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ReplyDeleteHello, I am working on "Internationalism and Emotions in the 1920s and 1930s" and I would like to put together a panel either on international cooperation in the interwar period or on emotions as a category of analysis in international history. If interested, please email me: scaglia_ilaria@columbusstate.edu
ReplyDeleteI would like to form a panel on presidential war discourse. My paper examines the arguments and argumentation strategies used by President Ronald Reagan to justify/rationalize war on Communism. I am open to papers discussing how other U.S. presidents crafted their arguments for war, be it ideological or military. If anyone is interested, or has suggestions for a chair and/or commentator, please contact me at americana2180@wp.pl
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ReplyDeleteI am seeking to form a panel, roughly titled "The Pacific (Northwest) Century." I'm interested in recruiting panelists and a chair/commentator with interests in foreign relations, broadly defined, and also the Pacific Northwest broadly defined (including the US states of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, parts of Montana and California). My dissertation focuses on Senators and Representatives from the region and their role in shaping regional response to the Cold War in the realms of defense spending, immigration, and trade/globalization. I will likely present a paper focusing on one or two specific Congressional figures working in the 1970s-1990s. Please contact me at christopher.foss@colorado.edu if you'd be interested in joining my panel. Thanks very much for your attention! --Chris
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ReplyDeleteI am seeking presenters and a chair/commentator for a panel that deals with critics of American foreign policy during the Cold War. Papers could cover a wide variety of topics, including responses to American imperialism, human rights policies, the arms race, detente, and military intervention.
My own paper looks at how the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) responded to American interventions in the Third World, particular in Vietnam and in various Latin American nations. Intellectuals at IPS sought to bring an end to American empire by emphasizing political solutions with a greater focus on human rights and economic issues in the Third World. If interested, please email me at bsm@uwm.edu. Thanks.
All spots on the panel are now filled. Thanks.
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ReplyDeleteI am looking to form a panel on the role of the United States in Asia during the Cold War. My research concerns U.S. involvement in the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Anyone examining diplomacy in East, Southeast, or South Asia during the period is welcomed to join. I am seeking panelists, a chair, and a commentator.
If interested, please contact me at Chervin@hku.hk
Warm regards,
Reed Chervin
University of Hong Kong
At this point, we are only seeking an additional panelist, so please contact me at the above email address if interested.
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DeleteOur panel is now complete. Thanks for your responses!
Hello! I'm looking to put together a panel that could be defined a few different ways (based on the research I want to present). My current research looks at the onset of the American occupation of Haiti from three different perspectives: Woodrow Wilson, Haitian Vodou, and the Francophone Haitian elite (which was involved in Versailles and the beginnings of the League). I've been looking at work from both historians and anthropologists, and what's emerging is a tale of the assimilating machinations of the nation-state system and the imperialistic tendencies of liberal internationalism (democratic-republicanism, financial capitalism, and interventionism). Some possibilities for a panel:
ReplyDelete1. Perhaps a panel that looks at the nation-state idea or liberal internationalism in light of imperialism and/or culture.
2. Perhaps a panel that gives voice to "Others" in a serious way, offering cross-cultural analysis--especially for worldviews not often tackled in depth in international relations studies.
3. In the same vein, perhaps a panel that explicitly considers the value of Cultural Anthropology in studying foreign relations.
4. Or, perhaps a panel that deals with Progressive Era imperialism and/or the WWI/Post-WWI era.
Ultimately, I would like this panel to be tightly defined, but I'm open to all ideas. My hope is to put something together along the lines of #2 or #3.
Please send your thoughts my way at mtphilli@kent.edu.
Thanks,
Matt Phillips
Kent State University
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ReplyDeleteI would like to put together a panel on travel and transatlantic relations between 1890 and 1939/41. I am basically interested in how the rise of transatlantic leisure travel from the late 19th century affected the conduct of foreign policy between the United States and European countries. What new problems and what new opportunities did it create? How did European (or American) officials, for example, try to manage and use these emerging tourist streams? By what means, if at all, did they attempt to minimize their potentially negative effects (e.g. misbehaving tourists, self-appointed propagandists, unfriendly treatment of foreign visitors) and to maximize their potentially positive aspects (e.g. the creation of politically desirable images, tourist revenue etc)?
My own paper deals with the attitudes of German diplomats to transatlantic travel (German travel to the United States and American travel to Germany) during the 1920s and early 1930s and shows how and why the Weimar Republic understood travelers as both a distinct opportunity and a stumbling block for their agenda to re-win American sympathies after the Great War.
If you are interested please email me at: elisabeth.piller@ntnu.no
We are looking for one more panelist working on transatlantic travel in the first half of the 20th century.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Marc Reyes and I am interested in putting together a panel for the 2015 SHAFR conference. I would like our panel to address the theme of environmental diplomacy and how environmental issues affected the Cold War. Papers on the role and use of science during the Cold War would also be great additions. If interested, please contact me at marc.reyes@uconn.edu. Thank you!
