European History Newsletter VOL XLII, no. 1 (September 2006) ISSN: 1085-5459
SOUTHERN HISTORICALASSOCIATION 72nd ANNUAL MEETING Nov. 15- 18, Birmingham, Alabama
The Sheraton Birmingham Hotel 2101 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. N Birmingham, Alabama 35203 (205) 324-5000 Online room reservations Single/Double $104 Overnight valet parking is available for $16 per day (includes in/out privileges). Self-parking is $10 per day
The European History Section will hold the following events
• Executive Committee Meeting, Thursday, November 16, at 4:30 pm in HR 405. • Business Luncheon and Mathews-Weinberg Address, Friday, November 17, at noon in Medical Forum B. The speaker is Professor John H. Morrow, Jr. of the University of Georgia who will speak about “The Wonders of Perspecvtive: A More Global Approach to the History of the World Wars.” • European History Section Reception, Friday, November 17, 5 – 7 pm, in E. Meeting Room K
European History Section Panels
“Crime and Punishment in Tudor and Edwardian England” – Thursday, November 16, 9:30 – 11:30 am. East Meeting Room B. Moderator: Alice Catherine Carls, University of Tennessee, Martin, Tenn.
1) Wendell Allen Hunnicutt, Graduate Student, University of Texas, Arlington: Picturing Punishment: Visual Representations of Capital and Corporal Punishment in Early Modern London 2) Nancy Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University: ‘When Civil War is Waged by Women’ : the Militant British Women’s Suffrage Movement
Commentator: Elizabeth Cawthon, University of Texas, Arlington
“The Third Reich: Opportunism and Punishment” – Thursday, November 16, 9:30 – 11:30 am, East Meeting Room B. Moderator: Joel Dark, Middle Tennessee State University
1) Paul Wilson, Nicholls State University: Ties that Bind: The Equestrian SS and the SS Cavalry Brigade 2) Kees Gispen, University of Mississippi: The Life and Times of Engineer Karl August Riemschneider (1906-1985): Reflections on Radicalism and Social Reform in Twentieth-Century Germany 3) Frank Michael Buscher, Christian Brothers University, Memphis: Tennessee Stress and the Prosecutors and Judges in West German Trials of National Socialist Perpetrators”
Commentator: Donald M. McKale, Clemson University
“European Diplomacy and the Confederate States of America” – Thursday, November 16, 2:30 – 4:30 pm. East Meeting Room A. Moderator: Charles Grear, Texas AM
1) David Waller (University of Northampton), and David Brown (University of Sheffield): Anglo-American Relations at the Outbreak of the Civil War: The Views from Consuls in the United States 2) Wayne Bowen, Ouachita Baptist University: Natural Allies; Spain and the Confederacy 3) Jeffery S. Prushankin, Penn State, Abington: Edmund Kirby Smith and Confederate Diplomacy 1863-1865
Commentator: Susannah U. Bruce, Sam Houston State University
“Jewish-Christian Germans (“Mischlinge”) from 1933 to the Present” – Thursday, November 16, 2:30 – 4:30 pm. East Meeting Room B. Moderator: Marion F. Deshmukh, George Mason University
1) James F. Tent, University of Alabama, Birmingham: The Fate of Civilian “Mischlinge” under National Socialism 2) Cynthia Crane, University of Cincinnati: “ ‘Mischlinge’ Women in Nazi Germany: Impact of Persecution “ 3) Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University: From Mischling Outcast to Liberator of Germany – The Journey of K. Frank Korf
Commentator: Nancy Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University
“Military Occupations Past and Present” A Comparative View” – Friday, Nov ember 17, 9:30 – 11:30 am. East Meeting Room A. Moderator: Maura Hametz, Old Dominion University
1) Thomas Mallucci , SUNY: Comparison of American occupation in Germany and Iraq 2) John O’Brien, Director, History Programs Ft. Campbell, Kentucky: Diplomat and Warriors: Conducting Successful Combat and Stability Operations in the Northern Provinces of Post-War Iraq, April 2003-February 2004 3) Alexander Vazansky, University of Heidelberg: ”Grausamer Witz”: The United states Army, Europe in the Early 1970s
Commentator: D. Browder, Austin Peay State University, Clarkville, Tenn.
