Peace History Society Conference “Envisioning Peace, Performing Justice: Art, Activism, and the Cultural Politics of Peacemaking” Southern Illinois University Carbondale October 24-26, 2013
Program Schedule
Thursday, October 24:
7-9 p.m. Conference Registration Morris Library Rotunda
6-8 p.m. PHS Executive Board Meeting Heritage Room, Morris Library
8-9:15 p.m. Opening Reception – open to the public Morris Library Rotunda Poetry reading and Music
Friday, October 25:
8-9 a.m. Continental Breakfast Morris Library Rotunda
“ Conference Registration “ “ “
8:30-9 a.m. Welcome—RL and Deans of Liberal Arts, MCMA Guyon Auditorium
9:15-10:45 SESSION ONE
Guyon Auditorium Panel: "Power, Performance, and the American War in Vietnam"
“Performance as Politics: Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Political Potentials of Guerrilla Theater” Ryan Kirkby, University of Waterloo
“‘Participatory Drama’: The New Left, the Vietnam War, and the Emergence of Performance Studies” Christina LaRocco, University of Maryland, College Park,
“F– The Army: Imperial Virility and Gendered Dissent in the American/Vietnam War” Martin Smith, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
**Comment: Jerry Lembcke, College of the Holy Cross
*Chair: Suzanne Daughton, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Museum Auditorium Panel: Youth, Popular Culture, and Envisioned Futures for Peace
“Cartoonists on the Theme of War Toys: An Illustrated History of Resistance” Rachel Waltner Goossen, Washburn University
“‘Balancing the Picture’: Arts-based Youth Outreach in the Counter-recruitment Movement” Seth Kershner, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and Scott Harding, University of Connecticut
Social Media and Celebrity Culture JoAnn Oravec, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
*Comment: Arielle Semmel, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
**Chair: Kristen Gwinn-Becker, History IT
480 Morris Library Panel: Acting and Enacting Civil Rights in the United States, 1952- 1985
“The Performance of John Brown’s Body as a Prelude to the Civil Rights Era” David Hostetter, Shepherd University
“Performing Integration: Highlander Folk School’s Program for Peaceful School Desegregation” Laura Westhoff, University of Missouri
“War During Peacetime: Mainstream Theatre, Mass Media, and the 1985 Premiere of The Normal Heart ” Jacob Juntunen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
*Comment: Angela Aguayo, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
*Chair: Father Joseph Brown, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
11-12:30 SESSION TWO
Guyon Auditorium Panel: Engendering Protest: Women’s Rhetorics of Peace in the Nuclear Age
“Pearl S. Buck and Nuclear War: Reflections in Literature” Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University
“An Analysis of the Role of Humor in Women's Social Movements” Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, University of Pittsburgh
Gender and Performance at Greenham Common Prudence Moylan, Loyola University, Chicago
*Comment: Kelsey Kretschmer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
*Chair: Natasha Zaretsky, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Museum Auditorium Panel: Peacemaking as Placemaking: European Historical Memory from the Bronze Age to the Information Age
“Memorialization of peace through art and archaeology” Maria Elena Díez Jorge and Margarita Sánchez Romero, University of Granada
“The Meeder Friedensfest Throughout the Ages: Celebrating Peace in a Very Small Town in Germany” Martin Kalb, Northern Arizona University
“Recasting the Streets of Belfast: Staging Reconciliation in Sectarian Space” Eleanor Owicki, University of Texas at Austin
*Comment: Kevin Callahan, St. Joseph College
*Chair: Ted Weeks, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
480 Morris Library Panel: Binding the Wounds of the Body Politic: Trauma, Performance, and Transformation
“Breaking the Silence: Repairing the Collective Unconscious in Fermin Cabal’s Tejas Verdes ” Rebecca Worley, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
“El Gusto” Marissa Quie, University of Cambridge
**Comment: Jonathan Gray, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
**Chair: Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
12:30-2:30 Lunch, Awards Presentation, and Keynote Rotunda, Guyon Auditorium Keynote Address open to public
2:45-4:15 SESSION THREE
Guyon Auditorium Panel: Artful Interventions: Politics, Culture, and Peacemaking in Africa, 1966-2013
“Teaching, Advocacy and Protest: Civil Society Performances for Peace in Ghana, 1966 – 2012” Baba Jallow, Creighton University
“Transforming Weapons of War into Symbols of Peace: Mozambique’s Transformação de Armas em Enxadas/Transforming Arms into Plowshares Project” Amy Shwartzott, University of Florida
"The Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa: Remembering an Activist through a Vehicle for Change" Sarah Muenster-Blakley, University of St. Thomas
*Comment: Getahun Benti, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
*Chair: Olusegun Ojewuyi, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Museum Auditorium Panel: Exposures and Erasures in Collective Memory: the Limits of Art in Promoting Post-Conflict Justice
