SHAFR 2008 Annual MeetingColumbus, Ohio (June 26-28, 2008)
The web-site for the 2008 meeting has been deactivated but is being preserved here for archival purposes. Dear Colleagues: On behalf of the 2008 Program Committee (Kelly Gray, Joe Mocnik, and Chris Tudda), we warmly invite you to attend this year’s conference to be held 26-28 June at the Blackwell Inn and Conference Center on the Ohio State University Campus in Columbus, Ohio. Information regarding registration, lodging, transportation, and the Columbus area can be found elsewhere on this website. We’d like to highlight just a few features of what promises to be an excellent program. (Space considerations forced the Program Committee to make some difficult choices, as we received a record number of submissions this year and could not accept every session that we would have liked.) The conference opens with a full slate of panels that begin at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, 26 June. Our concluding panels will be from 3:15-5:15 p.m. on Saturday, 28 June. That evening there will be a SHAFR-sponsored excursion to watch the Columbus Clippers minor-league baseball team take on the Indianapolis Indians.
In addition to the sessions highlighted above, the program offers attendees panels devoted to a variety of chronological and geographical topics. We are very excited about the breadth of this year’s program and hope you’ll join us for SHAFR 2008 in Columbus. Best, RegistrationOn-line registration is no longer available. Conference participants should plan to pay with cash or check (no credit cards accepted) when they arrive on site. Registration (All participants are expected to register) Standard: $75 ($100 after June 1) Meals $18 Fri., June 27, Luncheon, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM $28 Sat., June 28, Luncheon, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM $28 Sat., June 28, Social Event, 5:15 PM – 10:00 PM (return time is estimated) *NO refunds will be offered if the event is cancelled due to poor weather. The Robert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Fund:
Conference ProgramTHURSDAY, 26 JUNE 2008 SHAFR Council Meeting: 8:15am – 12:15pm (Pfahl 102) SHAFR Teaching Committee: 11:00am – 1:00pm (Ballroom B) Session I: 1:00pm – 3:00pm Chair: Jonathan Reed Winkler, Wright State University Making “A Long-Overdue Adjustment”: Senator Mike Mansfield’s Call for a Reduced American Military Presence in Europe The Strange Persistence of Flexible Response The United States and Canada’s NATO Troop Reduction in West Germany: The End of an Expedient Triangle? Berlin’s Crisis in the Alliance: NATO and Berlin, 1958-1960 Commentator: Alessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas Panel 2: U.S. Soft Power and State-Private Networks in the Middle East, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (Pfahl 230) Chair: Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University A Broken Wing? Women's Rights as Barometer of Democracy in the Middle East The Privatization of Public Diplomacy and Propaganda: American Information Control Policy in Occupied Iraq, 2003-2006 The Cultural Cold War Comes to the Orient: The CIA and the American Friends of the Middle East, 1951-1967 Commentator: Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University Panel 3: Partners in Relief: American Humanitarians and the State, 1914-1941 (Pfahl 240) Chair: Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder “A Piratical State for Benevolence”: State-NGO Relations between the United States and Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1914-1917 Humanitarians and Bolsheviks: The Red Cross and YMCA in American-Russian Relations, 1917-1918 Shadow Diplomats: The Joint Distribution Committee and the Refugee Crisis of the 1930s The Diplomacy of Hunger: The Allied Blockade and Prisoner of War Food Relief in Germany during World War I Commentator: Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder Panel 4: Intelligence Agents and Spies in Wartime: Their Roles and Representations, 1930s-1950s (Pfahl 140) Chair: Carol Jackson Adams, Webster University A Cavalier in Cloak: Francis Pickens Miller, Interventionism, and the Secret War against Hitler The “Woman With a Past”: Anticommunism, Gender Politics, and the Lives of Former Communist Spy Hede Massing American Garbo Commentator: Katherine A. S. Sibley, Saint Joseph’s University Panel 5: “Reconciliation of