LIBERATIONS/OCCUPATIONS: FRAMING INTERVENTION IN THE 20TH CENTURY
SATURDAY, MAY 19
12:30 – 2:00: AMBIGUITIES OF LIBERATION IN EUROPE: 1945 AND AFTER
Chair & Commentator: Petra Goedde, Temple.
Will Hitchcock, Temple, “Liberation on the Normandy ‘Frontier,’ 1944-45”
[DOWNLOAD PAPER]Holger Löwendorf, Temple “‘A Coin with Two Faces’: The United States and the Cultural-Historical Reconstruction of Postwar Germany.”
[DOWNLOAD PAPER]Daniel Cohen, Rice, “Between Relief and Politics: Refugee Humanitarianism in Postwar Germany.”
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2:00-2:30 Break
2:30-4:15: ASIA AND THE QUESTION OF LIBERATION AND REVOLT
Chair: David Zierler, Temple. Comment: David Zierler and Robert Brigham, Vassar
Erez Manela, Harvard University, “Imagining Woodrow Wilson in Asia: Dreams of East-West Harmony and the Revolt against Empire in 1919.”
[DOWNLOAD PAPER]Mark Lawrence, University of Texas-Austin, “Recasting Vietnam: Alliance Politics and the Outbreak of the Cold War in Southeast Asia.”
[DOWNLOAD PAPER]Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple, “The End of South Vietnam: Liberation or Occupation?”
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6:00: Dinner, Estia Restaurant
Keynote Speaker: Robert Brigham, Vassar. “Is Iraq Another Vietnam?”
SUNDAY, MAY 20
8:30-9:45: THE BASES OF CARIBBEAN HISTORY: US MILITARY OCCUPATIONS
Chair & Commentator: Harvey Neptune, Temple.
Katherine McCaffrey, Montclair State, “Vieques: A Strategic Colony on the Margins of Empire”
[DOWNLOAD PAPER]John Gronbeck-Tedesco, University of Texas, “Good or Bad Neighbors? Political Legacies of the 1933 Cuban Revolution”
[DOWNLOAD PAPER]Jana Lipman, St. Joseph's College, “A ‘Ticklish’ Position: Revolution, Loyalty and Crisis, 1959-1964 in Guantanamo, Cuba”
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9:45-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15: THE MIDDLE EAST BETWEEN LIBERATION AND OCCUPATION: A CONVERSATION
Commentator: Richard Immerman, Temple
Geoff Wawro, University of North Texas, “Quicksand: America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East, from the Balfour Declaration to the Bush Doctrine”
11:30-12:30: PUBLISHING AND INTERNATIONAL HISTORY
Susan Ferber, Executive Editor, Oxford University Press.
Lunch: 10th Floor Gladfelter Hall
PARTICIPANTS
Robert K. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, has taught at Vassar since 1994. He teaches courses on the history of American foreign relations and modern America. Along with several teaching awards, Brigham has also earned fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for Humanities, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, the Cooper Foundation, the Gilman Foundation, and the Social Sciences Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam. In addition, Brigham has been Albert Shaw Endowed Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, a Mellon Senior Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University (Clare College), and was a visiting professor of international relations at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Brigham is author of numerous books and essays on American foreign relations, including Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF’s Foreign Relations and the Vietnam War (Cornell, 1998); Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (PublicAffairs, 1999) written with Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight; ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army (Kansas, 2006); Is Iraq Another Vietnam? (PublicAffairs, 2006); and The Global Ho Chi Minh (Potomac Books, forthcoming). Brigham is currently working on a textbook on the Vietnam War with Mark P. Bradley (Oxford) and a political history of South Vietnam (Cambridge).
Susan Ferber is Executive Editor for American and World History at Oxford University Press-USA, where she has worked since 1997. Her diverse list ranges from ancient history to contemporary history and includes both academic and trade titles. She has edited many first books, as well as the work of senior scholars. Books she has edited have won numerous prizes, and one became an international bestseller.
Petra Goedde is Associate Professor of History at Temple University. She specializes in U.S. foreign relations, U.S.-European relations, transnational culture and gender history. She is the author of GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949, and articles on U.S foreign relations and the globalization of American culture. She is currently at work on a book-length project on the global discourse on peace during the early cold war, as well as a contribution on global culture since 1945 for a World History project.
John Gronbeck-Tedesco is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation, “Reading Revolution: Cuban Politics in the American Cultural Imagination, 1930-1970,” addresses the impact of the 1933 and 1959 Cuban revolutions in the fields of foreign policy, leftwing social movements, and racial activism during this period. His work draws upon both U.S. and Cuban sources, including those culled from a recent research trip to Havana, Cuba.
William I. Hitchcock is Professor of History at Temple University. He received his B.A. from Kenyon College in 1986 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1994. He is the author of France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 (UNC, 1998) and The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945-present (Doubleday, 2003; Anchor, 2004). He co-edited, with Paul Kennedy, From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the 20th Century (Yale, 2000). He is now writing Liberation ’45: Europeans, Americans and the Meaning of Freedom at the Close of World War II for The Free Press.
Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his BA in history from Stanford University in 1988 and his MA, also from Stanford, in 1989. He then worked for two and a half years as a correspondent for the Associated Press in Brussels and Strasbourg. In 1992, he returned the graduate school as a doctoral student at Yale University, where he earned his PhD in history in 1998. Lawrence held a John M. Olin postdoctoral fellowship in international security studies in 1998-1999 and taught as a lecturer in the Yale Department of History in 1998-1999 and 1999-2000. He was appointed Assistant Professor of history at UT-Austin in 2000. There, he teaches a range of courses in U.S. history, especially the history of U.S. foreign relations. In 2005, he was awarded the President’s Associates’ Award for Teaching Excellence. Lawrence is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), which won two awards from the American Historical Association: the Paul Birdsall Prize for European military and strategic history and the George Louis Beer Prize for European international history. Lawrence has also written several chapters and articles on the Vietnam War and other topics in U.S. diplomatic history. He is currently at work on a study of U.S. policymaking regarding Third World nationalism in the 1960s (for Princeton University Press) and a short history of the Vietnam War (for Oxford University Press). He is also co-editor (with Fredrik Logevall of Cornell University) of The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, a volume of essays about the French war in Indochina (Harvard University Press, 2007).
Jana Lipman is an Assistant Professor at St. Joseph's College, Brooklyn. She received her PhD from Yale University in 2006. Her dissertation, “Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution, 1939-1979,” reorients US-Cuban relations and demonstrates how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution functioned in working people’s lives. Her publications include, “Between Guantánamo and Montego Bay: Cuba, Jamaica, Migration, and the Cold War, 1959-1962," Immigrants and Minorities 21(November 2002): 25-51, and Mixed Voices, Mixed Policy: Vietnamese Amerasians in Vietnam and the United States (Wayland Press: Providence, RI) 1997. An article from this project, “ ‘The Face is the Roadmap’: Romanticism and Remorse in Vietnamese Amerasian Policy,” is currently under review at Transpacific American Studies.
Holger Löwendorf was born and raised in Berlin, Germany, where he studied history, classics, and constitutional law at the Freie Universität. He is currently a third-year Ph.D. student at Temple University, specializing in the history of U.S. foreign relations and 20th century Europe as well as international relations theory. He was the recipient of the Temple University Sergeant Major William F. Berger Endowed Fellowship in War and Society for the academic year 2005-06.
Erez Manela is Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University, specializing in international history and the history of the United States in the world. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2003, winning the John Addison Porter Prize and the Mary & Arthur Wright Prize for his dissertation. His first book, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism, will be published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. His other publications include articles in the American Historical Review, International Journal, Diplomacy & Statecraft, and Middle Eastern Studies, and a number of essays in edited volumes. Among the fellowships he has held are a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Baruch/Marshall Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a John M. Olin Fellowship for National Security at Harvard. Professor Manela is currently working on a history of the global campaign to eradicate smallpox in the twentieth century.
Katherine McCaffrey is Assistant Prof. of Anthropology at Montclair State University and has done primary research on Vieques, Puerto Rico. Her ethnography "Military Power and Popular Protest: the US Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico," considers the ambivalence about citizenship, sovereignty and national identity that emerge in grassroots struggle against US naval bombing practices.
Harvey Neptune is Assistant Professor of History at Temple. He was trained in the fields of Latin American and African Diaspora history at NYU. He is particularly interested in the topics of imperialism, nationalism and their respective cultural politics. His Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the US Occupation (University of North Carolina Press) was very recently published, and he is now working on a history of the petroleum industry in the Circum-Caribbean.
Vernie Oliveiro is a Ph.D. candidate in International History at Harvard University. She is currently researching the United States’ efforts to curtail international business bribery from 1975 to 1997.
Daniel Sargent is a sixth-year graduate student at Harvard, working on U.S. foreign relations and the globalization of international relations in the 1970s. His dissertation looks at the connections between economic interdependence, strategic bipolarity, the emergence of human rights, and the recasting of American international leadership. He graduated with a B.A. from Cambridge University in 2001 and plans to graduate with the Ph.D in 2007. he is currently the Sidney R. Knafel Dissertation Completion Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard and next year will be a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University.
Geoff Wawro is General Olinto Mark Barsanti Professor of Military History and the Director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas. He co-edits the Cambridge Military Histories with Hew Strachan, and hosts two History Channel programs: History's Business and History in Focus. He is the author of The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-71 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914 (Routledge, 2000), and The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866 (Cambridge University Press, 1996). He is now at work on a book entitled Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East, from the Balfour Declaration to the Bush Doctrine, to be published by Penguin Press.
David Zierler is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Temple. His dissertation is titled “Inventing Ecocide: Agent Orange, Antiwar Protest, and the Environmental Destruction of Vietnam.” Zierler recently presented a paper at the Georgetown conference on the Cold War and the Environment which will be included in an edited anthology. Later this summer he will travel to Vietnam to study the long term ecological and social effects of herbicidal warfare.