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Download Conference Program Help BuckeyeLink Map Find People Webmail Search Ohio State SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY CONFERENCE HOME Program CFP SMH2020 Conference Program (subject to change) COLUMBUS: NEEDS 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History AND WANTS “Soldiers and Civilians in the Cauldron of War” May 9 – 12, 2019, Columbus, Ohio COLUMBUS: RESTAURANTS Thursday 05/09/2019 COLUMBUS: THINGS TO 8 am – 6 pm SEE AND DO Bellows Ballroom ABC: Book Exhibit Setup CONFERENCE HOTEL 8:30 am – 5 pm ROOM SHARE Burkhart A: Chinese Military History Society Meeting EXHIBITORS 12 pm – 5 pm Burkhart B: SMH Executive Board Lunch and Meeting MAPS 12 pm – 6 pm MENTORSHIP Registration Desk (Lower Level): Conference Registration NEH CHAIRMAN 6 pm – 9 pm SPEECH AND LUNCH Ohio Statehouse Atrium and Rotunda: SMH Annual Meeting Opening Reception (1 Capitol Square: a walkable .7 miles away) NEH GRANTS Buses depart from the Lower Level Alley every ten minutes between 5:30 pm and 6:30 pm WORKSHOP Return from Statehouse every fifteen minutes beginning at 7:00 and ending at 9:15 pm ONE DAY PASS 8 pm – 10 pm Bellows Ballroom DEF: SMH Awards Banquet (Ticketed Event) OPENING RECEPTION: THE OHIO STATEHOUSE Friday 05/10/2019 PROGRAM 7 am – 8 am REGISTRATION Private Dining Room (Second Floor): Editorial Committee Breakfast REUNIONS/MEETUPS 8 am – 6 pm SMH 2020 AND SMH Registration Desk, Lower Level: Conference Registration 2021 SMH2019 FAQ 8 am – 6 pm Bellows Ballroom ABC: Book Exhibit SPONSORS 9 am – 5 pm TEACHER DAY AT SMH2019 Departure point: Lower Level Alley: Tour of National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (Dayton) THANKS TOURS 8:30 am – 10 am TRANSPORTATION Hayden: Beyond Soldiers and Civilians: Animals and War Frank Blazich (National Museum of American History): Feathers of Honor: U.S. Army HOTEL Signal Corps Pigeon Service in World War I, 1917-1918 Laurence Burke II (National Air and Space Museum): The First Naval Aviators: Pigeons and Pigeoneers in the U.S. Navy Gordon Calhoun (National Museum of the United States Navy): A Softer and Gentler Steel Navy: The Golden Age of Navy Mascots Erik Villard (U.S. Army Center of Military History): Panel Chair and Commenter King: Beyond the Battlefield: Military Service, Civilian Life, and the Continental Army Steven Elliott (Rutgers University-Newark): “Having Borne Much of the Burden of the War”: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Problem of Shelter during the War of Independence David Ward (College of William & Mary): The Continental Army: Leadership School for the Early Republic Rachel Engl (Lehigh University): Soldiers as Civilians: Re-examining the Legacy of the American Revolution T. Cole Jones (Purdue University): Panel Chair and Commenter Hopkins: Saigon under Siege: Social, Economic, and Cultural Occupation of South Vietnam by Allies Uyen Nguyen (Texas Tech University): Lotus Petals in the Storm: South Vietnamese Women, American Soldiers, and their Local Allies in the Cauldron of War Martin Clemis (Valley Forge Military College): “A Sudden, Subtle, and Totally Unexpected Social Revolution”: Disruption, Displacement, and Urban Crisis in South Vietnam, 1965-1975 Bill Allison (Georgia Southern University): ROK Use of Comfort Women in Vietnam: Media, Evidence, and the Use of History Heather Stur (University of Southern Mississippi): Panel Chair Ron Milam (Texas Tech University): Panel Commenter Pierce A: Is There a Chinese Way of War? (Roundtable) Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University): Discussant Harold Tanner (University of North Texas): Discussant ChunQiao Ke (PLA Academy of Military Science): Discussant Sherman Lai (Royal Military College of Canada/Queen’s University): Discussant Xiaobing Li (University of Central Oklahoma): Panel Organizer Stanley Adamiak (University of Central Oklahoma): Panel Chair Pierce B: School of the Soldier: Collaboration, Culture, and Command in the Italian Campaign of World War II Carson Teuscher (The Ohio State University): Samba and Skis: The 10th Mountain Division and Brazilian-American Collaboration in Italy, 1944-45 Guido Rossi (The Ohio State University): Reconnecting with their Roots: Italian-American Servicemen in Wartime Italy, 1943-45 Robert T. Davis II (School of Advanced Military Studies): In the Shadow of the Eagle: Alfred Gruenther and the Challenges of Coalition Warfare in Italy Allison Abra (University of Southern Mississippi): Panel Chair Corbin Williamson (Air War College): Panel Commenter Burkhart A: World War II: Traditional and Non-Traditional Fighting Fred Coventry (Ohio University): Ungentlemanly Warfare: SOE, MI-9, and Civilian Resistance in Europe Andrew Stewart (King’s College-London): With the British at the Bulge – Closing the Conneux Pocket Huw Davies (King’s College-London) Panel Chair and Commenter Burkhart B: Soldiers and