VIRTUAL CONFERENCE JUNE 17-20 20 SOCIETY FOR 21 HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS WELCOME Megan Black, Ryan Irwin, and I are very pleased to share the program for this year's Annual Meeting. The conference will run on Eastern Daylight Time and it will be free for all SHAFR members. The sessions will be organized around eighteen themes, and we will have a variety of conversations and lectures each day. The Pheedloop website will launch in May, but this pamphlet offers a preview of what to expect. We look forward to seeing you in June. Best, Andrew Preston VARIATIONS ON A THEME THURSDAY EMPIRE - STRATEGY - RIGHTS - RELIGION FRIDAY RACE - SECURITY - LAW - IDEAS - DOMESTIC POLITICS SATURDAY DECOLONIZATION - WAR - SCI-TECH - CAPITALISM - MIGRATION SUNDAY BORDERS - DIPLOMACY - DEVELOPMENT - GENDER & SEXUALITY FEATURED EVENTS EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME T H U R S D A Y 1 2 : 0 0 R E A D I N G F O R E M P I R E L E G A C I E S O F A M Y K A P L A N L O O K I N G B A C K 6 : 3 0 A T R I B U T E T O W A L T E R L A F E B E R F R I D A Y B E R N A T H L E C T U R E 1 2 : 0 0 J U L I A I R W I N K E Y N O T E 6 : 3 0 V I E T T H A N H N G U Y E N S A T U R D A Y P R E S I D E N T I A L A D D R E S S 1 2 : 0 0 A N D R E W P R E S T O N K E Y N O T E 6 : 3 0 B A R B A R A D . S A V A G E S U N D A Y L O O K I N G F O R W A R D 1 2 : 0 0 J O B M A R K E T & C A R E E R D I V E R S I T Y T R I V I A N I G H T 6 : 3 0 THURSDAY EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 8:30 AM WELCOME ANDREW PRESTON 10:15 AM ROUNDTABLES EMPIRE - STRATEGY - RIGHTS - RELIGION 12:00 PM READING FOR EMPIRE LEGACIES OF AMY'S KAPLAN'S SCHOLARSHIP 1:30 PM PANELS EMPIRE - STRATEGY - RIGHTS - RELIGION 3:15 PM PANELS EMPIRE - STRATEGY - RIGHTS - RELIGION 5:00 PM PANELS EMPIRE - STRATEGY - RIGHTS - RELIGION 6:30 PM A TRIBUTE TO WALTER F. LAFEBER AND HIS LEGACY FRIDAY EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 8:30 AM PROMOTING YOUR BOOK IN A PANDEMIC 10:15 AM ROUNDTABLES RACE - SECURITY - LAW - IDEAS - DOMESTIC POLITICS 12:00 PM BERNATH LECTURE JULIA IRWIN 1:30 PM PANELS RACE - SECURITY - LAW - IDEAS - DOMESTIC POLITICS 3:15 PM PANELS RACE - SECURITY - LAW - IDEAS - DOMESTIC POLITICS 5:00 PM PANELS RACE - SECURITY - LAW - IDEAS - DOMESTIC POLITICS 6:30 PM VIET THANH NGUYEN KEYNOTE SATURDAY EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 8:30 AM JOURNALS AFTER THE PANDEMIC 10:15 AM ROUNDTABLES DECOLONIZATION - WAR - SCI-TECH - CAPITALISM - MIGRATION 12:00 PM PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ANDREW PRESTON 1:30 PM PANELS DECOLONIZATION - WAR - SCI-TECH - CAPITALISM - MIGRATION 3:15 PM PANELS DECOLONIZATION - WAR - SCI-TECH - CAPITALISM - MIGRATION 5:00 PM PANELS DECOLONIZATION - WAR - SCI-TECH - CAPITALISM - MIGRATION 6:30 PM BARBARA D. SAVAGE KEYNOTE SUNDAY EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 8:30 AM WOMEN IN SHAFR - SHAFR TEACHING - SHAFR MENTORSHIP 10:15 AM ROUNDTABLES BORDERS - DIPLOMACY - DEVELOPMENT - GENDER & SEXUALITY 12:00 PM SHAFR SCHOLARS & CAREER DIVERSITY 1:30 PM PANELS BORDERS - DIPLOMACY - DEVELOPMENT - GENDER & SEXUALITY 3:15 PM PANELS BORDERS - DIPLOMACY - DEVELOPMENT - GENDER & SEXUALITY 5:00 PM PANELS BORDERS - DIPLOMACY - DEVELOPMENT - GENDER & SEXUALITY 6:30 PM TRIVIA EXTRAVAGANZA CONFERENCE BY THE HOUR 20 21 SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS SHAFR 2021 PROGRAM THURSDAY JUNE 17 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 10:00-10:05 Welcome Break 10:15-11:45 EMPIRE Empire as U.S. Foreign Relations