A Net Gain”: The Changing Role of U.S. Military Families in Germany during the Cold War Emily Swafford, University of Chicago “A Million Roses for Angela Davis”: The German Democratic Republic’s Solidarity Campaign for Angela Davis Sophie Lorenz, University of Heidelberg Comment: Martin Klimke
Panel 51: Oil Shocks: The Transnational Dimensions of Oil in the 1970s Chair: David Painter, Georgetown University Oil Sheikhs and the New Arabians: American Perceptions of Saudi Arabia in the 1970s Paul Baltimore, University of California, Santa Barbara “Toward a Stable Peace and Expanding Prosperity”: Détente and the Oil Crisis Kathleen Barr, Texas A&M University A Higher Purpose: Oil and Finance in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1973 – 1976 Christopher R.W. Dietrich, University of Texas at Austin The United States, Saudi Arabia, and the Oil Crisis Victor McFarland, Yale University Comment: David Painter Nathan J. Citino, Colorado State University
Panel 52: Why Did They Like the United States? Pro-Americanism in War and Peace During the Twentieth Century Chair: James I. Matray, California State University, Chico Alliance, Modernization, and the Pro-American Moment in Turkey, 1945-1954 Barin Kayaoğlu, University of Virginia Pro-Americanism, Economic Nationalism, and U. S. Relations with Brazil, 1937-1952 Andrew J. Kirkendall, Texas A&M University Re-Examining Pro-Americanism in Post-World War I Greater Syria Andrew J. Patrick, University of Manchester and Zayed University “The inspiration for movements toward free and responsible government”: Early Cold War Uses of the Gettysburg Address Jared Peatman, Texas A&M University Comment: James I. Matray
Panel 53: Geopolitics and Military Operations against Non-state Actors in the Maritime Borderlands of the Early Republic Chair: Chris Tudda, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State The Monroe Administration and the U.S. Invasion of Amelia Island, East Florida: Reexamining the Foreign Relations of the Early Republic David Head, University of Central Florida Army Operations against Non-state Actors: Peacekeeping, Law Enforcement, and the Extension of U.S. Sovereignty along the Southern Maritime Frontier, 1810-1830 Samuel Watson, United States Military Academy The First Crisis: Nootka Sound and the Founders’ Competing Conceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy Jeffrey J. Malanson, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Comment: Chris Tudda
Panel 54: Stuck in the Middle with You: Cuba-Canada-United States Relations, 1959-1964 Chair: Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., Ohio Northern University Canada, the United States and Cuba: The Triangular Relationship through Cuban Diplomatic History, 1959-1962 Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, University of Havana “Stuck in the middle with you”: Canadian Mediation Efforts and the U.S.-Cuba Dispute Asa McKercher, University of Cambridge Bridging the Breech: Canadian-U.S. Cooperation on Cuba after the Missile Crisis, 1962-1964 John M. Dirks, University of Toronto Comment: John Prados, National Security Archive
LUNCHEON: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Plaza Ballroom B – tickets required) The Origins of the Bush Doctrine Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University
Session VII: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Panel 55: Body/Nation: The Global Realms of U.S. Body Politics, Panel I: Representations of Bodies in Transnational Media Chair: Emily S. Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine Moral, Purposeful, and Healthful: Superlative Circus Bodies, and the World of Child’s Play Janet M. Davis, University of Texas at Austin Pulp Empire Shanon Fitzpatrick, University of California, Irvine “The Most Beautiful Chinese Girl in the World”: Anna May Wong’s Global Cinematic Modernity Shirley Jennifer Lim, State University of New York at Stony Brook Comment: Emily S. Rosenberg
Panel 56: The Internationalist Interregnum: Revising the American Narrative from the Great War to the Great Depression Chair: Erez Manela, Harvard University A League for the Layperson: Popular Internationalism and the American Treaty Fight, 1918-1922 Trygve Throntveit, Harvard University “To Make War No More”: Rethinking Varieties of Isolationist Neutralism between the World Wars Christopher McKnight Nichols, University of Pennsylvania Spanish Shipping Agents and the Pitfalls of American Neutrality during the 1930s Brooke Blower, Boston University Comment: Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panel 57: Roundtable: Technology and U.S. Foreign Relations Chair: Jenifer Van Vleck, Yale University Michael Adas, Rutgers University at New Brunswick Nick Cullather, Indiana University Daniel Headrick, Roosevelt University John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology Jonathan Reed Winkler, Wright State University