Differences”: A Reevaluation of the Diplomacy of Jimmy Carter (Pfahl 330) Chair: Wilson D. Miscamble, University of Notre Dame The Ogaden War and the Demise of Détente Vance’s Lodestone: The SALT II Process Curbing the Buddha: Pokhran and the Beginning of the Nuclear Controls Regime The US-UK Special Relationship in the mid-1970s: Rhodesia as a Case Study Commentator: Leo P. Ribuffo, George Washington University Panel 6: War, Religion, and National Identity (Pfahl 340) Chair: Walter L. Hixson, University of Akron With Righteous Fury: American Identity and the U.S. Air War on Europeans and Asians, 1941-1945 The Spirituality of Containment: Religion, National Identity, and Eisenhower's Cold War Strategy The GWOT: America's First Executive Holy War Commentator: Walter L. Hixson, University of Akron Panel 7: Reactions to American Imperial Ambitions at the Turn of the Century (Pfahl 102) Chair: Anthony DeStefanis, University of South Florida Migration and Empire: Puerto Rican Migration after the Spanish-American War, 1898-1918 “Moral Weight” or “Savage Ambition”? William James’s Political Philosophy and Opposition to Empire, 1890-1910 Reciprocity in Nineteenth-Century U.S.-Colombia Commercial Relations Commentator: Anthony DeStefanis, University of South Florida
Session II: 3:30pm - 5:30pm Chair: Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia The Merits and Limits of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Agreement “More research and testing is necessary”: The Struggle between Robert McNamara and the Joint Chiefs over Missile Defense “The Burden of Proof”: Kennedy and Vietnam, 1963 Kennedy, British Guiana, and the “Great Turning” Commentator: Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia Panel 9: Changing Perceptions: Interactions between the U.S. and the Middle East, 1920s – 1980s (Pfahl 230) Chair: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University Oil, Honor and Religion: U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Turkey, 1923-1927 American Education Assistance and the Rise of Anti-American Sentiment among Turkish and Iranian University Students during the 1960s and 1970s The United States, Saudi Arabia, and the Outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War: A Reappraisal Commentator: James Goode, Grand Valley State University Panel 10: Beyond Borders: Foreign Affairs and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Pfahl 240) Chair: David F. Schmitz, Whitman College Right-wing Productions of History and the Makings of the War in Iraq No Rubber Stamp: The Argument for Constitutional Constructivism in U.S.-China Relations Color-Blind(?) Conservatism, the Cold War, and U.S. Policy in Southern Africa Commentator: David F. Schmitz, Whitman College Panel 11: The United States and Atlantic Diplomacy in a Long Nineteenth Century (Pfahl 330) Chair: Robert May, Purdue University Diplomatic Subtleties and Frank Overtures: Print, Politics, Publicity and Citizen Genet, 1793-1794 Mr. Madison’s Other War: The Dartmoor Massacre, the End of the Barbary Wars, and American Self-Confidence, 1815-1816 1860-61: The International Context of the Secession Year Commentator: Mitchell Snay, Denison University Panel 12: Secrecy and Declassification in Foreign Policy Records (Pfahl 140) Moderator: Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder Thomas S. Blanton, National Security Archive Panel 13: The Cold War, Africa, and the Challenge of Decolonization (Pfahl 340) Chair: Sue Onslow, London School of Economics and Political Science Apartheid on Trial: America's Response to a Postcolonial Problem, 1960-1966 Atomic Apartheid and the Cold War: US-South African Nuclear Relations in the 1980s The Algerian Revolution’s Left Turn: The FLN in the Cold War, 1958-1960 Panel 14: Perspective to Policy: Competing Conceptions of the U.S. National Interest in the Era of Franklin Roosevelt (Pfahl 102) Chair: Jeffrey Engel, Texas A&M University Internationalism, Ideology, & US Entry into World War II The Quest for “an Economic Monroe Doctrine”: Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy during WWII and the Expansion of U.S. National Security Concerns in Latin America The Roosevelt Administrations’ Conception of US National Interest during the Phony War: Pre-war Postwar Planning Commentator: Jeffrey Engel, Texas A&M University Reception and Informal Plenary: 5:30pm – 8:00pm (Ballroom BC) Dorm Rooms, Cafeterias, and Low-Rent Hotels We Have Known