Monica Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair) Paula Chakravartty, New York University Laleh Kahlili, Queen Mary University of London Alfred McCoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mae Ngai, Columbia University 10:15-11:45 STRATEGY The Uses of Strategy Daniel Sargent, University of California, Berkeley (chair) William Inboden, University of Texas-Austin Desmond Jagmohan, University of California, Berkeley Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University 10:15-11:45 RIGHTS The Future of Human Rights Sarah Snyder, American University (chair) Laura Belmonte, Virginia Tech University Tiffany N. Florvil, University of New Mexico John Kinder, Oklahoma State University Sushma Raman, Harvard University William F. Schulz, Harvard University 10:15-11:45 RELIGION Religion and Foreign Relations: “Good Works” In Progress and the State of the Field Lauren Turek, Trinity University (chair) Melissa Borja, University of Michigan Michael Cangemi, United States Military Academy Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University Christina Davidson, Harvard University Break 12:00-1:15 Reading for Empire: Legacies of Amy Kaplan’s Scholarship Shaul Mitelpunkt, University of York (chair) Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University “Empire” Kariann Akemi Yokota, University of Colorado-Denver “Interdisciplinarity” Penny Von Eschen, University of Virginia “Culture” Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara “Palestine and Israel” Melani McAlister, George Washington University “Gender” SHAFR 2021 PROGRAM THURSDAY JUNE 17 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 1:30-2:45 STRATEGY Rethinking Foundational Documents in U.S. Grand Strategy William Inboden, University of Texas-Austin, (chair) Grant Golub, London School of Economics, “Victory Program” Joseph Stieb, Ohio State University, “Long Telegram and the X Article” Angus Reilly, King’s College London, “Rethinking the White Revolutionary: Kissinger, Bismarck and the Riddle of Stability” Mary Elizabeth Walters, Kansas State University, “1990 and 1994 National Security Strategies” 1:30-2:45 RIGHTS New Directions in the Histories of Humanitarianism and Human Rights Jana Lipman, Tulane University (chair) Julia Irwin, University of South Florida Elisabeth Piller, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg E. Kyle Romero, Dartmouth College Amanda Demmer, Virginia Tech 1:30-2:45 RELIGION The Moral Empire at Large: Religion and the Diplomacy of Colonialism and Decolonization in Central Africa Frank Gerits, Utrecht University (chair) Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, University of Warwick, “Thinking Christianity through Intermedial Interventions: Aanza, Baloji and Fiston” Pedro Monaville, New York University-Abu Dhabi, “Mao, Lumumba, and the Decolonization of the Catholic Church in the Congo” Eva Schalbroeck, Utrecht University, “Unsettling the ‘Church-State Alliance’ in the Belgian Congo: Tensions between Colonial Nationalism and Religious Internationalism among Missionaries” Christopher Gallien Tounsel, Pennsylvania State University (comment) 1:30-2:45 RELIGION Protestant Internationalism, Race, and the United States, 1900-1950 Uta Balbier, King’s College London (chair) Tom Smith, University of Cambridge, “‘The Oriental Mills Grind Slowly’: Disappointment, Race, and Social Science among U.S. Protestant Missionaries to the Philippines in Early 20th Century Nicole de Silva, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Adventuring in Peace and Goodwill: Visions of Race and Internationalism