VIRTUAL CONFERENCE JUNE 17-20
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SOCIETY FOR 21 HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS WELCOME
Megan Black, Ryan Irwin, and I are very pleased to share the program for this year's Annual Meeting. The conference will run on Eastern Daylight Time and it will be free for all SHAFR members.
The sessions will be organized around eighteen themes, and we will have a variety of conversations and lectures each day. The Pheedloop website will launch in May, but this pamphlet offers a preview of what to expect.
We look forward to seeing you in June.
Best, Andrew Preston VARIATIONS ON A THEME
THURSDAY EMPIRE - STRATEGY - RIGHTS - RELIGION
FRIDAY RACE - SECURITY - LAW - IDEAS - DOMESTIC POLITICS
SATURDAY DECOLONIZATION - WAR - SCI-TECH - CAPITALISM - MIGRATION
SUNDAY BORDERS - DIPLOMACY - DEVELOPMENT - GENDER & SEXUALITY FEATURED EVENTS EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME
T H U R S D A Y 1 2 : 0 0 R E A D I N G F O R E M P I R E L E G A C I E S O F A M Y K A P L A N
L O O K I N G B A C K 6 : 3 0 A T R I B U T E T O W A L T E R L A F E B E R
F R I D A Y B E R N A T H L E C T U R E 1 2 : 0 0 J U L I A I R W I N
K E Y N O T E 6 : 3 0 V I E T T H A N H N G U Y E N
S A T U R D A Y P R E S I D E N T I A L A D D R E S S 1 2 : 0 0 A N D R E W P R E S T O N
K E Y N O T E 6 : 3 0 B A R B A R A D . S A V A G E
S U N D A Y L O O K I N G F O R W A R D 1 2 : 0 0 J O B M A R K E T & C A R E E R D I V E R S I T Y
T R I V I A N I G H T 6 : 3 0 THURSDAY
EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME
8:30 AM
WELCOME ANDREW PRESTON 10:15 AM
ROUNDTABLES EMPIRE - STRATEGY - RIGHTS - RELIGION 12:00 PM
READING FOR EMPIRE LEGACIES OF AMY'S KAPLAN'S SCHOLARSHIP 1:30 PM
PANELS EMPIRE - STRATEGY - RIGHTS - RELIGION 3:15 PM
PANELS EMPIRE - STRATEGY - RIGHTS - RELIGION 5:00 PM
PANELS EMPIRE - STRATEGY - RIGHTS - RELIGION 6:30 PM
A TRIBUTE TO WALTER F. LAFEBER AND HIS LEGACY FRIDAY
EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME
8:30 AM
PROMOTING YOUR BOOK IN A PANDEMIC
10:15 AM
ROUNDTABLES RACE - SECURITY - LAW - IDEAS - DOMESTIC POLITICS
12:00 PM
BERNATH LECTURE JULIA IRWIN
1:30 PM
PANELS RACE - SECURITY - LAW - IDEAS - DOMESTIC POLITICS
3:15 PM
PANELS RACE - SECURITY - LAW - IDEAS - DOMESTIC POLITICS
5:00 PM
PANELS RACE - SECURITY - LAW - IDEAS - DOMESTIC POLITICS
6:30 PM
VIET THANH NGUYEN KEYNOTE SATURDAY
EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME
8:30 AM
JOURNALS AFTER THE PANDEMIC
10:15 AM
ROUNDTABLES DECOLONIZATION - WAR - SCI-TECH - CAPITALISM - MIGRATION
12:00 PM
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ANDREW PRESTON
1:30 PM
PANELS DECOLONIZATION - WAR - SCI-TECH - CAPITALISM - MIGRATION
3:15 PM
PANELS DECOLONIZATION - WAR - SCI-TECH - CAPITALISM - MIGRATION
5:00 PM
PANELS DECOLONIZATION - WAR - SCI-TECH - CAPITALISM - MIGRATION
6:30 PM
BARBARA D. SAVAGE KEYNOTE SUNDAY
EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME
8:30 AM
WOMEN IN SHAFR - SHAFR TEACHING - SHAFR MENTORSHIP
10:15 AM
ROUNDTABLES BORDERS - DIPLOMACY - DEVELOPMENT - GENDER & SEXUALITY
12:00 PM
SHAFR SCHOLARS & CAREER DIVERSITY 1:30 PM
PANELS BORDERS - DIPLOMACY - DEVELOPMENT - GENDER & SEXUALITY
3:15 PM
PANELS BORDERS - DIPLOMACY - DEVELOPMENT - GENDER & SEXUALITY
5:00 PM
PANELS BORDERS - DIPLOMACY - DEVELOPMENT - GENDER & SEXUALITY
6:30 PM
TRIVIA EXTRAVAGANZA CONFERENCE BY THE HOUR 20 21 SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS SHAFR 2021 PROGRAM
THURSDAY JUNE 17 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 10:00-10:05 Welcome
Break 10:15-11:45 EMPIRE Empire as U.S. Foreign Relations
Monica Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair) Paula Chakravartty, New York University Laleh Kahlili, Queen Mary University of London Alfred McCoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mae Ngai, Columbia University
10:15-11:45 STRATEGY The Uses of Strategy
Daniel Sargent, University of California, Berkeley (chair) William Inboden, University of Texas-Austin Desmond Jagmohan, University of California, Berkeley Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University
10:15-11:45 RIGHTS The Future of Human Rights
Sarah Snyder, American University (chair) Laura Belmonte, Virginia Tech University Tiffany N. Florvil, University of New Mexico John Kinder, Oklahoma State University Sushma Raman, Harvard University William F. Schulz, Harvard University
10:15-11:45 RELIGION Religion and Foreign Relations: “Good Works” In Progress and the State of the Field
Lauren Turek, Trinity University (chair) Melissa Borja, University of Michigan Michael Cangemi, United States Military Academy Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University Christina Davidson, Harvard University
Break 12:00-1:15 Reading for Empire: Legacies of Amy Kaplan’s Scholarship
Shaul Mitelpunkt, University of York (chair) Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University “Empire” Kariann Akemi Yokota, University of Colorado-Denver “Interdisciplinarity” Penny Von Eschen, University of Virginia “Culture” Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara “Palestine and Israel” Melani McAlister, George Washington University “Gender”
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THURSDAY JUNE 17 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 1:30-2:45 STRATEGY Rethinking Foundational Documents in U.S. Grand Strategy
William Inboden, University of Texas-Austin, (chair) Grant Golub, London School of Economics, “Victory Program” Joseph Stieb, Ohio State University, “Long Telegram and the X Article” Angus Reilly, King’s College London, “Rethinking the White Revolutionary: Kissinger, Bismarck and the Riddle of Stability” Mary Elizabeth Walters, Kansas State University, “1990 and 1994 National Security Strategies”
1:30-2:45 RIGHTS New Directions in the Histories of Humanitarianism and Human Rights
Jana Lipman, Tulane University (chair) Julia Irwin, University of South Florida Elisabeth Piller, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg E. Kyle Romero, Dartmouth College Amanda Demmer, Virginia Tech
1:30-2:45 RELIGION The Moral Empire at Large: Religion and the Diplomacy of Colonialism and Decolonization in Central Africa
Frank Gerits, Utrecht University (chair) Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, University of Warwick, “Thinking Christianity through Intermedial Interventions: Aanza, Baloji and Fiston” Pedro Monaville, New York University-Abu Dhabi, “Mao, Lumumba, and the Decolonization of the Catholic Church in the Congo” Eva Schalbroeck, Utrecht University, “Unsettling the ‘Church-State Alliance’ in the Belgian Congo: Tensions between Colonial Nationalism and Religious Internationalism among Missionaries” Christopher Gallien Tounsel, Pennsylvania State University (comment)
1:30-2:45 RELIGION Protestant Internationalism, Race, and the United States, 1900-1950
Uta Balbier, King’s College London (chair) Tom Smith, University of Cambridge, “‘The Oriental Mills Grind Slowly’: Disappointment, Race, and Social Science among U.S. Protestant Missionaries to the Philippines in Early 20th Century Nicole de Silva, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Adventuring in Peace and Goodwill: Visions of Race and Internationalism in Liberal Protestant 'Peace Education' Programs, 1922- 1929” Daniel Geary, Trinity College Dublin, “Liberal Protestants and the Origins of ‘Integration’” Gene Zubovich, University at Buffalo-SUNY (comment)
Break 3:15-4:30 EMPIRE Empires in Tension: Case Studies of Samoa, Liberia, and the Caribbean in Transimperial Histories
April Merleaux, Hampshire College (chair and comment) Gerard Llorens DeCesaris, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “Ideas of Empire: Spain and the U.S. during the Grant Administration” Amelia Flood, Saint Louis University, “One ‘Mand,’ One Vote?: Women’s Suffrage Between Empires in the U.S. Virgin Islands” Barbara Franchi, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, “Converging and Conflicting Imperialist Interests at Stake: The U.S.-Liberia Relationship and the Forced Labor Scandal” Tyler Miller, Independent Scholar, “More Than Just A Storm: The Samoan Crisis of 1889”
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THURSDAY JUNE 17 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 3:15-4:30 STRATEGY Haigiography: New Perspectives on Al Haig after Forty Years
Evan McCormick, Columbia University (chair) Susan Colbourn, Johns Hopkins, “The Trials and Tribulations of Alexander Haig in Transatlantic Perspective” Simon Miles, Duke University, “In Control Here: Alexander Haig, Ronald Reagan, and US-Soviet Relations” Rob Rakove, Stanford University, “’We Should Not Miss an Opportunity to Return the Favor,’: Haig Approaches Afghanistan” Jonathan Hunt, US Air War College, “Realism, Reagan, and China: Alexander Haig’s Quixotic Quest to Militarize Relations with Beijing” Evan McCormick, Columbia University (comment) 3:15-4:30 RIGHTS Peaceniks of the World Unite! Transnational Activism in the Late Cold War
Sarah Snyder, American University (chair) Stephanie Freeman, Mississippi State University, “Trials of Coordination: U.S. Nuclear Freeze Movement, European Nuclear Disarmament, and the Struggle to Transcend the Arms Race” Brian Mueller, Independent Scholar, “With a Little Help From My Friends: Solidarity Activists and Reagan’s Hidden War in El Salvador” William Michael Schmidli, Leiden University, “Winter Soldiers in the Tropics: Vietnam Veterans and Central American Peace Activism in the 1980s” Petra Goedde, Temple University (comment)
3:15-4:30 RELIGION American Protestants in the 20th Century World
Mark Thomas Edwards, Spring Arbor University (chair) Mirna Wasef, University of California-San Diego, “American Protestants and the Changing Middle East: Missionaries and Egyptian Nation Making in the 20th Century” Ian Van Dyke, University of Notre Dame, “American Missionaries, the Cold War, and Evangelical Third Worldism” Mark Thomas-Paterson, George Washington University, “John Bull’s Other Island: Christianity Today‘s coverage of the Troubles in Northern Ireland” Lauren Turek, Trinity University (comment) Break 5:00-6:15 EMPIRE Detention as a Tool of Empire: US Carceral Colonialism in Haiti and Southeast Asia
Colleen Woods, University of Maryland-College Park (chair) April Mayes, Pomona College, “From Guantanamo to Tijuana: Carceral Archipelagos and Haitian (Im)mobilities in Contemporary Migrations across the Americas” Richard Nisa, Farleigh Dickinson University, “Computation and Resistance in Cold War Detention Infrastructures” Karen Miller, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY, “Carceral Mobilities: The Iwahig Penal Colony, the Philippines, and Interisland Labor Migration” Andrea Morrell, Guttman Community College-CUNY (comment) 5:00-6:15 EMPIRE Erasure in the Everyday: The Violence of Cold War U.S. Exceptionalism across the Pacific
Brad Simpson, University of Connecticut (chair) Carleigh Beriont, Harvard University, “‘In God’s Hands’: Christianity, Exceptionalism, and Marshallese Responses to Operation Crossroads and Postwar U.S. Imperialism in the Pacific” Christopher Hulshof, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “A Simulacrum of Change: An Analysis of Crisis Points in the Proliferation of U.S. Global Hegemony” Kristin Oberiano, Harvard University, “Newly American: U.S. Citizenship as Settler Militarism in Cold War Guam” Lauren Hirshberg, Regis University, (comment)
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THURSDAY JUNE 17 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 5:00-6:15 STRATEGY New Evidence on U.S. German Relations after World War II
James Hershberg, George Washington University (chair) Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center Thomas Boghardt, U.S. Army Center of Military History Hope Harrison, George Washington University (comment) Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University (comment)
5:00-6:15 RIGHTS Human Rights Crises of the Cold War
Carl Bon Tempo, University at Albany-SUNY (chair) Molly Avery, London School of Economics, “Transnational Anticommunist Networks and the 1980 U.S. Presidential Election: Latin American Influence on Ronald Reagan’s campaign platform” Cody Foster, University of Kentucky, “Against the Crime of Silence”: The International War Crimes Tribunal and Anti- Genocidal Rhetoric During the Vietnam War” Nicholas DeAntonis, Fordham University, “‘Bogeyman of Bricker:’ The Eisenhower Administration’s Retreat from the United Nations” Vanessa Walker, Amherst College (comment)
5:00-6:15 RELIGION Missionaries and the International History of Asia
Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University (chair) Hannah Kim, University of Delaware, “Missionaries and Intercountry Adoption from Korea” Minami Nishioka, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, “Mission Work and Japan’s Colonization of Okinawa: Intimacies between the U.S. and Japanese Empires” Matthew Shannon, Emory and Henry College, “Reexamining U.S.-Iran Relations through the Cold War Mission” Heather Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania (comment)
Break
6:30-7:45 A Tribute to Walter F. LaFeber and His Legacy
Richard Immerman, Temple University (chair) Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut-Storrs Anne Foster, Indiana State University Lorena Oropeza, University of California-Davis Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (comment)
Break
8:00-9:00 Graduate Student Happy Hour
Vivien Chang, University of Virginia (chair) Shaun Armstead, Rutgers University (chair)
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FRIDAY JUNE 18 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 8:30-9:45 Promoting Your Book in a Pandemic
Susan Ferber, Oxford University Press Mary Beth Jarrad, New York University Press Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University Rachel Rokicki, Penguin Random House Emily Tobin, Oxford University Press
Break 10:15-11:45 RACE Race and American Empire
Brandon Byrd, Vanderbilt University (chair) Keisha Blain, University of Pittsburgh Gerald Horne, University of Houston Ronald Angelo Johnson, Baylor University Michael Krenn, Appalachian State University Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:15-11:45 SECURITY Fresh Perspectives On and Against Security
Stuart Schrader, John Hopkins University (chair) Charisse Burden-Stelly, Carleton College Tejasvi Nagaraja, Cornell University Wen-Qing Ngoei, Singapore Management University Guillermina Seri, Union College
10:15-11:45 LAW Law and U.S. Foreign Relations
Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University (chair) Afroditi Giovanopoulou, Columbia University Samuel Moyn, Yale University Allison Powers Useche, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:15-11:45 IDEAS The Origins of U.S. Hegemony: When Did Ruling the World Start Seeming Like the Right Idea?
Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University (chair) Kate Epstein, University of Rutgers-Camden Aziz Rana, Cornell University Stephen Wertheim, Quincy Institute
10:15-11:45 DOMESTIC Domestic and International Approaches in U.S. Foreign Relations History POLITICS Kenneth Osgood, Colorado School of Mines (chair) Nicole Hemmer, Columbia University Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University Erez Manela, Harvard University Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney
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FRIDAY JUNE 18 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME
12:00-1:15 Bernath Lecture
Julia Irwin, University of South Florida, “Our Climatic Moment: Hazarding a History of the United States and the World”
Break 1:30-2:45 RACE Policing the Global Empire: Race, Incarceration, and U.S. National Security from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Nicholas Guyatt, Cambridge University (chair) Michelle Paranzino, U.S. Naval War College, “Reagan’s War on Drugs” Ritica Ramesh, University of British Colombia, “The Cold War and the Administration of Torture: A Case Study of the Vietnam War” Benjamin Linzy, Marquette University, “The Trial of Chief Malik: Community, Domestic Terrorism, and Foreign Policy in the Prosecution of an El-Rukn” Karine Walther, Georgetown University-Qatar (comment)
1:30-2:45 SECURITY Redefining Security and Insecurity in the Late Cold War
Penny Von Eschen, University of Virginia (chair) Robin Möser, University of Leipzig, “The Next Nuclear Weapons State? US Intelligence and the Final Years of South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program, 1985-1993” Sara Awartani, Harvard University, “Puerto Rico, Palestine, and U.S. Terrorist Imaginaries of the Late Cold War” B. Jared Pack, University of Arkansas, “No Interests in the Islands: The Falklands/Malvinas War and the Anglo-American Idea of National Security” John Perry, University of Kentucky, “The Limits of State Power: The United States, the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian Refugees, and Syria’s Ethnic Minorities, 1945-1954” Justin Mann, Northwestern University (comment)
1:30-2:45 SECURITY Seeing Through the Shadow of the Future: Anticipatory Approaches to US Foreign Policymaking
Michael S. Goodman, King’s College London (chair) Maria A. Robson, Northeastern University, “Intelligence Cooperation in Asymmetric Alliances” Christian Dayé, Graz University of Technology, “Playing Oracles: Cultures of Prediction in the Cold War National Security State” Roland Popp, Military Academy at ETH Zurich,” Predicting Trouble: Anticipating Foreign Crises and the Short-Lived Experiment of the Contingency Coordinating Committee” Michael S. Goodman, King’s College London (comment)
1:30-2:45 LAW The History and Future of the Liberal International Order: A Discussion between Historians and Scholars of International Relations
Kimber Quinney, California State University-San Marcos (chair) Frank Gavin, John Hopkins University Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Texas A&M University G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University Alessandro Quarenghi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University
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FRIDAY JUNE 18 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 1:30-2:45 IDEAS Centering Children and Youth in U.S. Foreign Relations
Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University (chair) Katherine Cartwright, College of William and Mary, “‘Our Own League of Nations’: American Youth and U.S. Expansion Between the World Wars” Susan Eckelmann Berghel, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, “‘Before the Eyes of the Whole World?’: Cold War Youth, Civil Rights Champions, and the Idea of U.S. Democracy” Edgar Liao, University of British Columbia, “Cold War Youth: American Developmental Assistance in the Making of Youth in 1950s Singapore” Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University (comment)
1:30-2:45 DOMESTIC U.S. Lobbyists, Party Politics, and Everyday Americans in International Affairs POLITICS Kaeten Mistry, University of East Anglia (chair) Charles W. Brackett, Independent Scholar, “Is it Time to Revisit the Interventionists?” Lori Helene Gronich, George Washington University, “Domestic Politics and the Breakdown of the ANZUS Alliance: The Reagan Years” Grace Headinger, Harvard University, “Domestic Politics and the Breakdown of the ANZUS Alliance: The Reagan Years” Talbot Imlay, Université Laval, “The Atlantic Union Committee, Political Lobbying, and Atlanticsm during the 1950s” Gretchen Heefner, Northeastern University (comment)
Break 3:15-4:30 RACE Radicals, Reactionaries, and Reformers in the Global Cold War
Thomas ‘Tim’ Borstelmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (chair) Uzma Quraishi, Sam Houston State University, “Jim Crow in the Third World: Racial Solidarity as the Legacy of Empire” Emmaia Gelman, New York University, “After ‘Cold War Civil Rights’: Hate Crimes Laws and Neoconservative Middle East Policy” Mattie Webb, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace” Alexandre Moreli, University of São Paulo, “Tropical Atlantism and the New Post-Second World War Order” Tejasvi Nagaraja, Cornell University (comment)
3:15-4:30 SECURITY The Security Apparatus in Transition: Private Contractors, Interrogators, and Professional Soldiers
Mario Del Pero, Sciences Po (chair) Zaynab Quadri, George Washington University, “Beyond Nisour Square: Private Military Contractors and the U.S. Security State” Simona Tobia, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, “Power and American Military Intelligence: A World War II Top-Secret Interrogation Center and its Cold War Legacy” Manuel Dorion-Soulié, University of Cambridge, “Death of the Citizen-Soldier? Neoliberalism and the Professionalization of the American Military” Kyle Burke, Hartwick College (comment)
3:15-4:30 LAW Law, War, and Gender in the Short Twentieth Century
Andrew N. Buchanan, University of Vermont (chair) Kara Dixon Vuic, Texas Christian University Rebecca Herman, University of California-Berkeley Ilaria Scaglia, Aston University Ruth Lawlor, University of Cambridge (comment)
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FRIDAY JUNE 18 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 3:15-4:30 LAW Open Secrets and State Violence: Methodologies for Writing Histories of the Americas from Below
Kevin Coleman, University of Toronto (chair) David Helps, University of Michigan, “The Stasi of South Central: Police Surveillance and Archival Recovery in Los Angeles, 1976-1985” Gerson Rosales, University of Michigan, “Salvadoran Refugees and Mexico’s Committee for Refugee Assistance, 1980-1986” Lydia Crafts, Manhattan College, “Archive Secrets and Silences: Researching the History of Medical Violence in ‘Post-Peace’ Guatemala”
3:15-4:30 IDEAS Cultures of Empire from the Outside In
Laura Belmonte, Virginia Tech University (chair) Patrick Iber, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Real International Writers’ Workshops” Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University, “The Quileute Dune: Settler Colonialism and Science Fiction” Christina Klein, Boston College, “Cosmopolitan Koje-do: Dance and Utopia in the Korean War Musical Swing Kids (2018)” Laura Belmonte, Virginia Tech University (comment)
3:15-4:30 DOMESTIC The Covert Sphere: New Approaches to the History of the CIA and Cold War POLITICS U.S. Culture
Kathryn Olmsted, University of California-Davis (chair) Jonathan Nashel, Indiana University-South Bend, “Cord Meyer, or the Unbearable Sadness of the CIA” Hugh Wilford, California State University-Long Beach, “The (Covert) Empire Strikes Back: The CIA and U.S. Culture in the Global Cold War” Simon Willmetts, University of Leiden, “CIA Covert Action and the End of the Liberal Consensus in the 1960s” Kathryn Olmstead, University of California-Davis (comment)
Break 5:00-6:15 RACE Race, Diplomacy, and the Dawn of US Empire
Andy Rotter, Colgate University (chair) Ryan P. Semmes, Mississippi State University, “Reasons Why San Domingo Should Be Annexed to the United States:” Ulysses S. Grant’s Annexation Memo and the Development of a Doctrine of Reconstruction” Lynda Kellam, Cornell University, “Debating Ideas about Sovereign Obligation in an American Empire” Lorena Chambers, Yale University, “‘The Situation Is Critical’: Race and Statecraft at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition” Jeannette Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (comment)
5:00-6:15 SECURITY Writing Around Reagan: International History and the Elusive Presidency
Evan McCormick, Obama Presidential Oral History Project and Columbia University (chair) Susan Colbourn, Johns Hopkins University Alexandra T. Evans, RAND Corporation Augusta Dell’Omo, Harvard University
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FRIDAY JUNE 18 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 5:00-6:15 LAW Debating International Law at Home
Kate Epstein, Rutgers University-Camden (chair) Lael Weinberger, Harvard University, “The Politics of International Human Rights Law among Lawyers in World War II America” Brian Cuddy, Macquarie University, “Weaponizing International Law after the Vietnam War” Theresa Keeley, University of Louisville, “Voices in the Wilderness: Using International Law to Challenge the Sanctions Against Iraq” Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University (comment)
5:00-6:15 IDEAS Theories of Madness and the Madness of a Theory: Richard Nixon, Nikita Khrushchev, the “Madman Theory” and the Study of the Irrational
Rose McDermott, Brown University (chair) Zachary Jonathan Jacobson, Independent Scholar, “From Plato to Plath: A Short History of the Long History of the Usefulness of Madness” Roseanne McManus, Penn State University, “The Rationality of Irrationality and Researching Madness” Seanon Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, “How Being Perceived as a “Hothead” Backfires in Face-to-Face Diplomacy” Rose McDermott, Brown University (comment)
5:00-6:15 IDEAS Exchange and International Security: Conferences, Bulletins, and Foundations
Or Rosenboim, City-University of London (chair) Mark Petersen, University of Dallas, “The Bulletin of the Pan American Union (1893-1948): A Primary Source for U.S. Hemispheric Hegemony” Kento Morie, Kyoto University, “Dean Rusk: His Worldview and Expectations of International Relations: Philanthropic Practices at the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1950s” Sean Case, Boston University, “Building Balance: The 1946 Princeton Bicentennial Conference on the Development of International Society and the Creation of the Strategic Field” Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University (comment)
5:00-6:15 DOMESTIC New Perspectives on Global Affairs and Domestic Politics POLITICS Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University (chair) Kevin Kim, University of California-Los Angeles, “World War II and the Blurring of U.S. Power” Michaela Hoenicke Moore, University of Iowa, “‘Are we going to fight wars in all these nations?’ Citizen Responses to Korea and Vietnam” Victor McFarland, University of Missouri, “Turning Right: The U.S.-Saudi Alliance and Domestic Affairs” Aileen Teague, Texas A&M University, “Exporting the ‘War’ Against Narcotics to Areas of Preexisting Violence: U.S. Drug Policing in 1970s Mexico”
Break 6:30-7:45 Viet Thanh Nguyen Keynote
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University (chair)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California
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SATURDAY JUNE 19 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 8:30-9:45 Journals after the Pandemic: What Authors Need to Know
Mark Bradley, University of Chicago Anne Foster, Indiana State University Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University Barbara Keys, Durham University Heidi Tworek, University of British Columbia
Break 10:15-11:45 DECOLONIZATION New Directions in the History of Decolonization
Adom Getachew, University of Chicago (chair) Sandipto Dasgupta, New School for Social Research Cindy Ewing, University of Missouri Emma Hunter, University of Edinburgh Christy Thornton, John Hopkins University
10:15-11:45 WAR & MILITARY Armed Conflict and Military Affairs
Aaron O’Connell, University at Texas-Austin (chair) Brooke Blower, Boston University Brian DeLay, University of California-Berkeley Mary Dudziak, Emory University
