June
3-6, 2004 at the Spruce
Point Inn near
Boothbay
Harbor, Maine
"Reflections
on the Current State of Historical Inquiry"
Program
Directors:
Peter
Coclanis, University of North Carolina
George
Huppert, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ann
Moyer, University of Pennsylvania
James
Tracy, University of Minnesota
We
envision this conference as a conversation about what makes history a
discipline.
Since historians cannot rely on a single method to fit all situations,
we expect to take a close look at different approaches to the past. We
are interested as well in the challenges created by the nature of
available
sources, and by the issues that arise when one borrows theoretical
approaches
from other disciplines.
In
an age that sees itself as moving beyond modernity, the ground has
shifted
under the various grand narratives of its European origins. Hence we
hope
to cast a critical eye on traditional chapters in that narrative, such
as the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, or the Industrial Revolution. At
the same time, we hope to promote ongoing efforts to frame the
histories
of Africa, Asia, and the Islamic world in terms of categories not
shaped
by European narratives. We expect that historians working with many
different
kinds of sources and representing all fields and perspectives will be
party
to these discussions.
We
hope that this fourth national meeting will serve as a point of
departure
for a clear-sighted analysis of the likely future of historical studies
in the new century.
SESSIONS
ThursdayFriday
Saturday Sunday
THURSDAY,
JUNE 3, 2004
2:15-3:45
PM
Session
IA Historical Inquiry in the
Federal
Government
Moderator:
Edward Keefer, General Editor, Foreign Relations of the U.S.
Series;
Office of the Historian, Department of State
Erin
Mahan, Department of State
“Tapes,
Documents, and the Foreign Relations of the United States Series”
James
Siekmeier, Department of State
“The
Chile Declassification Project”
Gerald
Haines, University of Virginia
TBA
Session
IB Law and History
Moderator:
Martin Burke, Lehman College, CUNY
Matthew
Festa, Judicial Law Clerk, U.S. District Court, Eastern Kentucky
“The
Application of a Usable Past: Toward Reconciling the Professional
Standards
of History and Law”
Patricia
MacCaughan, University of Minnesota
Caught
between History and Law: An Historiographical Question of Origin”
Session
IC Science and Religion in America
Moderator:
Darryl G. Hart, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Jon
H. Roberts, Boston University
“Science,
Liberal Protestantism, and Philosophical Idealism in America”
Ronald
L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Science
and Secularization in America”
James
E. Tomayko, Carnegie Mellon University
“The
History of Technology: What Are Its Sources?”
Session
ID Digital Media and Libraries: The
Search
for Sources?
Moderator:
David Moltke-Hansen, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Cristel
de Rouvray, London School of Economics and Tiago Mata,
London
School of Economics
“The
Implications of Digital Media for the Historical Profession”
Kenneth
Carpenter, Harvard University Library, retired
“The
Historical Contingency of Library Collecting”
4:00-5:30
PM
Session
IIA Conservative History: Where We
Have
Been and Where We Are Going
Moderator
and Commentator: George H. Nash, Independent Scholar
Gregory
L. Schneider, Emporia State University
“The
Protean Character of Modern American Conservatism”
Donald
T. Critchlow, Saint Louis University
“What
Grassroots Conservatism Tells Us: Reconsidering the New Revisionist
History
of Conservatism”
Session
IIB American Religious History
Moderator:
Donald A. Yerxa, Eastern Nazarene College
Thomas
Kidd , Baylor University
“Expansion
and Globalization in American Religion, 1492-1865”
Kurt
Peterson , North Park University
“Expansion
and Globalization in American Religion, 1865-2004”
Commentator:
Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Session
IIC Revisionist Approaches to American
Historiography
Moderator:
Pete Banner-Haley, Colgate University
Frederick
Adams, Drake University
“We
Took the Most Traveled Path: A Reconsideration of the Revisionist
Interpretation
of U.S. Foreign Policy”
Jean
Paul Benowitz, Temple University
“The
Challenges of Defining the Realm of Modern American History”
Kenneth
Barkin, University of California, Riverside
“W.E.B.
DuBois's Love Affair with Germany”
Session
IID Redefining Early Modern History
Moderator:
Joseph
Amato, Southwest State University
Ann
Moyer, University of Pennsylvania
"The
Renasissance and the Birth of the Modern"
Philip
M. Soergel, Arizona State University
“Would
the Reformation by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?”
