The relentless
thrust of  globalization and the unexpected
termination of the Cold War have increased rather than reduced global
tensions. These developments force us to reconsider some themes once
thought to be exhausted. Migrations, the formation of Diaspora
communities, and the resurgence of ethnicities, both old and new, have
transformed our understanding of nationalism and conventional
conceptions of the nation-state. The 2008 conference will consider the
above themes.
With
such considerations in mind, the Historical Society is pleased to
announce
that the organizing theme for 6th conference, June
5-8 2008, will be “Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in
History.”
The conference will be held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland. We envision a meeting
in which historians across fields come together to deepen and enrich
the
state of knowledge about these vital concerns.
Franklin
W. Knight will chair the 2008 conference program committee.
Felix
E. Hirsch Travel Grants Recipients, 2008
The Historical
Society is pleased to announce the fourth Felix E. Hirsch Travel Grant
competition to support graduate student travel to The Historical
Society's conference in Baltimore, Maryland, in June 2008. The Award is
sponsored by Roland F. Hirsch in the memory of his father, Felix E.
Hirsch, who was a scholar of European history. (See below). THS
is accepting nominations and applications for the grants; applications
should consist of a short statement about the candidate's research and
scholarly focus. Please email nominations or applications to Eric
Arnesen, THS President (arnesen@uic.edu), and Franklin Knight, former
THS President and Program Committee chair (fknight@jhu.edu) by no later
than 1 May 2008.
See
more here
2008
Program Committee:
•
Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University, Chair
•
Ronald Walters, Johns Hopkins University
•
Georgette Dorn, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
•
Don Avery, Harford Community College, Maryland
Local Committee:
•
Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University
•
Patricia Romero, Towson University
Acknowledgements:
The Historical
Society remains especially grateful for the generous support of:
•
The Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Towson University
•
Dean of the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
•
Office of the Provost, Johns Hopkins University
•
Office of the Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns
Hopkins University
•
Office of the President, Johns Hopkins University
•
Office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, JUNE 5
12:00-8:00pm REGISTRATION
2:00-3:30pm
SESSION IA:
AFRICAN-AMERICAN MIGRATION WITHIN THE U.S.
West Room 302
Moderator:
Donald Avery, Harford Community College
Luther
Adams, University of Washington, Tacoma
“Upon this Rock: African-American Migration, Urban
Renewal, and the
Struggle for Equality in Louisville, Kentucky”
Bernadette
Pruitt, Sam Houston State University
“‘For the
Advancement of the Race’: Agency, Work, and the Great Migrations to
Houston, Texas, 1900-1941”
Jeffrey
Helgeson, University of Illinois at Chicago
“‘They
Keep Us Moving all the Time’: The Politics of Migration in Black
Chicago, 1935-1965”
SESSION IB:
CARIBBEAN IDENTITIES
East Room 304
Moderator:
Chris Beneke, Bentley College
Milagros
Denis, Rutgers University
“A
Historical Analysis of the Racial Dimension of Puerto Rican Modernity
and National Identity”
Gordon E.
A. Gill, Oberlin College
“From
African to Afro-Creole: Identity Formation among the Enslaved
Population of the Guianas”
Christina
V. Jones, Howard University
“Understanding
Race, Slavery, and the Early Development of Anti-Haitianism in Santo
Domingo”
SESSION IC: DIASPORA
AND ANTI-DIASPORA: CASES FROM TIBET AND KOREA
3:45-5:15pm
SESSION IIA: AFRICAN
AMERICANS AND POLITICS
SESSION IIB: JEWS IN
THE DIASPORA
SESSION IIC: SCIENCE
AND POLITICS
RECEPTION: 5:15-6:30
Sponsored by the Office of Provost and
the Office of the Dean, Johns Hopkins University
7:30pm
PLENARY SESSION
Banquet Room Salon C
THE CHRISTOPHER
LASCH LECTURE
Moderator: Franklin W. Knight, Johns
Hopkins University
Richard
Salvucci, Trinity University
“Pricing
Peace, Property, and Friendship: Mexico, the United States, and the
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848”
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
8:00am-4:30pm REGISTRATION
8:30-10:00am
SESSION IA:
CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN ASIAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA HISTORY
SESSION IB: NEW
SCHOLARSHIP ON THE POST-CIVIL WAR ERA
SESSION IC:
DIASPORIC STATE-MAKING DURING THE COLD WAR
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Joseph Skelly, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Richard S.
Kim, University of California, Davis
“Diasporic
State-Making, Korean Immigrant Nationalism, and Ethnic Identities”
Arleen de
Vera, SUNY Binghamton
“Diasporic
Politics: Filipino-American Nationalists Critique the Cold War,
1946-1957”
Mary Ting
Yi Lui, Yale University
“Visualizing
East Meets West during the Cold War”
10:15-11:45am
SESSION IIA:
DIASPORAS IN FRANCE AND ITALY
SESSION IIB: AFRICAN
AMERICANS IN THE ERA OF THE GREAT WAR
SESSION IIC:
EUROPEAN AND ASIAN HISTORY
SESSION IID: CUBA
AND THE CARIBBEAN
12:00-1:30pm LUNCH
1:45-3:15pm
SESSION IIIA: THE
STATE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND STUDIES, PART I
Banquet Room Sloan B
Moderator:
Charles “Pete” Banner-Haley, Colgate University
John
Higginson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bobby
Donaldson, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Mark M.
