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I am an art historian by discipline, however present at history conferences as well. My research concerns Japan's use of art and architectural displays as cultural diplomacy at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Using gender analysis and formal visual analysis, I argue that these exhibits supported Japan's open pleas for renegotiation of the "Unequal Treaties," which were in fact revised in 1894-5. Anyone interested in a similar topic, please write to lisa.langlois@oswego.edu.
ReplyDeleteI would like to form a panel on progressive NGOs, the Arab-Israeli situation, and the question of American exceptionalism. I am particularly interested in the issues of why American progressive organizations (labor, feminist, etc.) have remained largely resistant the anti-Israel trends of their European counterparts and what effect this has had on public policy (or not), going beyond what might seem obvious. The time frame would be the 1940s to the present. If anyone is interested, or has suggestions for a chair and/or commentator, please contact me at Susan.Breitzer@Gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI would like to form a panel on animals and U.S. foreign relations. My own work concerns the relationship between zoos and modern warfare, including the militarization of American zoos during the World Wars and the Cold War, and the links between zoo-building and nation-building in the United States' current campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Possible topics might include: animals and diplomacy, images of animals in U.S. foreign relations, the effects of military conflict on animal populations, the militarization of animals. If anyone is interested, or has other related suggestions, please contact John M. Kinder at john.kinder@okstate.edu.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in putting together a panel for the SHAFR 2010 conference based on the theme of ‘Diplomatic history and the politics of historiography’. Potentially, this panel could develop in several directions and I am open to suggestions in this regard. But I am particularly interested in explaining historiographical shifts, how we conceptualise the relationship of historical-writing to its institutional and wider political context, how we write the history of the field or indeed a single interpretive debate, and what interests are at stake when such a history is written.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone is interested, please contact me at i.a.gwinn@lboro.ac.uk
Many thanks,
Ian Gwinn
Loughborough University, UK
I'm interested in forming a panel on U.S policy towards Third World countries in the Sixties-Seventies, with particular attention to the problems of development and modernization in the framework of the cold war.
ReplyDeleteI'm a PhD student and my project deals with U.S-Iranian relations during the Kennedy-Johnson Administration. I think that the panel could develop the topics of arm sales, support to authoritarian regime, reform (above all land reform) and the link to the American containment policy.
The panel could analyse the common aspects of different contexts and the new trend of the literature.
If anyone interested, please contact me at
clo.casti@yahoo.it
Thanks,
Claudia Castiglioni
University of Florence
Italy
I'm interested in putting together a panel on transnational military history, particularly pertaining to military culture and training. The period in question would be the mid-20th century. We currently have two papers, one on American advisors in French Indochina in the 1950s, another about training received by America's OSS from Britain's SOE during World War II. If you have something you think might fit in, please let me know.
ReplyDeleteAaron R. Linderman
Florence and Bookman Peters Excellence Fellow
aaron.linderman@tamu.edu
PhD Student and Teaching Assistant
Department of History
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4236
My paper is titled "Resurrecting Reconstruction: White Republicans and Liberal Modernization in the Early US Occupied Philippines." The period in question is 1898-1910, and looks at the liberal modernization plans envisioned for the US Philippines by Republicans who were in control of US policy in the Islands for the first 12 years of US rule. It further compares those policies of development with earlier Republican visions of development in the Occupied US South after the Civil War.
ReplyDeleteSo a panel that deals with early US Imperialism, comparative Empire, etc., would be ideal.
