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On behalf of Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones:
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"U.S. Intelligence Liaison and Mutual Learning since 1909"
Would anyone like to contact me with a proposal within this field? The idea would be to explore U.S. intelligence liaison with foreign nations, ways in which the U.S. has learned from the intelligence practices of foreign countries, and vice versa.
I would like to hear from interested scholars before mid-October, as that would allow time to put together a panel proposal by SHAFR's deadline of December 1, 2010.
Please reply to: rhodrimawr@btinternet.com
2011 SHAFR Conference - Looking to join or assemble a panel
ReplyDeleteMy paper is discussing the effects of Race on Diplomacy with Latin American during WWII and could easily fit into either a Good Neighbor Policy, WWII, or racially themed diplomacy panel.
Please contact me at jlieser@mix.wvu.edu if you would like to discuss putting together a panel.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to form a panel focusing on the US and regime change. However, I use the term ‘regime change’ in a broad manner, and not to mean the much-hyped latter-day meaning of toppling and replacing a regime. Rather, I would like to see if there are other scholars who are investigating how the change of regimes in nations with poor/hostile relations with the US has been dealt with in the past, and the effects it had on policy towards that nation, and movements associated with such regimes. (I suppose the recent Korean Workers Party conference makes this immediately relevant). My own work in this regard focuses on US changes in policy towards, and perceptions of, the USSR between 1953-1956, as the leadership changed from Stalin, and then to the ‘collective’ leadership first under Malenkov, and then Khrushchev.
I see this fitting into the theme of “Waging War, Making Peace, Crossing Borders” in a number of ways, and I look forward to discussing it with others in the hope of forming a panel.
w.ullrich@lse.ac.uk
Looking for Panelist:
ReplyDeleteAlong two other collegues, we would like to assemble a panel in "Cultural transer and public diplomacy in US-Spanish & Latin American relations during the Cold War". We already have two papers on US public diplomacy and Spain and one on US public diplomacy and Mexico, so works on the US-Latin American perspective would be favoured.
If you are interested, please contact Pablo León:
pl248@georgetown.edu
Looking for panelists
ReplyDeleteI would like to submit a paper about Unrra relief work in Europe towards the end of and after WWII. In particular, I am interested in exploring how relief workers interpreted the organization's mandate - conceived as the implementation of "a global New Deal" - and what could "relief" and to "rehabilitate" Europeans possibly mean to them. Since Unrra employed and extraordinary number of women (many of them former American social workers), the gendered re/definition of international humanitarianism is one of the main axes along which my papers will develop.
If you are interested in assembling a panel with me or you are organizing a panel that my paper fits in, please contact me:
Silvia Salvatici
ssalvatici@libero.it
Re. SHAFR 2011
ReplyDeleteI am interested in joining a panel on North American, or U.S.-Latin American relations. I am researching the 1911 Canadian arbitration of the Chamizal dispute between the U.S. and Mexico. In addition to analysing the diplomatic history surrounding the arbitration, my research focuses upon the attempt of the City of El Paso to build a sewage plant on the disputed territory, and how this relates to ideas of race, hygiene, and sanitation on U.S.-Mexico border during the period of the Mexican Revolution.
If you think my paper would fit on the panel you are organizing, please contact me.
Amelia M. Kiddle, Ph.D.
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Wesleyan University
Center for the Americas
255 High Street, Room 214
Middletown, CT 06459
(860) 685-5765 (office)
(860) 685-2985 (fax)
http://akiddle.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
akiddle@wesleyan.edu
This is a call for two panelists to join me at the annual meeting of the
ReplyDeleteSociety of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) in June 2011 in
the Washington, D.C. metro area, to present papers on U.S. civil defense. My
paper will highlight the bureaucratic machinations and ideological
struggle amongst high-ranking DoD officials on the viability of civil
defense. More specifically, my research begins with the Nixon
Administration and ends with the establishment of FEMA under the Carter
Administration. Any paper regarding civil defense is welcome. Dr. Erin
Mahan, Chief Historian of the Office of the Secretary of Defense has agreed
to serve as chair and commentator for the proposed panel.
If you are interested in joining the panel, please contact me by
mid-November
12th, as panel proposals are due in early December.
Ryan Carpenter
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Historical Office
Looking for panelists (or panel):
ReplyDeleteI am seeking to put together a panel -- or possibly join a panel -- exploring American responses to anti-colonial movements in the twentieth century. Specifically, I hope to present a paper on "imperial nostalgia" among American zoo directors and animal traders during the Cold War. These groups, I argue, were not only threatened by anti-colonial movements in Africa and elsewhere but -- in their personnel correspondence, relations with diplomats and foreign officials, and policies -- sought to redefine all exotic animals as "world resources," to be stewarded by American and Western governments. If you are interested in joining me, please get in touch by mid-November.