Civilians in the Age of Reason: New Perspectives on the Military- Civil Relationship in the Mid-Eighteenth Century and Beyond Jim McIntyre (Morain Valley Community College): Atrocity in the Seven Years War in Europe: A Critical Reevaluation Alex Burns (West Virginia University): Kabinettskriege and (Early) Modern War: Contextualizing Mid-Eighteenth-Century Violence against Civilians Chris Juergens (Florida State University): Rebels, Loyalists, and Mercenaries: Hessian Troops and American Civilians during the American War of Independence Christy Pichichero (George Mason University): Panel Chair Stanley Carpenter (U.S. Naval War College): Panel Commenter GCCC A210: When Choice is Lost: Prisoners and Conscripts Gregory Kupsky (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency): Assets or Liabilities? Civilian Internees in the Pacific Theater of World War II David Campmier (The Graduate Center, CUNY): Citizen Complaints and Confederate Impressment and Conscription, 1862-1865 Jonathan Chavanne (Independent Scholar): Panel Chair and Commenter GCCC A211: Treating the Troops: Medical, Moral, Spiritual, and Psychological Support to Soldiers in the Great War Rachel Heide (Department of National Defence (Canada)): Labeling Malingers, Cowards, Defectives, and the Mentally Weak: The Legacy of the Great War’s Treatment of Shell Shock Jay Boyd (U.S. Army Chaplains Center and School): Fellow Travellers: U.S. Army Chaplains, the Medical Department, Civilian Welfare, and Religious Organizations, and the Great War 1917-1919 Harold Allen Skinner (U.S. Army Reserve 81st Readiness Division): A Disease That Walks By Night: The U.S. Army’s Campaign to Eliminate Venereal Diseases during the Great War John Tim Collins (University of North Alabama): Panel Chair and Commenter GCCC A212: So Far from Home: Allied Flight Training by U.S. Army Air Forces in the United States during World War II Robert Kane (Air University): Lafayette Has Returned: Free French Flight Training in Alabama during World War II Forrest Marion (Air Force Historical Research Agency): Panel Chair and Commenter GCCC A213: War at Our Doorstep: Civil-Military Interaction during the U.S.-Mexico War Era, 1846-1860 Christopher Menking (University of North Texas): Wagon and Forage Masters: The Influence of Civilian Contractors on South Texas After the U.S.-Mexico War Patrick Troester (Southern Methodist University): Gendered Violence and the Nation-as- Family in the U.S.-Mexico War Luis Alberto Garcia Garcia (Universidad de Monterrey): The U.S.-Mexico War: Its Influence in the Political and Military Reorganization of Northeastern Mexico Peter Guardino (Indiana University): Panel Chair and Commenter GCCC A214: In the Shadow of War: Veteran Activity and the Boundaries of Soldier and Civilian Zachery Fry (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College): The Unsung Union Army: Wartime Returning Veterans and the Election of 1864 Barbara Gannon (University of Central Florida): Veterans of (other) Foreign Wars: Spanish War Veterans and the World Wars Devon Collins (U.S. Military Academy-West Point): Captivity of the Mind: World War I and the Repatriation of British POWs Brian Jordan (Sam Houston State University): Panel Chair and Commenter GCCC A215: Food and War Mara Kozelsky (University of South Alabama): From Sevastopol: A Philosophy of Food and War Joseph Miller (University of Maine): “It is Madness in the Extreme to Attempt to Carry on War with such a System”: 1812, a War for Calories Jing Sun (University of Pennsylvania): Soldiers’ Recipes: Army, Food, and the National Dream of a Robust Japan, 1890-1920 David Selnick (Tiffin University): Panel Chair and Commenter GCCC A216: Postwar Societies in the Aftermath of the First World War John Mitcham (Duquesne University): An Anglo-American Commonwealth and Visions of a New World Order David Johnson (University of North Carolina-Charlotte): Imperial Debris: The Imperial War Graves Commission in India Heather Perry (University of North Carolina-Charlotte): Nourishing the Volk: War, Food, and the New Nutritional Order Michelle Moyd (Indiana University): Panel Chair Michael Neiberg (U.S. Army War College): Panel Commenter 10:30 am – 12 pm Hayden: American Ethnic, Racial, and Gender Minorities in Two Wars Piotr Derengowski (University of Gdansk): Qualifications of Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) in the Light of the Proceeding of the Examining Boards Cameron McCoy (Brigham Young University): Wartime Measure: The Coming of Lincoln’s Soldiers in the Summer of 1863 Laura Oviedo (Texas A&M University): “Eramos Atrevidas, We Were Daring”: Tejanas and Puertorriqueñas in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II Debra Sheffer (Park University): Panel Chair Alexander Bielakowski (University of Houston-Downtown): Panel Commenter King: Soldiers and Civilians in the Cauldron of Occupation, 1815-1945
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