Panel 58: Negotiating from Weakness: Grassroots Activists, Nongovernmental Organizations and U.S. Power during the Cold War Chair: Ryan Irwin, Yale University “A Lethal Environment:” The Ideological Content and Global Compass of the British Antinuclear Movement, 1957-1963 Jonathan R. Hunt, University of Texas at Austin Shattering the Consensus: Grassroots Opposition to America’s First ABM System, 1967-1969 James Cameron, Cambridge University Conflict at Sunagawa: Public Protest, Alliance Relations and the Mediation of U.S. Power in Japan, 1952-1960 Jennifer M. Miller, University of Wisconsin, Madison Comment: Paul H. Rubinson, University of South Florida
Panel 59: Roundtable: Teaching Anniversaries: From 1921 to 9/11 and Other Stops Along the Way: Using Anniversaries to Teach Broader Ideas in U.S. Diplomatic History Sponsored by the SHAFR Teaching Committee Chair: Mark A. Stoler, University of Vermont and The George C. Marshall Foundation Nicole Phelps, University of Vermont Phyllis Soybel, College of Lake County Warren Kimball, Rutgers University Chester Pach, Ohio University Michael Donoghue, Marquette University Clea E. Bunch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Panel 60: Roundtable: The United States and the Americas: Hemispheric Perspectives Chair: Lester D. Langley, University of Georgia Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma María Cristina García, Cornell University David M. K. Sheinin, Trent University Tanya Harmer, London School of Economics Robert A. Pastor, American University Comment: Lester D. Langley The Audience
Panel 61: JFK and Africa: A View from the Outside Chair: Andy DeRoche, Front Range Community College The Right (or Left) Way of Thinking: The International Conservative Response to the Kennedy Administration’s Foreign Policy in the Congo Crisis, 1961-1963 William T. Mountz, University of Missouri “A Friend in Europe, an Enemy in Africa”: Portugal and Kennedy’s African Policy Luís Rodrigues, ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute The View from Pretoria: Apartheid South Africa’s View of JFK’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders Phil Muehlenbeck, George Washington University “Support to the Wrong Negroes”: LBJ and Africa during the Kennedy Years James Meriwether, California State University, Channel Islands Comment: Tim Scarnecchia, Kent State University
Panel 62: The War on Plants: Or How Diplomatic History Learned to Love Nature Chair: Kurk Dorsey, University of New Hampshire Engaging Nature: Herbicides, Drug Control, and the Environment in the U.S.-Mexican Drug War, 1970-78 Daniel Weimer, Wheeling Jesuit University Roots and All: Using Phenoxy Herbicides to Control Weeds – and Communists – in the Early 1960s Evelyn Krache Morris, Georgetown University The Invention of Ecocide David B. Zierler, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Comment: Kurk Dorsey
Panel 63: The Civil War’s Diplomacy of Trade and Investment Chair: Duncan Campbell, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The Confederacy’s Diplomacy of Free Trade: Reconsidering the Transatlantic Tariff Debate, 1861-1865 Marc-William Palen, University of Texas at Austin International Trade in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Case for Transatlantic Peace Niels Eichorn, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Prussian Funding of the Union War Effort, 1860-61 Shawn McAvoy, Arizona State University Comment: Duncan Campbell
BREAK: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Refreshments served in the Terrace Ballroom
Session VIII: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Panel 64: Body/Nation: The Global Realms of U.S. Body Politics, Panel II: Bodies as National Metaphors Chair: Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne “The Olympics’ Prettiest Champion”: Vicki Manolo Draves and the Spectacle of Racial Hybridity and Cold War Liberalism Mary Lui, Yale University Making Broken Bodies Whole in a Shell-Shocked World Annessa Stagner, University of California, Irvine The American Look: White Women’s Bodies as Cold War Projections Emily S. Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine Comment: Barbara Keys
