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SHAFR Panel on US-Africa Relation (1945-1965)
ReplyDeleteI am interested in putting together a panel for the SHAFR-Conference 2013, about the US-Africa relation in the fifties and early sixties, more specifically the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations (1953-1963). My own paper would focus on the development of Eisenhower’s cultural assistance program towards Africa.
I argue that Eisenhower – generally believed to have ignored Africa – developed a coherent strategy that combined education and public diplomacy which had to prevent demagogues from undermining an orderly transition to independence while offering the natives a superior social model.
I already found a well established professor in the field who would be willing to comment and/or chair.
Please contact me directly: Frank.Gerits@EUI.eu
(The SHAFR proposal deadline is 1 December 2012, so don’t hesitate!)
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ReplyDeleteI am seeking fellow panelists and commentators for a proposed SHAFR 2013 panel. I intend to present on the Nixon administration's China policy, particularly, the 1971-72 Sino-American meetings in China and the American view of those meetings as an opportunity to convince Beijing of the merit of American foreign policies. I will also discuss the perceived successes and failures of that effort.
ReplyDeleteThis topic would fit nicely in a variety of topics that accord with this year's conference theme of "America's interaction with the world and the world's interaction with America." Possible panel themes include:
- Kissinger-era diplomacy
- Sino-American Relations
- Broader American views of global order, and so forth.
If you would like to present on these or other related topics that fit with my presentation, or if you might like to act as a commentator or chair for such a panel, please contact me at bphilton@gmail.com.
To Possible Panelists for SHAFR 2013 Panelists
ReplyDeleteI intend to put a panel together for the 2013 SHAFR annual conference in Arlington, Virginia (June 20-22). I hope to present a paper on U.S.-Cuban détente during the Carter era and its interactions with the ideas and sentiment among Cubans across the Florida Straits. My work explores the domestic source of U.S. foreign policy, as well as the role of transnational non-state actors in state-to-state relations.
I am seeking one or two scholars to join a panel tentatively entitled "U.S.-Cuban Relations from a New Perspective," “U.S.-Caribbean relations,” or more broadly, “U.S.-Latin American Relations during the Cold War.” For the last, it would explore how the ebb and flow of Cold War tensions affected regional politics, economies, and cultures.
If you are interested, have questions, or seek further information, please contact me at
hydekamy829@gmail.com
I am also happy to have any suggestion about a change of the panel title and/or contents.
Thank You for your attention.
Hideaki Kami
Doctoral Student
Ohio State University
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ReplyDeletePosted on behalf of James Curran:
ReplyDeleteI am proposing a panel on relations between the US and SE Asia during the Cold War for SHAFR 2013. My paper would be on the Australian angle of this subject area, with a particular focus on LBJ's visit to Australia and New Zealand in October 1966 prior to his attendance at the Manila Conference. Subjects to be covered in my paper would include Australian and US consultations on Vietnam, US and Australian perspectives on the future of the British military presence 'East of Suez', and the tentative discussions concerning the shape of a post-Vietnam Asia.
I am an Associate Professor of History teaching US foreign relations at the University of Sydney in Australia. If you are interested, please contact me at james.b.curran@sydney.edu.au.
Dear colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI am trying to put together a panel for the 2013 SHAFR annual conference entitled “Facing the new post-WWII order: Latin American political and economic projects between 1945 and 1954”.
I will be presenting a paper on the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Neves da Fontoura, working with Brazilian global outreach right after the war. It is my hope to assemble panelists whose papers could provide new insights on Latin American in the post-WWII era or, more broadly, on Latin American International Relations during the Cold War.
Please contact me at alexandre.moreli@fgv.br
All the best,
Alexandre Moreli,
Research Fellow
Centro de Relações Internacionais, CPDOC/FGV
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
http://cpdoc.fgv.br/en/relacoesinternacionais/moreli
Colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI am interested in the possibility of organizing a panel on "Cold War Sources of the Terror Crisis in American Foreign Policy". Among these sources, paper could focus on pivotal episodes of American policies on Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli conflicts, the alliance with Israel, first and second Persian Gulf Wars, the Iranian revolution and the rise of political Islam, the 1953 coup in Iran, the alliance with Shah's Iran, etc. My own paper would focus on the covert operation in Afghanistan 1979-1988. If interested, contact me directly, please, at llovelace@csupomona.edu and or leo.lovelace@gmail.com.
Looking forward! Leo Lovelace, Political Science, CSU
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteI am interested in assembling a panel for the 2013 SHAFR conference that addresses the role of the U.S. in the global history of the 1970s-80s and the North-South dialogue in particular. I had in mind papers that considered issues such as human rights, development, and “Third World” challenges to the international order such as the U.N.’s program for a "New International Economic Order.” My paper – as an example – would explore the Carter administration’s attempts to improve the U.S.’s position in the United Nations and the U.S. domestic political fallout from that attempt.