in Liberal Protestant 'Peace Education' Programs, 1922- 1929” Daniel Geary, Trinity College Dublin, “Liberal Protestants and the Origins of ‘Integration’” Gene Zubovich, University at Buffalo-SUNY (comment) Break 3:15-4:30 EMPIRE Empires in Tension: Case Studies of Samoa, Liberia, and the Caribbean in Transimperial Histories April Merleaux, Hampshire College (chair and comment) Gerard Llorens DeCesaris, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “Ideas of Empire: Spain and the U.S. during the Grant Administration” Amelia Flood, Saint Louis University, “One ‘Mand,’ One Vote?: Women’s Suffrage Between Empires in the U.S. Virgin Islands” Barbara Franchi, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, “Converging and Conflicting Imperialist Interests at Stake: The U.S.-Liberia Relationship and the Forced Labor Scandal” Tyler Miller, Independent Scholar, “More Than Just A Storm: The Samoan Crisis of 1889” SHAFR 2021 PROGRAM THURSDAY JUNE 17 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME 3:15-4:30 STRATEGY Haigiography: New Perspectives on Al Haig after Forty Years Evan McCormick, Columbia University (chair) Susan Colbourn, Johns Hopkins, “The Trials and Tribulations of Alexander Haig in Transatlantic Perspective” Simon Miles, Duke University, “In Control Here: Alexander Haig, Ronald Reagan, and US-Soviet Relations” Rob Rakove, Stanford University, “’We Should Not Miss an Opportunity to Return the Favor,’: Haig Approaches Afghanistan” Jonathan Hunt, US Air War College, “Realism, Reagan, and China: Alexander Haig’s Quixotic Quest to Militarize Relations with Beijing” Evan McCormick, Columbia University (comment) 3:15-4:30 RIGHTS Peaceniks of the World Unite! Transnational Activism in the Late Cold War Sarah Snyder, American University (chair) Stephanie Freeman, Mississippi State University, “Trials of Coordination: U.S. Nuclear Freeze Movement, European Nuclear Disarmament, and the Struggle to Transcend the Arms Race” Brian Mueller, Independent Scholar, “With a Little Help From My Friends: Solidarity Activists and Reagan’s Hidden War in El Salvador” William Michael Schmidli, Leiden University, “Winter Soldiers in the Tropics: Vietnam Veterans and Central American Peace Activism in the 1980s” Petra Goedde, Temple University (comment) 3:15-4:30 RELIGION American Protestants in the 20th Century World Mark Thomas Edwards, Spring Arbor University (chair) Mirna Wasef, University of California-San Diego, “American Protestants and the Changing Middle East: Missionaries and Egyptian Nation Making in the 20th Century” Ian Van Dyke, University of Notre Dame, “American Missionaries, the Cold War, and Evangelical Third Worldism” Mark Thomas-Paterson, George Washington University, “John Bull’s Other Island: Christianity Today‘s coverage of the Troubles in Northern Ireland” Lauren Turek, Trinity University (comment) Break 5:00-6:15 EMPIRE Detention as a Tool of Empire: US Carceral Colonialism in Haiti and Southeast Asia Colleen Woods, University of Maryland-College Park (chair) April Mayes, Pomona College, “From Guantanamo to Tijuana: Carceral Archipelagos and Haitian (Im)mobilities in Contemporary Migrations across the Americas” Richard Nisa, Farleigh Dickinson University, “Computation and Resistance in Cold War Detention Infrastructures” Karen Miller, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY, “Carceral Mobilities: The Iwahig Penal Colony, the Philippines, and Interisland Labor Migration” Andrea Morrell, Guttman Community College-CUNY (comment) 5:00-6:15 EMPIRE Erasure in the Everyday: The Violence of Cold War U.S.