Gary Helm Darden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Madison, NJ
darden@fdu.edu
646-303-1969
I would like to form a panel on pre-presidential rhetoric. My paper focuses on Richard Nixon and his congressional, senatorial, and vice-presidential rhetoric. Using the advantages the rhetorical approach offers, I look at the anti-Communism in Nixon’s political discourse in order to show how both his political views and communication skills evolved as a result of the experiences he gained. As a politician and statesman Nixon went through several distinct phases, which do not merely form a chronological sequence. I contend that each can be identified with a particular, dominant rhetorical technique.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone interested in a similar topic, please contact me at americana2180@wp.pl
Many thanks,
Marta Rzepecka
Ph.D. student
Maria Curie Sklodowska University
Lublin, Poland
I am interested in organizing a 19th century panel and am looking for others to join me. Possible themes include: the Early Republic, African relations, slave trade, international law, naval history, or the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. My paper offers a revised interpretation of the U.S. Africa Squadron, and argues that by ignoring this subject, diplomatic historians have allowed historians of the slave trade to interpret the squadron through the narrow lens of the slave trade, which in turn has skewed our understanding of that squadron, mistakenly depicted it as unique, and left it separated from mainstream naval and foreign policy histories.
ReplyDeleteAnyone interested in similar topics should contact me at: amyvannatter@yahoo.com
Amy Van Natter, PhD
Substitute Lecturer
Department of History
Bronx Community College
The City University of New York
I am interested in forming a panel on "violence," pretty broadly construed, as an object of diplomatic engagement. I did not have any particularly severe chronological or geographic boundaries in mind as of yet. My own paper is about 19th century barroom brawling between American sailors and foreign peoples overseas, and the attempts of consular officials to mediate those conflicts. It contrasts the aggressive nationalism of working class seamen and the calls for restrained patriotic display by diplomats charged with the care of U.S. nationals overseas.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I'm open to various interpretations of this issue of violence and foreign relations, and would be happy to field questions or requests. Contact info:
Brian Rouleau
PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania
brianr@sas.upenn.edu
We are seeking a third panelist as well as a chair and a commentator for a panel we are putting together on Canadian-American transborder/environmental relations.
ReplyDeleteI am a PhD candidate in history and will be presenting on the negotiations over the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, while another doctoral candidate will be presenting on the Skagit River controversy. While someone doing water relations history during the Cold War would be an ideal fit as a presenter, we would also welcome anyone doing a general Can-Am environmental relations topic.
Regarding a chair and commentator, we are seeking anyone interested in Can-Am environmental relations.
Contact info:
Daniel Macfarlane
University of Ottawa
dmacf051@uottawa.ca
I am interested in forming a panel on U.S. foreign and humanitarian aid. I am chronologically flexible, though I was hoping the panel would discuss issues from 1950-present.
ReplyDeleteMy own paper examines the political, economic, and humanitarian motives behind the Reagan administration's decision to provide famine-stricken Ethiopia with food assistance in 1984.
Contact info:
Alexander Poster
PhD candidate/The Ohio State University
alex.poster@gmail.com
We are seeking a third panelist for a panel on America and postwar occupations. We have papers on Germany and Japan, both focusing on the flow of policy between Washington and on-the-ground administrators. The Japan paper could also cover the early problems of implementing policy.
ReplyDeleteIdeally, we would like to find a third panelist interested in the occupations of Austria or Korea, but would also be interested in other related topics.
We are also seeking an interested chair.
Dayna Barnes
PhD Candidate, London School of Economics
d.l.barnes@lse.ac.uk
I am interested in organizing a panel on dissent against U.S. foreign policy. My own paper deals with internal dissent against the Vietnam War within the State Department, and particularly with the role of writing and rhetoric in Undersecretary of State George Ball's dissent against the escalation in 1964-1968. I would be open to papers from all periods of American history, and especially open to papers with innovative approaches within the larger field of diplomatic history.
ReplyDeleteIf interested, please email Hannah Gurman at hrg2@nyu.edu
Hannah Gurman
PhD, Columbia University
Visiting Assistant Professor
New York University
A group of us are seeking a third paper presenter on a panel that focuses on U.S.-East/Southeast Asian relations. One paper examines the Japanese perception of Hawaii before and during the Second World War, and another explores immigration restriction policy against Asian newcomers before 1945. If your paper focuses on some aspect of transpacific relations from diplomatic and/or cultural perspectives (and if you are interested in joining us), please feel free to reach me at hxkita@wm.edu
ReplyDeleteThank you for your attention.
