14th James A. Barnes Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, March 20, 2009

5:00-5:10 PM-Welcoming Remarks
Room 320

5:15-6:15 Professional Development

Session A – A Mock Interview and Discussion
Room 320
Dr. Andrew Isenberg, Chair, Department of History, Temple University
Dr. Andrew McKevitt, Temple University

Session B – Practical Tips for Publishing
Room 322
Dr. David Farber, Temple University
Mick Gusinde-Duffy, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Temple University Press

Light refreshments will be served following presentations

SATURDAY, March 21, 2009

8:00 – 8:25 AM – CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Room 308

8:25 – 8:35 AM – WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Room 308
Abigail Perkiss, President, James A. Barnes Club
Benjamin Brandenburg, Alex Elkins, Susan Brandt, Chairs, Conference Committee

8:40 – 10:20 AM – SESSION A

ENCOUNTERS IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT
Room 307
Chair: Dr. Travis Glasson, Temple University
Commentator: Wendy Wong, Temple University

Tsione Wolde-Michael, Harvard University, Ethiopia in the American
Imagination: The Debate on Race, Citizenship, and Nationhood, 1775-1861

Paul D. Naish, CUNY Graduate Center, The Threefold Veil of Darkness: Crypto-Criticism of the American Revolution and Conflicted Thoughts on U.S.-Mexican Relations in Timothy Flint’s Francis Berrian

Dael Norwood, Princeton University, Fighting the Opium War at Home: John Quincy Adams, the American China Trade, and Antebellum Political Ideology

Eric Connon, Central Michigan University, Spies, Secrets, and Slaves: The Espionage Campaigns of Nineteenth-Century Anti-Slave Trade Operations


MANAGING POPULATIONS
Room 306
Chair: Dr. Howard Spodek, Temple University
Commentator: Richard McAlexander, Temple University

Nelly de Freitas, Sorbonne, Where to go? Insular Population Growth and Control: The Madeira Island Case, 1850-1900

Sheetal Chhabria, Columbia University, The Social Meanings of Poor Housing in Nineteenth Century Bombay, 1870-1890

Dewen Zhang, SUNY-Stony Brook, Mother of China’s Future Citizen’s: Wu Jufang and Refugee Children Relief during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1934

Fang Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology, Foreign Influences and Employment Opportunities: Comparative Developments of Shanghai and New York City’s Public Transportation Systems During the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries

THE WEST AND THE WORLD, 1940S-1980S
Room 321
Chair: Dr. Drew McKevitt, Temple University
Commentator: Debbie Sharnak, International Center for Transitional Justice

Carla R. Stephens, Temple University, The People Organized: Mozambican Liberation and American Activism

Jared Michael Phillips, University of Arkansas, Toward a Better World: LBJ, Niebuhr, and American Human Rights, 1964-1966

Matthew Shannon, UNC Wilmington, American Foreign Policy and Iranian Student Dissent in the Age of global Protest: 1967-1969

Alexandre Moreli Rocha, Sorbonne, Rising to Superpower: The Evolution of American Policy Towards Portugal at the End of WWII

REVOLUTION AND REPUBLIC
Room 325
Chair: Brenna S. O’Rourke, Temple University
Commentator: Brenna S. O’Rourke, Temple University

Kenneth Owen, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, “Would a mob in England, France, or Holland have behaved in the same manner?”: Political Violence in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

David Keenan, Northwestern University, Federalist No. 10 Reconsidered: The Early U.S. Congress and the Origins of American Lobbying, 1789-1801

Aaron Sullivan, Temple University, Freedom in the Occupied City: Runaway Slaves in Philadelphia

Melissah J. Pawlikowski, Ohio State University, Soldier Up: Social and Economic Mobility in America’s War for Independence
RELIGION, POLITICS, AND ETHICS IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Room 315
Chair: Dr. Kathleen Biddick, Temple University
Commentator: Paul Matzko, Temple University

James Chappel, Columbia University, Theologico-Political Enmity: Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson in Weimar Germany

Simon Taylor, Columbia University, Leo Strauss’s Zionist Synthesis

Isabel Gabel, Columbia University, Fear and Trembling: Hans Jonas, Hans Blumenberg, and the Problem of Genetic Engineering for Secular Ethics

Leszek Murat, SUNY Albany, Devils with Aureole: Institutionalized Atheism of the Security Service Officers in Communist Poland (1944 - 1989)