Panel 65: The United States Military in a New World Chair: Marc Gallicchio, Villanova University One Strategy Fits All: Air Power Advocates’ Efforts to Shape Postwar American Foreign Policy through Popular Culture Steven Call, Broome Community College Decolonizing the U.S. Army: The Last Days of the Philippine Scouts, 1945-1947 Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Transitions: War, Peace, and Cold War at the United States Naval War College, 1945- 1947 Hal Friedman, Henry Ford Community College Comment: Mark Stoler, University of Vermont
Panel 66: Roundtable: Bringing the Law Back In: New Approaches to the History of the U.S. in the World Chair: Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College Benjamin Coates, Columbia University Allison Brownell Tirres, DePaul University College of Law Robert McGreevey, The College of New Jersey
Panel 67: Beyond Modernization: Non-State Actors and International Development in the Twentieth Century Chair: Bradley R. Simpson, Princeton University A Challenge from the South: Global Civil Society and the Formation of Alternative Development Thinking during the 1970s Victor Nemchenok, University of Virginia “From the Freeland of Angola”: Global Politics, Congregational Missions, and Angolan Anti-Colonialism in the Post-War Era Kate Burlingham, California State University, Fullerton Planning a Miracle Dayna Barnes, London School of Economics Small is Beautiful: Environmental NGOs, Appropriate Technology, and International Development in the 1970s Stephen Macekura, University of Virginia Comment: Nick Cullather, Indiana University
Panel 68: Stopped at the Gate: Crime, Diplomacy, and Immigration Chair: Matt Heaton, Virginia Tech Diplomacy behind Deportations: Rights of Residency and Responsibly under the Criminal Provisions of U.S. Deportation Policy Torrie Hester, Roanoke College Italians on the Move: American Immigration Restriction and Illegal Immigration from Italy Maddalena Marinari, American University Extraditing Immigrants, Deporting Criminals: International Crime Control in an Era of Anarchy and Revolution Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University Comment: Mark Choate, Brigham Young University
Panel 69: Unlikely Allies: U.S. Mercenaries, Conservative Catholics, and American Indian Movement Dissidents Wage the Contra War Chair: Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University “Kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out:” U.S. mercenaries bringing the Vietnam War to Central America Kathleen Belew, Yale University “The Pope is With Us”: The Reagan Administration and Its Catholic Allies Use Religion to Sell the Contras Theresa Keeley, Northwestern University A Fourth-World War? Nicaragua’s Contra War as a Battleground over Fourth World Politics, Indian Nations’ Foreign Relations, and the U.S. Left Kirsten Weld, Brandeis University Comment: Dustin Walcher
Panel 70: The USA and Southern Africa, 1965-1976 Chair: George White, York College at CUNY Kaunda’s Quandary: Zambia’s Response to UDI, 1965-1974 Will Bishop, Vanderbilt University “Within 24 Hours she’s going to do it or she’s going to be hung”: Jean Wilkowski and American Relations with Zambia, 1972-1976 Andy DeRoche, Front Range Community College “Short Attention Span Diplomacy”: Americans, Rhodesians, and Zimbabweans at the Geneva Talks, November-December, 1976 Tim Scarnecchia, Kent State University Comment: Eric Morgan, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
Panel 71: U.S.-Iran Relations during the Sixties and Seventies Chair: Doug Little, Clark University A Ford, Not a Nixon: The Failure of the U.S.-Iran Nuclear Negotiations, 1974-1976 Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics and Political Science U.S.-Iran Relations in the Sixties: From the “Verge of Collapse” to Gendarme of the Gulf Claudia Castiglioni, University of Florence “Is the Emperor Fully Clothed?”: The Iranian Student Movement and Transnational Human Rights Organizing Matthew Shannon, Temple University Comment: James Goode, Grand Valley State University
Panel 72: American Détente and German Ostpolitik in the 1970s Chair: Poul Villaume, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen The Repercussions of the West German Ostpolitik in Scandinavia Karl Christian Lammers, Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen Trade as Blessing or Curse? The Implications of East-West Energy Trade on Détente in the 1970s Werner D. Lippert, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Robert O. Faith, Indiana University of Pennsylvania GDR Espionage and Ostpolitik Oliver Bange, Institute for Military History, Potsdam Competing American Strategies for Détente and their Interplay with Ostpolitik Stephan Kieninger, Mannheim University Comment: Poul Villaume
SOCIAL EVENT: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Clambake at Foster’s at National Harbor. Tickets required. Please see conference website for details. |