If you have interest in such a panel, or one of a similar but somewhat divergent topic, please contact me directly at sbyrnes@emory.edu.
Thanks,
Sean Byrnes
Ph.D. Candidate, Emory University
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteI am interested in forming or joining a panel for the 2013 SHAFR conference that addresses the use of third parties (especially "subject peoples") in furthering U.S. designs in Latin America. My paper will treat Puerto Rican soldiers in Panama during the occupation of Chiriqui in 1918-1920. Specifically, I will explore the efficacy of Puerto Ricans as cultural ambassadors and their contribution to U.S. goals in Panama during this period.
If interested in a similar topic, please contact me directly at Micah921@neo.tamu.edu. I am flexible concerning the specifics of the panel's subject and title.
Saludos,
Micah Wright
Ph.D. Candidate, Texas A&M University
Hello All,
ReplyDeleteI am interested in forming or joining a panel for the 2013 SHAFR Conference that addresses the issue of war crimes and the U.S. Military. My paper will address the domestic public response to the Court Martial of Lt. William Calley for the My Lai massacre. I'm flexible in how to approach the topic as a panel, but would be interested in other papers addressing war crimes committed by U.S. Soldiers, the relationship between war crimes and U.S. Military policy, consequences of public knowledge of war crimes both in the U.S. and elsewhere, or other similar topics. If you are interested in presenting on a similar topic, please send me an email at clamberson@angelo.edu.
Thanks,
Christine Lamberson
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteI would like to form a panel for the upcoming SHAFR conference that looks at the Cold War in Latin America. My paper deals with US policy with Nicaragua from Carter through Reagan. I argue that the conflict with Nicaragua was not simply a last breath of the Cold War era, but also the birth of new period in US foreign relations dominated by the newer threat of terrorism. This involved a redefining of threat and response in the world. I argue that overtime Nicaragua was constructed as one of the United States' first rouge states. US Policy with Nicaragua in the 1980s provides a lens that shows this important transformation in how the US perceives threat in the world.
Any paper that deals with the present significance of the late Cold War or Terrorism would be ideal, but I am willing to think broadly about this panel and will consider all suggestions.
Please contact me via this email, philip.travis@email.wsu.edu
Thanks,
Phil Travis
Ph.D Candidate
Hello,
ReplyDeleteWe are a musicologist and a historian who both work on cultural production and international diplomacy/cooperation. We’re looking for a third contributor (and possibly a separate chair/commentator) for the June 2013 SHAFR conference.
Our papers focus respectively on music production and international cooperation in the 1920s/30s; and art, internationalism, and international cooperation in the 1920s and 1930s. We welcome proposals that would fit with this theme in what promises to be a fruitful interdisciplinary panel. (Both the period and geography for the third panelist are flexible.)
If interested, please contact us at stallings.stephanie@gmail.com and iscaglia@buffalo.edu.
Stephanie N. Stallings, Independent Scholar (Ph.D. Florida State University)
Ilaria Scaglia, Columbus State University
Dear colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI would like to form a panel for the 2013 SHAFR conference that focuses on the US-Iran nuclear negotiations in the Seventies.
My aim is to analyze the role of third suppliers in such negotiations, namely France and the RFT.
In particular, it is interesting to point out the impact the 1976 FRT-Iran nuclear agreement had on the US nuclear policy and US-Iran negotiations.
If you are interested in it, please contact me at: vittorio.felci@libero.it
Vittorio Felci
Ph.D in History of International Relations, University of Florence (Italy)
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Szeged (Hungary)
Dear Colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI am considering applying for next year’s SHAFR Conference.
I am looking for others who would like to take part in a panel presenting papers along the broad lines of “U.S. Relations with Europe in the Interwar Years.”
My own contribution would be “American Ambassadors and American Diplomacy in Hungary in the Interwar Years.”
Please, let me know if you are interested.
Zoltan Peterecz, Ph.D.
American Studies Department
Eszterházy Károly College
Eger, Hungary
Dear Colleagues,
ReplyDeleteWe are a Master student at LSE and a Phd student at Sun Yat-sen normal university in China who are trying to form a panel on the diplomatic failures and missed opportunities in the history of U.S.-China relations during the Cold War. My paper will deal with the Nixon Administration's failure in achieving diplomatic recognition with Beijing by 1976. The paper of my colleague will deal with the Korean War as an event that prevented both countries from being engaged into normal relationship for a very long time. We are seeking a third person in order to complete the panel. We are looking for someone who is exploring the failures of the Washington-Beijing relationship during a period not already covered by our papers, possibly during the 1960's or late 1950's.