PRIVACY AND SOVEREIGNTY
Room 314
Chair: Robert Deal, Temple University
Commentator: Abigail Perkiss, Temple University

Michael Conforti, Fordham University, Searching for the ‘Self’ in Strange Places: Privacy and English Common Law in the 1760s

Michael DeMarco, Temple University, Sodomy, Fornication, and Adultery Laws in Nineteenth-Century Virginia and New Jersey: A Legal and Social Analysis

Nancy Morgan, Temple University, The Significance of the “William Penn” essays on Worcester v. Georgia

Matt McDonough, Kansas State University, “A Salubrious Climate”: The Acquisition of the Oregon Territory 1840-1846

10:25 AM– 11:55 AM– SESSION B

CONSTRUCTING IMPERIALISM
Room 315
Chair: Dr. Harvey Neptune, Temple University
Commentator: Carla Stephens, Temple University

Amando Boncales, Northern Illinois University, The United States’ Image Construction in the Colonial Philippines

You-Sun Crystal Chung, University of Michigan, Unlikely Alliances: A Mathematician, a Clerk, and the British Empire

NARRATIVES OF POWER IN THE SOUTHWEST
Room 307
Chair: Dr. Barry Joyce, University of Delaware
Commentator: Dana Dorman, Temple University

Lindsey Baker, University of Delaware, Finally, Carson did not cut down the Navajo Peach Trees: Power, Stewardship, and Interpretation in the American Southwest

Christine Croxall, University of Delaware, For Whom and By Whom? Power, Identity and Stewardship in Hopi and Navajo Rituals

Amanda Guidotti, University of Delaware, Syzygy and Transubstantiation: New Approaches
to Native Identity in the Modern Southwest

THE GREAT WAR AND THE INTERWAR PERIOD IN MILITARY HISTORY
Room 321
Chair: Dr. Jay Lockenour, Temple University
Commentator: Chris Golding, Temple University

Jon Hendrickson, Ohio State University, Admiral Troubridge and the Royal Navy’s Foremost Unwritten Rule

Nathaniel Weber, Texas A&M University, Sympathy for the Shocked: The Acceptance of Shell-Shock by Great Britain, 1914-1922

Aaron R. Linderman, Texas A&M University, Baptism in Confusion: Britain’s Pre-War Heritage of Irregular Warfare and How it Influenced World War II

Earl J. Catagnus, Jr., Temple University, Innovation and Adaptation in the U.S. Army Infantry, 1930-1941

DISEASE, TECHNOLOGY, AND NATURE
Room 325
Chair: Dr. Andrew Isenberg, Temple University
Commentator: Lawrence Kessler, Temple University

Ji-Hye Shin, Rutgers University, Asian Immigrants and Trachoma in the American Frontier, 1897-1910

Craig A. Rigdon, University of Montana, Fire on the Great Plains: The Cultural Origins of North America's Grasslands

AMERICA IN THE EIGHTIES
Room 306
Chair: Dr. Beth Bailey, Temple University
Commentator: David Lee, Temple University

David Bassano, University of Albany-SUNY, From “Our Man” to “Our Enemy”: The United States and Manuel Noriega

Daniel Royles, Temple University, Queering the Constitution: AIDS Activism in Philadelphia

Lindsay Helfman, Temple University, Moving On: Debating Urban Crisis and Renewal in the Aftermath of MOVE


SALVATION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Room 314
Chair: Dr. Rita Krueger, Temple University
Commentator: Ryan Johnson, Temple University

Ken Kurihara, Fordham University, Wonder and Theologian: Christoph Irenaus and his works on Wunderzeichen

Kathleen Manning, Rutgers University, In the Company of Miserable Virgins: Education and Salvation in Sixteenth-Century Rome

12:00 – 12:45 PM – LUNCH
Room 308
A light lunch will be served for all registered attendees

12:50 – 1:50 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Room 320
Dr. Thomas Sugrue, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, “Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Unfinished Struggle for Racial Equality in the North”

2:00 – 3:45 PM – SESSION C

SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION POLITICS
Room 307
Chair: Andrew Diemer, Temple University
Commentator: Andrew Diemer, Temple University

Gregory R. Jones, Kent State University, In a Pall of Gloomy Clouds: Sectionalism in Southeastern Ohio in the 1850s

James Finelli, University at Albany, The Leading Colored Men Care More for Churches Than Schools: The Virginia Freedman’s Bureau, and the Independent Black Church