FRIDAY, 27 JUNE 2008 Breakfast (7:30am - 9:00am) Women Historians in SHAFR Breakfast (Ballroom B. Pre-registration is required.) Hijab, Handshakes, and Haram: The Challenges of Conducting Research in the Middle East SESSION III (9am – 11am) Panel 15: The United States and Human Rights in the 1960s and 1970s (Pfahl 230) Chair: Petra Goedde, Temple University Soviet Propaganda on U.S. Human Rights in the 1960s: The View from the Moscow Archives Indochinese Refugees, Human Rights, and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s Obstructing Congress: An Inside Look at the Early Years of the State Department’s Bureau of Human Rights, 1974-1976 Commentator: Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles Panel 16: The Limits of Liberation: Southern Africa and American Foreign Relations (Pfahl 202) Chair: George White, York College, City University of New York “Jackassery”: Nixon and Zambia, 1969-72 The World Bitter to Me: Dennis Brutus and the Politics of South African Exiles in the United States The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa and the Rhodesian Crisis, 1962-66 Commentator: George White, York College, City University of New York Panel 17: Culture and Conflict in U.S.-Latin American Relations, 1920s-1980s (Pfahl 240) Chair: Kyle Longley, Arizona State University Commodified Bodies: Empire and the Construction of Argentine Boxers “The American Way of Life” in 1940s Mexico Frontiers of Exclusion, Frontiers of Rebellion: Zonian-Panamanian Cultural Relations and the Genesis of Crisis Commentator: Kyle Longley, Arizona State University Panel 18: In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud: The United States, Japan, and the Atomic Bomb (Pfahl 140) Chair: Barton J. Bernstein, Stanford University Emperor Hirohito’s Sacred Decision to Surrender The Racial and Sexual Politics of the ABCC Research “Indiscriminate Cruelty”? The Targeting of Japanese Civilians in World War II The Committee on Declassification and the Question of Postwar Secrecy Commentator: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University Panel 19: Global Issues in the Post-Colonial Middle East (Pfahl 330) Chair: Zach Levey, University of Haifa The Struggle Against Oppression Everywhere: The PLO and the New Left The Resilience of Empire: Iraq, Decolonization, and the Kennedy Administration Battling the Veil: Popular Western Concern for Muslim Women’s Human Rights Since the Late 1970s Kelly Shannon, Temple University “You Get the Water Without Force”: The United States’ Roles in the Jordan Waters Crisis, 1963-1965 Commentator: John Miglietta, Tennessee State University Panel 20: ROUNDTABLE: Teaching with Images and Multimedia-Perspectives from Ohio State’s Goldberg Center and Elsewhere (Pfahl 340) Chair: Mark T. Gilderhus, Texas Christian University Teaching with Images at OSU’s Goldberg Center Using Images to Teach the History of U.S. Foreign Relations Commentary and Discussion on Contents and Methods: Audience and Speakers Luncheon and Presidential Address: (11:00am - 1:00pm) “Winning an election is terribly important, Henry”: Thinking about Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations SESSION IV (1:00-3:00 P.M.) Panel 21: ROUNDTABLE: Integrating Intelligence History in Academe and Government (Pfahl 140) Chair: Richard Immerman, Temple University and ODNI John Ferris, University of Calgary Panel 22: “A Concept, Not a Topic”: Public Diplomacy, Imperial Culture and U.S. Foreign Relations (Pfahl 202) Chair: TBA U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Remapping of the Pax Americana Cultural Diplomacy and Civil Society Since 1850, or the Anomaly of the Cold War Domestic Context and Public Diplomacy: German Rehabilitation in Cold War America Commentator: The Audience Panel 23: A National Security Court: The Supreme Court and Foreign Relations, 1789-1812 (Pfahl 230) Chair: James Broussard, Lebanon Valley College A National Security Court The Supreme Court and its Grand Jury Charges, 1789-1801 The Supreme Court and the Expansion of Federal Power, 1801-1812 Commentator: Elizabeth Kelly Gray, Towson University Panel 24: The United States in the Middle East: Diplomacy, Strategy, and Nationalism, 1958-1996 (Pfahl 240) Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California at Santa Barbara Black September: Balance of Power Diplomacy and Contested State Identity in Jordan U.S. Military Assistance to Israel During the 1973 War: A Critical Reappraisal America and Kurdish Nationalism, 1958-1996 Commentator: Salim Yaqub, University of California at Santa Barbara Panel 25: The Unconventional Cold War in the Developing World, 1953-1971 (Pfahl 330) Chair: John Soares, University of Notre Dame Regime Change in Iraq: The Eisenhower Administration and the 1958 Iraqi Revolution Divergent Channels: U.S.