John M. Kinder
Assistant Professor of American Studies and History
Oklahoma State University
john.kinder@okstate.edu
I would like to put together a panel that examines US/Canadian border issues preferably in the mid to late 19th century. I am also open to creating a panel that includes US/Mexican border issues during this time period so as to compare and broaden the discussion.
ReplyDeleteMy work focuses on Irish American political organizations attempting to invade Canada after the Civil War.
Please email me at shlynch@wm.edu if you are interested.
Skye Lynch
Doctoral Candidate
College of William and Mary
I'm looking to join a panel dealing with U.S-Latin American relations during the 20th Century/early Cold War. I would like to present a paper on the impact of the Puerto Rican Democratic Left on U.S.-Latin American Relations during the administration of John F. Kennedy. This paper would seek to complicate our understanding of Kennedy's Latin American policy by focusing on the very place that served as the inspiration for New Frontier initiatives like the Alliance for Progress: Puerto Rico. During the early 1960s, U.S. policy-makers viewed the island as a bridge between the U.S. and Latin America, and Kennedy appointed several Puerto Ricans to top-level diplomatic posts. Specifically, I am trying to understand the impact that these individuals had on the making of the president's Latin American foreign policy.
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested in joining a panel or seek another member, do let me know.
Best,
David M. Rodriguez
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Wisconsin-Madison
dmrodriguez@wisc.edu
818.470.8963 (cell)
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI'd like to put together a panel proposal for SHAFR 2011 on refugee and immigration policy as foreign policy. My paper will focus on U.S.
Indochina refugee policies after the Vietnam War. I am seeking additional panelists, as well as people to chair and comment. If you are interested, please contact me at: hmstur@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Heather Marie Stur, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
The University of Southern Mississippi
America's image in the world, or public diplomacy:
ReplyDeleteAm looking to put together a panel on either images of the US in the world or on public diplomacy. Papers on anti-Americanism might also be a fit.
My work deals with American rejoinders to European criticisms during the first half of the 19th century. 20th century topics would fit in nicely. Please contact me if you might be interested (or if you think my paper might fit your panel). wjeaton@gmail.com
Best,
Joe Eaton, PhD
Department of History
National Chengchi University
wjeaton@gmail.com
I am putting together a panel for the SHAFR conference "Waging War, Making Peace, Crossing Borders," June 25-27. My paper examines the disarmament efforts in Geneva during the 1930s from the perspective of a group of transnational women, including several key American women, who organized through the Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Women’s International Organizations. I am seeking two additional panelists who focus on the politics of disarmament or peace through either state or non-state actors. If you are interested either in this topic or in a related one, please reply to direton1@binghamton.edu.
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Denise Ireton
PhD Candidate
History Department
Binghamton University (SUNY)
2011 SHAFR Conference - Looking to join or assemble a panel
ReplyDeleteMy paper looks at how the U.S.-China rapprochement was revealed through the media in both countries. It fits into topics on modern U.S.-China relations or on media and foreign policy.
Please contact me at az6485@wayne.edu if you are interested in forming a panel.
Guolin Yi
Ph.D. Candidate
Wayne State University
2011 SHAFR Conference - We are looking for a third scholar to join a panel on cultural diplomacy and the arts. The first paper will discuss the transfer of Soviet ballet and U.S. modern dance forms just before and after the Cuban Revolution. The paper demonstrates how the non-verbal genre was used to create nationalism and promote political agendas. The second paper examines the use of American modern architecture and dance in Berlin during the early Cold War to promote American interests in the Western sector as they argued against the East German projects. Both papers explore the transfer of non-verbal high art across national boundaries in order to promote political agendas and reformulate nationalism. We would be interested in joining with people who explore the arts and cultural diplomacy as a broder topic. Please reply to LVB3@columbia.edu.
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ReplyDeleteWe are looking for one additional participant to serve on a panel that focuses on US-Mexican relations through WWII for the annual SHAFR meeting in June 2011. Our papers focus on the issue of negotiations between the US and Mexico, defined broadly.
The papers we already have examine the US diplomatic response to educational reform in Mexico through the founding of the Benjamin Franklin Library in Mexico City and the diplomacy surrounding arbitration of the Chamizal dispute.
If interested please contact me at jprieto@stanford.edu.