April
G. Shelford, American University
“From
Erudition to Enlightenment: Defining Intellectual Culture in the 17th
and 18th
Centuries”
Session
IIE Evaluating the Present State of
the
Study of Russian Church History Moderator:
Russell
E. Martin, Westminster College
Donald
Ostrowski, Extension School, Harvard University
"Fontological
Approaches to Russian Orthodox Church History: Infrastructural Props
and
Impediments"
Jennifer
B. Spock, Eastern Kentucky University
"The
Russian Orthodox Church as a Cultural Artifact: Intergrating Sources
and
Re-creating Communities"
Nickolas
Lupinin, Franklin Pierce College and the Davis Center for Russian
and
Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
"Re-establishing
the Narrative: New Directions for the Study of Russian Orthodoxy"
Commentator:
Nikolaos A. Chrissidis, Southern Connecticut State University
CHRISTOPHER
LASCH LECTURE
7:30
PM
Moderator:
George
Huppert, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sean
Wilentz, Princeton University
“Jeffersonian
Democracy and Political Anti-Slavery in the United States: The Missouri
Crisis Revisited”
FRIDAY,
JUNE 4, 2004
9:00-10:15
AM
Session
IA America Calling?
Comparative Perspectives on American Telephony, 1876-1920
Moderator:
Merrit Roe Smith, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Richard
R. John, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Nickel-in-the-Slot:The
‘Consumption Junction’ in Urban Telephony, 1894-1907”
Robert
MacDougall, Harvard University
“Whose
Wires, Whose Phones? ‘Consumer Agency’ and the Political Construction
of
the Telephone, 1907-1928”
Derek
Hoff, University of Virginia
"The
Rochester Telephone Strike of 1886 and the Problem of Monopoly in the
Gilded
Age"
Session
IB Ancient History I
Moderator:
Martin
Arbagi, Wright State University
Martin
Arbagi, Wright State University
"Recent
Research in Byzantine Economic History"
Barry
Strauss, Cornell University
“The
Rebirth of Narrative”
Brook
Manville, National Center for Community Leadership
“Using
History to Reinvent the Organization of the Future: Ancient Athenian
Citizenship
and the Knowledge Revolution”
Session
IC Looking Back: The History
of Holocaust Survivors
Moderator:
Anne M. Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida
Alice
Freifeld, University of Florida
“Displaced
Jewish Hungarian Identity”
Lawrence
Powell, Tulane University
“Why
History Matters: Bearing Witness in the Age of Right-Wing Populism”
Anne
M. Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida
“Recreating
Identity: Three Holocaust Memoirs”
Session
ID Revisionist Perspectives
on the Political Economy of Republican China
Moderator:
Sherman Cochran, Cornell University
Yixin
Chen, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
“The
China Farmers’ Bank and the Agricultural Credit Administration: the
Nationalist
Building of Modern China’s Agricultural Finance”
Linsun
Cheng, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
“Chinese
Entrepreneurship, Professional Managers, and the Development of Modern
Chinese Banks”
Morris
L. Bian, Auburn University
“The
Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: the Dynamics of
Institutional Change”
Commentator:
Parks Coble, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Session
IE Expanding Southern Education
Historiography
Moderator:
Scott Marler, Rice University
David
Davis, Vanderbilt University
"J.L.M.
Curry and the 'Negro Problem':Industrial Education from 1881 to 1903"
Andy
Doyle, Winthrop College
“Class
Identity and Generational Consciousness at Southern Universities,
1890-1917”
10:30-11:45
AM
Session
IIA Ancient History II
Moderator:
Martin Arbagi, Wright State University
Lawrence
Okamura, University of Missouri, Columbia
“News
on Barbarians in the Roman West”
Thomas
Martin, College of the Holy Cross
“Framing
Religious Toleration: Libertas in Antiquity”
Session
IIB Diversity in Latin America
and the Caribbean
Moderator:
Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina
Franklin
W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University
“Race,
Class, and Ethnicity in Caribbean History and Historiography”
R.