“Forgetting an Uneasy Peace ” Meghann Pytka, Northwestern University
“The Mystique of Historical Memory: A Peruvian Arts-Based Model for Peacebuilding” Kristin Sekerci, American University
“How Public Art and Memorials to Violent Conflict Can Perpetuate Violence or Encourage Peace” Shelley Clay-Robison, University of Baltimore and Matthew Clay-Robison, York College of Pennsylvania
*Comment: Marian Mollin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University
*Chair: Jonathan Wiesen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
480 Morris Library Panel: Mobilizing Creativity: Performance as Community-Building and Justice Work in Contemporary Peace Movements
“Compassion and Mask-Making: Putting a Face on Carbondale’s Community” Diana Sussman and Betsy Herman, Art of Living Foundation
WochenKlausur (“Weeks of Enclosure”) in Switzerland, 1993-95 Elizabeth Hawley, Graduate Center, City University of New York
“New Media Artistic and Civic Engagements” Marcela Moyano & Andrea Campbell, St. Thomas University
*Comment: Nathan Stucky, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
*Chair: Ron Naversen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
4:30-5:30 Book Signing, Wine and Cheese Old Main Lounge Open to the public
5:30-7 Banquet Old Main Room
7:30 Performance of Ragtime, McLeod Theater
10 p.m. After hours gathering at Hangar
Saturday, October 26
8-9 a.m. Continental Breakfast Museum Rotunda
9-10:30 SESSION FOUR
Museum Auditorium Panel: Mapping Hemispheric Resistance: Challenging US Hegemony in the Americas, 1965-2013
“Mobilizing Through Art: Murals and Paintings in the Vieques Movement” Roberto Velez-Velez, SUNY New Paltz
“Knowledge has no national character”: Canadian Culture and American Men during the Vietnam Conflict” Donald Maxwell, Indiana State University
“Latin American Social Movements and a New Left Consensus: State and Civil Society Challenges to Neoliberal Globalization” Virginia Williams & Jennifer Disney, Winthrop University
*Comment: J. P. Reed, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
*Chair: Jonathan Hill, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Faner 1326 Panel: The Art of Peace: Creation, Appropriation, and Interpretation of Peace-Themed Artworks
“Picasso's Peace Dove as a Symbol and Emblem of the International Peace Movement” Nicola Hille, University of Stuttgart
“The Civic Nature of Murals: Carols Hernandez Chavez’s Work as Example” Tisa Anders, BlackPast.org, Founder and CEO of Writing the World
“The Elusive Face of Peace in Public Monuments and Art” Deborah Buffton, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
*Comment: Stacey Sloboda, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
**Chair: Carma Gorman, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Faner 1230 Panel: Art, Activism, and Expansive Visions of Peace in the 1930s “Women’s Rights at the 1936 Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace” Christy Snider, Berry College
“He asked many Lefties and not one had heard of Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas.” R.L. Updegrove, Northern Arizona University
“Peace, Protest, and Civil Liberties: The Theatre Union’s Production of Albert Maltz’s Peace on Earth” Anne Fletcher & Cheryl Black, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
*Comment: Scott Irelan, Youngstown State University
**Chair: Harriet Alonso, City College of New York
10:45-12:15 SESSION FIVE
Museum Auditorium Panel: Crafting, Fashioning, and Self-Fashioning: Creative Processes as Peacemaking Discourse
“Riders on the Storm: Counterculture Hitchhiking as a Performance of Peace” Jack Reid, Northern Arizona University
“Flag-Themed Clothing as Peace and Protest” Laura Kidd, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
“Women, Art, and Peace: A Quest for Social Justice” Anastasia Pratt, Empire State College
*Comment: David Cochran, John A. Logan College
*Chair: Elyse Pineau , Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Faner 1326 Panel: Representation and Agency in the Global Public Sphere, 1989-2013
“Staging and Framing of Protest in the Occupied Territories: Construction of "True Victimhood" by Protestors & Documentarians” Gary Bratchford and Huw Whal, Manchester Metropolitan University
“The moral voice of the families of the disappeared in Indian-administered Kashmir” Subh Mathur, Independent Scholar
“Peace Movements: Petition, Protest, and the Public Sphere” Versha Anderson, Colorado State University
*Comment: Sarah Lewison, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
*Chair: Peter Lemish, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Faner 1230 Panel: Waging War and Staging Peace: Peace Activists and Popular Audiences during the World Wars
“Dissenters from the religion of patriotism:” California Pacifists Staging the World War I Era Religion of Pacifism Kathleen Brown, St. Edward’s University
“Aroused by Anguish”: World War I Feminist Peace Activism and Popular Audiences Maria Beach, Oklahoma State University
“American Dancers’ Opposition to the Rise of Fascism and WW II” Nicole Topich, University of Pittsburgh
*Comment: Wendy Chmielewski, Swarthmore College
*Chair: Scott Bennett, Georgian Court University
12:30-2:30 Lunch and Membership meeting Museum Rotunda and Aud.
3 p.m. Area tour—wine trail, hiking in Giant City, Makanda, etc.