-Soviet Back Channels and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 “Over the Heads of the Leaders”: The Propaganda Battle between India and the United States, 1953-1961 Commentator: Hugh Wilford, California State University, Long Beach Panel 26: Diplomacy and Global Governance: Culture, Technology, and Nature (Pfahl 340) Chair: Amy L. Sayward, Middle Tennessee State University Virginia Gildersleeve and the Founding of the United Nations: Women Delegates at International Governmental Conferences Let there be Light … and Bread: United Nations Agencies and Grain Irradiation for the Developing World Global Governance and Various Ways of Saving the Whales Commentator: Amy L. Sayward, Middle Tennessee State University
SESSION V (3:30pm - 5:30pm) Panel 27: Rethinking the Truman Era: The Politics of Culture in the Early Cold War (Pfahl 202) Chair: Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University Post-War Mutiny: Class and International Insurgency in the American Armed Forces Between World War and Cold War Cold War Fantasy: The Social Construction of American Strategy in the Korean War Era Commentator: Kenneth Osgood, Florida Atlantic University Panel 28: Beyond the Holy Land: The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1944-1960 (Pfahl 230) Chair: Matthew Jacobs, University of Florida Developing the Holy Land: Intellectual Mobilization and the U.S. Palestine Debate in the 1940s “The Only Thorn”: Early Saudi-American Relations and the Question of Palestine, 1947-1949 Capital and a Blind Eye: American Approaches toward Dimona during the 1950s Commentator: Matthew Jacobs, University of Florida Panel 29: Modernization and Nation-Building in Vietnam, 1961-1973 (Pfahl 240) Chair: Gary Hess, Bowling Green State University Destroy or Build: The Johnson Administration’s Pacification Program in South Vietnam, 1964-1968 To Move Whose Nation? American and South Vietnamese Conceptions of Nation-Building through Civic Action, 1961-1963 From Counter-Insurgency to Narco-Insurgency: Vietnam, “Nation-Building” and the International War on Drugs “The Nucleus of Craftsmen Needed to Build a Firm National Foundation”: The Office of Civilian Personnel and Nation-building in Vietnam, 1965-1973 Commentator: Gary Hess, Bowling Green State University Panel 30: Idealism and Limitations: Wilsonian Foreign Policy, East and West (Pfahl 330) Chair: Lloyd Ambrosius, University of Nebraska “We have forgotten that nation”: Jiaozhou, China between the United States and Japan, August-November 1914 “Property can be paid for, innocent lives cannot”: Woodrow Wilson, Maritime Law, and the World Order The Democratic Warrior: Woodrow Wilson as War Leader Japan-U.S. Relations and America’s Withdrawal from Siberia Commentator: Lloyd Ambrosius, University of Nebraska Panel 31: Americanization and Its Discontents: U.S. Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1941 (Pfahl 340) Chair: T. Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia College and State University Commerce, Christianity, and Globalization: Popular Anxieties over American Business Expansion, 1890s to 1930s Empire in Transition: United Fruit in Central America, 1920-1936 Hollywood Goes Global: The Case of Pre-World War II Japan Commentator: Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Panel 32: ROUNDTABLE: Is SHAFR Sexist? A Report and Discussion (Pfahl 140) Chair: Anna K. Nelson, American University Petra Goedde, Temple University Plenary Session (7pm – 9pm) Moderator: Amy L. Sayward, Middle Tennessee State University Presidential Power and the War on Terrorism Commentator: David D. Cole, Georgetown University Law Center SATURDAY, 28 JUNE 2008 DH Editorial Board Meeting: 7:45am – 9:00am (Pfahl 102) Breakfast (7:30am - 9:00am) Don’t Put All Your Eggs into Academia’s Basket Chair: Josip Mocnik, Bowling Green State University John Powers, Information and Security Oversight Office, National Archives SESSION VI (9-11 A.M.) Panel 33: Theodore Roosevelt and America’s Great Power Status (Pfahl 202) Chair: John Milton Cooper, University of Wisconsin—Madison Naval Affairs: Theodore Roosevelt and the Use of Public Relations to Increase the US Navy and America’s Great Power Status The President and the Sultan: Theodore Roosevelt Confronts the Eastern Question, 1903-1908 “Mr. Roosevelt’s Costume”: Great Power Status, U.S.