2015 Biannual Conference of the Peace History Society Historical Perspectives on War, Peace, and Religion
October 22-24, 2015 University of Saint Joseph Stay in touch: #PHSC2015 Featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Leilah Danielson
1678 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117 THE 2015 BIANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE PEACE HISTORY SOCIETY IS SPONSORED BY
•• Peace History Society
•• Department of History and Society, University of Saint Joseph
•• Departments of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Saint Joseph
•• School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Saint Joseph
•• Office of International Studies and Programs, University of Saint Joseph
•• Office of Provost Michelle Kalis, Ph.D., University of Saint Joseph
•• Office of President Rhona Free, Ph.D., University of Saint Joseph
•• National Endowment for the Humanities
2015 Biannual Conference of the Peace History Society | 1 PEACE HISTORY SOCIETY OFFICERS Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research Executive Editor: Heather Fryer, Creighton University AND BOARD MEMBERS, 2015 Associate Editor: Michael Goode, Utah Valley University Managing Editor: Andrew Wilson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Executive Officers Book Review Editor: Michael Clinton, Gwynedd Mercy University President: Kevin J. Callahan, University of Saint Joseph Vice President: Scott H. Bennett, Georgian Court University PHS Newsletter Editor Treasurer: Ginger Williams, Winthrop University Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University Secretary: Andrew Barbero, University of Southern Indiana PHS United Nations Representative Board of Directors Blanche Wiesen Cook Harriet Alonso, City College of New York Deborah Buffton, University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse PEACE HISTORY SOCIETY Michael Clinton, Gwynedd Mercy University Sandi E. Cooper, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY CONFERENCE PLANNING Leilah Danielson, Northern Arizona University Ian Christopher Fletcher, Georgia State University COMMITTEE Kathleen Kennedy, Missouri State University Ben Peters, University of Saint Joseph, Program Co-chair Eric Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Prudence Moylan, University of Loyola, Chicago, Program Co-Chair Ben Peters, University of Saint Joseph, CT Kevin J. Callahan, University of Saint Joseph, onsite coordinator Doug Rossinow, Metropolitan State University Ann Egan, Executive Assistant, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University University of Saint Joseph Mona Siegel, California State University, Sacramento Betty Anne Janelle, Coordinator – Meetings and Conference Services, R.L. Updegrove, Duluth East High School, Minnesota University of Saint Joseph Ex-Officio Members Christy Snider, Berry College (past President) Special Thanks to Members of the University Heather Fryer, Creighton University (Peace & Change Editor) of Saint Joseph community: Wendy Chmielewski (Swarthmore College Peace Collection) For institutional support: President Rhona Free; President Emerita Pamela Marc Becker, Truman State University (Web editor) Trotman Reid; Provost Michelle Kalis; Dean Wayne Steely, School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Dean Joseph Ofosu, School of Pharmacy; International Advisory Council Steve Raider-Ginsburg, Director, The Autorino Center for the Arts and Nadine Lubelski-Bernard (Belgium) the Humanities; Ann Sievers, Director of the Art Gallery; and Waleska Peter van den Dungen (Britain) Santiago, Museum Educator Nigel Young (Britain) Benjamin Ziemann (German historian at University of Sheffield) For organizational support: Ann Egan, Betty Ann Janelle, Rochelle Oakley, Martin Klimke (Germany) Huong Lam, Iris Solis, Charles Freitag, Sharon Brewer, USJ Marketing, IT, Anne Kjelling (Norway) and Facilities Elena Diez Jorge (Spain) Margarita Sanchez Romero (Spain) Ralph Summy (Australia) Kevin Clements (New Zealand) Kazuyo Yamane (Japan) Takao Takahara (Japan)