Best,
Marc
Hello,' I am interested in putting together a panel on the United States and the Nigerian Civil War (or Nigeria in general). Or alternately, the United States and Africa in the 1960s. If interested, please contact me at smccullough@lincoln.edu.
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Steve McCullough
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ReplyDeleteI am looking to organize a panel on the antebellum American empire. Possible themes may include new approaches to American expansionism (continental, oceanic, or some other form), the American maritime empire, religion and empire, American imperial encounters in the Pacific, and native peoples and American expansionism in the early republic. My own dissertation is on the global exploring expeditions of the US Navy before the Civil War, and I have several chapters that I can choose to present. If interested in joining me, please send me an e-mail at:
mro378@wildcats.unh.edu
Thanks!
Mike Verney
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI am interested in putting together a panel based broadly on Asia-Pacific countries and their specific role/importance in U.S. foreign policy and global strategy during the Cold War. For example, my paper looks at Australia and New Zealand's role in American foreign policy during the Truman and Eisenhower years. If you are interested in forming a panel like this or think that my paper might suit your proposed panel's theme, please contact me at:
andrew.kelly@uws.edu.au
Thanks!
Andrew Kelly
University of Western Sydney
On behalf of Ryan Archibald:
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I am interested in organizing a panel focused on the U.S. national security state during the cold war. My research examines the security state's reactions to transnational activists' journeys to areas deemed threatening to U.S. interests during the cold war in order to investigate the meanings attached to borders, mobility, and national security. Potential themes or topics could include new methods for studying the security state, the relationships between mobility, race, and surveillance, and the connections between empire and ideas of national security. I would also be interested in organizing a panel around these themes not exclusively focused on the cold war. If interested, please contact me at rarchiba@uw.edu.
Thanks,
Ryan Archibald
University of Washington
I'm interested!, and think I'd be a great fit. Please feel free to contact me soon, if you might still be looking to add a panelist...
Delete--Thanks, Tej, NYU -- email: tn268 (at) nyu (dot) edu
Dear All:
ReplyDeleteOri Rabinowitz and I are interested in organizing a panel on new approaches to the Reagan Era foreign policies. Ms. Rabinowitz's research focuses on nuclear policy related decisions while mine examines Latin American policies. If interested, please contact one of us at: ori.rabinowitz@gmail.com or browlet@uark.edu.
Thank you,
Bianca Rowlett
University of Arkansas
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ReplyDeleteI would like to form a panel on American colonialism in the Philippines. My paper examines Filipinos’ reaction to their representation by American cultural mainstream in the first decades of Twentieth century. If anyone is interested, or has suggestions for a chair and/or commentator, please contact me at Barreto_n@up.edu.pe
ReplyDeleteHello! I would like to organize a panel on the post-war international moment. My work focuses on UNRRA, but related papers could analyze other international and humanitarian organizations in the late 1940s. Please contact me at bundy.42@osu.edu.
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ReplyDeleteI am interested in organizing a panel on food and diplomacy, broadly speaking. My own research explores food relief in Germany from occupation through the Airlift. I am open to suggestion, and would also consider a panel on humanitarian aid or US-German relations. Please contact me at kaete.oconnell@temple.edu.
Thank you,
Kaete O'Connell
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ReplyDeleteAndrew Kelley (University of Western Sydney) and I are looking for one more panelist and a chair/commentator for a panel on U.S. Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific, 1945-1975. I work on US-South Vietnam (social/cultural/sexual relations), and Andrew looks at Australia and New Zealand's role in American foreign policy during the Truman and Eisenhower years. We can narrow in a theme once we have a third interested person, but would like all of the papers to incorporate significant research from non-US archives.
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested, please email me at amanda.boczar@uky.edu or andrew.kelly@uws.edu.au.
Thanks!
Amanda Boczar
(University of Kentucky)
Hi Amanda and Andrew,
DeleteMy name is Richard and I'm a graduate student at Georgetown. I'm interested in joining your panel if it is not already filled. Is it still open?
To let you know, my research is on U.S. public and cultural diplomacy in Indonesia in the 1950s, specifically the way that the U.S. attempted to use film, radio, print media, and other cultural/educational/public exchanges to influence Indonesian leaders and the Indonesian public and advance U.S. policy during the period. I think this could be a good addition to your potential panel.
While I have not had time to conduct research in Jakarta or otherwise overseas, I've made good use of State Dept and U.S. Information Agency records at the National Archives, have done some research into CIA-funded cultural programs (records housed at the University of Chicago), and am utilizing period Indonesian-language material (newspapers, etc) as I am able to from the National Archives and Library of Congress.