-European Relations, and the Problem of Dress at the Funeral of King Edward VII Power and Ethics: Theodore Roosevelt, World War I, and the Idea of a League of Nations Commentator: John Milton Cooper, University of Wisconsin—Madison Panel 34: Atlanticism, Independence, and Early American Foreign Relations (Pfahl 230) Chair: Mark Stoler, Williams College North American Initiatives, Euro-Atlantic Relations, and the Outbreak of the Seven Years War, 1752-1756 A Messiah that Will Never Come: American Independence, British Reconciliation Efforts, and the Franco-American Alliance George Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality and the Struggle for Public Opinion: How Foreign Affairs Contributed to the Democratization of American Politics A Trans-Atlantic Divide in an American City: Baltimore and the War of 1812 in International Perspective Commentator: Mark Stoler, Williams College Panel 35: The Ends of Development: Modernization in Crisis in the 1960s (Pfahl 240) Chair: Michael Adas, Rutgers University What if They Held a Famine and Nobody Starved? Johnson, Gandhi, and the Bihar Crisis of 1967 Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb: India, Modernization, and U.S. Environmentalism “Everything is Going Wrong”: The Unraveling of the Postwar Liberal Development Consensus in the 1960s Commentator: Michael Adas, Rutgers University Panel 36: ROUNDTABLE: Reevaluating the Study of U.S.-East Asian Relations: Sources, Approaches, and Pedagogy (Pfahl 140) Chair: Evan Dawley, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Jessica Chapman, University of California at Santa Barbara Panel 37: U.S. Allies in Europe in the Years of the Vietnam War and Détente, 1961-1973 (Pfahl 330) Chair: Klaus Larres, University of Ulster The Impact of U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia on Franco-German Relations, 1961-1966 Britain and the Four-Power Berlin Talks, 1970 Losing the “China Card”? France, China, and the Vietnam War, 1968-1973 “Special” or Just “Natural”? Nixon, Heath, and Transatlantic Relations during the Vietnam War, 1970-1974 Commentator: William Glenn Gray, Purdue University Panel 38: Military Power and American Values: U.S. Policy toward Latin American Regimes during the Cold War (Panel 340) Chair: Douglas W. Kraft, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Opening Pandora’s Box: The 1969 Tacnazo, U.S. Policy, and Chile’s 1970 Presidential Election Between Pressure and Support: US Human Rights Policy to Argentina after the Military Coup of 1976 and the “Moderates” Competition, Collaboration, and Human Rights: The “Third World War” and U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1976-1980 Commentator: Douglas W. Kraft, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Luncheon Address (11:00am - 1:00pm) The National Security Challenges Facing America SESSION VII (1:00pm – 3:00pm) Panel 39: Negotiating Unilateralism: National Approaches and Transnational Reponses to US Foreign Policy (Pfahl 202) Chair: Nathaniel Smith, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Bilateralism, Unilateralism, and Transnationalism: The Canada-US Relationship and the Development of the North American Air Defence System, 1949 to 1956 Privilege, Power, and Posturing: US, France and the World’s Money George Bush and the Persian Gulf War (1990-91): An Internationalist Approach to Foreign Policy Commentator: Nathaniel Smith, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Panel 40: Disaster, Drugs, and Free Trade: Latin America and New Approaches (Pfahl 230) Chair: Nick Cullather, Indiana University Local Quake, Global Tremors: Privatization, International Aid, and the Mexico City Earthquake of 1985 Reagan’s Wars: Drugs, the Contras, and Crossfire The Caribbean Basin Initiative: The Impact of Reagan Economic Ideology and Foreign Policy Commentator: Nick Cullather, Indiana University Panel 41: Ethnicity, Religion, and Transnationalism (Pfahl 240) Chair: Richard M. Filipink, Western Illinois University Between Rome and the Mississippi: The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a Design for a New South, 1894-1907 Pogroms