Hiroshi Kitamura
Department of History
College of William and Mary
We are seeking one more panelist for our 2010 SHAFR panel titled "Rethinking Economic Diplomacy in the Gilded Age." Papers on any aspect of U.S. economic diplomacy in the late nineteenth century will be considered.
ReplyDeleteOne paper analyzes the impact of American protectionism upon British national and global policies in the 1890s.
The other paper assesses the changing relations between creditor Britain
and the United States, focusing on the connection between Anglo-American
rapprochement and the end of monetary diplomacy.
Edward Crapol, Pullen Professor of American History at the College of
William and Mary, has agreed to chair and comment.
Please contact me at marcpalen@mail.utexas.edu
Thanks.
Marc Palen
Department of History
University of Texas at Austin
I would like to organize a panel on the borderlands between the U.S. and Mexico or American ex-patriots around the world. My paper is focused on Americans buying homes and living along coastal Baja California during the mid-late twentieth century, specifically during the real estate boom in Ensenada and Rosarito in the 1970s. I explore the economic and cultural impact of Americans living and building homes in the region and their relationship with the U.S. and Mexican governments.
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested, please e-mail Sara_Fingal@brown.edu.
Sara Fingal
PhD Candidate
Department of History
Brown University
Crossroads of empire panel...
ReplyDeleteI would like to form a panel on how non-state actors shaped American expansion and empire building during the 19th century. I am also interested in how events of this nature intersected with the British empire. My paper concerns the Fenian invasions into Canada during the 1860s. I place these invasions within the context of American expansion and empire building and examine how the Fenians shaped American foreign policy and the boundaries of the nation while also shaping the Canadian nation as an outpost of the British Empire.
I am open to papers that engage in these topics or look more generally at American expansion and empire building, borderland issues, or transnational networks that intersect with American foreign policy during the 19th century.
If you are interested, please email
shlynch@wm.edu
Skye Lynch
PhD Candidate
Department of History
College of William and Mary
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ReplyDeleteI am interested in forming/joining a panel on U.S. immigration law and its diplomatic contexts or immigration policy as an alternative form of state-to-state relations.
ReplyDeleteMy own work will discuss the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act and the Cold War in Asia. I am open to any time period as well as work that discusses immigration or transnational race relations more broadly.
If interested, please email:
jmao@middlebury.edu
Thanks very much!
Joyce Mao
Asst. Professor of History
Middlebury College
I am interested in forming a panel on racial perceptions and U.S. policy towards the Middle East. My paper deals with the Eisenhower administration's racial perceptions of Arabs and how they contributed to the administration's decision to confront Gamal Abdel Nasser once he adopted a neutralist approach to the cold war.
ReplyDeleteI am, however, flexible. The panel could also be organized around racial beliefs and the Eisenhower administration more broadly or racial beliefs and the emergence of the neutralist movement.
If you are interested please email me at rbobal@gmail.com. Thank You.
Rian Bobal
PhD Candidate
Department of History
Texas A&M University
I am interested in forming/joining a panel on energy policy and diplomacy in the 1970s. In broad terms, this could include the role played by governments in forming policy as well as the role played by non-state actors in influencing policy.
ReplyDeleteMy paper deals with the Nixon/Ford administrations and how their perceptions of the changes occurring in the Middle during their presidencies shaped international energy policy.
If interested, please e-mail me at
kbarr61@tamu.edu.
Thank you.
Kathleen Barr
PhD Candidate
Department of History
Texas A&M University
We are seeking a third panelist for a session on citizen responses to obligations of the nation in the twentieth century.
ReplyDeleteOne panelist is proposing a paper on the damage to Jimmy Carter’s political capital after his move to reinstate draft registration in the United States in 1980.
A second panelist is examining the motivations for young American men of draft age to expatriate in order to pursue graduate degrees in Canada during the Vietnam War era.