If the panel is still open I'd love to be a part. Please just let me know. Thanks!
Richard.
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ReplyDeleteI am organizing a panel on the role of international law in US foreign relations. If you're interested, contact me at andrei.mamolea AT graduateinstitute.ch
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Andrei Mamolea
We are looking for an additional paper to complete this panel--ideally something on the use of international law to mobilize, demobilize, or otherwise shape public opinion during the first half of the twentieth century.
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ReplyDeleteI am interested in organizing a panel on US non-proliferation policy in the Seventies. My paper will focus on the Shah's nuclear ambitions, giving particular attention to the role of UK, France and the FRG in the development of the Iranian nuclear program and the American effort to prevent Europeans from selling sensitive technology (enrichment and reprocessing). If u are interested, contact me at: vittorio.felci@cme.lu.se
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ReplyDeleteI am organizing a panel of US government education, domestic propaganda, and the making of modern Americans. The panel seeks to pay particular attention to the use of education as a form of domestic propaganda and how it was used to create Modern Americans. If interested please contact me at a.costa@ttu.edu.
Best,
Autumn
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ReplyDeleteLooking to form a panel on opposition to US-led modernization projects during the Cold War, either from within the United States or in developing countries. My paper deals with Andre Gunder Frank, and the way he formed his contribution to dependency theory first out of his experience as an American development economist then in collaboration with a left variant of structuralist economics in Brazil. Please respond to Cody Stephens at cstephens@umail.ucsb.edu
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ReplyDeleteI'm organizing a panel roughly entitled "Nature and the Cold War." My presentation will be on the links between the U.S. navy's marine mammal program and the shifting environmental politics of the Pacific Northwest in the 1960s and 1970s.
If you are interested, please contact me at jcolby@uvic.ca
All the best,
Jason
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DeleteWe are looking for an additional paper to complete a panel exploring humanitarianism in the early Cold War. While the panel is currently interested in focusing on UNRRA, we are open to other directions. If interested, please contact me at kaete.oconnell@temple.edu or Amanda Bundy at bundy.42@osu.edu.
ReplyDeleteKaete O'Connell
Temple University
Our panel is now complete. Thank you for the responses.
DeleteWe're looking for one member to fill our panel on neoconservatism and American foreign policy. Our two papers both deal with the early years of neoconservatism (1960s-70s) and we'd like to include a paper that also focuses on this period. But if need be, we are also open to a paper that looks at more recent influences of neoconservatism, like with the Iraq war. If interested, please email me at kekolander@mix.wvu.edu.
ReplyDeleteKenny Kolander
Ph.D. Candidate, West Virginia University
We're seeking one panelist for a panel on emotion and foreign relations, any time period although mid-19th to mid-20th c would be best to round out our panel. Our papers look at the strategic use of feelings and emotional language in diplomacy. I'll be focusing on the early 19th century, and the other paper is on the Peace Corps in the 1960s. We have a great chair and commentator lined up. Contact me at cgood@umw.edu if you're interested.
ReplyDeleteCassandra Good
Associate Editor, Papers of James Monroe, Univ. of Mary Washington
Our panel is now complete
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ReplyDeleteI am a Lecturer at UPenn. I would love to join a panel related to my current research themes (I can make adjustments to fit in), US FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS INDIA/PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN rather from a security point of view, including topics such as :
- the US war in Afghanistan (my current research)
- the Soviet-Afghanistan war
- Afghanistan's long-term history
- US-Pak alliance
- Nixon/Ford/Carter and India/Pak
- 1971 Indo-Pak conflict
- nuclear proliferation
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You can reach me at tcavanna@sas.upenn.edu
Thank you !
Thomas Cavanna
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Gregg French and I am a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. Under the supervision of Professor Frank Schumacher, my dissertation examines American perceptions of Spain and the Spanish Empire from 1776 to 1914.
I am posting this note because I am interested in joining or forming a panel that will discuss America's inter-imperial relationship with a European power during the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth century.
Please contact me via e-mail at gfrench4@uwo.ca.
Kind regards,
- Gregg
My name is Andy Wilson and I am a doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. I am curious if there is any interest in joining a panel to discuss digital scholarship in the field of transnational history? The panel would emphasize the use of digital tools (Gephi, Palladio, Omeka, etc...) in creating original scholarship. The panel would be open thematically and chronologically, with the emphasis being on digital transnational scholarship.
ReplyDeleteFor example, I utilize the networking tool Palladio, created by the Humanities+Design lab at the University of Stanford, to create both maps and networking visualizations of various aspects of the Nicaraguan Revolution. To date I have mapped the sister city movement in both Europe and the United States, as well as the trans-Atlantic connections of the anti-Contra war movement.
I would also be available to join any panels related to the United States and Latin America in the late Cold War, the United States and national liberation movements, or revolutionary internationalism during the Cold War.