and the Politics of Humanitarian Aid: American Jews, the American Relief Administration, and Famine Relief in Eastern Europe, 1919-1921 George Sylvester Viereck and the Struggle against British Re-Colonization, 1914-1945 American Catholics and the American Policy towards Mexico and Spain Commentator: David Steigerwald, Ohio State University, Marion Panel 42: The United States and the Gulf Region at the Time of the British Withdrawal, 1968-1973 (Pfahl 330) Chair: Miriam Joyce, Purdue University, Calumet Nesting Imperialisms: The Struggle for Influence in the Creation of the United Arab Emirates America Watches as Britain Births a New Gulf Order, 1968-1971 “The Shah says he agrees with your view of the Gulf” The Johnson Administration and the Emerging New Order in the Gulf Commentator: Miriam Joyce, Purdue University, Calumet Panel 43: Dealing with Democracies: American Relations with India, France and Israel, 1966-1974 (Pfahl 340) Chair: Chester Pach, Ohio University Triangulation and the “Tilt”: U.S. Policy toward India during the 1971 East Pakistan Crisis America and the Gaullist Challenge from LBJ to Nixon Henry Kissinger and the American Supply of Arms to Israel in the Yom Kippur War Commentator: Chester Pach, Ohio University
SESSION VIII (3:15pm - 5:15pm) Panel 44: Early Origins of the Cold War in Asia (Pfahl 202) Chair: Arnold Offner, Lafayette College Harry S Truman and the Distant Vista of Indochine Clark Clifford and the Ghost of the Korean War Creating the Dilemma: John Melby and U.S. Policy toward China, 1946-1948 The Origins of the US-Japan Alliance and Britain’s Role Therein, 1948-1951 Commentator: Arnold Offner, Lafayette College Panel 45: Biblical Prophecy and U.S. Policy in the Modern Age (Pfahl 230) Chair: Ira Chernus, University of Colorado at Boulder America, Left Behind: Bush, the Neoconservatives and Evangelical Christian Fiction The “Last Days”: Conservative Christian End Times Prophecy and U.S. Cold War Policy, 1979-1991 Under the Radar: Bible Prophecy, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1967 Commentator: Ira Chernus, University of Colorado at Boulder Panel 46: War, Race, and National Identity: Reconfigurations from World War II to Vietnam (Pfahl 240) Chair: Catherine Forslund, Rockford College Why We Fought: Reconfiguring American Patriotism in the 1940s A War of Color? The Race of Combat in Korea En Route to Hanoi: (National) Identities and International Revolution “Ghetto Guerillas”: African Americans, Military Service, and Identity in the Vietnam Era Commentator: Catherine Forslund, Rockford College Panel 47: The United States and the Third World in the 1960s (Pfahl 330) Chair: Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University Dueling Conferences: The Chinese-Indonesian Challenge to American Hegemony, 1964-1965 Less than “Concrete Assistance”: The United States and the African “Frontline” States in the 1960s PHILCAG: Filipino Involvement in the Vietnam War Commentator: Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas and Yale University Panel 48: The Far Reach of U.S. Empire, 1890s-1940s (Pfahl 340) Chair: Carol Chin, University of Toronto Still the Worst Chapter? US Imperialism and Narratives of US History Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Imperial Ideology in Early 20th Century America Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution Commentator: Carol Chin, University of Toronto Social Event (5:15pm - 10:00pm) (Bus departs from The Blackwell. Pre-registration is required.) Baseball game: Columbus Clippers vs Indianapolis Indians
Conference VenueThe deadline for acquiring a room at The Blackwell under our reduced rate has now passed. You can still call and inquire, but at last check they had only "lofts" (suites) available. Please note that even if a room becomes available, they are no longer obligated to honor our reduced rate. NOTE: There are still rooms available at a reduced rate at Holiday Inn on the Lane and the rate will be honored until June 4th. The Blackwell Inn This year’s conference will be held at The Blackwell, an inn and conference center on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. SHAFR has secured a limited number of rooms at a reduced rate. The deadline for receiving this rate is May 26, 2008. Please note that the hotel is required to honor our reduced rate until this date OR until all the rooms in our reserved bloc have been booked. Once our bloc