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Oct. 13–15, 2016 Stanford University Tools & Traditions in American Intellectual History 1 Welcome to the 2016 Society for United States Intellectual History (S-USIH)’s annual conference! Now in its eighth year, the S-USIH conference is already well known in the historical profession for its welcom- ing atmosphere, rigorous level of discussion, and wide ranging set of interests. In the program that follows, you will find scholars engaging everything from Darwin to Deconstruction, hip hop to the Whole Earth Catalog. Over 100 original papers will be presented, spanning all aspects of American thought, with plenary sessions on gender, Puritanism, technology, and presidential politics. We expect you’ll find plenty of food for thought. Sincerely, 2016 S-USIH Conference Committee Jennifer Burns, Chair, Stanford University Claire Rydell Arcenas, University of Montana Lilian Calles Barger, Independent Scholar Jeffrey Sklansky, University of Illinois at Chicago Ethan Schrum, Azusa Pacific University 2 Schedule Overview Thursday, October 13 4–5pm Welcome Reception, appetizers and drinks Conference registration opens 5:30–7pm Opening Keynote Address Fred Turner, Stanford University, “Network Celebrity: Entrepreneurship and the New Public Intellectuals” 7:15pm Shuttles to Cardinal Hotel, downtown Palo Alto 8pm Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service also available Friday, October 14 8am Shuttle pickups from Cardinal Hotel, Stanford Guest House Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service also available departing from CalTrain Station (Y Limited and P Express) 8–8:30am Coffee and light breakfast Conference registration opens 8:30–10:15am Sessions I Panels 1–4 10:30am–12:15pm Sessions II Panels 5–8 12:15–1:30pm Lunch Break 1:30–3pm Afternoon Keynote Address David Greenberg, Rutgers University, “A History of Presidential Spin” 3:15–5pm Sessions III Panels 9–12 3 5–5:30pm Reception and Appetizers 5:30–7pm Evening Plenary Session “The Many Faces of Gender in American Thought: Considering Our Methods” 7:15pm Shuttle to Cardinal Hotel, downtown Palo Alto Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service also available Saturday, October 15 8am Shuttle pickups from Cardinal Hotel (second shuttle 8:30am) and Stanford Guest House No Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service 8–8:30am Coffee and light breakfast Conference registration opens 8:30–10:15am Sessions IV Panels 13–16 10:30am–12:15pm Sessions V Panels 17–20 12:30–12:45pm S-USIH Prize Ceremony 12:45–2pm Lunchtime Plenary Roundtable “Whither Puritanism? Reflections on the State of the Field” 2:30–4:15pm Sessions VI Panels 21–24 4:30–6:15pm Sessions VII Panels 25–28 6:30 and 7pm Shuttles to Cardinal Hotel, downtown Palo Alto Limited Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service Thursday, October 13 Thursday, October 13 5 4 – 5pm Welcome Reception, appetizers and drinks Patio, Stanford Conference registration opens Humanities Center 5:30 – 7pm Opening Keynote Address Levinthal Hall (Stanford Humanities Fred Turner, Stanford University Center) “Network Celebrity: Entrepreneurship and the New Public Intellectuals” 7:15pm Shuttles to Cardinal Hotel, downtown Palo Alto 8pm Stanford Marguerite Shuttle service also available processing unit processing ATi RadeonATi R300 graphics Friday, October 14 Friday, October 14 7 8am Shuttle pickups from Cardinal Hotel, Stanford Guest House Stanford Marguerite Shuttle also available departing from CalTrain Station (Y Limited and P Express) 8 – 8:30am Coffee and light breakfast Tresidder Lobby Conference registration opens 8:30 – 10:15am Sessions I Roundtable: Traditions vs. Experiences in 1 American Foreign Affairs Chair: Raymond Haberski, Indiana University, Oak West Indianapolis (Tresidder) Elizabeth Cobbs, Texas A&M University Jeremi Suri, University of Texas, Austin Chritopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University Troubling Gender in the Neoliberal Era 2 Chair/Commentator: Kimberly Hamlin, Miami University Cypress South (Tresidder) Sarah Potter, University of Memphis, “Women Rap about Sex: Feminism and Extramarital Sex in the 1960s and 1970s” Alison Lefkovitz, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, “Protecting Housewives: The State, the States, Feminists, and Conservatives during the Long 1970s” Deborah Dinner, Emory University, “Maternity, Class, and Conservatism: Recasting Divides in Feminist Legal Theory during the 1980s” 8 Sessions 3–5 Counternarratives of the Urban Crisis 3 Chair/Commentator: Eric Porter, University of California, Santa Cruz Cypress North (Tresidder) Ryan D. Purcell, Cornell University, “‘A Place for Our Crowd’: Spatial Politics of Hip Hop in New York City, 1973-1977” Sam Klug, Harvard University, “Debating the Internal Colony: Decolonialization, Black Power, and a New Language of the Urban