American Politics, World Politics: International Dimensions of US History
CO-SPONSORED BY BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Friday, 15 April, 2011
7.45 A.M.–8.45 A.M.: Breakfast
8.45 A.M.–9.15 A.M.: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Welcome: Anthony Badger
Opening Remarks: Andrew Preston
9.15 A.M.–10.45 A.M.: Session 1: Bodies of Belief (I)
The Monroe Doctrine in the Nineteenth Century Union
Jay Sexton
American Missionaries, Moral Reformers and the Reinterpretation of ‘Expansion’ in the Late Nineteenth Century
Ian Tyrrell
Chair: Andrew Preston
10.45 A.M.–11.15 A.M.: Morning break
11.15 A.M.–12.45 P.M.: Session 2: Bodies of Belief (II)
Extracted Truths: The Politics of God and Black Gold on a Global Stage
Darren Dochuk
The Persecuted Body: Evangelical Spectacles of Suffering on the Global Stage
Melani McAlister
Chair: Bruce Schulman
12.45 P.M.–2.15 P.M.: Lunch break
2.15 P.M.–3.45 P.M.: Session 3: States and Humans (I)
The American Century Revisited: Liberalism and the U.S. in the World
Meg Jacobs
Decolonization and Desegregation: Africa, African Americans, and the Johnson Administration
James Meriwether
Devil’s Bargain: New York City’s Premier Spanish Shipping Agent and Allied Strategy during World War II
Brooke Blower
Chair: John Thompson
3.45 P.M.–4.15 P.M.: Afternoon break
4.15 P.M.–5.45 P.M.: Session 4: States and Humans (II)
The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination
Mark David Bradley
Exporting Amnesty International to the United States: Transatlantic Activism in the 1960s
Sarah Snyder
Chair: Julian Zelizer
5.45 P.M.–7.15 P.M.: Drinks reception
7.15 P.M.: Dinner
Saturday, 16 April, 2011
7.45 A.M.–8.45 A.M.: Breakfast
8.45 A.M.–10.15 A.M.: Session 5: Scarcity and Abundance Constructing a Global Social Problem: Poverty-Fighting at Home and Abroad
Sheyda Jahanbani
The Globalization Paradox: The United States and the World Economy since the Civil War
Daniel Sargent
Chair: Anthony Badger
10.15 A.M.–10.45 A.M.: Morning break
10.45 A.M.–12.15 P.M.: Session 6: War and Operations Other than War
The Dirty War Network: Right-Wing Internationalism through Cold War America
Doug Rossinow
Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome: U.S. Politics and Foreign Policy at the Cold War’s End
Jeffrey Engel
The Uses of Alarmism: Politics and Foreign Policy after 1945
Fredrik Logevall
Chair: Andrew Preston
12.15 P.M.–1.15 P.M.: Closing Remarks
Anthony Badger
Andrew Preston
Doug Rossinow
Bruce Schulman
Julian Zelizer
1.15 P.M.: Lunch