Julie Prieto
PhD Candidate, Stanford University
I am interested to join/form a panel on the politics of military assistance/weapons sales during the Cold War. My paper is tentatively titled "What Effect Did the US Arms Embargo Have on the Pinochet Dictatorship?". It explores the immediate and long term ramifications of US congressional legislation barring arms sales and all military assistance to the Pinochet Regime. Please contact me at jbawden@montevallo.edu
ReplyDeleteJohn R. Bawden
Assistant Professor of History
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL 35115
jbawden@montevallo.edu
205.665.6190
On behalf of Marcel Will:
ReplyDeleteDear colleagues,
Another researcher and I are looking for a third presenter to join our panel about "US-China Realtions" or "US Asian Strategy". We are both planning to present something concerning US-China relations, but are felxible enough to integrate a paper about another country. But in order to have a common denominator, in that case it should deal with the period of the 60s or 70s.
If you are interested, please send me an email with the title and a short abstract of your proposed paper.
Thanks and kind regards,
Marcel Will,
Lecturer & PhD-candidate
University of Cologne (Germany)
will.marcel@uni-koeln.de
Dear all,
ReplyDeleteI am interested in joining/forming a panel that can broadly look at several topics related to my research. These include, but are not limited to wartime reporting during the Cold War, the American Left's response to Cold War foreign policy, and any other topic that broadly looks at cultural responses to American foreign policy during the 20th century. I am also interested in joining any panel related to the Vietnam War
My paper looks at the antiwar press' coverage of the Vietnam War between 1964 and 1967. Through looking at numerous on the ground reports from Vietnam that were published in the alternative press (ranging from the Old Left to the New), I argue that reports on the war provided not only a critical source of information on foreign affairs, but also a tenuous point of unity for the growing leftist print culture of the 1960s. These reports were often in the first person, focused on human interest stories, and were prominently featured in the pages of a wide range of alternative/underground publications of the period.
If you are interested please contact me at mkoncewi@uci.edu
Michael Koncewicz
PhD Student
University of California Irvine
mkoncewi@uci.edu
I am interested in forming or joining a panel that deals with American foreign policy during the early republic period (1790s-1820s). My paper is entitled "Washington Behind Closed Doors" and deals with the numerous unofficial letters George Washington received from Europe during the French Revolution. My paper argues that Washington, rather than relying on intelligence from his cabinet alone, particularly from Thomas Jefferson, used these firsthand sources to assess the situation in revolutionary France. These detailed reports of the deteriorating situation in France had a profound influence on Washington’s decision to pursue a Neutrality Proclamation in 1793.
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested in this panel, please contact me at moats@uwp.edu.
Sandy Moats
Associate Professor of History
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
On behalf of David Ellwood:
ReplyDeleteI should like to put together a panel on 'Soft Power: myth, model or functional policy option?'. The purpose would be to debate the origins, evolution and influence of this concept in the American and other contexts. Papers could be included on the politics of modernization, Americanization, cultural transmission and reception, the geopolitics of media, public diplomacy etc. Although the concept is usually discussed in terms of US power, influence and foreign policy, it is relevant too for the EU, China and other powers, as well as for other cultural institutions from churches to universities, corporations and NGOs.
If you are interested, please contact me at davidwilliam.ellwood@unibo.it.
David Ellwood
University of Bologna
Author, The Challenge of the Century: America and the Politics of Modernization in Europe 1898-2008 (forthcoming 2012, OUP)
Is there a panel on the Cold War in America, domestic developments, politics, culture, Cold War Consensus, immigrant life, identity etc? Let me know.
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Louie Milojevic
PhD Candidate
American University
The early republic panel is taking shape with a second proposal dealing with the War of 1812. We still need a third panelist and a chair/commentator, if anyone is interested in joining us.
ReplyDeleteAgain, please email me directly at: moats@uwp.edu.
Thanks, Sandy Moats
I am seeking a third paper for a SHAFR 2011 panel on biography, gender, and diplomatic history. The first two papers are biographies of U.S. women diplomats in the mid-20th century. We would welcome a biography of any actor, official or not, and from any time period. Please reply directly to Beatrice McKenzie, mckenzie@beloit.edu
ReplyDeleteI am seeking a third panelist and commentator for a panel on history and counterinsurgency. This panel will interrogate the multiple ways in which history figures into the current doctrine of counterinsurgency. From the Kennedy administration to the current moment, how have proponents of counterinsurgency used history to advance their agenda? What might an alternative history of counterinsurgency look like?
ReplyDeleteWould welcome papers on the broader arc of history in the current doctrine of counterinsurgency or on specific counterinsurgency programs of the past—Malaya, Vietnam, the Philippines, El Salvador, or Iraq.
Contact Hannah @ hrg2@nyu,edu
Hannah Gurman
Assistant Professor
NYU, Gallatin School