Panelists Seeking Panelists for SHAFR 2020
Panelists Seeking Panelists Forum
Welcome to the SHAFR forum for those looking to form panels with other scholars. Please post a comment below, briefly describing your panel or proposal.
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Don't forget, the deadline for submitting proposals AND funding applications is 1 December 2019!
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Welcome to the SHAFR forum for those looking to form panels with other scholars. Please post a comment below, briefly describing your panel or proposal.
SHAFR does not endorse or guarantee the veracity of the information found on this page, but we hope this site can be useful to you.
For more information, please visit the conference website (http://shafr.org/).
Don't forget, the deadline for submitting proposals AND funding applications is 1 December 2019!
IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE POSTING A COMMENT PLEASE EMAIL Julia Irwin and Gretchen Heefner (program co-chairs) at program-chair@shafr.org. We can log in as site owner and post it on your behalf if necessary.
I am interested in forming a panel for the 2020 SHAFR conference to explore the transpacific dimensions of the Progressive Era. I plan to present on ideas of reform and objectivity in cultural relations between the U.S. and China in the early 20th century—specifically as they related to art collecting.
ReplyDeleteI welcome potential collaborators to contact me at ianshin@umich.edu. It is important to me to participate in a panel that is diverse and inclusive.
Thanks,
Ian Shin
University of Michigan
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI plan to form a panel for the 2020 SHAFR conference on the role of the military in US foreign relations from the colonial era to the present. Submissions on all aspects of U.S. history are welcome, including but not limited to gender, race, ethnicity, mass incarceration, the environment, sexuality, emotions, religion, labor, disability, business, and capitalism.
Please send proposals for papers to oburtin@gmail.com in Microsoft Word or PDF format by September 15, 2019. In addition to the paper description (50-100 words max.), proposals must include the following information:
1. A complete mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, and affiliation
2. A short biography
Thanks,
Olivier Burtin
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Dear Olivier Burtin
DeleteAre you still accepting proposals? I am wondering if my paper on the World Tobacco Export Trade and Anglo-American-Rhodesian relations in the Post-Second World War will fit within the scope of your panel. If so, I would be glad to email you my proposal and short bio.
Dear Sibanengi Ncube,
DeleteDoes the paper include the military in some way? If so, feel free to email me a proposal.
Best,
Olivier
Dear Olivier
DeleteUnfortunately the paper does not have a military dimension at all. The only reference I make to military issues is when I refer to the Mutual Security Act, but that in so far as it was used as an avenue for 'surplus' produce disposal. The link may be far fetched. But anyway thanks for taking your time to respond.
Regards,
Sibanengi
Hello!
ReplyDeleteI am planning on submitting a paper on the relationship between the Smithsonian and Cuba during the 1970s and 1980s. Though the United States initiated an embargo against Cuba, the Smithsonian engaged in a series of scientific exchanges with the Cuban Academy of Sciences during the Cold War. I am open to forming a panel on a variety of topics: US and Cuba during the Cold War, science diplomacy and the Cold War, the environment and inter-American relations, or a number of other relevant topics.
If you are interested in putting a panel together, feel free to e-mail me at: andrew.brown_7@tamu.edu.
Looking forward to putting something together!
Best,
Andrew Brown
Texas A&M University
Hello SHAFR members:
ReplyDeleteI am planning to submit a paper on the Anglo-American-Hong Kong war on drugs during the 1970s. The paper examines how the British and American governments waged a far-flung anti-narcotics campaign and explores its broader impact on Hong Kong, then a major node in the global heroin supply chain. I hope to either form a panel or join a panel—on anything from the global control of narcotics, to transnational crime and law enforcement, to the local consequences of the Cold War. I am very happy to tailor my abstract to fit an existing panel, especially those looking to broad their geographical coverage to include China and Asia.
If you are interested in putting a panel together, please e-mail me at: p.thai@northeastern.edu.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Philip Thai
Northeastern University
Hello Colleagues
ReplyDeleteI am planning to submit a paper on American post-Second World War trade and aid policy and practice using the lens of its tobacco industry. The paper will focus on the rivalry in world tobacco markets - particularly the British market- between America and the British colony of Rhodesia. The paper seeks to question America's commitment to its notions of freer international trade and assistance to less developed countries.
If you are interested in joining me, email me at: skancube@gmail.com
Kind regards,
Sibanengi ncube
University of the Free State
South Africa
Perhaps let me broaden the proposed panel. I am interested in panelists who broadly look at American foreign economic policy during any period. My paper, as shown above, will focus on post-Second World War Anglo-American-Rhodesian economic relations.
