SHAFR 2012 Annual MeetingRevolutionary AftermathsThursday, June 28, 2012 - 9:00am to Saturday, June 30, 2012 - 5:00pm This webpage has been deactivated but is being preserved for archival purposes. Conference ProgramNOTE: the program below has had some minor revisions since it was posted.
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/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(link is external) Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut Rick Warren Invocation at the Inauguration of Barack Obama Click here to read the text.(link is external) Melani McAlister, George Washington University Comment: Mark Bradley Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
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 Michael J. Hogan, University of Illinois 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.
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. |