10:15-11:45 SCIENCE & Science and Technology in History TECHNOLOGY Kate Epstein, University of Rutgers-Camden (chair) Michael Falcone, Yale University John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology Mary X. Mitchell, University of Toronto Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia
10:15-11:45 CAPITALISM Capitalism and U.S. Foreign Relations
Paul Adler, Colorado College (chair) B. Alex Beasley, University of Texas-Austin Peter James Hudson, University of California-Los Angeles Jessica Levy, Purchase College-SUNY Jayita Sarkar, Boston University
10:15-11:45 MIGRATION Migration: Becoming a Major Theme in U.S. and the World
Hideaki Kami, University of Tokyo (chair) Madeline Hsu, University of Texas-Austin Jana Lipman, Tulane University Doug Rossinow, Metropolitan State University
Break 12:00-1:15 Presidential Address
Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, “From Dong Dang to Da Nang: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Thirty-Years War for Asia”
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SATURDAY JUNE 19 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 1:30-2:45 DECOLONIZATION Archives of the Global South: Researching and Conceptualizing Anti-Imperial Internationalism
Robert McMahon, Ohio State University (chair) Joseph Parrott, Ohio State University, “Woman, Child, Gun: Tricontinentalism and the Imagery of Third World Revolution” Cindy Ewing, University of Missouri, “New Asia and Staging Third World Internationalism” Timothy Nunan, Freie Universität Berlin, “Islamist Internationalism Before and After 1979” Alvita Akiboh, University of Michigan, “Connecting Colonies: Archives Across the U.S. Empire”
1:30-2:45 DECOLONIZATION New Perspectives on African Decolonization
Jason Parker, Texas A&M University (chair and comment) Brooks Marmon, University of Pretoria, “George Loft’s Balancing Act: An American Mediates the Southern Rhodesian Crisis, 1957-60” Clare Richardson, Freie Universität Berlin, “Portuguese-African anticolonialists and the shaping of race and decolonization debates in the United States, 1961-1974” Jeremy Rich, Marywood University, “US Diplomatic Surveillance and the Evolution of Elite Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1967-1970” Vivien Chang, “Revolutionary Intellectuals, Economic Diplomacy, and the Unfolding of the North-South Dialogue, 1964-1972”
1:30-2:45 WAR & MILITARY Envisioning the Military: Histories of War and Military Labor in American Life
Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chair) Amy J. Rutenberg, Iowa State University, “Hell No! (Again?): Anti-Draft Activism in the 1980s” Shaul Mitelpunkt, University of York, “Horatio Alger in Company D: The Romantics of Creative Militarism, 1940-1970” Susan L. Carruthers, University of Warwick, “‘Dear John’: Heartbreak and Homosociality in the US Military at War” Mary Dudziak, Emory University, “The Culture of Numbers in American War” Chad Williams, Brandeis University, “War Guilt: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Meaning of World War I”
1:30-2:45 SCIENCE & Nuclearity in the Periphery TECHNOLOGY Anna-Mart van Wyk, University of Johannesburg (chair) Austin R. Cooper, University of Pennsylvania, “Saharan Fallout, U.S. Assistance, and Meteorological Diplomacy in North Africa around 1960” Fintan Hoey, Franklin University of Switzerland, “The INFCE: Nuclear Power, Non- Proliferation and the Challenge of the Global South” Mariana Budjeryn, Harvard University, “‘Chernobyl Syndrome’ and Nuclear Disarmament of Belarus and Ukraine”
1:30-2:45 CAPITALISM International Bankers, Offshore Merchants, and Foreign Diplomats
Douglas Little, Clark University (chair) José A. Montero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Paving the Ground for the Future: U.S. Government, U.S. private firms and projects for a loan to Republican Spain (1931-1936)” Wayne Bowen, University of Central Florida, “No Small Business: Franco’s Diplomats, International Trade, and Chambers of Commerce in California, 1939-1953” Pablo León-Aguinaga, CUD-AGM, “The Chase Bank, the W.C.C., and the (Financial) Rehabilitation of Spain in the Early Cold War” Lino Camprubí, Universidad de Sevilla (comment)
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SATURDAY JUNE 19 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 1:30-2:45 CAPITALISM The Business of US Empire: Interest Politics, Philanthropy, Climate Change
Lydia Walker, University of London (chair) Michael Franczak, University of Pennsylvania, “U.S. Foreign Policy and Climate Change: Learning from the Recent Past” Jameel Haque, Minnesota State University-Mankato, “War as Normal: Protecting U.S. Businesses in the Ottoman Baghdad during World War I” Nick Pozek, Columbia University, “Industrialists and International Affairs: How Philanthropy Shaped Foreign Relations in the 20th Century” Rohan Shah, Columbia University, “American Century in Crisis: The Neoconservative Response to Economic Globalization and the Collapse of Bretton Woods” Stefan Link, Dartmouth College (comment)
1:30-2:45 MIGRATION Commercial Diplomacy, Railroad Expansion, and International Activism Across the 19th-and-20th-Century Pacific World
Genevieve Clutario, Wellesley College (chair) Graeme Mack, University of California-San Diego, “‘For I Conceive So Large a Commerce:’ American Whalers, Hawaiian Independence, and the United States’ Expansion to the Pacific 1819-1843” Sean Fraga, University of Southern California, “The Pacific Railroads and the Pacific World: American Expansion, Asian Trade, and Terraqueous Mobility, 1840-1914” Courtney Sato, Harvard University, “Interwar Pacific Geographies: the Asiatic Barred Zone Act and the Forging of a Pan-Pacific Movement” Kariann Akemi Yokota, University of Colorado-Denver (comment)
Break 3:15-4:30 DECOLONIZATION The Challenges of Writing an International History of Congo: International, Colonial or African Perspective?
Frank Gerits, Utrecht University (chair and comment), “The National and Colonial Approach: How to Assess the Research Results of these Scholars from a National and Colonial Perspective?” Alanna O’Malley, Leiden University (chair and comment), “The International Approach: How to Assess the Research Results of these Scholars from the National and Colonial Perspective?” Lazlo Passemiers, University of the Free State, “Congolese Support of Mozambique’s Liberation Struggle: The Case of UDENAMO-Gumane and COREMO, 1963-1974” Alex Marino, University of Arkansas, “‘Long-term Relationship:’ Soccer, Social History, and the Congolese Roots of America’s Intervention in Angola” Margot Tudor, University of Exeter, “‘Now the UN has Its First Colony’: Exposing Colonial Continuities and Imperialist Aspirations within the ONUC mission”
3:15-4:30 WAR & MILITARY Chiang Soong Mayling’s Work in an Era of War and Nation-building
Gordon H. Chang, Stanford University (chair) Leo Soong, Co-founder and former president of Crystal Geyser, “Mayling Soong Chiang - Patriot, Feminist and Child of God” Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia, “Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the 1943 Cairo Conference” Esther T. Hu, Boston University, “Chiang Soong Mayling, China, and World War II: National Reconstruction and Global Influence” Gordon H. Chang, Stanford University (comment)
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SATURDAY JUNE 19 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 3:15-4:30 WAR & MILITARY New Approaches to Cold War Military Affairs
Lien Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University (chair) Giulia Clarizia, Roma Tre University, “U.S. Secret Services’ Networks in Italy: a Link from World War II to the Cold War” Chiou-Ling Yeh, San Diego State University, “Opposing America, Assisting Vietnam”: Communist Chinese Propaganda and the Vietnam War” Muhammed Cihad Kubat, Bilkent University and Inonu University, “‘A War That Opened a New Era’: Turkish Intervention in the Korean War and the Origins of the Alliance between U.S. and Turkey” David Cheng Chang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (comment)
3:15-4:30 SCIENCE & U.S. Cold War Engagement with Socialist Science TECHNOLOGY Teasel Muir-Harmony, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (chair) Rebecca Charbonneau, University of Cambridge, “Communicating with Aliens: The Cold War’s Impact on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” Thomas Ellis, London School of Economics, “The Lost Art of Cosmo-Kremlinology: Studying the Soviet Space Program in Cold War America” Pete Millwood, University of Hong Kong, “A Source of Vernacular Knowledge or a Frontier for Globalized Science? American and Chinese Discourses on Science in the People’s Republic of China, 1971–78” Audra Wolfe, Writer and Editor (comment)
3:15-4:30 CAPITALISM Crises of American Empire in the 1970s and 1980s
Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois (chair) Jennifer M. Miller, Dartmouth College, “Learning from Japan: Kumon Tutoring and American Fears of Educational Decline in the 1980s and 1990s” Sarah Miller-Davenport, University of Sheffield, “New York City’s Fiscal Crisis and the Global Neoliberal Turn” Sarah Snyder, American University, “Cracks in the United States’ Overseas Empire: Threats to American Expatriates in the 1980s” Patrick Chung, University of Maryland (comment)
3:15-4:30 MIGRATION In Imperial Shadows: The Middle East and Networks of US Empire
Nathan Citino, Rice University (chair) Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, California State University- Stanislaus, “The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: A Note on Sound and Unsound Methods” Suraya Khan, San Antonio College, “From Collaboration to Resistance: Transnational Arab American Activism in the Cold War” Nathaniel George, Columbia University, “Kissinger’s Congo Men: Empire and Counterrevolution in Congo, Southeast Asia, and the Eastern Mediterranean” Stuart Schrader, Johns Hopkins University (comment)
Break 5:00-6:15 DECOLONIZATION Southeast Asia after Vietnam: Persistence and Transformation
Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas-Austin (chair) Mattias E. Fibiger, Harvard Business School, “Indonesia’s Cold War after the Vietnam Era” Jana K. Lipman, Tulane University, “The Philippines, the United States, and Vietnamese Refugee Politics, 1980-2005” Wen-Qing Ngoei, Singapore Management University, “Southeast Asia’s Transnational Culture-makers and the ASEAN Cold War System” Joy Sales, California State University-Los Angeles, “Martial Law, U.S. Military Aid, and Human Rights in the Philippines” Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas-Austin (comment)
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SATURDAY JUNE 19 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 5:00-6:15 WAR & MILITARY Narratives of War and Aid: Transnational Construction of Myth and Memory about U.S. Overseas Interventions since 1898
Michael J. Allen, Northwestern University (chair) Shannon Bontrager, Georgia Highlands College, “Disinfecting the Dead: The Cultural Memory of Odor, American Empire, and Fallen Soldiers in Cuba” Michael McGuire, Mount Saint Mary College and Boston University, “Humanitarianism Reconstructed across the Pond: Transatlantic Noncombatant lieux de mémoire of Americans’ Great War Era Relief” Rong (Aries) Li, Rutgers University, “Memories of Allies: Constructing transpacific narratives about U.S.-China WWII cooperation, 1970-2020” G. Kurt Piehler, Florida State University (comment)
5:00-6:15 SCIENCE & Liberty or Liberation? The Politics of Information Sovereignty in the Long Arc TECHNOLOGY of Decolonization
James Brennan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (chair) Zoe LeBlanc, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “The Rise and Fall of Cairo’s Information Machine: Postcolonial Legitimacy, Anti-colonial Aspirations, and International Information Politics in the 1960s and 70s” Augusta Dell’Omo, Harvard University, “‘Winning Hearts and Minds:’ The Institute for Contextual Theology Challenges the Information Warfare of the White Supremacist Religious Right 1985-1994” Sarah Nelson, Vanderbilt University, “‘Making Anti-NWICO’: The ‘Knowledge Business’ and the Struggle for Decolonization at the Dawn of the Information Age, 1970-1985” Vanessa Freije, University of Washington (comment)
5:00-6:15 SCIENCE & Circulating and Consolidating Technical Expertise in the Cold War TECHNOLOGY Justin Hart, Texas Tech University (chair) Elizabeth Hameeteman, Boston University, “The Big Thirst: Desalination and the Promise of Unlimited Water and Power in the 1950s and 1960s” Carlo Patti, Universidade Federal de Goiás, “Brazil’s Quest of Uranium Enrichment Technologies in the late 1960s” John Alic, Independent Scholar, “No Help Wanted: Outside Technical Advice for the US Military” Daniel Bessner, University of Washington (comment)