Crisis” Devin McGeehan Muchmore, Yale University, “‘Porno Fights Back’: Social Science, Adult Industry Entrepreneurs, and the Making of Urban Liberalism in the 1970s U.S.” Zenith R98 portable boombox portable R98 Zenith Roundtable: The Work of Dorothy Ross and Its 4 Significance for American Intellectual History Chair: Daniel Wickberg, University of Texas Levinthal Hall at Dallas (Stanford Humanities Center) David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley François Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University Sarah E. Igo, Vanderbilt University Andrew Jewett, Harvard University Friday, October 14 9 10:15 – 10:30am Coffee Break in Tresidder Lobby Tresidder Lobby 10:30am – 12:15pm Sessions II Expert Tools and Political Traditions in the 5 Twentieth Century Chair/Commentator: Sarah E. Igo, Vanderbilt Cypress North University (Tresidder) Glory Liu, Stanford University, “‘The Father of that Dismal Science:’ Adam Smith and the Chicago School, 1928-1980” Tom Arnold-Forster, Cambridge University, “Democracy and Expertise in the Lippmann- Terman Controversy, 1922-23” John Gee, Harvard University, “International Collaboration and Applied Social Science: The Smithsonian’s Schools of Anthropology, 1943-1952” Yukako Otori, Harvard University, “Child Labor and the U.S. Children’s Bureau, 1912-1924” 10 Sessions 6–8 The Roots of Conflicting Ideologies in American Democracy: Popular Constitutionalism, Liberal 6 Criminology, and the Psychology of Pragmatism Cypress South Chair: Claire Rydell Arcenas, University of (Tresidder) Montana Commentator: Kyle G. Volk, University of Montana Aaron Hall, University of California, Berkeley, “Conflicting Foundings: Learning, Loving and Litigating Popular Constitutional History in Antebellum America” Anthony Gregory, University of California, Berkeley, “The New Deal and the Twilight of Progressive Criminology: The Case of August Vollmer” Paul J. Croce, Stetson University, “Without Attention, Mental Tools Have No Use: William James’s Psychology of Philosophizing and Deliberation Across Values Differences” Roundtable: Rethinking Religion and Politics 7 Chair: Katherine D. Moran, St. Louis University Christopher Grasso, The College of William and Oak West (Tresidder) Mary Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis Jonathan Sheehan, University of California, Berkeley Mark Valeri, Washington University in St. Louis Friday, October 14 11 Roundtable: The Revolution Will Be Blogged: 8 Founding Digital Worlds of Intellectual History Moderator/Chair: Sara Georgini, The Adams Levinthal Hall Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society (Stanford Humanities Center) Benjamin E. Park, Sam Houston State University Paul Harvey, University of Colorado Chernoh Sesay, Jr., DePaul University Jacqueline D. Antonovich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Christopher Jones, Brigham Young University 12:15 – 1:30pm Lunch break Sequoia Room S-USIH Business Meeting (Tresidder) All welcome No fixed location Mentoring lunches 1:30 – 3pm Afternoon Keynote Address Oak West (Tresidder) David Greenberg, Rutgers University, “A History of Presidential Spin” StagePro Presidential teleprompter teleprompter Presidential StagePro with adjustable stand adjustable with 12 Sessions 9–12 3:15 – 5pm Sessions III Religion at the Margins: Intellectual Syncretism and the Search for a Democratic Religion in 9 Twentieth Century America Cypress North Chair: K. Healan Gaston, Harvard Divinity School (Tresidder) Commentator: David Sehat, Georgia State University Amy Kittelstrom, Sonoma State University, “‘An Honest Man’: James Baldwin and African- American Religion(s)” Maggie Elmore, University of California, Berkeley, “Ahead of His Time: Raymond McGowan and the Catholic Struggle for Industrial Democracy” Natalie Johnson, Stanford University, “Unity Without Uniformity: Louis Finkelstein and the Search for a Democratic Moral System” Literary Intellectuals as Public Intellectuals: From the Friendly Club to Greenwich Village to 10 the ‘Female’ School of Deconstruction Cypress South Chair/Commentator: Catherine O’Donnell, (Tresidder) Arizona State University Jonathan W. Wilson, University of Scranton and Marywood University, “Mirrors of the Age: Literary Representations and the Making of an American Public, 1794-1810” Patrick Redding, Manhattanville College, “The Egalitarian Sensorium: Democracy and the Body in American Poetry and Pragmatism” Gregory Jones-Katz, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, “Undoing Patterns of Effacement: The ‘Female’ School of Deconstruction and the Transformation of American Feminism, 1969-1991” Friday, October 14 13 Marxism, Americanism, Regionalism 11 Chair/Commentator: Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara Oak West (Tresidder) Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University, “Americans Reading Capital from the First Gilded Age