Douglas Cope, Brown University
“Mestizaje:
Race and Ethnicity in Mexico”
Mieko
Nishida, Hartwick College
“’Black’
and ‘Japanese’ Women in Sao Paulo: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class
in Brazil”
Session
IIC Big History and Human History I
Moderator:
Donald A. Yerxa, Eastern Nazarene College
David
Christian, San Diego State University
“Big
History and World History”
John
Mears, Southern Methodist University
“Connections
and Continuities: Integrating World History into Larger Analytical
Frameworks”
Eric
Chaisson, Tufts University
“The
Relevance of Cosmic Evolution for Human History”
Session
IID British Conservatism in Three
Centuries
Moderator:
Leo Ribuffo, George Washington University
James
J. Sack, University of Illinois at Chicago
“British
Conservatism in the 19th Century”
Pamela
Edwards, Syracuse University
“From
Restoration to Conservation: Burke, Coleridge, and the Emergence of
Conservative
Thought as Tory Polemic”
Neal
McCrillis, Columbus State University
“The
British Conservative Party in the 20th Century”
Daniel
Ritschel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“The
Strange Triumph of Liberal England: A Whiggish Narrative of
20th-century
British Political History”
LUNCH
11:45 AM-1:15 PM
12:15-1:15
PM
National
Endowment for the Humanities: Funding Opportunities for Projects in
History
Howard
Dickman, Assistant Chairman for Programs
Richard
Fonte, Director of the We the People Office
Michael
Poliakoff, Director, Division of Education Programs
1:15-2:30
PM
Session
IIIA What Is Political about Islam?
Moderator:
Jeffrey
Vanke, Kaplan College
Charles
E. Butterworth, University of Maryland
“Why
‘What Went Wrong?’ Is the Wrong Question”
Anthony
T. Sullivan, Fund for American Studies
“Conservative
Ecumenism: Politically Incorrect Meditations on Islam and the West ”
Christopher
Schumann, University of Erlangen, Germany
"Equality
and Difference: American Muslims and US-Democracy"
Session
IIIB Ancient History III
Moderator:
Martin Arbagi, Wright State University
F.
S. Naiden, Tulane University
“Herodotus
in Baghdad”
J.C.
Geissmann, University of California, Berkeley
“The
Use and Misuse of Empire: Some Episodes in Thucydides”
David
Berkey, California State University, Fresno
“The
Balance of Power in Greece at the End of the Peloponnesian War”
Session
IIIC Historical Actors in the Modern
World
Moderator:
Don Avery, Hartford Community College
Michael
K. Heaney, Rutgers University
“Awash
in the Stream of History: The Historian as Historical Actor”
Paul
Gottfried, Elizabethtown College
“The
Strange Death of European Marxism”
Session
IIID Roundtable: Global
Identity, Global Citizenship, and World History
Moderator:
John Richards, Duke University
Daniel
Headrick, Roosevelt University
Patrick
Manning, Northeastern University
Sanjay
Subrahmanyam, Oxford University
Session
IIIE Panel on History as Images and in
Cinema
Moderator:
Steven C. Eamos, Mount Ida College
Patrick
Anthony Cavaliere, University of New Brunswick at Saint John
"Mussolini
and the Cult of Personality: Reconstructing Fascism through
Photographic
Portraiture and Film"
Rachel
Hostetter Smith, Taylor University
“The
Image as Historical Document”
Michael
G. Smith, Taylor University
“The
Depiction of History in the Cinema: Limitations and Possibilities”
2:45-4:00
PM
Session
IVA 'Sic Semper Tyrannis!' Honor
and Assassinations, Ancient and Modern
Moderator:Peter
Bergman, University of Connecticut
Bertram
Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida
“Anatomy
of Hatred: John Wilkes Booth, Shakespeare’s Brutus, and Lincoln’s
Murder”
Carlin
Barton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Roman
Honor and the Assassination of Julius Caesar”
Commentators:
Gareth
L. Schmeling, University of Florida
Heather
Cox Richardson, Winchester, Massachusetts
Session
IVB Church and State
Moderator:
Ted DeLaney, Washington and Lee Universtiy
Constantin
Fasolt, University of Chicago
“Separation
of Church and State: The Past and Future of Sacred and Profane”(click
for long)
(click
for short)
Chris
Beneke, Bentley College
“Church
or State? Political Liberalism in Early American Religion”
Barry
Rodrigue, University of Southern Maine
"Borderland
Faith, Borderland Hope: The Margins of War and Peace along the Kennebec
Frontier of New England and New France, 1600-1700"
Session
IVC Rule, Power, and Politics
in East Central Europe: Middle Ages to the Present
Moderator:
Piotr Gorecki, University of California, Riverside
Piotr
Wrobel, University of Toronto
"Decision
Making Mechanisms in Poland, 1926-1939 and 1956-1989"
Florin
Curta, University of Florida
"Qagan,
Khan, of Kings? Power in Early Medieval Bulgaria (8th and 9th
Centuries)"
Daniel
Stone, University of Winnipeg
"The
Centralization and Deccentralization of Power in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth"
Piotr
Gorecki, University of California, Riveride
"Piast
Power Reconsidered"
Session
IVD Latin American Historiography
Moderator:John
Womack, Harvard University
Session
IVE Whither Western
Civilization?