Please let me know if you are interested. Please contact me at pachetti.federico@libero.it
Federico
Dear collegues,
ReplyDeleteI would like to form a panel on the internationalization of the African American struggle in the 50s-60s-70s. I am interested in particualar on black Americans' relations with "Thirld world" liberation movements after the Bandung conference.
My research studies the relations between African Americans and Castro's Cuba in the 60s and 70s.
If you are interested, please contact me at benvenutiflorence@gmail.com
Best,
Alberto Benvenuti
PhD candidate in Contemporary History, University of Florence
Dear Colleagues Interested in Public/Cultural Diplomacy,
ReplyDeleteAm putting together a panel on early American public diplomacy/cultural diplomacy.
I hope the panel would consider a wide variety diplomatists - non-state actors, private citizens, intellectuals, as well as official diplomats.
My paper, "'To correct the numerous errors and misrepresentations': American Cultural Diplomacy, 1810-1830" looks at American strategies to influence European views on the US regarding race and culture.
Please contact me if you are interested in either being a panelist or commentator/chair or if you have questions.
Best regards,
Joe Eaton, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of History, National Chengchi University
Taipei, Taiwan
wjeaton@gmail.com
Colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI and Nathan Vigil of Emory University are looking to put together a panel for SHAFR 2013 and need one or two other presenters to round out the panel. For our panel topic we were considering either nuclear arms control in the detente era or U.S.-Soviet foreign policy in general in the Nixon/Kissinger era. Mr. Vigil's work is on the Kissinger-Dobrynin backchannel negotiations during SALT I, while my paper is on bureaucratic and intellectual responses to the developing SALT II accord in the late Nixon and Ford Administrations.
If you think your work might fit into one of the concepts for a panel we're trying to develop, please contact me at ambrose.55@osu.edu . Thank you.
Sincerely,
Matthew Ambrose, Ph.D. candidate, Ohio State University
Dear Colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI and Zoe LeBlanc of Vanderbilt University are putting together a panel on religion and US foreign relations in the early Cold War period for the 2013 SHAFR conference. Our papers, respectively, will cover Reinhold Niebuhr's debates with world government advocates in the 1940s and the changing role of Christian missionaries in the Middle East in the early post-war period. Professor Seth Jacobs of Boston College has kindly agreed to be chair and commenter.
We are looking for one more contributor to the panel, so should your research interests overlap with the broad outlines of this topic, please contact me (mfb87@cornell.edu) or Zoe (zoe.leblanc@vanderbilt.edu).
Regards,
Fritz Bartel
Graduate Student, Cornell University
Dear All,
ReplyDeleteI am looking to either join or form a panel at SHAFR 2013. My paper examines Senator J. William Fulbright’s views on the Middle East, situating them within the framework of the ideology of “political realism” that has often been ascribed to his views on the Vietnam War. It draws on research in the Fulbright papers at the University of Arkansas and State Department files.
The paper would fit well as part of panels on:
- The US and the Middle East
- Congress and Foreign Policy
- Ideology and Foreign Policy
If you have a spot left on your panel in a related area, or if you’d be interested in joining me in forming a panel on one of these topics, please let me know and I’ll get back to you right away.
Best regards,
James Stocker
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Affairs
Trinity Washington University
stockerj@trinitydc.edu
Hello all,
ReplyDeleteI and Mara Oliva of Queen Mary, University of London are seeking an additional panelist and a potential chair/commentator for the 2013 SHAFR conference. I am looking at the cultural intersection of American diplomats in China in the 1840s and how perceptions of the Chinese people translated into policy suggestions in diplomatic cables. Mara is interested in presenting on the disconnect between diplomatic and public support for rapprochement and Eisenhower’s hard-line stance against the People’s Republic of China in the 1950s.
We are seeking a third member who could address other aspects of diplomatic/cultural exchanges in the Sino-American relationship, or on American cultural and diplomatic foreign relations more broadly. Please contact me at mbrundag@kent.edu if you are interested in joining our presentation.
Regards,
Mathew Brundage, PhD Candidate, Kent State University
I am interested in either joining an existing panel or forming one. My work is on the role of the US in global governance, specifically the UN Security Council, and the tension between US foreign policy goals and the mandate of the Security Council. My paper looks at how the US shaped the sanctions imposed on Iraq, 1990-2003, within the internal process of the Security Council.
ReplyDeleteThis would fit on a panel concerned with either US foreign policy and the Middle East, or US foreign policy and the United Nations.
Please let me know if this is of interest to you.
Joy Gordon
jgordon@fairfield.edu
Professor, Philosophy Department
Fairfield University