2 | University of Saint Joseph 2015 Biannual Conference of the Peace History Society | 3 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Session One Panel 1: Religion and the Politics of War and Peace Thursday, October 22 A/V Room, Bruyette Athenaeum University of Saint Joseph, School of Pharmacy Campus Moderator: 229 Trumbull Street, Hartford, CT Jennifer Cote, University of Saint Joseph 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. PHS Board Meeting Presenters: School of Pharmacy, PI Classroom Doug Rossinow, Metropolitan State University, “Writing the History of American Zionism: National, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception Transnational, and Postnational Perspectives” School of Pharmacy, Foyer Dinner in downtown Hartford Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University, “The Christian Century and Mainline Protestantism’s Opposition to Harry Truman’s Friday, October 23 Cold War Policies” University of Saint Joseph, Main Campus 1678 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT Lawrence J. McAndrews, St. Norbert College, Shuttle: Dattco bus leaves Hartford Hilton for campus at 7:30 a.m. “‘Patriotic’ Prelates: 9/11, George W. Bush, and the U.S. Catholic Bishops” 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast and Registration Bruyette Athenaeum, Coleman Lobby Panel 2: Ending Militarism, Seeking Justice 8:20 – 8:45 a.m. Welcoming Remarks/Announcements Reception Room, Bruyette Athenaeum Hoffman Auditorium, Bruyettte Athenaeum Moderator: Wayne Steely Prudence A. Moylan, University of Loyola, Chicago Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Presenters: University of Saint Joseph Christy Jo Snider, Berry College, “Narrow Nationalism Kevin J. Callahan vs. World Loyalty: The Debate over Religious Professor of History, President of Peace History Society, Discrimination in the International Federation of University of Saint Joseph University Women during the 1930s” Ben Peters Philip Wight, Brandeis University, “Uprooting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Economic Growth as God: E.F. Schumacher’s University of Saint Joseph, program co-chair Religion of Permanence” Prudence Moylan Trevor Burrows, Purdue University, “Tracing ‘Religion’ Professor of History, University of Loyola Chicago, in the Student Peace Union, 1959-1964” program co-chair 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Art Exhibit: Pan American Modernism Art Gallery, Bruyette Athenaeum
4 | University of Saint Joseph 2015 Biannual Conference of the Peace History Society | 5 Panel 3: Engaging with the WWI and Vietnam Marc Becker, Truman State University, “Ecuador’s Early Commemorations: A Workshop for Teachers, No-bases Movement” Researchers, and Activists Marian Mollin, Virginia Tech, “Solidarity and Faith: Lynch Hall, 225 Ita Ford and the Politics of Catholic Foreign Mission” Facilitators: Ian Fletcher, Georgia State University Panel 6: Growing Compassionate Campuses: the Charter Yaël Simpson Fletcher, Independent Scholar for Compassion in Connecticut Reception Room, Bruyette Athenaeum Karín Aguilar-San Juan, Macalester College Facilitators: 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Coffee & Break Nancy Billias, University of Saint Joseph Coleman Lobby, Bruyette Athenaeum Agnes Curry, University of Saint Joseph 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Book Exhibit Coleman Lobby, Bruyette Athenaeum Christopher Kukk, Western Connecticut State University 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Session Two James Malley, Central Connecticut State University Panel 4: Religious Explorations of War in the 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Service of Justice Crystal Room, Mercy Hall A/V Room, Bruyette Athenaeum 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. Plenary Session One: Keynote Moderator: Hoffman Auditorium, Bruyette Athenaeum Revered Joseph Cheah, University of Saint Joseph “Supernaturalism and Peace Activism: Expanding the Boundaries of Peace History” Presenters: Dr. Leilah Danielson, Northern Arizona University Nancy Gentile Ford, Bloomsburg University of Book Signing to Follow Pennsylvania, “To Dispel this Depression and Gloom: American Chaplains in World War I” 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Coffee & Break Coleman Lobby, Bruyette Athenaeum Tom Pynn, Kennesaw State University, “Jainism and the Just War Traditions” 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. PHS Membership Meeting (all invited) Reception Room, Bruyette Athenaeum Deborah Buffton, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, “Monuments to Conscience: Judeo-Christian 3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Waleska Santiago, USJ Museum Educator Imagery in First World War Memorials” “Framing Latin American Art: Religion and Politics” Art Gallery, Autorino Center Panel 5: Anti-Military Movements in Latin America 4:00 – 5:45 p.m. Session Three Lynch Hall, 225 Panel 7: Religion and the Pursuit of Peace in Global Context Moderator: A/V Room, Bruyette Athenaeum Geoffrey Smith, Queens University, Canada Moderator: Presenters: Kevin Callahan, University of Saint Joseph Ginger Williams, Winthrop University, “The SOA and U.S. Militarism in Latin America: Sixty Years of Defending an Institution”