We are looking for one or two more papers for a panel on the United States and transnational minority groups or diasporas. One paper looks at the United States government's involvement in disputes within the Armenian Apostolic Church during the period between the early 1950s and the mid-1960s, focusing on the struggle for control over the Catholicosate of Antelias and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The other addresses the American Jewish Committee's relationship with, knowledge about, and quiet advocacy for the Palestinian/Arab minority living in Israel during the 1950s.
ReplyDeleteExamples of relevant work that come to mind include US relations with the Kurds, the Circassians, the Jewish diaspora, the Palestinians, the Roma, the Yazidis, the Bedouins, etc. Papers could focus on the US policy towards these groups, strategies employed to gain American support, diasporas as domestic American pressure groups, etc.
We'd like the panel to have a regional focus on the Middle East and a temporal focus on the Cold War era, but this will depend on the proposals received. You can reach me at stockerj@trinitydc.edu. Thanks!
James Stocker, Trinity Washington University
We now have a three-paper panel, having added a paper on the role of undocumented Irish residents in the United States in influencing immigration policy (specifically the Green Card lottery). If anyone interested in transnational history would like to serve as a discussant or as chair, please let me know by writing to stockerj@trinitydc.edu. Thanks!
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ReplyDeleteWe are seeking one more presenter—plus a chair and commentator—to participate in a panel examining anti-war and anti-imperialist opinion, leaders, and/or activism (broadly defined) in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century and/or mid-century (Vietnam era). The two existing papers examine both eras, but one will add emphasis to one or the other era (if appropriate) depending upon the focus of the third paper. Please contact Catherine Forslund (cforslund@rockford.edu) if you are interested.
We are looking for one more panelist for a panel on United States trade policy and transatlantic economic relations, broadly understood, from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Any paper dealing with United States-Latin American economic relations during that period would fit in nicely, too.
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested, please contact me at aspadilla84@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Andres Sanchez-Padilla
Independent Researcher
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ReplyDeleteI am a PhD candidate at Texas Christian University. My dissertation is on illicit maritime activity in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea between 1763 – 1840. I would like to join a panel if possible, on relations between the United States and Latin America. I have material for a few different papers (all from dissertation chapters I am drafting) available, so whichever idea fits I can run with it. I would like to do the paper on projecting American power with the U.S. Navy during the early 19th century, or the American anti-piracy effort, but I have material on international smuggling and prevention during the Early Republic too if that be more appropriate for the suggested panel.
Anyway, please let me know of any interest at: D{period}R{period}vogel at tcu.edu
-Dan Vogel
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ReplyDeleteI want to make a paper proposal roughly titled "Visible and invisible networks and new channels of communication: the USIA-USIS challenge in Cold War Yugoslavia or how to create a new Yugoslav leadership" focused on American programs of public and cultural diplomacy, their population targets, key words, implementing policies, contradictions and ambiguous relations with the Communist leadership guided by Marshall Tito. The paper gathers together multinational resources (NARA College Park, Arkansas Library, Belgrade/Serbian and Croatian Archives).
I am seeking a panel dealing (very broadly) with issues of public and cultural diplomacy, Cold War themes, South Eastern Europe. Please let me know if anyone is interested at carla.konta@phd.units.it
Thanks,
Carla Konta, University of Trieste, Italy
PhD candidate and teaching assistant
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI am a Research Fellow at the University of Trieste, where I am working on the history of US-Italian relations in the field of civil nuclear policies during the Cold War. I am looking for a panel on similar issues or fellow researchers interested in putting together a panel on, for example, American foreign policy and energy.
Best,
Elisabetta Bini
University of Trieste
ebini@units.it
http://www.eui.eu/ProgrammesAndFellowships/MaxWeberProgramme/People/MaxWeberFellows/Fellows2011-2012/Bini.aspx
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ReplyDeleteWe are looking to round out a panel (we need a third presenter and chair/commentator) that examines U.S. policy on the Cold War periphery in the immediate aftermath of Vietnam. The two papers you would join examine, respectively, U.S. policy in Angola shortly after the fall of Saigon and U.S. policy in Central America leading up to the Nicaraguan Revolution. Themes include U.S. policy responses to "the shock of the global," the national trauma of Vietnam, and an ascendent and increasingly assertive Third World, led by Havana, which would challenge Washington's attempts to exert influence in places like Africa and the Caribbean. If you are interested in either completing this panel or in chairing and commenting on it, please contact me at the address below.
Best regards,
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Shannon Nix
PhD Candidate
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
(919) 306-2474
sn7ws@virginia.edu
I would like to going a panel. My field of expertise is Latin America in general and Chile and Puerto Rico in particular. I could chair/comment or present a paper. My paper would be on the FBI's operations against the Puerto Rican independence movement in Puerto Rico and Latin America. Thanks.
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