DeleteRegards,
Sibanengi
I could do a paper on the use of US military spending as economic aid and productivity stimulus in the Third World in the 1950s. The MSP was established in October 1951 to replace the Marshall Plan but was focused on the world, not just Western Europe. It operated in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and East Asia. The MSP provided economic aid, technological training, inducements toward modernization and the adoption of capitalism all in the name of "mutual security." In other words, it used military spending in the name of fighting communism to accomplish economic goals toward furthering global capitalism. Would love to get on board.
DeleteSounds interesting and will certainly enhance our panel. Your coming in will make us four, a full panel. Two other colleagues are already on board. Send me an email. My address is skancube@gmail.com.
DeleteHi SHAFRites,
ReplyDeleteCeleste Moore, Heather Lee, and I are putting together a panel proposal on global New York City in the 20th century and are looking for a fourth panelist. We're currently a bit lopsided toward the late 20th century so ideally we'd like someone who can present on pre-WWII international/transnational NYC history.
The theme is fairly broad--the panel will explore the role of New York City as a center for global culture across the 20th century. It will interrogate the concept of "global culture" itself, how it has changed over time, who gets to produce it, and how the city shaped its formation.
If you're interested or have any leads, please email me at s.miller-davenport@sheffield.ac.uk.
Thanks,
Sarah Miller-Davenport
University of Sheffield
Hello All,
ReplyDeleteInterested in forming a panel on ideas and US foreign policy in the Middle East since the end of the Cold War that goes beyond neoconservatism. I would present on the role of ideas about totalitarianism in the case for war with Iraq. Contact at joestieb@live.unc.edu.
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteWe are interested in forming a panel on case studies of US public diplomacy in the early Cold War. We already have two speakers. One of the papers will focus on the links between US and Chinese journalists in the 1950s, and the other paper explores the United States Information Agency's activities in Iran in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Crisis' aftermath.
The panel theme is very broad. We're happy to accept panelists exploring US public diplomacy in any of its varied forms or in any geographic location.
If you have any questions, please drop me an email at Darius.Wainwright@reading.ac.uk. Alternatively, if you are interested in chairing or commentating on this panel then please do not hesitate to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you!
Kind regards,
Darius Wainwright
Hello Everyone,
ReplyDeleteI am hoping to assemble a panel for the 2020 SHAFR Conference on the topic of American involvement in the global South during the Second World War. Papers should be of an "America in the World" nature, as opposed to Washington-centric studies if possible. Examples might include a paper on the New Deal experiments carried out in Haiti and Latin America by the Board of Economic Warfare, or on American development of the Liberian rubber industry to meet wartime demand.
I envision this to be a theoretically capacious panel, and mostly just prefer that the papers not simply consist of documenting various inter-agency squabbles during the war but instead are committed to some form of transnational approach (this could even pertain to Anglo-American or relations between the United States and other Allied power, as long as the issue on which the set of relations hinge bears relevance to the global South)
As for my own contribution to the panel, my paper will explore the overlapping and contentious relationships between an American financial advisory mission, the U.S. Army's Persian Gulf Command, the Lend-Lease administration, and the Iranian government from 1942 to 1945, during the Allied occupation of the country.
Feel free to send a paper proposal of between 50 and 100 words to rjb487@nyu.edu as a Word or PDF document by no later than September 30, 2019. Please make sure to include your name and university affiliation/status in the email.
Thanks, and I hope to hear from some of you soon.
Robert Bell
New York University
rjb487@nyu.edu
I am organizing a panel on the uses of scientific knowledge and experimental research in the health and human sciences prior to WWII. For those of us interested in the diffusion of expertise and technologies under the auspices of American foreign development project, please send me a note with your paper synopsis. Cheers,
ReplyDeleteCizinresearch@gmail.com
-A. Rodriguez, Harvard University
2020 marks the 100th anniversary since the passage of the 19th Amendment; accordingly, I would like to form a panel focusing on female diplomatic contributions over the past century. Despite the passage of the 19th Amendment, women faced various restrictions and limitations in the realm of politics. This was particularly true in the masculine-dominated world of global diplomacy. Indeed, until Ronald Reagan’s appointment of Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick as Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations in 1981, women were not widely known for planning, creating, or implementing important foreign policy directives. Kirkpatrick, a political science professor at Georgetown University, was the first American woman appointed to the position of Permanent Ambassador to the UN, as well as the first female to serve on the National Security Council (NSC) and the National Security Planning Group (NSPG). My paper examines the influence of Kirkpatrick on Reagan’s Cold War diplomacy. I argue that the Kirkpatrick Doctrine, her overall criticisms of Carter's policies in "Dictatorships and Double Standards" and "US Security in Latin America", along with her recommendations for regional security in Central America, provided guidelines for diplomatic strategies associated with Reagan Doctrine policies while also offering a sophisticated rationale that justified support for non-democratic regimes not based solely on either the presence of communism or naked economic interests. Moreover, as America’s first female powerbroker, Kirkpatrick ruptured the gender barrier that had prevented women from participating in the highest levels of diplomacy, thus paving the way for Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton.