5:00-6:15 CAPITALISM Global Capitalism and Geopolitics in the Age of Reagan
Daniel Sargent, University of California-Berkeley (chair) Fritz Bartel, Texas A&M University, “Opening the Door: The IMF’s Early Relations with Post- Soviet Russia” Kristina Shull, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, “‘This Nation’s Fourth Border’: The Caribbean Basin Initiative and Reagan’s Cold War on Immigrants” David Wight, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, “Constraining Finance: The Reagan Administration, Qaddafi, and the Double-Edged Sword of Petrodollar Flows” Christopher Dietrich, Fordham University (comment)
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SATURDAY JUNE 19 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 5:00-6:15 MIGRATION Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Students: The Impact of Xenophobia on U.S.- China Educational Exchanges, 1882-1943
Hidetaka Hirota, Sophia University (chair) Sally Chengji Xing, Columbia University, “The Chinese Students and the Rise of Wilsonianism in China” Tian Atlas Xu, Catholic University of America, “Navigating ‘Worthiness’ for America’s Schools: Chinese Students, Immigration Attorneys, and the Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Project, 1882-1930” Yu Dou, Purdue University, “Envisioning ‘Inclusion’ in the Heartland: Chinese Students in the US Midwest, 1880s-1940s” Charlotte Brooks, Baruch College-CUNY (comment)
Break 6:30-7:45 Barbara D. Savage Keynote
Barbara D. Savage, University of Pennsylvania, “On Race and Anti-Imperialism: Merze Tate’s Pivot to the Pacific”
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SUNDAY JUNE 20 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 8:30-9:45 Women in SHAFR
Nicole Anslover, Indiana University, Northwest Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland-Baltimore County (chair) Laura Belmonte, Virginia Tech
Maurice Jr. Labelle, University of Saskatchewan
Jennifer M. Miller, Dartmouth College
SHAFR and Mentorship
Vivien Chang, University of Virginia (chair) Shaun Armstead, Rutgers University (chair)
Zoom Without Gloom: A Roundtable on Teaching During and (Hopefully) After the Pandemic
Shaul Mitelpunkt, University of York (chair) Laila Ballout, Wichita State University Zach Fredman, Duke Kunshan University Casey Lurtz, John Hopkins University
Break 10:15-11:45 BORDERS Borders in U.S. Foreign Relations
Elisabeth Leake, University of Leeds (chair) Oliver Charbonneau, University of Glasgow Debbie Gershenowitz, UNC Press Kelly Hammond, University of Arkansas Rachel Herrmann, Cardiff University
10:15-11:45 DIPLOMACY American Diplomacy after Donald Trump
Michael Brenes, Yale University (chair) Susan Colbourn, John Hopkins University Emily Whalen, Clements Center, UT-Austin Aileen Teague, Texas A&M University Arne Westad, Yale University
10:15-11:45 DEVELOPMENT Development
Stephen Macekura, Indiana University (chair) Priya Lal, Boston College Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania Alden Young, University of California-Los Angeles Nick Cullather, Indiana University David Engerman, Yale University Sara Lorenzini, University of Trento
10:15-11:45 GENDER & Gender, Sexuality, and U.S. Foreign Relations SEXUALITY Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex (chair) Sylvia Bashevkin, University of Toronto Sarah Bellows-Blakely, Freie Universität Berlin David Minto, Durham University Laura Prieto, Simmons University
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SUNDAY JUNE 20 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 12:00-1:15 SHAFR Scholars and Career Diversity
Michael Brenes, Yale University (chair) Joshua Cochran, Yale University Susan Colbourn, Triangle Institute for Security Studies Zeb Larson, Independent Scholar Stephen Wertheim, Quincy Institute Emily Whalen, Clements Center, UT-Austin
Break 1:30-2:45 BORDERS Reaching the People: International Publics and their Problems
Valeska Huber, Freie Universität Berlin (chair) Tamson Pietsch, University of Technology Sydney, “Pamphlet ‘American University Tours’ Summer 1923, New York University” Sophie-Jung Kim, Freie Universität Berlin, “Letter from Kedar Nath Das Gupta, the director of ‘All-World Gandhi Fellowship,’ to W.E.B. DuBois, 1932” Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex, “American Institute of Public Opinion, poll on ‘Reconstruction,’ February and March 1948, published in Public Opinion Quarterly” Dexter Fergie, Northwestern University, “Postcard sent by an American tourist at the United Nations Headquarters, August 1960” Lea Börgerding, Freie Universität Berlin, “Appeal to the Women of the World 1975”
1:30-2:45 DIPLOMACY Challenging Relationships in the Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Hilde Henriksen Waage, University of Oslo (chair) Hulda Kjeang Mørk, University of Oslo, “The Ties that Bind: The Triangular Drama between the United States, Israel and Iran, 1963-1967” Athanasios Antonopoulos, Griffith University, “Pragmatism and the Human Rights Policy: US- Turkish relations in the late 1970s” Jørgen Jensehaugen, Peace Research Institute Oslo, “Discovering and Undiscovering the Palestinians: A US mediation bias”
1:30-2:45 DEVELOPMENT Dams, Drugs, and Development
Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania (chair) Varsha Venkatasubramanian, University of California-Berkeley, “Damned and the Dammed: US-Indo Relations and the Transformation of Modernization Theory, 1980-1995” Eva Ward, University of Strathclyde, “Drugs, Development and Diplomacy in the American Philippines” Thomas M. Harvell-DeGolier, Villanova University, “‘Well-entrenched, Well-organized, and Well-financed’: The Growth of Colombian Narcotics Networks, Development, and U.S. Colombian relations in the 1970s” Lina Britto, Northwestern University (comment)
1:30-2:45 GENDER & Invisibility and impact: Gendered Strategies of the Early Cold War SEXUALITY Rósa Magnúsdóttir, Aarhus University (chair) Susanna Erlandsson, Uppsala University, “From Private to Public: Gendered Diplomacy in Post-war Washington, D.C.” Haakon Ikonomou, University of Copenhagen, “From Private to Public: Gendered Diplomacy in Post-war Washington, D.C.” Alexandra Penler, London School of Economics, “Back in the Narrative: Uncovering Diplomatic Wives Work in the Postwar Period” Victoria Phillips, London School of Economics, “‘Hiding in Plain Sight’: Women and Protest in Cold War Berlin, 1953”
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SUNDAY JUNE 20 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 3:15-4:30 BORDERS Breaking Silos: Historical Work Across Disciplinary and Subdisciplinary Boundaries
Arne Westad, Yale University (chair) Paul Behringer, Southern Methodist University, “Backing the United States into International History” Aroop Mukharji, Tufts University, “Explaining History Interdisciplinarily” Emily Whalen, University of Texas-Austin, “Making Everyone Angry: Bringing U.S. Diplomatic History and Middle Eastern Studies into Conversation” Lydia Walker, University of London (comment)
3:15-4:30 DIPLOMACY New Perspectives on U.S. Diplomacy during the ‘Second Cold War,’ 1979-1985
Sandra Scanlon, University College Dublin, (chair) Conor Tobin, University College Dublin, “The Carter Administration, ‘Neutralization,’ and the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan” Mattias Ravano, Graduate Institute Geneva, “Remounting on Horseback: The United States, the G7, and East-West Economic Relations” Aaron Donaghy, University College Dublin, “The Reagan Turn of 1984: U.S. Diplomacy in the Second Cold War” Sandra Scanlon, University College Dublin, (comment)
3:15-4:30 DEVELOPMENT New Perspectives on the Alliance for Progress and Development in Latin America
Thomas Field, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (chair) Andres Sanchez-Padilla, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Comerciales, “Development by the Book: The U.S. Cultural Offensive in Mexico and Modernization Theory, 1959-1971” Norberto Barreto-Velázquez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, “Corruption in US Foreign Aid to Peru, 1955-1961” Mei Ling Young, University of Oxford, “The unintended consequences of internationalist rhetoric for the Alliance for Progress” Casey Lurtz, John Hopkins University (comment)
3:15-4:30 GENDER & Women’s Role in Diplomatic Knowledge Production and International Affairs SEXUALITY Carol Chin, University of Toronto (chair and comment) Joanna Wood, University of Oxford, “Building a World to Understand the World: Women and the Bureau of International Research at Harvard and Radcliffe 1924-1942” David Allen, Harvard University, “Women and the Making of the U.S. Foreign Policy Community” Timothy Barney, University of Richmond, “Constructing a ‘Global Community of Women’: The Ford Foundation and the Gender and Development Movement During the 1990s” Nicole Sackley, University of Richmond, “Constructing a ‘Global Community of Women’: The Ford Foundation and the Gender and Development Movement During the 1990s”
Break 5:00-6:15 BORDERS Transnationalizing U.S. Urban History
Sarah Miller-Davenport, University of Sheffield (chair) Jessica Kim, California State University-Northridge, “Investment: Los Angeles” Julio Capó, Jr., Florida International University, “Queerness: Miami” Jessica Levy, Purchase College-SUNY, “Racial Politics: Philadelphia” Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University, “Militarization: New Orleans”
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SUNDAY JUNE 20 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 5:00-6:15 DIPLOMACY New Understandings of the Camp David Peace Process
Craig Daigle, City College of New York (chair and comment) Benjamin Allison, University of Texas-Austin “‘I am in full control’: Reassessing Anwar al- Sadat’s Role in the Camp David Peace Process” Carl Forsberg, Harvard University, “False Promises: US-Saudi Misunderstandings and the Camp David Accords” Hilde Henriksen Waage, University of Oslo, “The Grimness of the Alternatives: The United States, Israel, Syria and the Civil War in Lebanon, 1977–80”
5:00-6:15 DEVELOPMENT The ‘Arc of Crisis’ and Beyond: The United States and the Indian Ocean’s Rim Lands
Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University (chair) Taylor Fain, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, “Guardians of the Sea Route? The United States and the Challenge of South Africa in the Indian Ocean” Asher Orkaby, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, “Shipping the Oil: A Historical Analysis of Arabian Waterways” Rob Konkel, Princeton University, “Forging World Order: U.S. Policy Makers and Indian Ocean Raw Materials” Nathan Citino, Rice University, (comment)
5:00-6:15 GENDER & The American Household Abroad, 1785-1830: A Theoretical Framework for SEXUALITY the Study of Diplomacy
Dana Cooper, Stephen F. Austen State University (chair) Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California (comment) Megan Armknecht, Princeton University, “‘Trifles, you are aware, lead sometimes to very serious results in politics’: Joel Poinsett, Henry George Ward, and Household Rivalries in Mexico City, 1825-1830” Miriam Liebman, City University of New York, “The Secretary: Abigail ‘Nabby’ Adams and American Diplomacy, 1785-1792” Katrina Ponti, University of Rochester, “Between Duty and Inclination: The First American ‘Third Culture Kids,’ 1785-1818”
Break 6:30-7:30 Trivia Extravaganza presented by the Good Times Committee
Megan Black, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chair) Ryan Irwin, University at Albany-SUNY (chair) Julia Irwin, University of South Florida Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester Jason Parker, Texas A&M University
THE PROGRAM
THURSDAY
8:30AM-9:45AM 10:15AM-11:45AM 12:00-1:15PM 1:30PM-2:45PM 3:15PM-4:30PM 5:00PM-6:15PM 6:30PM-7:45PM 7:45PM-9:00PM Welcome Message Empire as U.S. Foreign Relations Reading for Empire: Legacies of Amy Kaplan's Scholarship Inter-and-Trans Imperial Encounters: United States in a World Empires in Tension: Case Studies of Samoa, Liberia, and the Detention as a Tool of Empire: US Carceral Colonialism in Haiti A Tribute to Walter F. LaFeber and His Legacy Graduate Student Happy Hour of Empires, 1865-1885 Caribbean in Transimperial Histories & Southeast Asia
Book Exhibit Monica Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair) Shaul Mitelpunkt, University of York (chair) Jay Sexton, University of Missouri (chair) April Merleaux, Hampshire College (chair) Colleen Woods, University of Maryland-College Park (chair) Richard Immerman, Temple University (chair) Vivien Chang, University of Virginia (chair)