Moderator:
Joseph Lucas, The Historical Society
John
Headley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Rethinking
the Contributions of the West to the World”
PLENARY
SESSION4:15-5:45
PM
Moderator:
James
Tracy, University of Minnesota
Sanjay
Subrahmanyam, Oxford University
“World
History in a Global Context”
CONCERT
8:00 PM
"An
Ear Can Break the Human Heart"
Poems
by Frost, Dickinson, and Millay set in song and scene
Participants:
Dorrie
Casey, mezzo-soprano
Meredith
Sause, actress
Deborah
Coclanis, piano
SATURDAY,
June 5, 2004
9:00-10:15
AM
Session
IA Reconsiderations of the
Enlightenment
Moderator:
Joseph Lucas, The Historical Society
Alan
Charles Kors, University of Pennsylvania
“The
French Enlightenment”
Abraham
P. Socher, Oberlin College
“What
Was (Jewish) Enlightenment? Historiographical Models for the Haskala”
Session
IB Nationalism
Moderator:
Chandler Rosenberger, Boston University
Jeffrey
Vanke, Kaplan College
“Europeanism
and European Union, 1945-1954”
Claire
Nolte, Manhattan College
“Homo
Ludens? Sports and Nationalism in Central Europe”
Chandler
Rosenberger, Boston University
“Other
People’s Wars: The Historian as Liberator”
Session
IC Asian Sources
Moderator:
Steve
Phillips, Towson University
Steve
Phillips, Towson University
“Sinicizing
Taiwan's History: The People's Republic Remembers Anti-Japanese
Resistance
on Taiwan”
Yasuko
Sato, Princeton University
“The
Mirror of History: The Art of Storytelling in Japanese Military and
Historical
Tales”
Session
ID Chaos Theory and Historical Thought
Moderator:
David
Carlton, Vanderbilt University
Kimberly
Kagan, U.S. Military Academy
“The
Hedgehog and the Fox: Tolstoy, the Individual, and the Course of
History”
Frederick
Kagan, U.S. Military Academy
“Is
History Chaotic?”
Adrian
Jones, La Trobe University
“Phenomenologies
for History”
Session
IE Reflections on the Diplomacy of
World
War I
Moderator:
Graydon A. Tunstall, University of South Florida
Ralph
Menning, University of Toledo
“Yesterday's
Orthodoxy, Today's Bankruptcy, or a Useful Past No More: The First
World
War Ninety Years Later”
Graydon
A. Tunstall, Jr., University of South Florida
“Falsification
of Austrian Historiography on the Outbreak of World War I”
10:30-11:45
AM
Session
IIA Republicanism in the 17th and 18th
Centuries
Moderator:
Paul
Rahe, University of Tulsa
Nicole
Greenspan, University of Toronto
“News,
Public Opinion, and the English Commonwealth”
Jane
E. Calvert, Saint Mary’s College of Maryland
“John
Dickinson: Quaker Politician”
Session
IIB The American Historical Profession
in the 21st Century
Presentation:
Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania
Commentators:
Marc
Trachtenberg, University of California, Los Angeles
Leo
Ribuffo, George Washington University
Session
IIC Confessionalization and Individual
Liberty: Issues of State and Conscience
Moderator:
Marsha
L. Frey, Kansas State University
Gary
Waite, University of New Brunswick
“The
Reformation and Witch Hunts: Bridging the Scholarly Gap”
Linda
Frey, University of Montana and
Marsha
Frey, Kansas State University
“The
Confessional Issue and the Hungarian Question during the War of the
Spanish
Succession ”
Session
IID Status and Society in 18th-Century
France
Moderator:
Henry C. Clark, Canisius College
Henry
C. Clark, Canisius College
“Status
and Civic Culture in 18th-Century France: The Evidence from the
Merchants’
Guilds”
Christine
Adams, Saint Mary’s College of Maryland
“Women
and Status in 18th-Century France: The Role of Charitable Associations
in the Maintenance of Hierarchy”
Gail
Bossenga, University of Kansas
“Status:
A Neglected Category of Analysis in the Old Regime”
LUNCH
11:45 AM-1:00 PM
Phi
Alpha Theta Luncheon