ReplyDeleteThis panel could be quite broad in scope, with topics ranging from the accomplishments of individual diplomats, ambassadors, or Congresswomen, to assessments of the state of women working for the Departments of Defense and State, from the 1920’s to present day.
If you are interested in joining this panel, please email me: rowlettb@uscsumter.edu or biancajoy27@gmail.com
Hello!
ReplyDeleteI am seeking papers for a panel on Refugee Activism in 20th Century U.S. Foreign Policy. My paper focuses on the fundraising activities of the United National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam and their role in the normalization process between U.S.-S.R.V. While my paper will focus on Vietnamese Refugees in the United States, I am not strictly looking for papers that focus on Vietnam or Southeast Asia, and any paper that focuses on refugees in International relations or U.S. Foreign Policy would be welcome.
For further information or interest please send me your paper description at frances.martin@uconn.edu
Thank you and look forward to hearing from you!
The Cold War on Distant Fronts: New Geographies the U.S. Anti-Communist Efforts in the Global South
ReplyDeleteI am looking for panelists with interests in the US Cold War efforts as they unfolded in regions and countries which are not well-represented in the scholarship. Currently,the growing scholarly literature of the Cold War reflects the declassification processes that make US foreign policy documents available for archival research. The engaging scholarship provides a deeper insight of US-Soviet confrontations in the world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991. Despite the valuable information they uncover, however, most contributions fall into the old geographical patterns of the proxy wars and the sites of political and military standoff such as Egypt, Germany, Cuba, Vietnam, Korea, Angola, Mozambique, the Congo, and Chile. This continuous attention to the same areas generates a geography of the Cold War with a considerable amount of blind spots.
It is therefore important to expand the geography of the Cold War to include the less explored regions of the Global South and analyze the different approaches the United States took to articulate anti-Communist policies toward the local people and leadership. By challenging the crisis-focused scholarship, we have the opportunity to look at the decision-making processes in the Department of State and, more importantly, to get first-hand access to the conversations between the diplomats posted in these less exposed areas of the world and Washington, DC. Ultimately, this methodology allows us to highlight the gaps between the concerns of the field diplomats and the foreign policy bureaucracy back home.
If you are interested, email me directly or respond to this SHAFR blog.
Mr. Harrouna Malgouri
PhD Candidate. University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Department of History
harrouna.malgouri@fulbrightmail.org
harrounamalgoubri@gmail.com
Good morning SHAFR colleagues,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Sean Scanlon and I am a PhD candidate from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Myself and another PhD candidate are trying to put together a panel for next year's SHAFR conference that addresses the intersection of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and American domestic politics during the 1970s. Our papers both focus on the years of the Ford administration (one deals with U.S.-Saudi relations, the other with U.S.-Israeli relations), but we would consider papers that address American policy in the Middle East and domestic politics throughout the 1970s. If you are interested please feel free to contact me at: sscanlon@huskers.unl.edu.
Best Regards,
Sean Scanlon
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI’m looking to put together a panel on "Children and Youth in the American Empire" for SHAFR 2020. My project positions young people living in the United States and the country’s territories as international and imperial actors from World War One through World War Two. I can envision a panel that specifically examines young people living in U.S. territories or more broadly considers questions about internationalism, humanitarianism, citizenship, and rights. That said, there are a lot of directions the panel could go in. If you might be interested, please email me at kscartwright@email.wm.edu
Hi! I am creating a panel on the United States in North Africa and the Middle East in the 19th century. While my own work focuses on the Lincoln administration and Egypt, I would love to examine American actions, attitudes, and local responses to them in as broad and holistic a manner as possible. Pieces on Americans in unexpected places during the 19th century are also welcome, though priority will be given to North Africa and the Middle East. If interested, please contact me at jjb624@msstate.edu
ReplyDeleteHi all,
ReplyDeleteI am interested in organizing a panel on the foreign relations of migration. Specifically, I would like to find colleagues who would be able to present on mid-level actors who have either aided or hindered global migration (i.e., traffickers, activists, transportation companies, labor agents, etc.). Top-level policymaking is certainly a well-established topic for migration history, and more scholars are paying attention to the migrant experience, but the role of intermediaries seems to be underdeveloped in current scholarship. I am open presenting with scholars across geography and period.