Theme previews Paula Chakravartty, New York University Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University, "Empire" Brooks Swett, Columbia University, “Reconstruction Refracted: Gerard Llorens DeCesaris, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, "Ideas of April Mayes, Pomona College, "From Guantanamo to Tijuana: Frank Costigliola, Univeristy of Connecticut-Storrs Shaun Armstead, Rutgers University (chair) British Statesmen and American Democratic Politics, 1865- Empire: Spain and the U.S. during the Grant Administration" Carceral Archipelagos and Haitian (Im)mobilities in 1868” Contemporary Migrations across the Americas" Looking Back (Flipgrid) Laleh Khalili, Queen Mary University of London Kariann Akemi Yokota, University of Colorado-Denver, Christoph Nitschke, Oxford University, “‘I fancy that we are Amelia Flood, Saint Louis University, "One 'Mand,' One Vote?: Richard Nisa, Farleigh Dickinson University, "Computation and Anne Foster, Indiana State University "Interdisciplinarity" regarded as fighting men of the first order’: The transimperial Women’s Suffrage Between Empires in the U.S. Virgin Islands" Resistance in Cold War Detention Infrastructures" politics of the U.S. Expedition to Korea” Looking Forward (Flipgrid) Alfred McCoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Penny Von Eschen, University of Virginia, "Culture" Andrew W. Bell, Emerson College, “An ‘Honorable Rivalry with Barbara Franchi, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, "Converging Karen Miller, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY, Carceral Lorena Oropeza, University of California-Davis Those Already Established’: Americans and the Scramble for and Conflicting Imperialist Interests at Stake: The U.S.-Liberia Mobilities: The Iwahig Penal Colony, the Philippines, and Greek Antiquities, 1880-1885” Relationship and the Forced Labor Scandal" Interisland Labor Migration" Mae Ngai, Columbia University Salim Yaqub, University of California-Santa Barbara, "Palestine Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln “‘Uncle Tyler Miller, Independent Scholar, "More Than Just A Storm: Andrea Morrell, Guttman Community College-CUNY (comment) Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia & Israel" Sam in Africa’: The Monroe Doctrine, the Colonial Question, The Samoan Crisis of 1889" and the Scramble for Africa, 1876-1885” Melani McAlister, George Washington University, "Gender" Jay Sexton, University of Missouri (comment) April Merleaux, Hampshire College (comment) Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (comment) EMPIRE
Erasure in the Everyday: The Violence of Cold War U.S. Exceptionalism across the Pacific
Brad Simpson, University of Connecticut (chair)
Carleigh Beriont, Harvard University, “‘In God’s Hands’: Christianity, Exceptionalism, and Marshallese Responses to Operation Crossroads and Postwar U.S. Imperialism in the ChristopherPacific” Hulshof, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “A Simulacrum of Change: An Analysis of Crisis Points in the Proliferation of U.S. Global Hegemony” Kristin Oberiano, Harvard University, "Newly American: U.S. Citizenship as Settler Militarism in Cold War Guam"
Lauren Hirshberg, Regis University, (comment)
The Uses of Strategy Rethinking Foundational Documents in U.S. Grand Strategy Haigiography: New Perspectives on Al Haig after Forty Years New Evidence on U.S. German Relations after World War II
Daniel Sargent, University of California-Berkeley (chair) William Inboden, University of Texas-Austin, (chair) Evan McCormick, Columbia (chair) James Hershberg, George Washington University (chair)
William Inboden, University of Texas-Austin Grant Golub, London School of Economics , "Victory Program" Susan Colbourn, John Hopkins, "The Trials and Tribulations of Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center Alexander Haig in Transatlantic Perspective"
Desmond Jagmohan, University of California-Berkeley Joseph Stieb, Ohio State University, "Long Telegram and the X Simon Miles, Duke University, “In Control Here: Alexander Haig, Thomas Boghardt, U.S. Army Center of Military History Article" Ronald Reagan, and U.S.-Soviet Relations”
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University Angus Reilly, King’s College London, "Rethinking the White Rob Rakove, Stanford University, “We Should Not Miss an Hope Harrison, George Washington University (comment) Revolutionary: Kissinger, Bismarck and the Riddle of Stability" Opportunity to Return the Favor”: Haig Approaches Afghanistan" Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University Mary Elizabeth Walters, Kansas State University, "1990 and Jonathan Hunt, U.S. Air War College, "Realism, Reagan, and Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University (comment) 1994 National Security Strategies" China: Alexander Haig’s Quixotic Quest to Militarize Relations with Beijing" Evan McCormick, Columbia (comment) STRATEGY
The Future of the History of Rights New Directions in the Histories of Humanitarianism and Peaceniks of the World Unite! Transnational Activism in the Human Rights Crises of the Cold War Human Rights Late Cold War
Sarah Snyder, American University (chair) Jana Lipman, Tulane University (chair) Sarah Snyder, American University (chair) Carl Bon Tempo, University at Albany-SUNY (chair)
Laura Belmonte, Virginia Tech University Julia Irwin, University of South Florida Stephanie Freeman, Mississippi State University, “Trials of Molly Avery, London School of Economics, "Transnational Coordination: U.S. Nuclear Freeze Movement, European anticommunist networks and the 1980 US presidential election: Nuclear Disarmament, & the Struggle to Transcend the Arms Latin American influence on Ronald Reagan’s campaign Tiffany N. Florvil, University of New Mexico Elisabeth Piller, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg BrianRace” Mueller, Independent Scholar, “With a Little Help From Codyplatform" Foster, University of Kentucky, “Against the Crime of My Friends: Solidarity Activists and Reagan’s Hidden War in El Silence”: The International War Crimes Tribunal and Anti- Salvador” Genocidal Rhetoric During the Vietnam War" John Kinder, Oklahoma State University E. Kyle Romero, Dartmouth College William Michael Schmidli, Leiden University, “Winter Soldiers Nicholas DeAntonis, Fordham University, “'Bogeyman of in the Tropics: Vietnam Veterans and Central American Peace Bricker:' The Eisenhower Administration’s Retreat from the Activism in the 1980s” United Nations" Sushma Raman, Harvard University Amanda Demmer, Virginia Tech Petra Goedde, Temple University (comment) Vanessa Walker, Amherst College (comment)
William F. Schulz, Harvard University RIGHTS
Religion and Foreign Relations: "Good Works" in Progress and The Moral Empire at Large: Religion and the Diplomacy of American Protestants in the 20th Century World Missionaries and the International History of Asia the State of the Field Colonialism and Decolonization in Central Africa
Lauren Turek, Trinity University (chair) Frank Gerits, Utrecht University (chair) Mark Thomas Edwards, Spring Arbor University (chair) Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University (chair)
Melissa Borja, University of Michigan Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, University of Warwick, "Thinking Mirna Wasef, University of California-San Diego, “American Hannah Kim, University of Delaware, "Missionaries and Christianity through Intermedial Interventions: Aanza, Baloji Protestants and the Changing Middle East: Missionaries and Intercountry Adoption from Korea" and Fiston" Egyptian Nation Making in the 20th Century” Michael Cangemi, United States Military Academy Pedro Monaville, New York University-Abu Dhabi, "Mao, Ian Van Dyke, University of Notre Dame, “American Minami Nishioka, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, "Mission Lumumba, and the Decolonization of the Catholic Church in the Missionaries, the Cold War, and Evangelical Third Worldism” Work and Japan’s Colonization of Okinawa: Intimacies between Congo" the U.S. and Japanese Empires" Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University Eva Schalbroeck, Utrecht University, "Unsettling the ‘Church- Mark Thomas-Paterson, George Washington University, "John Matthew Shannon, Emory & Henry College, "Reexamining U.S.- State Alliance’ in the Belgian Congo: tensions between colonial Bull’s Other Island: Christianity Today’s coverage of the Iran Relations through the Cold War Mission" nationalism and religious internationalism among Troubles in Northern Ireland” Christina Davidson, Harvard University Christophermissionaries" Gallien Tounsel, Pennsylvania State Lauren Turek, Trinity University (comment) Heather Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania (comment) University (comment)
RELIGION Protestant Internationalism, Race, and the United States, 1900- 1950
Uta Balbier, King's College London (chair)
Tom Smith, University of Cambridge, "'The Oriental Mills Grind Slowly': Disappointment, Race, and Social Science among U.S. Protestant Missionaries to the Philippines in Early 20th NicoleCentury" de Silva, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Adventuring in Peace and Goodwill: Visions of Race and Internationalism in Liberal Protestant 'Peace Education' DanielPrograms, Geary 1922-1929, Trinity College" Dublin, "Liberal Protestants and the Origins of 'Integration'”
Gene Zubovich, University at Buffalo-SUNY (comment) FRIDAY
8:30AM-9:45AM 10:15AM-11:45AM 12:00-1:15PM 1:30PM-2:45PM 3:15PM-4:30PM 5:00PM-6:15PM 6:30PM-7:45PM Promoting Your Book in a Pandemic Race and American Empire Bernath Lecture Policing the Global Empire: Race, Incarceration, and U.S. Radicals, Reactionaries, and Reformers in the Global Cold War Race, Diplomacy, and the Dawn of US Empire Viet Thanh Nguyen Keynote National Security from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Susan Ferber, Oxford University Press Brandon Byrd, Vanderbilt University (chair) Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge (chair) Nicholas Guyatt, Cambridge University (chair) Thomas 'Tim' Borstelmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Andy Rotter, Colgate University, (chair) Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University (chair) (chair)
Mary Beth Jarrad, New York University Press Keisha Blain, University of Pittsburgh Julia Irwin, University of South Florida, "Our Climatic Moment: Michelle Paranzino, U.S. Naval War College, "Reagan’s War on Uzma Quraishi, Sam Houston State University, "Jim Crow in the Ryan P. Semmes, Mississippi State University, "Reasons why A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern Hazarding a History of the United States and the World" Drugs" Third World: Racial Solidarity as the Legacy of Empire" San Domingo should be annexed to the United States:" Ulysses California S. Grant's Annexation Memo and the Development of a Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University Gerald Horne, University of Houston Ritica Ramesh, University of British Colombia, "The Cold War Emmaia Gelman, New York University, "After 'Cold War Civil LyndaDoctrine Kellam of Reconstruction", Cornell University, "Debating Ideas about and the Adminstration of Torture: A Case Study of the Vietnam Rights': Hate crimes laws & neoconservative Middle East Sovereign Obligation in an American Empire" War" policy" Rachel Rokicki, Penguin Random House Ronald Angelo Johnson, Baylor University Benjamin Linzy, Marquette University, "The Trial of Chief Mattie Webb, University of California-Santa Barbara, "Beyond Lorena Chambers, Yale University, "‘The Situation Is Critical’: Malik: Community, Domestic Terrorism, and Foreign Policy in Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South Race and Statecraft at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition" the Prosecution of an El-Rukn" African Workplace" Emily Tobin, Oxford University Press Michael Krenn, Appalachian State University Karine Walther, Georgetown University-Qatar (comment) Alexandre Moreli, University of São Paulo, "Tropical Atlantism Jeannette Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (comment) and the New Post-Second World War Order"
Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tej Nagaraja, Cornell University (comment) RACE
Fresh Perspectives On and Against Security Redefining Security and Insecurity in the Late Cold War The Security Apparatus in Transition: Private Contractors, Writing Around Reagan: International History and the Elusive Interrogators, and Professional Soldiers Presidency
Stuart Schrader, John Hopkins University (chair) Penny Von Eschen, University of Virginia (chair) Mario Del Pero, Sciences Po (chair) Evan McCormick, Obama Presidential Oral History Project and Columbia University (chair)
