RETHINKING AMERICAN LIBERALISM: PROGRESSIVE POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Boston University, March 19-20, 2009
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/77qay8fg9780252036866.html
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2009
1:00 INTRODUCTIONS
Welcome by Boston University Provost David Campbell
Introductory remarks by Tony Badger, Bruce Schulman, and Julian Zelizer
1:15-3:00 SESSION 1
Moderator : Bruce Schulman, Boston University
A Faded Passion?: Antimonopoly Politics in the Twentieth Century United States.
–Daniel Scroop, University of Sheffield
“Expatriate Paris Reconsidered: Experiments in Leftist Internationalism”
–Brooke Blower, Boston University
“Partners for Progress?: Liberals and Radicals in the Long Twentieth Century.”
–Doug Rossinow, Metropolitan State University
3:00-3:30 BREAK
3:30-5:00 SESSION 2
Moderator: Julian Zelizer, Princeton University
“From Popular Front to Liberalism: Redefining the Political in California, 1945-1970”
–Jonathan Bell, University of Reading
“Liberals and the Environment”
–Sarah Phillips, Columbia University
“ Left Leanings?: From the Popular Front to the Phantom of “Socialist Liberals”
–Howard Brick, University of Michigan
5:00-5:15 BREAK
5:15-6:30 SESSION 3
Moderator: Cathie Martin, Boston University
“’Labor-Liberalism: A Long and Unhappy Postwar Marriage, But With Lots of Offspring Nonetheless.”
–Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Liberalism in the Postwar City: Public and Private Power in Urban Renewal”
–Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University
6:30-8:00 COCKTAIL RECEPTION AT THE CASTLE
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2009
9:00-10:30 SESSION 4
Moderator: Nina Silber, Boston University
“De Jure/De Facto Segregation: Racial Liberalism and the Problem of Southern Exceptionalism”
–Matthew Lassiter, University of Michigan
“Forgotten Architects of the Second Reconstruction: Liberal Republicans and Civil Rights”
–Timothy Thurber, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Albert Gore, Sr., Liberalism, and the South”
–Anthony Badger, Cambridge University
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:30 SESSION 5
Moderator: Charles Capper, Boston University
”Going Beyond the New Deal’: Socialists and the Democratic Party in the 1970s’”
–Tim Stanley, University of Sussex
“Rights Liberalism’ and the Material Bases of Second-Wave Feminism”
–Susan Hartmann, Ohio State University
“From Friends to Foes: George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, and the Fracture in American Liberalism”
–Bruce Miroff, SUNY Albany
12:30-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-3:30 SESSION 6
Moderator: John Thompson, Cambridge University
“Mainline But No Longer Mainstream: The Decline and Fall of Liberal Protestantism”
–Andrew Preston, Cambridge University
“The Tragedy of American Politics”
–Andrew Bacevich, Boston University
3:30-4:00 BREAK
4:00-5:30 CONCLUSION: THE LEGACIES OF LIBERALISM
Moderator: Bruce Schulman, Boston University
Remarks: Tony Badger, Jonathan Bell, Tim Stanley, Julian Zelizer and the Audience