Moderator:
Marsha L. Frey, Kansas State University
Graydon
A. Tunstall, Jr., University of South Florida
“World
War I: Official Government Lies and Real Guilt”
1:00-2:15
PM
Session
IIIA Recent Trends in American
Historiography
Moderator:
James Livingston, Rutgers University
James
Livingston, Rutgers University
“Recent
Trends in American Historiography”
Eric
Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Romancing
the Subject: Race, Heroes, and Villains in the Historiography of
American
Labor”
Van
Gosse, Franklin and Marshall College
“Rethinking
the Historiography of Black Nationalism and Black Power”
Session
IIIB The (Non) Bombing of Auschwitz:
Counterfactual
History in a Film Documentary
Presenter:
Paul B. Miller, McDaniel College
Film:
They
Looked Away (narrated by Mike Wallace)
Session
IIIC Military History Reconsidered
Moderator:
Steven
C. Eames, Mount Ida College
Roger
W. Lotchin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Turning
the Good War Bad: The Historians Counterattack on the Greatest
Generation”
Mark
Fissel, Augusta State University
“Military
History and Counter Factuals: The Case of the Unpredestined
Calvinists”
Session
IIID The Annales Historians
Revisited
Moderator: George
Huppert, University of Illinois at Chicago
2:30-4:00
PM
Session
IVA Schools Panel: History
in the Classroom
Moderator:
Will Fitzhugh, The Concord Review
Robert
W. Duvall, Hanford West High School
“The
State of Historical Inquiry in Secondary Schools”
William
Bradford Smith, Oglethorpe University
“Poetic
to the Core: Medieval Historiography and the 21st-century Classroom”
Commentators
Will
Fitzhugh, The Concord Review
Session
IVB The Generational Theories of
William
Strauss and Neil Howe
Moderator:William
Strauss
Neil
Howe, LifeCourse Associates
“Explaining
Cycles of History: Outline of a ‘Turnings-Based’ Model of Social Change”
Commentator: Anne
Rose, Pennsylvania State University
Session
IVC Rethinking the Social Sciences and
Agriculture
Moderator:
Chris
Beneke, Bentley College
Philip
Hoffman, California Institute of Technology
“Opening
Our Eyes: History and the Social Sciences”
Elias
Mandala, University of Rochester
“Beyond
the Crisis Literature in African Food Studies”
Anne
B.W. Effland, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture
“Applying
History: A Proposal for a New Direction for Historians”
Session
IVD Big History and Human History II
Moderator:
Donald A. Yerxa, Eastern Nazarene College
Tom
Gehrels, University of Arizona
“Solving
Global Problems by Studying Global History”
Fred
Spier, University of Amsterdam
“What
Drives Human History? A View from Big History ”
Session
IVE Cross-Cultural Encounters
Moderator: Harriet
Lightman, Northwesern University
Roberta
Wollons, Indiana University
“Northwest
Christian Missionary Women in Asia: A Reinterpretation”
Frances
Malino, Wellesley College
“Jewish
Sisters in Muslim Lands”
Deborah
Symonds, Drake University
“Bell
and the Nabob”
PLENARY
SESSION 4:00-6:00 PM
Western
Civilization Survey Round Table
Moderator:Jon
Westling, Boston University
Jonathan
W. Daly, University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert
Lerner, Northwestern University
Hanna
H. Gray, University of Chicago
SUNDAY,
JUNE 6, 2004
Special
session on local history organized by the Historical Society of
Harpswell,
Maine.
Moderator:
Dennis Martin, Loyola University Chicago
A field
trip to Harpswell, an hour’s drive from Boothbay, a visit to the local
museum, and a presentation by David Hackett and Martha Burtt of the
Harpswell
Historical Society on the challenges of preserving and telling history
in a changing social environment.
Transportation
will be provided by The Historical Society