is full, the hotel will offer rooms at its usual rate, if rooms are available, or may even be completely booked. Please make your reservations as early as you can. Rates are $129/night per room for single or double occupancy and $179 per room for the inn’s “Loft” rooms (suites). Please use the link below to make your reservation, find out more information about the hotel, and to get directions to The Blackwell. You may also call 1-866-247-4003 to make a reservation. To receive our reduced rate, you must enter the code “SHAFR0608.” Holiday Inn on the Lane A bloc of 75 rooms has also been reserved for the nights of Wednesday, June 25 to Saturday, June 28 at the Holiday Inn on the Lane, 328 West Lane Avenue, a short walk from the Blackwell Inn and Conference Center. Rates for single and double rooms are $99 per night. The bloc of rooms will be reserved for SHAFR Conference attendees until June 4, 2008. Please use the link below to make your reservation and to get directions to Holiday Inn. To receive our reduced rate, you must enter the code “DOH.” On-Campus HousingOur original block of rooms on-campus is sold out. On-Campus Housing: A bloc of rooms of varying occupancies on the North Campus of Ohio State University will also be available at a cost of: Full linen service is included. Housing will be provided at a location within walking distance to The Blackwell, where conference events will be held. Individual Invoices will be utilized at the 24/7 North Campus desk in the Royer Activity Center's Living Room (85 Curl Drive, Columbus, OH 43210). Check-in is available after 3:00pm, Check-out is 11:00am. Guests must pay upon arrival with either VISA, Mastercard, Cash, Check, Money Order, or Travelers Check. Directions, dorm accommodation information, parking and check-in/check-out details can all be found at: http://conferenceservices.osu.edu/ under the "F.A.Q." and "Parking & Transportation" sections. Guests are welcome to purchase meals from any of the dining locations on campus via cash or credit card during their stay. Parking Passes can also be purchased from the 24/7 North Campus desk in the Royer Activity Center's Living Room at a cost of $5/day. Passes can be purchased via cash, check (made to The Ohio State University) or Visa/MasterCard. Guests may check in as early as Wednesday, June 25th and must check out by Sunday, June 29th. To reserve an on-campus room, please follow these directions, provided by Matthew Gaul, Program Director, Conference Services Send an email to: Matthew Gaul with the subject line: “SHAFR Conference Request 2008" plus the following information:
Once space is requested by a guest, he/she will receive a PDF confirmation via email within 24 hours. We invite guests to bring a copy of this confirmation with them to Royer to expedite the check-in process. Conference attendees are free to contact Matthew Gaul with any questions regarding on-campus housing, meals and parking during the registration process via his email at ([email protected]) or office line (614-292-8597). TransportationParkingParking is available at The Blackwell for $9/day for daily guests and $15/overnight for hotel guests. Registrants staying in on-campus housing may park for $5/day. Passes may be purchased upon arrival or pre-ordered when making housing reservations. Parking will be available in the “C” lots on North Campus: the Jesse Owens lot on Neil Avenue and the Taylor Tower lot on Curl Drive. A map can be found at: http://tp.osu.edu/maps/index.shtml TransportationArriving by car: Driving directions and a map can be found at: http://www.theblackwell.com/page/attend-an-event/directions Arriving by air at Port Columbus International Airport: Port Columbus is served by Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) public bus service, which is available to take you almost anywhere in the city. Schedules and rates are listed on the COTA Website: www.cota.com Guests staying at The Blackwell can find information about the hotel airport shuttle at: http://www.theblackwell.com/article.asp?id=7 Those renting cars at the airport can find directions from the airport to The Blackwell at the link above, in the ‘Arriving by Car” section.
Contact InformationFor questions or comments please contact Sara Wilson at [email protected] Book Exhibit and AdvertisersExhibitsThe following exhibitors will be represented at the conference:
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