New Directions in Modern US History
A workshop co-sponsored by the History Departments at BU, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and the Institute of the Americas at University College London
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2018:
8:00-8:50 Coffee and Continental Breakfast
8:50-9:00 Introduction and Welcome
9:00-10:30 SESSION 1 Nature, Nation and Rights in the 19th Century
“Popular Sovereignty and Natural Rights in Antebellum America, 1844-61”
–Mark Power Smith (UCL)
“The Animal City: Remaking Human and Animal Lives in Nineteenth-Century America”
–Andrew Robichaud (BU)
“A Brief Moment in the Sun: Francis Cardozo and Reconstruction in South Carolina”
–Neil Kinghan (UCL Institute of the Americas)
“‘Damn Those Yankee Imperialists’: Reconsidering Hemispheric Visions in the Confederate and Postbellum South”
–Alys Beverton (UCL)
10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45-12:15 SESSION 2 Rethinking the New Deal and World War II
“‘This War Ain’t Over’: The Lost Cause in New Deal America”
–Nina Silber (BU)
“The ‘Hitlerian Condition’ in the Canal Zone: Anti-Racist Internationalism in the Americas and the World”
–Rebecca Herman (UC Berkeley)
“Democracy and Empire: A White Southerner in a World at War”
–Brooke Blower (BU)
“The Press Lords’ Opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Foreign Policies”
–Kathy Olmsted (UC Davis)
12:15-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-3:00 SESSION 3 New Perspectives on Postwar Politics
“The Age of Friedman”
–Jennifer Burns (Stanford)
“The New Muckrakers and the Old Farm Bloc: Writing Agricultural Politics into the Twentieth Century”
–Sarah Phillips (BU)
“Pax Americana: The Rise and Fall of the American World Order” –Daniel Sargent (UC Berkeley)
“Man, Myth, Machine: The Politics of Gun Control in the Twentieth-Century US”
–Cari Babitzke (BU)
3:00-3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:15-4:45 SESSION 4 Capital and Commodities Across Borders
“Follow the Money: Junk Bonds, Irish-American Nationalism and Distant Revolutions in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”
–David Sim (UCL)
“‘3,880 Boxes of Opium v. the United States’: San Francisco and the Transpacific Origins of the War on Drugs”
–Alastair Su (Stanford)
“Little Pavilion on the Prairie: Britain and the United States at the World’s Columbian Exposition,”
–David Tiedemann (UCL)
“The Politics of Foreign Property Protection after World War I”
–Dave Shorten (BU)
5:00 RECEPTION
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2019
8:30-9:00 COFFEE AND BREAKFAST
9:00-10:30 SESSION 5 The Bodies Politic
“Making Sexual Subjects: The State and LGBT Health Care in the United States Since the 1970s”
–Jonathan Bell (UCL)
“Making Gender. Sex, Body, and Norm in American Medicine and Science”
–Sandra Eder (UC Berkeley)
“Sodomy and the Sunbelt: Battles over homophobic workplace discrimination in the US South and Southwest, 1970 to 1990”
–Josh Hollands (UCL)
“The Atlanta Crawl” and the “Wichita Walk”: Nonviolent Resistance, Conservative Respectability Politics and Gendered Discourse in Operation Rescue’s Anti-Abortion Protests of the 1980s and 1990s”
–Justine Modica (Stanford)
10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45-12:15 SESSION 6 Race, Freedom and Civil Rights
“Lending a Hand: How Small Black Businesses Supported the Civil Rights Movement”
–Matthew Lavallee (BU)
“Not Your Model Minority: S.I. Hayakawa and the Performative Politics of Campus Unrest”
–Vivian Yan (Stanford)
“From Segregation to Identitarian: White Supremacy Then and Now”
–Zoe Hyman (UCL)
12:15-1:15 LUNCH
1:00-2:45 SESSION 7 Liberals and Their Antagonists
“Two Funerals and an Election: 1904 and the Re-Making of American Public Life”
–Bruce Schulman (BU)
“Understanding the New Deal, 1932-1933”
–Eric Rauchway (UC Davis)
“From Racial Liberalism to Cultural Nationalism: The Strange Career of John Hope Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom”
–Nick Witham (UCL)
“From School Bus to Google Bus: A New Politics, a New Economy, and the Rise of the New Gilded Age”
–Mark Brilliant (UC Berkeley)
CONFERENCE ENDS