For my part, I would like to present on the role of transportation companies in helping the U.S. government to enforce American immigration policy in the early 20th century.
If interested, or if you think I would be a good fit for a panel you are organizing, please drop me a message at jbroubal [at] gmu.edu.
Justin Broubalow
George Mason University
Dr. Fritz Bartel (Bush School, Texas A&M University: https://bush.tamu.edu/faculty/fbartel/) and I are working on putting together a panel for SHAFR 2020. Dr. Bartel is the the chair/commentator, and I am presenting a paper (probably on either NSD 39 and CoCom; a comparison of G.H.W. Bush administration and Auswärtiges Amt policy goals before the fall of the Berlin Wall; or the SEED Act). I am leaning towards the second topic, as I hope to tie in my research from Berlin and Princeton University this past summer.
ReplyDeleteI am seeking two more essay presenters—junior scholars from the advanced PhD student to post-doc levels. The panel topic is European security in the 1980s and early 1990s—which addresses political, economic, monetary, and/or military aspects of security.
Would you be interested in joining us in a panel? If yes, please reply below.
Thanks so much for your time.
Regards,
Brad Morith
PhD in History Student
Texas A&M University
Hello All,
ReplyDeleteI am seeking fellow scholars interesting in attending the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2020 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, June 18, 2020 to Saturday, June 20, 2020. It is my goal to put together a panel on US responses to Genocidal Violence.
My name is Benjamin Linzy, and I am a doctoral candidate at Marquette University, my paper will focus on the genocide in Darfur. Scholars working in regions outside the Middle East & North Africa are welcome to contact me.
The deadline for proposals for this conference is
December 1, 2019. Therefore, I ask that interested parties contact me via email no later than November 15, 2019.
Please send a brief CV and abstract to me at Benjamin.linzy@marquette.edu
Dear Colleagues,
ReplyDeleteFor the New Orleans Conference I intend to organize a panel called: "Dinners, Diaries, and Domesticity: Women Who Expanded and Ungendered Diplomacy."
I am imagining a panel in which, while looking at the way in which women entered, challenged and re-shaped the diplomatic world, the topic would be explored in a broad sense and without the limitations of a specific historical time.
My presentation would be about ER's "strategic dining" and her collaboration in the White House with the modern dancer Martha Graham prior to the Second World War. The other panelist is a graduate student with a very interesting topic which fits perfectly the panel’s theme.
I am looking forward to hearing about your research and perspectives on this topic.
Those interested please email me before November 15 at ilenart@albany.edu
Many thanks,
Camelia Lenart
Hi Camelia,
DeleteI realize that I'm late to the game on this but I am a PhD Candidate from the University of Toronto doing work on the building of soldiering bodies in and around domestic US Army bases in the 1950s and 1960s. I have a colleague who is likewise working on intersections of food, gender, and empire with whom I was considering organizing a panel. If you are still looking for panelists, I can be reached at kelsey.kilgore@mail.utoronto.ca. Thank you!
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ReplyDeleteHello all,
ReplyDeleteI am interested in forming a panel on empire, archives, and oral history. My work focuses on the history of U.S. medical violence and experimentation in the Central American and Caribbean region during the twentieth century. I use a variety of methods to write about this history, including oral history. I am hoping others might be interested in a methodology panel that addresses power dynamics embedded in archival production in the United States and Latin America and oral history. Please message me if you are interested.
-Lydia Crafts
Manhattan College
crafts.lydia@gmail.com
My work looks at US foreign policy towards the Philippines. Focusing largely on the post WW2 military involvement in the Philippines. I think there is lots to explore right up to more contemporary history with the war on terror which touches on a variety of issues including:
ReplyDelete- Sexploitation and sex tourism capitals like Subic Bay in old (and still operational) military bases
- The US military support in filipino counterinsurgency.
- The US role (or lack of) in human rights concerns in the Philippines.
I appreciate there may also be interesting country comparisons to the philippines too that would form an interesting panel.
Please email me with suggestions of cooperation.