6 | University of Saint Joseph 2015 Biannual Conference of the Peace History Society | 7 Presenters: Jeffrey D. Meyers, Lutheran School of Theology at Ke Ren, Bates College, “Reformist Monks, Muslim Chicago, “Nonresistance or Nonviolence: Christian Generals, and International Anti-Aggression: Pacifists’ Early Theological Divide over Gandhian Religious Organizations and the Rassemblement Nonviolence” Universel pour la Paix in Wartime China, 1938-40.” Irina A. Gordeeva, Russian State University for the David W. McFadden, Fairfield University, “The Humanities, “From the ‘Weapon of the Weak’ to Protestant Social Gospel, the Search for a Historical Civil Resistance: Russian Radical Pacifists and Jesus, and Openings to Soviet Russia in the 1920s” Russian Sectarians in the Late XIX First Third of Wais Ahmad Wardak, University of Connecticut, the XX Century” “Jihad against Terrorism: Rethinking the Clash 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Banquet and Awards Presentation of Conceptualizations” Crystal Room, Mercy Hall Shuttle: Dattco bus leaves campus for Hartford Panel 8: Religion Meets the Challenge of Peace Hilton at 7:30 p.m. Lynch Hall, 225 Moderator: Saturday, October 24 Sister Ann Caron, University of Saint Joseph University of Saint Joseph, Main Campus Presenters: 1678 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT Stephen W. Minnema, Viterbo University, “Disarming Shuttle: Premier Limo leaves Hartford Hilton for campus at 7:20 a.m. Apocalypse Now: Menno’s Response to Theologies and 7:40 a.m. Justifying Violence” 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast and Registration John Laaman, Auburn University, “In the World, But Coleman Lobby, Bruyette Athenaeum Not of It: The Church of God and Its Peace Doctrine” 8:45 – 10:15 a.m. Session Four Andrew Bolton, Graceland University, “Peace and Panel 10: Religion and Peace in Places, Actions, Memorial Violence in the Mormon Quest for the Kingdom of God” McDonough Hall, 200 Ellie Stebner, Simon Fraser University, “John Amos Moderator: Comenius: An Ambassador of Peace” Nancy Billias, University of Saint Joseph
Panel 9: Religious Leaders and the Practice of Peace Presenters: Reception Room, Bruyette Athenaeum Stephanie Boyle, New York City College of Technology, “The People Demand: Media, Religion and Gender Moderator: and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011” Shyamala Raman, University of Saint Joseph Shelley E. Rose, Cleveland State University, “Place Presenters: Matters: Occupied Spaces in German Peace History Elizabeth N. Agnew, Ball State University, “A Deliberative 1921-1983” Devotion: Jane Addams and Mohandas Gandhi” Luther Adams, University of Washington-Tacoma, “An Deborah Kisatsky, Assumption College, “Pacifists in Issue near the People’s Heart: Letters, Writing and Turmoil: The Inner Struggles of Adin Ballou, Leo the Protest against Police Brutality in the 1930s Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi” and1940s”
8 | University of Saint Joseph 2015 Biannual Conference of the Peace History Society | 9 Panel 11: Non-Violence for the Irreverent: Secular 10:30 – 12:15 p.m. Plenary Session Two Pacifists and Their Religious Histories American Catholic Peace Movement: Past and Present Reception Room, Bruyette Athenaeum Hoffman Auditorium, Bruyette Athenaeum Moderator: Moderator: Sandi Cooper, City University of New York Ben Peters, University of Saint Joseph Presenters: Presenters: Scott H. Bennett, Georgian Court University, “David Michael Baxter, Regis University, Colorado, “On the McReynolds, the War Resisters’ International, and Front Lines in ‘The Army of Peace:’ Ben Salmon’s the Vietnam War” Catholic Witness to a Church and a World at War” Amy Schneidhorst, University of Illinois, Chicago Robert P. Russo, Lourdes University, Ohio, “The Causes “Three Steps-One Bow: Creative Community and Consequences of Dorothy Day’s Pacifist Stance” Building as Strategy for Border Free Peace against Andrew S. Barbero, University of Southern Indiana, U.S. Asia Pivot Policy” “Carl Kabat, Antinuclear Activism, and the Radical R.L. Updegrove, Duluth East High School (MN), Catholic Peace Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century” “Godless Nonviolence: A Tradition of Secular Respondents: Nonviolence” Tom Cornell, Catholic Peace Fellowship, Peter Maurin Catholic Worker Farm (New York) Panel 12: Education for Peace or Peacekeeping A/V Room, Bruyette Athenaeum Chris Allen-Doucot, Hartford Catholic Worker Moderator: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Chuck Howlett, Molloy College Crystal Room, Mercy Hall Presenters: 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Session Five Magali Deleuze, Collège Militaire Royal du Canada, Panel 13: Peace, Religion and the State “Peacekeeping since Antiquity: Historical A/V Room, Bruyette Athenaeum Perspectives” Moderator: Chantel Lavoie, Collège Militaire Royal du Canada, Shelley E. Rose, Cleveland State University “Reading Together, Fighting the Good Fight: A Little Presenters: Book for Mothers and Sons (1919)” Joseph Jones, University of British Columbia, James Olusegun Adeyeri, “Nigeria-Boko Haram “Canadian Mennonite Assistance to American Conflict: Transnational Dimensions and Vietnam War Refugees” Opportunities for Peace and Security” Guy Aiken, University of Virginia, “So, Three Quakers 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Coffee & Break Walk into the Gestapo: The Pragmatic Pacifism of Coleman Lobby, Bruyette Athenaeum the AFSC”