”Nazi Racism: The view from the Deep South” – Friday, November 17, 9:30 – 11:30 am. East Meeting Room A. Moderator: Robert Jenkins, Mississippi State University
1) Austin Curtis, University of Southern Mississippi: African-Americans: the View from Mississippi 2) Dan J Puckett, Troy University, Montgomery: The Jim Crow of All the ages: The Impact of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Racial Ideology on Civil Rights in Alabama, 1933-1945 3)Daniel Hutchinson, Graduate Student, University of Alabama-Birmingham: Friend or Foe? The Social Dynamics Between German POWs and Americans in Alabama During WWII
Commentator: Arnold Krammer, Texas A&M
“The Expulsion of Germans from East-Central Europe after 1945” – Friday, November 17, 2:30 – 4:30 pm. East Meeting Room A. Moderator: Karl Bahm, University of Wisconsin, Superior
1) Hunt Tooley, Austin College: The Human Costs of the Matchstick Solution: The Dynamics of Changing Borders and Ethnic Cleansing in Poland, 1945 2) Brad Brewer, Ph.D. Graduate Student, Mississippi State University: American Public Opinion on the Mass Expulsion of Germans from East-Central Europe 3) Brenda Melendy, Texas A&M University, Kingsville: The Sudeten German Landsmannschaft and Rituals of Belonging
Commentator: Elizabeth Morrow Clark, Texas A&M
“Crowds, Enemy Aliens, and Boycotts: Euro-American Crosscurrents in the World War II Era” – Saturday, November 18, 9:00 – 11:00 am. East Meeting Room K. Moderator: Rennie Brantz, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.
1) Joseph Bendersky, Virginia Commonwealth University: The Impact of LeBon’s Crowd Psychology on US Military Thought between the World Wars 2)Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University: From Enemy Aliens to Soldiers: The Saga of German Émigrés in the US Army during World War II 3) Aleisa Fishman, US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Consumerism as Activism: Boycotting German Goods in Response to the Holocaust
Commentator: Wendy Koenig, Middle Tennessee State University
Welcome to our New Members Joseph Bendersky, Virginia Commonwealth University Charles D. Grear, Texas A&M University Wendy Koenig, Middle Tennessee State University John R. Parnell, Baylor University Aleisa Fishman, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Valerie Emanoil, Ohio State University Brenne Mayro, University of Texas at Dallas Camille Weiss, Suffolk University
Thank you to our Donors Eric Jarvis, King’s University College Fred Baumgartner, Virginia Tech University Arnold Krammer, Texas A&M university
Welcome to our 2006 Kele Award Winners Chad Fulwider, Emory University Leah Bender, University of Kentucky Markus Heinonen, University of Kentucky John Davis, University of Kentucky
Member News Professor Wayne Bartee of Missouri State University retired in May 2006 after 42 years in the teaching profession as a specialist of modern Germany. Our best wishes to him.
Brent and Amanda Aucoin are proud to announce the birth of Aaron Aucoin, born on June 18th , 2006. Our congratulations to the happy parents and our best wishes during this busy and happy time in their lives.
Daniel Hutchinson (Florida State University) won a Dean’s Research Award from the University of Alabama at Birmingham for his Master’s Thesis entitled “Guests Behind Barbed Wires: German POW Camps in Alabama During World War II.” In addition, Daniel was awarded a 2006-07 Talbot Fellowship from Florida State University.
Joseph P. Byrne of Belmont University is editing an encyclopedia of plague and pandemic. Please contact him if you are qualified and interested in participating, at [email protected].
Hot Off the Press -- Great Readings
Just in time for your Christmas shopping, and for your own pleasure, we have a number of new titles from our members. Our congratulations to all on these milestones:
Wayne H. Bowen (Ouachita Baptist University). Spain During World War II (University of Missouri Press, 2006).