Smith, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Louis
Prisock, Colgate University
SESSION IIIB:
LITERATURE, POLITICS, AND ETHNICITY
SESSION IIIC: WHAT
PUBLIC HISTORIANS CAN TEACH ACADEMIC HISTORIANS
SESSION IIID: A CITY
ON THE MARCH: INTERGRATING BALTIMORE, 1952
Multipurpose Room
Moderator:
Dennis D. Jutras, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Film:
“Blazing A Trail Before Brown”
Comments:
Kevin
Tolson, Duke University
Gene
Giles, Independent Scholar
Milton
Cornish, Independent Scholar
3:30-5:00pm
SESSION IVA: THE
STATE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND STUDIES, PART II
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Charles “Pete” Banner-Haley, Colgate University
John
Higginson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bobby
Donaldson, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Mark M.
Smith, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Louis
Prisock, Colgate University
SESSION IVB: THE
DILLINGHAM COMMISSION ON U.S. IMMIGRATION
SESSION IVC:
DIVERSITY AND DEMOCRACY
Moderator: Jeffrey Vanke, Independent
Scholar
East Room
304
José
Angel Hernández, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Historicizing
Contemporary Deportation Raids, 1836-2006”
Tim Lacy,
Loyola University, Chicago
“Finding
Unity amid Diversity: Education, Common Culture, and Democratic Culture”
Caroline
Emily Shaw, University of California, Berkeley
“The
‘Soi-Disant’ Refugee: Foreigners, Refugees, and Opportunists in
19th-Century Britain”
Florence
Mae Waldron, Lebanon Valley College
“To Be an
Homme de Famille in Petit Canada: Ethnicity and National Identity among
New England’s Working-Class Migrant Men from Quebec, 1880-1920”
5:15-6:30pm
PLENARY SESSION
Banquet Room Salon C
Moderator:
Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University
Ruth Iyob,
University of Missouri, St. Louis
“Invisible
Histories: Erasing Africans in the Mediterranean World”
SATURDAY, JUNE 7
8:00am-12:00pm REGISTRATION
8:30-10:00am
SESSION IA:
GLOBALIZATION, AMERICAN WORKING-CLASS ACTIVISM, AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN
U.S. LABOR HISTORY
SESSION IB: MOVING
CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY IN NEW DIRECTIONS
SESSION IC:
ANTISLAVERY RECONSIDERED: MEANS, ENDS, AND CONSTITUENTS
SESSION ID:
RETHINKING THE REAGAN REVOLUTION
Multipurpose Room
Moderator:
Jeffrey Vanke, Independent Scholar
Joseph A.
McCartin, Georgetown University
“The
Public Employee Union Upsurge and the Making of the Reagan Revolution,
1968-1981”
Doug
Rossinow, Metropolitan State University
“The Blind
Men and the Elephant in the Room: On Not Reckoning with Reagan”
Judith
Stein, City College of New York
“Conflict,
Change, and Economic Policy in the 1970s”
10:15-11:45am
[Session IIA has been cancelled]
SESSION IIB: THE
REVOLUTION OF 1860: LINCOLN’S ELECTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES RECONSIDERED
SESSION IIC:
BRIDGING THE MISSISSIPPI: WHAT EASTERN AND WESTERN AMERICAN HISTORY
HAVE TO OFFER EACH OTHER
Banquet Room Salon B
Moderator:
Claudia Haake, La Trobe University
Heather
Cox Richardson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“The
Politics and Economics of the Wounded Knee Massacre”
William
Deverell, University of Southern California
“Redemption
and the Post-Civil War American West”
Bonnie
Lynn-Sherow, Kansas State University
“Indian in
a Bottle”
SESSION IID:
TROPICAL TRANSFORMATIONS: RECONFIGURATION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN
THREE NEW WORLD EMPIRES AFTER 1763
12:00-1:45pm LUNCH
Phi Alpha Theta
Luncheon
Private Dinning Room, Nolan’s Cafe
Moderator:
Graydon Tunstall, University of South Florida
Peter
Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Two
Cheers for Revolution: The Virtues of Regime Change in World
Agriculture”
12:45-1:45pm
Banquet Room Salon B
Douglas
Arnold, Senior Program Officer, NEH Division of Education Programs
“An
Information Session and Workshop on Funding Programs of the NEH”
1:45-3:15pm
SESSION IIIA: THE
POLITICS OF CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY
SESSION IIIB: THE
FRAGMENTATION OF AUTHORITY IN THE ERA OF THE CIVIL WAR
SESSION IIIC:
RELIGIOUS HISTORY
SESSION IIID: LABOR
AND IMMIGRATION
3:30-5:00pm
SESSION IVA:
MIGRATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Moderator: Chris Beneke, Bentley College
West Room
302
Rosanne
Marion Adderley, Vanderbilt University
“Revisiting
Questions of African Ethnic Identity in the Americas: Some Data from
the Illegal 19th-Century Slave Trade”
Ismael
García Colón, College of Staten Island, CUNY
“Colonial
Migrants and Nation-State Formation: The Farm Labor Program of the
Government of Puerto Rico, 1950-1970s”
SESSION IVB:
MIGRATIONS
SESSION IVC:
AMERICAN IDENTITIES
SESSION IVD:
LITERARY HISTORY
5:15-6:30pm
PLENARY SESSION
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