Best
Tom
University of Portsmouth, UK
tom.smith@port.ac.uk
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ReplyDeleteDear colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI am planning to present a paper on the origins of the Cold War and am looking to form a panel on the similar topic.
Also, this is my first time doing this and I’d really appreciate any guidance you can provide. Thanks!
Feel free to email me at vusalfhasanov@gmail.com
Regards,
Vusal Hasanov
Dear colleagues,
ReplyDeleteA couple of us have papers on US technical assistance for Pakistani aviation in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. I will be presenting on US aid for Pakistani airlines in the 50s, and Michelle Grisé will be presenting on US aid for the Pakistani rocket program in the 1960s and 70s. We are looking for a third and possibly a fourth panelist to join us. This could be someone focused on foreign interventions in Asian aviation in the post-World War 2 decades (e.g. aid, or the politics of airlines), or someone working on US technical aid to Asia (South Asia may work better) for the same period. Please do get in touch with me if you'd like to join us! waqar.zaidi[at]lums.edu.pk
Regards,
Waqar Zaidi
Lahore University of Management Sciences
My name is Nicole Anslover and I’m an Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest. Together with Ashley Neale, who is completeing her Ph.D. at the University of Kansas, I’m seeking an additional panelist and a chair/commentator to join our panel on presidential transitions for SHAFR 2020. This panel will look broadly at the impact of the presidential transition period on U.S. foreign relations. My paper will cover the Truman-Eisenhower transition and focus on how emotions can impact the flow of communications and the transfer of knowledge. Ashley’s paper will focus on the Johnson to Nixon presidential transition, and explores the handover of power in the midst of the Vietnam War, and a fractious domestic environment, and examine the advice Nixon was given. We welcome papers that focus on the transition process, specific case studies of successful or unsuccessful transitions, certain policies that were impacted by a transition, etc. The additional paper can explore any time period. Please e-mail me at nanslove@iun.edu with questions. Please let me know by 11/25 if you are interested in joining the panel.
ReplyDeleteNicole
We seek a third scholar to join us on a panel for next June’s SHAFR conference in New Orleans. Asher Orkaby (Princeton) and Taylor Fain (University of North Carolina Wilmington) are proposing a panel on “The ‘Arc of Crisis’ and Beyond: America and the Indian Ocean’s Rim Lands.” Dr. Orkaby’s paper will address the strategic waterways around the Arabian Peninsula and the region’s lines of oil communication. Dr. Fain’s will assess South Africa’s efforts to escape its diplomatic isolation in the 1970’s by cultivating relations with the Shah’s Iran and positioning itself as the guardian of the Cape route for oil shipments. We would love to work with someone who is researching U.S. policy towards the expansive region that includes East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf region, and South Asia. Please contact:
ReplyDeleteW. Taylor Fain
Associate Professor
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Phone: (910) 962-3305
E-mail: fainwt@uncw.edu
I'm Rasha Altamimi, Ph.D. student at the University of North Texas. Are you still accepting proposals? I'm interested in applying to the SHAFR conference. My paper will focus on the UK and US foreign policy in Iraq during the Cold War in 1945 -1958. If so, I would be glad to email you my proposal and my C.V. reach me out at rashaaltameemi@my.unt.edu.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
If there is any appropriate panel proposal, I would be interested in presenting a paper about some aspect of Professor Merze Tate’s body of work on imperialism in the Pacific. Her books and articles on Hawaii are perhaps best known, but she also wrote about the colonizing aims of Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific, and about nuclear testing on Pacific islands. I also would be prepared instead to present a paper that focuses on her writings on Southeast Asia, India in particular, and elsewhere in the region, an outgrowth of her Fulbright year spent at Tagore’s Visva Bharati University near Calcutta and her many travels and talks in the region. I can do either, with a preference for the former. Either could be configured to fit in the broader theme of “Gulfs, Seas, Oceans, Empires.”
ReplyDeleteBarbara D. Savage
Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought
University of Pennsylvania
bdsavage@sas.upenn.edu
US History PhD Candidate from University of Toronto seeking contributors for a conference panel on Food, Militarism, and US Empire. Papers can explore various intersections of eating and imperialism in the modern US, with a particular focus on the post 1945/Cold War period. Present paper submission involves eating in and around US Army bases, with an inclusion of the role of women's auxiliary and military wives' cookbooks, multiethnic foodways in base towns, and the making of soldiering bodies. Please email kelsey.kilgore@mail.utoronto.ca if interested.
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