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Carleton College Robin Möser, University of Leipzig, "The Next Nuclear Weapons Zaynab Quadri, George Washington University, “Beyond Nisour Susan Colbourn, Johns Hopkins University State? US Intelligence and the Final Years of South Africa’s Square: Private Military Contractors and the U.S. Security Nuclear Weapons Program, 1985-1993" State” Tej Nagaraja, Cornell University Sara Awartani, Harvard University, "Puerto Rico, Palestine, and Simona Tobia, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, "Power Alexandra T. Evans, RAND Corporation U.S. Terrorist Imaginaries of the Late Cold War" and American military intelligence: a World War II top-secret interrogation center and its Cold War legacy" Wen-Qing Ngoei, Singapore Management University B. Jared Pack, University of Arkansas, "No Interests in the Manuel Dorion-Soulié, University of Cambridge, "Death of the Augusta Dell’Omo, Harvard University Islands: The Falklands/Malvinas War and the Anglo-American citizen-soldier? Neoliberalism and the professionalization of Idea of National Security" the American military" Guillermina Seri, Union College John Perry, University of Kentucky, “The Limits of State Power: Kyle Burke, Hartwick College (comment) The United States, the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian Refugees, and Syria’s Ethnic Minorities, 1945 – 1954” Justin Mann, Northwestern University (comment) SECURITY
Seeing Through the Shadow of the Future: Anticipatory Approaches to US Foreign Policymaking
Michael S. Goodman, King's College London (chair)
Maria A. Robson, Northeastern University, "Intelligence Cooperation in Asymmetric Alliances"
Christian Dayé, Graz University of Technology, “Playing Oracles: Cultures of Prediction in the Cold War National Security State” Roland Popp, Military Academy at ETH Zurich,“Predicting Trouble: Anticipating Foreign Crises and the Short-Lived Experiment of the Contingency Coordinating Committee” Michael S. Goodman, King's College London (comment)
Law and U.S. Foreign Relations The History and Future of the Liberal International Order: A Law, War, and Gender in the Short Twentieth Century Debating International Law at Home Discussion between Historians and Scholars of International Relations Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University (chair) Kimber Quinney, California State University-San Marcos (chair) Andrew N. Buchanan, University of Vermont (chair) Kate Epstein, Rutgers University-Camden (chair)
Afroditi Giovanopoulou, Columbia Univeristy Frank Gavin, John Hopkins University Kara Dixon Vuic, Texas Christian University Lael Weinberger, Harvard University, "The Politics of International Human Rights Law among Lawyers in World War II America" Samuel Moyn, Yale University Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Texas A&M University Rebecca Herman, University of California-Berkeley Brian Cuddy, Macquarie University, "Weaponizing International Law after the Vietnam War"
Allison Powers Useche, University of Wisconsin-Madison G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University Ilaria Scaglia, Aston University Theresa Keeley, University of Louisville, "Voices in the Wilderness: Using International Law to Challenge the Sanctions Against Iraq" Alessandro Quarenghi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Ruth Lawlor, University of Cambridge (comment) Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University (comment)
Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University LAW
Open Secrets and State Violence: Methodologies for Writing Histories of the Americas from Below
Kevin Coleman, University of Toronto (chair)
David Helps, University of Michigan, "The Stasi of South Central: Police Surveillance and Archival Recovery in Los Angeles, 1976-1985" Gerson Rosales, University of Michigan, "Salvadoran Refugees and Mexico’s Committee for Refugee Assistance, 1980-86"
Lydia Crafts, Manhattan College, "Archive Secrets and Silences: Researching the History of Medical Violence in 'Post-Peace' Guatemala"
The Origins of U.S. Hegemony: When Did Ruling the World Centering Children and Youth in U.S. Foreign Relations Cultures of Empire from the Outside In Theories of Madness and the Madness of a Theory: Richard Start Seeming Like the Right Idea? Nixon, Nikita Khrushchev, the “Madman Theory” and the Study of the Irrational Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University (chair) Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University (chair) Laura Belmonte, Virginia Tech University (chair) Rose McDermott, Brown University (chair)
Kate Epstein, University of Rutgers-Camden Katherine Cartwright, College of William & Mary, "'Our Own Patrick Iber, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Real Zachary Jonathan Jacobson, Independent Scholar, "From Plato League of Nations': American Youth and U.S. Expansion International Writers’ Workshops" to Plath: A Short History of the Long History of the Usefulness Between the World Wars" of Madness" Aziz Rana, Cornell University Susan Eckelmann Berghel, University of Tennessee- Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University, "The Quileute Roseanne McManus, Penn State University, "The Rationality of Chattanooga, "'Before the Eyes of the Whole World?': Cold Dune : Settler Colonialism and Science Fiction" Irrationality and Researching Madness" War Youth, Civil Rights Champions, and the Idea of U.S. Stephen Wertheim, Quincy Institute EdgarDemocracy" Liao, University of British Columbia, "Cold War Youth: Christina Klein, Boston College,"Cosmopolitan Koje-do: Dance Seanon Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, "How Being American Developmental Assistance in the Making of Youth in and Utopia in the Korean War Musical Swing Kids (2018)" Perceived as a “Hothead” Backfires in Face-to-Face Diplomacy" 1950s Singapore" Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University (comment) Laura Belmonte, Virginia Tech University (comment) Rose McDermott, Brown University (comment)
Exchange and International Security: Conferences, Bulletins, IDEAS and Foundations
Or Rosenboim, City-University of London (chair)
Mark Petersen, University of Dallas, "The Bulletin of the Pan American Union (1893-1948): A Primary Source for U.S. Hemispheric Hegemony" Kento Morie, Kyoto University, "Dean Rusk: His Worldview and Expectations of International Relations: Philanthropic Practices at the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1950s" Sean Case, Boston University, "Building Balance: The 1946 Princeton Bicentennial Conference on the Development of International Society and the Creation of the Strategic Field" Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University (comment)
Domestic and International Approaches in U.S. Foreign U.S. Lobbyists, Party Politics, and Everyday Americans in The Covert Sphere: New Approaches to the History of the CIA New Perspectives on Global Affairs and Domestic Politics Relations History International Affairs and Cold War U.S. Culture
Kenneth Osgood, Colorado School of Mines (chair) Kaeten Mistry, University of East Anglia (chair) Kathryn Olmsted, University of California-Davis (chair) Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University (chair)
Nicole Hemmer, Columbia University Charles W. Brackett, Independent Scholar, "Is it Time to Jonathan Nashel, Indiana University-South Bend, “Cord Meyer, Kevin Kim, University of California-Los Angeles, "World War II Revisit the Interventionists?" or the Unbearable Sadness of the CIA” and the Blurring of U.S. Power"
Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University Lori Helene Gronich, George Washington University, "Domestic Hugh Wilford, California State University-Long Beach, “The Michaela Hoenicke Moore, University of Iowa, “‘Are we going Politics and the Breakdown of the ANZUS Alliance: The Reagan (Covert) Empire Strikes Back: The CIA and U.S. Culture in the to fight wars in all these nations?’ Citizen Responses to Korea Years" Global Cold War” and Vietnam” Erez Manela, Harvard University Grace Headinger, Harvard University, "Domestic Politics and Simon Willmetts, University of Leiden, “CIA Covert Action and Victor McFarland, University of Missouri, “Turning Right: The the Breakdown of the ANZUS Alliance: The Reagan Years" the End of the Liberal Consensus in the 1960s” U.S.-Saudi Alliance and Domestic Affairs”
Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney Talbot Imlay, Université Laval, “The Atlantic Union Committee, Kathryn Olmstead, University of California-Davis (comment) Aileen Teague, Texas A&M University, “Exporting the ‘War’ Political Lobbying, and Atlanticsm during the 1950s” Against Narcotics to Areas of Preexisting Violence: U.S. Drug Policing in 1970s Mexico” Gretchen Heefner, Northeastern University (comment) DOMESTIC POLITICS SATURDAY
8:30AM-9:45AM 10:15AM-11:45AM 12:00-1:15PM 1:30PM-2:45PM 3:15PM-4:30PM 5:00PM-6:15PM 6:30PM-7:45PM Journals after the Pandemic: What Authors Need to Know New Directions in the History of Decolonization Presidential Address Archives of the Global South: Researching & Conceptualizing The Challenges of Writing an International History of Congo: Southeast Asia after Vietnam: Persistence and Transformation Barbara D. Savage Keynote Anti-Imperial Internationalism International, Colonial or African Perspective? in the Foreign Relations of a Region
Mark Bradley, University of Chicago Adom Getachew, University of Chicago (chair) Laura Belmonte, Virginia Tech University (announements) Robert McMahon, Ohio State University (chair) Frank Gerits, Utrecht University (chair/comment), "The Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas-Austin (chair) Ryan Irwin, University at Albany-SUNY (chair) National and Colonial Approach: How to Assess the Research Results of these Scholars from a National & Colonial Anne Foster, Indiana State University Sandipto Dasgupta, New School for Social Research Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, "From Dong Dang to Joseph Parrott, Ohio State University, "Woman, Child, Gun: AlannaPerspective?" O’Malley, Leiden University (chair/comment), "The Mattias E. Fibiger, Harvard Business School, "Indonesia’s Cold Barbara D. Savage, University of Pennsylvania, "On Race and Da Nang: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Thirty- Tricontinentalism and the Imagery of Third World Revolution" International Approach: How to Assess the Research Results of War and the Post-Vietnam Era" Anti-Imperialism: Merze Tate's Pivot to the Pacific" Years War for Asia" these Scholars from the National & Colonial Perspective?" Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University Cindy Ewing, University of Missouri Cindy Ewing, University of Missouri, "New Asia and Staging Lazlo Passemiers, University of the Free State, "Congolese Jana K. Lipman, Tulane University, "The Philippines, the United Third World Internationalism" Support of Mozambique’s Liberation Struggle: The Case of States, and Vietnamese Refugee Politics, 1980-2005" UDENAMO-Gumane and COREMO, 1963-1974" Barbara Keys, Durham University Emma Hunter, University of Edinburgh Timothy Nunan, Freie Universität Berlin, "Islamist Alex Marino, University of Arkansas, "'Long-term Relationship:' Wen-Qing Ngoei, Singapore Management University, Internationalism Before and Afer 1979" Soccer, Social History, and the Congolese Roots of America’s "Southeast Asia’s Transnational Culture-makers and the ASEAN Intervention in Angola" Cold War System" Heidi Tworek, University of British Columbia Christy Thornton, John Hopkins University Alvita Akiboh, University of Michigan, "Connecting Colonies: Margot Tudor, University of Exeter, “'Now the UN has its first Joy Sales, California State University-Los Angeles, "Martial Archives Across the U.S. Empire" colony': Exposing colonial continuities and imperialist Law, U.S. Military Aid, and Human Rights in the Philippines" aspirations within the ONUC mission" New Perspectives on African Decolonization Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas-Austin (comment) DECOLONIZATION
Jason Parker, Texas A&M University (chair)
Brooks Marmon, University of Pretoria, "George Loft’s Balancing Act: An American Mediates the Southern Rhodesian Crisis, 1957-60" Clare Richardson, Freie Universität Berlin, "Portuguese-African anticolonialists and the shaping of race and decolonization debates in the United States, 1961-1974" Jeremy Rich, Marywood University, "US Diplomatic Surveillance and the Evolution of Elite Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1967-1970" Vivien Chang, "Revolutionary Intellectuals, Economic Diplomacy, and the Unfolding of the North-South Dialogue, 1964-1972" Jason Parker, Texas A&M University (comment)