We welcome a third panelist who could contribute broadly or narrowly to our papers: draft protests, Cold War protests, pacifism, feminism, responses to racism, tax protests, etc.
Please contact me at don_maxwell@hotmail.com.
Don Maxwell
Ph.D. candidate
Indiana University
Department of History
I am a looking to form a panel for the 2010 SHAFR conference. I intend to present a paper from a larger work concerning U.S.-Mexican relations during the Nixon Administration. The paper will concentrate upon relations surrounding the 1971 U.N. vote on resolution 2758. The resolution sought to remove Nationalist China to the benefit of the People’s Republic of China. I think that other papers on the Nixon Administration’s Latin American policy or more broadly the developing world would fit well with mine. Perhaps even papers on U.S. presidents and the United Nations would work as well. If interested please contact me, thanks.
ReplyDeleteDarren H. Plank
d.h.plank@tcu.edu
PhD. Candidate
Department of History
Texas Christian University
We are looking for a third panelist for a session on the impact of Nixon Doctrine and Sino-American rapprochement on Asian countries.
ReplyDeleteOne paper focuses on Sino-American Rapprochement and the legitimacy problem of U.S. Army in South Korea. The other paper discusses U.S.-Japan defense cooperation after Nixon Doctrine.
We are open to any issue area and country related to US Asian policy in the 1970s.
If you are interested, please contact me at yt238@georgetown.edu.
Yu Takeda
Visiting Researcher
Georgetown University
I would like to join any panel dealing with US PUBLIC DIPLOMACY in the postwar period, especially during the Truman and Eisenhower administrarions. My expertise is on the USIS in Spain, especially on the film, the press & publications and the radio programs (both the VOA & cooperation with local redios). I am mostly interested in two of the historical debates concerning American propaganda: that about the limits and contradictions inherent to public diplomacy, better exposed by the the poor plannification of USIS first country programs and the amateurism of those in charge of its implimentation; and the specific contradictions of selling the American systemin a country under a friendly dictatorial regime.
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested, please contact me at
pl248@georgetown.edu
Pablo León Aguinaga
Prince of Asturias Visiting Researcher
Edmund A. Walsh School of Forein Service
BMW Center for German & European Studies
ICC 501
tel: 202.378.6057
Hello, I would like to join a panel. I am an art historian researching the State Department's International Cooperation Administration programs in Southeast Asia during the mid to late 1950s. My focus is renowned American designer Russel Wright's activity in Vietnam ca 1956-1961. In the contexts of State Department activity, rhetoric and ideologies I am looking at Wright fulfilling his charge to link Vietnamese handicraft artists with American business and consumers. I am especially interested in how the representations of refugee handicraft artisans from north Vietnam that Wright featured in the American mass media and art world media corresponded to the State Department's accounts of contributions the US made to moving people from the north to the south.
ReplyDeleteJennifer Way, PhD
JWay@unt.edu
Associate Professor of Art History
College of Visual Arts and Design
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle, #305100
Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-4029
I am interesting in joining any panel that deals with US-Middle East foreign policy, or US foreign policy ideology during the late 1970s and early 1980s. I am examining the American conservative movement's perceptions of Middle East affairs during this era, particularly the issue of how the US Right perceived the rise of political Islam (as manifested in the Iranian Revolution and the resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan), and whether these events altered the Right's paradigms, causing them to think beyond the traditional conservative ideological obsession with anti-Communism. I investigate whether conservatives viewed Islamists as a potential ally in the Cold War or as a new threat to "the West." I look at how conservative foreign policy ideology caused the Reagan administration to take a different approach from Carter on Middle East affairs.
ReplyDeleteJay Rogers
Ph.D. Candidate
University of California, Davis
jlrogers@ucdavis.edu
If anyone needs a chair and/or commentator for a panel, please feel free to contact me. My specialities are US-European relations during the Cold War, arms control, and U.S. national security.
ReplyDeleteDr. Erin R. Mahan
Associate Research Fellow and Professor
National Defense University, Washington, D.C.
mahanE2@ndu. edu