10 | University of Saint Joseph 2015 Biannual Conference of the Peace History Society | 11 Panel 14: Understanding the Causes of Violence 27 Reception Room, Bruyette Athenaeum P Moderator: 6 23 24 P Agnes Curry, University of Saint Joseph 25 Presenters: 7 9 10 P Breann Fallon, University of Sydney, “The Enchanted 5 8 Aesthetic Effect: Object, Figure, and Rhetoric 14 P 13 Fetishisation in the Psyche of the Genocide 4 P 11 Perpetrator and the Genocidal Community” 12 Jusuf Salih, University of Dayton, “The Rhetoric of 3 1 P 15 P 2 16 Anger: Violence and War in Bosnia & Herzegovina” P 17
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P P Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy, “Gandhi’s P 18 P views on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism during 26 20 P 19 the British Rule of India” 22 3:00 p.m. Farewell/Local Excursions on Own Time Shuttle: Premier Limo leaves campus for Hartford
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1. MERCY HALL 3. THE POPE PIUS XII LIBRARY 12. LOURDES HALL Lower Level: Second floor: First floor: Classrooms Faculty Offices, Mail Room, Copy Room, Marketing Center for Academic Excellence Second and Third floors: Faculty Offices and Communications 4. LYNCH HALL – THE CAROL AUTORINO CENTER 13. SOCCER/LACROSSE FIELD First floor: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Classrooms, 14. TENNIS COURTS President, Provost, Business Office, Human International Studies/Programs, Faculty Offices 15. SOFTBALL FIELD Resources, Admissions, Enrollment Management, (both floors) 16. THE O’CONNELL ATHLETIC CENTER Crystal Room, Dean’s Conference Room, Guardo 5. THE BRUYETTE ATHENAEUM – Bruyette Natatorium, Fitness Center, Conference Room THE CAROL AUTORINO CENTER Dance Studio, Gymnasium, Indoor Track, Second floor: First floor: Locker Rooms, Athletic Department Institutional Advancement and Alumni Relations, Art Gallery, Frances Driscoll Box Office, Financial Aid, Social Work, Graduate Admissions Hoffman Auditorium, Winifred E. Coleman Lobby, 17. HEALTH AND COUNSELING CENTER (the Little Red House) Third floor: Dressing Rooms, Green Room, Offices School of Graduate and Professional Studies, Second floor: 18. CENTER FOR APPLIED RESEARCH School of Education, Institute for Autism and The O’Connor Archives, Reception Room, A/V Room, AND EDUCATION Behavioral Studies, Faculty Offices Music Room, Art Room, Classrooms, Faculty Offices 19. THE GENGRAS CENTER SCHOOL 2. MCDONOUGH HALL 6. THE CONNOR CHAPEL OF OUR LADY 20. THE GENGRAS CENTER-GREATER Lower Level: 7. ROSARY HALL, (residence hall) HARTFORD JAYCEES GREENHOUSE Information Technology Network Center, the 8. MCAULEY HALL, (residence hall) 21. THE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG CHILDREN Teaching & Learning Center, Network Center 238 Steele Road Classrooms, Faculty Offices, Snack Bar 9. ASSUMPTION HALL, (residence hall) 22. THE PRESIDENT’S HOUSE First floor: 10. MADONNA HALL, (residence hall) 23. RESIDENCE HALL SOUTH Laboratories, Registrar, Bursar, Academic 11. MCGOVERN HALL Advisement, Career Development Center, Alumni First floor: 24. RESIDENCE HALL NORTH Hall, Classrooms Public Safety, University Bookstore, The Jay’s Nest 25. THE KATHLEEN DRISCOLL Second floor: snack bar, McGovern Lounge, Dining Hall, AMATANGELO ’62 GATES School of Health and Natural Sciences, Faculty Dining Room, SGA/SPEC Office, ATM 26. THE NICHOLAS S. AMATANGELO GATES Classrooms, Laboratories, Nursing Learning Second floor: 27. FACILITIES OFFICE Center, Faculty Offices Student Affairs, Residential Life, Student Involvement Third floor: and Orientation, Campus Ministry, Student Activities, Laboratories, Classrooms, Faculty Offices, Community Service, Diversity Initiatives, Community DOWNTOWN HARTFORD Graduate Academic Services Outreach, Adventure Education, Conference and UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH Meeting Services SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 229 Trumbull Street, Hartford, CT 06103
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