Armed Conflict and Military Affairs Envisioning the Military: Histories of War and Military Labor in Chiang Soong Mayling’s Work in an Era of War and Nation- Narratives of War and Aid: Transnational Construction of Myth American Life building and Memory about U.S. Overseas Interventions since 1898
Aaron O'Connell, University at Texas-Austin (chair) Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gordon H. Chang, Stanford University (chair) Michael J. Allen, Northwestern University (chair) (chair)
Brooke Blower, Boston University Amy J. Rutenberg, Iowa State University, "Hell No! (Again?): Leo Soong, Co-founder and former president of Crystal Geyser, Shannon Bontrager, Georgia Highlands College, "Disinfecting Anti-Draft Activism in the 1980s" "Mayling Soong Chiang - Patriot, Feminist and Child of God" the Dead: The Cultural Memory of Odor, American Empire, and Fallen Soldiers in Cuba" Brian DeLay, University of California-Berkeley Shaul Mitelpunkt, University of York, "Horatio Alger in Company Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia, “Madame Michael McGuire, Mount Saint Mary College and Boston D: The Romantics of Creative Militarism, 1940-1970" Chiang Kai-shek and the 1943 Cairo Conference” University, "Humanitarianism Reconstructed across the Pond:Transatlantic Noncombatant lieux de mémoire of Mary Dudziak, Emory University Susan L. Carruthers, University of Warwick, “'Dear John': Esther T. Hu, Boston University, “Chiang Soong Mayling, China, RongAmericans’ (Aries) Great Li, Rutgers War Era University, Relief" "Memories of Allies: Heartbreak and Homosociality in the US Military at War" and World War Two: National Reconstruction and Global Constructing transpacific narratives about U.S.-China WWII Influence” cooperation, 1970-2020" Mary Dudziak, Emory University, "The Culture of Numbers in Gordon H. Chang, Stanford University (comment) G. Kurt Piehler, Florida State University (comment) American War"
Chad Williams, Brandeis University, "War Guilt: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Meaning of World War I"
WAR & MILITARY New Approaches to Cold War Military Affairs
Lien Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University (chair)
Giulia Clarizia, Roma Tre University, "US secret services’ networks in Italy: a link from World War II to the Cold War"
Chiou-Ling Yeh, San Diego State University, “Opposing America, Assisting Vietnam”: Communist Chinese Propaganda and the Vietnam War" Muhammed Cihad Kubat, Bilkent University and Inonu University, “'A War That Opened a New Era': Turkish Intervention in the Korean War and the Origins of the Alliance Davidbetween Cheng U.S. Chang and Turkey", Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (comment)
Science and Technology in History Nuclearity in the Periphery U.S. Cold War Engagement with Socialist Science Liberty or Liberation? The Politics of Information Sovereignty in the Long Arc of Decolonization
Kate Epstein, University of Rutgers-Camden (chair) Anna-Mart van Wyk, University of Johannesburg (chair) Teasel Muir-Harmony, Smithsonian National Air and Space James Brennan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Museum (chair) (chair)
Michael Falcone, Yale University Austin R. Cooper, University of Pennsylvania, “Saharan Fallout, Rebecca Charbonneau, University of Cambridge, Zoe LeBlanc, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The U.S. Assistance, and Meteorological Diplomacy in North Africa "Communicating with Aliens: The Cold War’s Impact on the Rise and Fall of Cairo’s Information Machine: Postcolonial around 1960” Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" Legitimacy, Anti-colonial Aspirations, and International John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology Fintan Hoey, Franklin University of Switzerland, “The INFCE: Thomas Ellis, London School of Economics, "The Lost Art of AugustaInformation Dell'Omo Politics, Harvardin the 1960s University, and 70s" "'Winning Hearts and Nuclear power, non-proliferation and the challenge of the Cosmo-Kremlinology: Studying the Soviet Space Program in Minds:’ The Institute for Contextual Theology Challenges the Global South” Cold War America" Information Warfare of the White Supremacist Religious Right Mary X. Mitchell, University of Toronto Mariana Budjeryn, Harvard University, “'Chernobyl Syndrome' Pete Millwood, University of Hong Kong, "A Source of Sarah1985-1994” Nelson, Vanderbilt University, “'Making Anti-NWICO': and Nuclear Disarmament of Belarus and Ukraine" Vernacular Knowledge or a Frontier for Globalized Science? The 'Knowledge Business' and the Struggle for Decolonization American and Chinese Discourses on Science in the People’s at the Dawn of the Information Age, 1970-1985" Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia AudraRepublic Wolfe of China,, Writer 1971–78" and Editor (comment) Vanessa Freije, University of Washington (comment)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Circulating and Consolidating Technical Expertise in the Cold War
Justin Hart, Texas Tech University (chair)
Elizabeth Hameeteman, Boston University, "The Big Thirst: Desalination and the Promise of Unlimited Water and Power in the 1950s and 1960s" Carlo Patti, Universidade Federal de Goiás, "Brazil’s quest of uranium enrichment technologies in the late 1960s"
John Alic, Independent Scholar, "No Help Wanted: Outside Technical Advice for the US Military"
Daniel Bessner, University of Washington (comment)
Capitalism and U.S. Foreign Relations International Bankers, Offshore Merchants, and Foreign Crises of American Empire in the 1970s & 1980s Global Capitalism and Geopolitics in the Age of Reagan Diplomats
Paul Adler, Colorado College (chair) Douglas Little, Clark University (chair) Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois (chair) Daniel Sargent, University of California-Berkeley (chair)
B. Alex Beasley, University of Texas-Austin José A. Montero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Paving Jennifer M. Miller, Dartmouth College, "Learning from Japan: Fritz Bartel, Texas A&M University, "Opening the Door: The the ground for the future: the American Government, U.S. Kumon Tutoring and American Fears of Educational Decline in IMF’s Early Relations with Post-Soviet Russia" private firms and projects for a loan to Republican Spain (1931- the 1980s and 1990s" Peter James Hudson, University of California-Los Angeles Wayne1936)” Bowen, University of Central Florida, “No Small Sarah Miller-Davenport, University of Sheffield, "New York Kristina Shull, University of North Carolina- Charlotte, “'This Business: Franco’s Diplomats, International Trade, and City’s Fiscal Crisis and the Global Neoliberal Turn" Nation’s Fourth Border': The Caribbean Basin Initiative and Chambers of Commerce in California, 1939-1953” Reagan’s Cold War on Immigrants" Jessica Levy, Purchase College-SUNY Pablo León-Aguinaga, CUD-AGM, “The Chase Bank, the W.C.C., Sarah Snyder, American University, "Cracks in the United David Wight, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and the (Financial) Rehabilitation of Spain in the early Cold States’ Overseas Empire: Threats to American Expatriates in "Constraining Finance: The Reagan Administration, Qaddafi, War” the 1980s" and the Double-Edged Sword of Petrodollar Flows" Jayita Sarkar, Boston University Lino Camprubí, Universidad de Sevilla (comment) Patrick Chung, University of Maryland (comment) Christopher Dietrich, Fordham University (comment)
The Business of US Empire: Interest Politics, Philanthropy, CAPITALISM Climate Change
Lydia Walker, University of London (chair)
Michael Franczak, University of Pennsylvania, "U.S. Foreign Policy and Climate Change: Learning from the Recent Past"
Jameel Haque, Minnesota State University-Mankato, "War as Normal: Protecting US Businesses in the Ottoman Baghdad during World War One" Nick Pozek, Columbia University, "Industrialists and International Affairs: How Philanthropy Shaped Foreign Relations in the 20th Century" Rohan Shah, Columbia University, "American Century in Crisis: The Neoconservative Response to Economic Globalization and the Collapse of Bretton Woods" Stefan Link, Dartmouth College (comment)
Migration: Becoming a Major Theme in U.S. and the World Commercial Diplomacy, Railroad Expansion, & International In Imperial Shadows: The Middle East and Networks of US Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Students: The Impact of Activism Across the 19th-and-20th-Century Pacific World Empire Xenophobia on U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1882-1943
Hideaki Kami, University of Tokyo (chair) Genevieve Clutario, Wellesley College (chair) Nathan Citino, Rice University (chair) Hidetaka Hirota, Sophia University (chair)
Madeline Hsu, University of Texas-Austin Graeme Mack, University of California-San Diego, “'For I Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, California State University- Sally Chengji Xing, Columbia University, "The Chinese Students Conceive So Large a Commerce:' American Whalers, Hawaiian Stanislaus, "The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: A Note and the Rise of Wilsonianism in China" Independence, & the United States’ Expansion to the Pacific on Sound and Unsound Methods" Jana Lipman, Tulane University Sean1819-1843" Fraga, University of Southern California, "The Pacific Suraya Khan, San Antonio College, "From Collaboration to Tian Atlas Xu, Catholic University of America, "Navigating Railroads and the Pacific World: American Expansion, Asian Resistance: Transnational Arab American Activism in the Cold 'Worthiness' for America’s Schools: Chinese Students, Trade, and Terraqueous Mobility, 1840–1914" War" Immigration Attorneys, and the Enforcement of the Chinese Doug Rossinow, Metropolitan State University Courtney Sato, Harvard University, "Interwar Pacific Nathaniel George, Columbia University, "Kissinger’s Congo YuExclusion Dou, Purdue Project, University, 1882-1930" "Envisioning 'Inclusion' in the Geographies: the Asiatic Barred Zone Act and the Forging of a Men: Empire and Counterrevolution in Congo, Southeast Asia, Heartland: Chinese Students in the US Midwest, 1880s-1940s" Pan- Pacific Movement" and the Eastern Mediterranean" Kariann Akemi Yokota, University of Colorado-Denver Stuart Schrader, Johns Hopkins University (comment) Charlotte Brooks, Baruch College-CUNY (comment) (comment)
MIGRATION SUNDAY
8:30AM-9:45AM 10:15AM-11:45AM 12:00-1:15PM 1:30PM-2:45PM 3:15PM-4:30PM 5:00PM-6:15PM 6:30PM-7:30PM Women in SHAFR Borders in U.S. Foreign Relations Looking Forward: SHAFR Scholars & Career Diversity Reaching the People: International Publics and their Problems Breaking Silos: Historical Work Across Disciplinary and Transnationalizing U.S. Urban History Trivia Extravaganza presented by the Good Times Committee Subdisciplinary Boundaries
Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Elisabeth Leake, University of Leeds (chair) Michael Brenes, Yale University (chair) Valeska Huber, Freie Universität Berlin (chair) Arne Westad, Yale University (chair) Sarah Miller-Davenport, University of Sheffield (chair) Megan Black, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chair) (chair)
Laura Belmonte, Virginia Tech Oliver Charbonneau, University of Glasgow Joshua Cochran, Yale University Tamson Pietsch, University of Technology Sydney, "Pamphlet Paul Behringer, Southern Methodist University, “Backing the Jessica Kim, California State University-Northridge, Ryan Irwin, University at Albany-SUNY (chair) 'American University Tours' Summer 1923, New York United States into International History” "Investment: Los Angeles" University" Maurice Jr. Labelle, University of Saskatchewan Debbie Gershenowitz, UNC Press Susan Colbourn, Triangle Institute for Security Studies Sophie-Jung Kim, Freie Universität Berlin, "Letter from Kedar Aroop Mukharji, Tufts University, “Explaining History Julio Capó, Jr., Florida International University, "Queerness: Julia Irwin, University of South Florida Nath Das Gupta, the director of 'All-World Gandhi Fellowship,' Interdisciplinarily” Miami" to W.E.B. DuBois, 1932" Jennifer M. Miller, Dartmouth College Kelly Hammond, University of Arkansas Emily Whalen, Clements Center, UT-Austin Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex, "American Institute of Emily Whalen, University of Texas-Austin, “Making Everyone Jessica Levy, Purchase College-SUNY, "Racial Politics: Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University Public Opinion, poll on ‘Reconstruction,’ February and March Angry: Bringing U.S. Diplomatic History and Middle Eastern Philadelphia" 1948, published in Public Opinion Quarterly " Studies into Conversation” Nicole Anslover, Indiana University Northwest Rachel Herrmann, Cardiff University Zeb Larson, Independent Scholar Dexter Fergie, Northwestern University, "Postcard sent by an Lydia Walker, University of London (comment) Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University, "Militarization: New Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester American tourist at the United Nations Headquarters, August Orleans" 1960" Stephen Wertheim, Quincy Institute Lea Börgerding, Freie Universität Berlin, "Appeal to the Jason Parker, Texas A&M University BORDERS Women of the World 1975"