Wayne H. Bowen (Ouachita Baptist University). Undoing Saddam: From Occupation to Sovereignty in Northern Iraq (Potomac Books, 2006).
Patricia Kollander (Florida Atlantic University). I Must Be a Part of This War (Fordhaven University Press, 2006).
DON’T FORGET TO RENEW YOUR DUES FOR 2007
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The European History Section of the Southern Historical Association invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels for presentation at its annual meeting Richmond, Virginia October 31 to November 3, 2007
Papers on any aspect of European history are welcome, and presenters may include graduate students as well as faculty members. Panel should consist of two or three papers, a commentator, and a chair.
Panel and paper submission is electronic.
Deadline: October 1, 2006.
Forms can be accessed at: http://www.utm.edu/staff/accarls/ehs
Inquiries should be directed to:
Maura Hametz, Program Committee Chair, European History Section
Contributors Wanted
Greenwood Press has engaged Dr. Joseph Byrne of Belmont University to edit the new two-volume A to Z reference work Encyclopedia of Plague,Pestilence and Pandemic. Byrne is currently seeking qualified contributors on topics covering most of world history and a wide range of diseases. Articles cover major diseases and epidemics from antiquity to the present. Special emphasis will be on the social, cultural, and other historical effects of diseases and on the ways in which various cultures have responded to them. Articles will be from 500 to 3,000 words in length, with a few longer anchor pieces. Substantial contributors will be compensated with copies of the work and/or small cash honoraria. This is a first call for authors. For further information please contact Byrne at [email protected], or via the Honors Program, Belmont University, 1900 Belmont Blvd., Nashville, TN 37212
2006 EHS Officers and Executive Committee Members *
Position Name Address Tel/Fax/E-mail Chair * Georgia Mann N. Georgia College & State Univ. [email protected] Vice Chair * Nancy Rupprecht Middle Tennessee State University [email protected] Secretary-Treasurer * Alice-Catherine Carls University of Tennessee at Martin [email protected] Past Chair * Hunt Tooley Austin College [email protected] Past Chair * Joanne R. Sanchez St. Edwards University [email protected] SHA Representative * Donald McKale Clemson University [email protected] (2005-2008) Newsletter Editor * David W. Hendon Baylor University [email protected] Program Committee Chair Johnpeter Horst Grill Mississippi State University [email protected] (06 Birmingham) Program Committee (07 Maura Hametz Old Dominion University [email protected] Richmond) Program Committee (08 Elisabeth Cawthon University of Texas at Arlington [email protected] New Orleans) Nominating Committee (06) Philip P. Boucher University of Alabama at Huntsville [email protected]
Nominating Committee (07) Brenda Melendy Texas A&M University--Kingsville [email protected] Nominating Committee (08) Joel Dark Tennessee State University [email protected] Membership Committee (06) Donna Cooper Graves University of Tennessee at Martin [email protected]
Membership Committee (07) John Kuykendall Charleston Southern University [email protected] Membership Committee (08) Jennifer Wynot Denver Metropolitan University [email protected] Baker-Burton-Smith Sara H. Sohmer Texas Christian University [email protected] Committee (06) Baker-Burton-Smith Eric Kurlander Stetson University [email protected] Committee (07) Baker-Burton-Smith Richard Byers North Georgia State and College [email protected] Committee (08) Univ Snell Prize Committee (06) Wayne Bowen Ouachita Baptist University [email protected] Snell Prize Committee (07) Frank Buscher Christian Brothers University [email protected] Snell Prize Committee (08) David Longfellow Baylor University [email protected] Section Historian June K. Burton 64 Waldorf Drive Tel/Fax: (330) 864-4161 Akron, OH 44313
EUROPEAN HISTORY NEWSLETTER
VOL. XLII, NO.1 ISSN: 1085-5459
David W. Hendon Managing Editor
Published for the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association by: The Department of History Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798-7306