RACE AND REFORM IN AMERICA
Room 314
Chair: Dr. Bryant Simon, Temple University
Commentator: Timothy Cole, Temple University

Charles Lewis Nier, III, Temple University, Tell Them, We’re Rising: Credit Discrimination and African American Home Ownership in Philadelphia during the Great Migration, 1910-1960

Ezra Tessler, Columbia University, Progressive Reform and the County Jail: The Rise and Fall of the Essex County Jail Mutual Welfare League

Joshua Farrington, University of Kentucky, Farewell to the Party of Nixon: Black Voters, Southern Strategies, and the 1960 Presidential Election

Alex Elkins, Temple University, Remaking Whiteness, Remaking America: The White Ethnic Revival of the 1970s




COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA
Room 315
Chair: Dr. Benjamin Talton, Temple University
Commentator: Martin Clemis, Temple University

Daren E. Ray, University of Virginia, Framing and Negotiating Jurisdictional Sovereignty: British Consolidation of Legal Pluralism in the Zanzibar Protectorate, 1839-1908

Larissa Kopytoff, New York University, Qu’ranic Schools and French Medersas: Education and Political Authority in Colonial French West Africa

Jesse Bucher, University of Minnesota, Nudity and Steve Biko’s Body in South African Political Debate

THE BRITISH MILITARY AND IMPERIAL CRISIS
Room 306
Chair: Dr. Gregory J.W. Urwin, Temple University
Commentator: Ryan Johnson, Temple University

Chris Golding, Temple University, British Combined Operations of the Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Copenhagen and the Walcheren Expedition

Charles Robert Heaton, Texas A&M University, The Failure of Enlightenment Military Doctrine in Revolutionary America: The Piedmont Campaign and the Fate of the British Army in the Deep South

CONFLICT AND PUBLIC PERCEPTION
Room 325
Chair: Dr. Petra Goedde, Temple University
Commentator: Kelly Shannon, Temple University

Blake Whitaker, Texas A&M University, Shades of Racism: The African Soldiers in Minority Rule Regimes

Daniel I. Johnson, Texas A&M University, Hard or Hopeless: Cyprus in Britain’s Public Eye, 1955-1959

GENDER IN MODERN RUSSIA
Room321
Chair: Dr. Vladislav Zubok, Temple University
Commentator: Daniel Royles, Temple University

Anna Biel, University at Albany, Sacrifice in the Name of Sacred Duty: the Collective Image of the Decembrist Wives in Russian Culture

Masha Kowell, University of Pennsylvania, The Soviet Woman Authored As Producer: Women in Dziga Vertov’s Three Songs of Lenin


3:50 – 4:25 PM – AWARDS CEREMONY
Room 320
Please join us for the presentation of the Russell F. Weigley Award for Military History and the James A. Barnes Club Awards for American, European, and International and World History.

2009 Conference Committee
Abigail Perkiss, President, James A. Barnes Club
Benjamin Brandenburg, Conference Chair
Susan Brandt, Conference Chair
Alex Elkins, Conference Chair

Special Thanks to the 2009 Conference Sponsors

Temple University James A. Barnes Club
Temple University Department of History
Temple University College of Liberal Arts
Temple University – Center City
The US Army Heritage Center Foundation

Special Thanks to the 2009 Award Committees

Russell F. Weigley – U.S. Army Heritage Center Foundation Award
Dr. Gregory J. W. Urwin, Temple University, Chair
Lorraine Luciano, Army Heritage Center Foundation
Lt. Col. Martin W. Andresen, USA (Ret.), U.S. Army Military History Inst., Carlisle Barracks, PA
Dr. Bobby A. Wintermute, Queens College – City University of New York
Martin Clemis, Temple University
John Castaldo, Temple University

James A. Barnes Club Award for American History
Benjamin Brandenburg, Temple University, Chair
Dr. Andrew Isenberg, Temple University
Matt Johnson, Temple University
Henry N. Buehner, Temple University

James A Barnes Club Award for European History
Christopher Golding, Temple University, Chair
Dr. Rita Krueger, Temple University
Brad Mollmann, University of Miami of Ohio

James A. Barnes Club Award for International and World History
Kelly Shannon, Temple University, Chair
Dr. Petra Goedde, Temple University
Dr. Andrew McKevitt, Temple University
David Atkinson, Boston University