Mentorship Program American Diplomacy after Donald Trump Challenging Relationships in the Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy New Perspectives on U.S. Diplomacy during the 'Second Cold New Understandings of the Camp David Peace Process in the Middle East War,' 1979-1985
Vivien Chang, University of Virginia (chair) Michael Brenes, Yale University (chair) Hilde Henriksen Waage, University of Oslo (chair) Sandra Scanlon, University College Dublin, (chair) Craig Daigle, City College of New York (chair)
Shaun Armstead, Rutgers University (chair) Susan Colbourn, John Hopkins University Hulda Kjeang Mørk, University of Oslo, "The Ties that Bind: Conor Tobin, University College Dublin, “The Carter Benjamin Allison, University of Texas-Austin “'I am in full The Triangular Drama between the United States, Israel and Administration, ‘Neutralization,’ and the Soviet Occupation of control': Reassessing Anwar al-Sadat’s Role in the Camp David Iran, 1963-1967" Afghanistan” Peace Process" Emily Whalen, Clements Center, UT-Austin Athanasios Antonopoulos, Griffith University, "Pragmatism and Mattias Ravano, Graduate Institute Geneva, “Remounting on Carl Forsberg, Harvard University, "False Promises: US-Saudi the Human Rights Policy: US-Turkish relations in the late Horseback: The United States, the G7, and East-West Economic Misunderstandings and the Camp David Accords" 1970s" Relations” Aileen Teague, Texas A&M University Jørgen Jensehaugen, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Aaron Donaghy, University College Dublin, “The Reagan Turn of Hilde Henriksen Waage, University of Oslo, "The Grimness of "Discovering and Undiscovering the Palestinians: A US 1984: U.S. Diplomacy in the Second Cold War” the Alternatives: The United States, Israel, Syria and the Civil mediation bias" War in Lebanon, 1977–80" Arne Westad, Yale University Sandra Scanlon, University College Dublin, (comment) Craig Daigle, City College of New York (comment)
DIPLOMACY
Zoom Without Gloom: A Roundtable on Teaching During and Development Dams, Drugs, and Development New Perspectives on the Alliance for Progress and The 'Arc of Crisis' and Beyond: The United States and the Indian (Hopefully) After the Pandemic Development in Latin America Ocean's Rim Lands
Shaul Mitelpunkt, University of York (chair) Stephen Macekura, Indiana University (chair) Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania (chair) Thomas Field, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (chair) Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University (chair)
Laila Ballout, Witchita State University Priya Lal, Boston College Varsha Venkatasubramanian, University of California-Berkeley, Andres Sanchez-Padilla, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Taylor Fain, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, "Damned and the Dammed: US-Indo Relations and the Comerciales, “Development by the Book: The U.S. Cultural "Guardians of the Sea Route? The United States and the Transformation of Modernization Theory, 1980-1995" Offensive in Mexico and Modernization Theory, 1959-71” Challenge of South Africa in the Indian Ocean" Zach Fredman, Duke Kunshan University Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania Eva Ward, University of Strathclyde, "Drugs, Development and Norberto Barreto-Velázquez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Asher Orkaby, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Diplomacy in the American Philippines" Perú, "Corruption in US Foreign Aid to Peru, 1955-1961" Scholars, "Shipping the Oil: A Historical Analysis of Arabian Waterways" Casey Lurtz, John Hopkins University Alden Young, University of California-Los Angeles Thomas M. Harvell-DeGolier, Villanova University,"'Well- Mei Ling Young, University of Oxford, "The unintended Rob Konkel, Princeton University, "Forging World Order: U.S. entrenched, Well-organized, and Well-financed': The Growth of consequences of internationalist rhetoric for the Alliance for Policy Makers and Indian Ocean Raw Materials" Colombian Narcotics Networks, Development, and U.S. Progress" Nick Cullather, Indiana University LinaColombian Britto, relationsNorthwestern in the University 1970s" (comment) Casey Lurtz, JohnHopkins University (comment) Nathan Citino, Rice University, (comment)
David Engerman, Yale University DEVELOPMENT
Sara Lorenzini, University of Trento
Gender, Sexuality, & U.S. Foreign Relations Invisibility and impact: Gendered Strategies of the Early Cold Women’s Role in Diplomatic Knowledge Production and The American Household Abroad, 1785-1830: A Theoretical War International Affairs Framework for the Study of Diplomacy
Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex (chair) Rósa Magnúsdóttir, Aarhus University (chair) Carol Chin, University of Toronto (chair) Dana Cooper, Stephen F. Austen State University (chair)
Sylvia Bashevkin, University of Toronto Susanna Erlandsson, Uppsala University, "From Private to Joanna Wood, University of Oxford, "Building a World to Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California Public: Gendered Diplomacy in Post-war Washington, D.C." Understand the World: women and the Bureau of International (comment) Research at Harvard and Radcliffe 1924-42" Sarah Bellows-Blakely, Freie Universität Berlin Haakon Ikonomou, University of Copenhagen, "From Private to David Allen, Harvard University, "Women and the Making of Megan Armknecht, Princeton University, “'Trifles, you are Public: Gendered Diplomacy in Post-war Washington, D.C." the U.S. Foreign Policy Community" aware, lead sometimes to very serious results in politics': Joel Poinsett, Henry George Ward, and Household Rivalries in David Minto, Durham University Alexandra Penler, London School of Economics, "Back in the Timothy Barney, University of Richmond, "Constructing a MiriamMexico City, Liebman 1825-1830", City University of New York, “The Secretary: Narrative: Uncovering Diplomatic Wives Work in the Postwar 'Global Community of Women': The Ford Foundation and the Abigail ‘Nabby’ Adams and American Diplomacy, 1785-1792” Period" Gender and Development Movement During the 1990s" Laura Prieto, Simmons University Victoria Phillips, London School of Ecoomics, “'Hiding in Plain Nicole Sackley, University of Richmond, "Constructing a Katrina Ponti, University of Rochester, “Between Duty and Sight': Women and Protest in Cold War Berlin, 1953" 'Global Community of Women': The Ford Foundation and the Inclination: The First American ‘Third Culture Kids,’ 1785-1818” Gender and Development Movement During the 1990s" Carol Chin, University of Toronto (comment) GENDER & SEXUALITY
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ・ JUNE 17-20, 2021 SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS NOTES: Be sure to check the book exhibit! THEMES AT A GLANCE There will be conversations about Amy Kaplan and THURSDAY Walter LaFeber at noon and 6:30pm, respectively.
10:15 AM (EDT) 1:30 PM (EDT) 3:15 PM (EDT) 5:00 PM (EDT)
10:15 AM 1:30 PM 3:15 PM 5:00 PM Detention as a
Empire as U.S. United States in a World Tool of Empire Empire Empires in Tension: Foreign Relations of Empires, 1865-1885 Case Studies Erasure in the Everyday
Rethinking Foundational New Evidence on U.S. New Perspectives on Al Strategy The Uses of Strategy Documents in U.S. German Relations after Haig after Forty Years Grand Strategy World War II
New Directions in the The Future of the Peaceniks of the Human Rights Crises Rights Histories of Humanitarianism History of Rights World Unite! of the Cold War & Human Rights
The Moral Empire at Large American Protestants in Missionaries and the Religion Religion & U.S. Foreign Relations Protestant Internationalism, the 20th Century World International History of Asia Race, and the United States
NOTES: There's a breakfast session on journals. THEMES AT A GLANCE The Bernath Lecture is at noon and there will be a FRIDAY conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen at 6:30pm.
10:15 AM (EDT) 1:30 PM (EDT) 3:15 PM (EDT) 5:00 PM (EDT)
Radicals, Reactionaries, Race, Diplomacy, & the Race Race & American Empire Policing the Global Empire & Reformers in the Dawn of US Empire Global Cold War
Redefining Security & Fresh Perspectives On Insecurity in the Cold War Security Security Apparatus Writing Around Reagan & Against Security Seeing Through the in Transition
Shadow of the Future
Law, War, & Gender in Law & U.S. History & Future of the the Twentieth Century Law Debating International Foreign Relations Liberal International Order Open Secrets and Law at Home State Violence
Theories of Madness & When Did Ruling the Children and Youth in Cultures of Empire the Madness of Theory Ideas World Start Seeming U.S. Foreign Relations from the Outside In Like the Right Idea? Conferences, Bulletins, & Foundations
Lobbyists, Party Politics, New Perspectives Domestic Domestic & International & Everyday Americans in The Covert Sphere on Global Affairs & Politics Approaches in History International Affairs Domestic Politics
NOTES: Today's morning session explores book THEMES AT A GLANCE publishing. The Presidential Address is at noon and SATURDAY Barbara Savage's keynote lecture is at 6:30pm.
10:15 AM (EDT) 1:30 PM (EDT) 3:15 PM (EDT) 5:00 PM (EDT)
10:15 AM 1:30 PM 3:15 PM 5:00 PM Archives of the Global South Challenges of Writing New Directions in the Southeast Asia Decolonization an International History History of Decolonization after Vietnam New Perspectives on of the Congo African Decolonization
Chiang Soong Armed Conflict & Histories of War and Military Mayling’s Work War Narratives of War & Aid Military Affairs Labor in American Life New Approaches to Cold War Military Affairs
Information Sovereignty U.S. Cold War Science & Technology in Arc of Decolonization Sci-Tech Nuclearity in the Periphery Engagement with in History Technical Expertise Socialist Science in the Cold War
Bankers, Merchants, Global Capitalism & Capitalism & U.S. & Diplomats Abroad Crises of American Empire Capitalism Geopolitics in the Foreign Relations in the 1970s & 1980s Age of Reagan Business of U.S. Empire
Religion Commercial Diplomacy, Migration: Becoming The Middle East and Chinese Exclusion and Migration Railroad Expansion, & a Major Theme Networks of U.S. Empire Chinese Students International Activism NOTES: There will be a few breakfast Conversations THEMES AT A GLANCE today, as well as a forum on Career Diversity at noon. SUNDAY Tonight is Trivia Night!
10:15 AM (EDT) 1:30 PM (EDT) 3:15 PM (EDT) 5:00 PM (EDT)
Working Across Borders in U.S. International Publics & Transnationalizing U.S. Borders Disciplinary & Sub- Foreign Relations their Problems Urban History Disciplinary Boundaries
New Perspectives on U.S. New Understandings American Diplomacy U.S. Foreign Policy Diplomacy Diplomacy during the of the Camp David after Donald Trump in the Middle East Second Cold War Peace Process
New Perspectives on the Dams, Drugs, & Alliance for Progress & The United States & the Development Development Development Development in Latin Indian Ocean's Rim Lands
America
Women in Diplomatic Gender, Sexuality & U.S. Gendered Strategies of The American Household Gender & Knowledge Production & Foreign Relations the Early Cold War Abroad, 1785-1830 Sexuality International Affairs
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
MEGAN BLACK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology RYAN IRWIN, University at Albany
PAUL ADLER, Colorado College MICHAEL BRENES, Yale University BRANDON BYRD, Vanderbilt University BENJAMIN COATES, Wake Forest University KATE EPSTEIN, Rutgers University-Camden ADOM GETACHEW, University of Chicago DANIEL IMMERWAHR, Northwestern University HIDEAKI KAMI, University of Tokyo MONICA KIM, University of Wisconsin-Madison ELISABETH LEAKE, University of Leeds STEPHEN MACEKURA, Indiana University AARON O'CONNELL, University of Texas-Austin KENNETH OSGOOD, Colorado School of Mines KATHARINA RIETZLER, University of Sussex DANIEL SARGENT, University of California-Berkeley STUART SCHRADER, John Hopkins University SARAH SNYDER, American University LAUREN TUREK, Trinity University
SEE YOU IN JUNE!