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PEACE HISTORY SOCIETY CONFERENCE
Peace Work: The Labor of Peace Activism, Past, Present, and Future
April 25-27, 2003, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, USA.
Tentative Schedule
Thursday, April 24, 2003
7:00 p.m.--Peace History
Society Board Meeting
Friday, April 25, 2003
8:00 a.m.--Registration and
Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:20
a.m.-- Conference Welcome and Introduction
9:30-11:30 a.m.
Teaching Peace: Rountable I
Response to 9/11: The Art and
Science of Peace
Herb Weaver and John Hull
(Bethany College)
The History of Social Activism:
An Initiative in Student-Centered Learning
James Alsop (McMaster
University)
World War I Era Peacemaking
Peace Through Law: Peace
Activism and International Arbitration, 1895-1907
Cecilie Reid (Boston College)
Krieg dem Kriege! Guerre à la
Guerre! War Against War!: The International Socialist Peace Demonstrations on the Eve of World War I and Their Relevance for Peace
Activists Today
Kevin Callahan (Saint Joseph
College)
The ‘Unknown Apostle of
Freedom’: Pablo de Azcárate and the League of Nations, 1919-1936
Jean-François Berdah (Université
Toulouse II-Le Mirail)
‘Fighting for Peace’: The
Use of Language and Image in the World War I Peace Movement
Rob Doane (Loyola University
Chicago)
11:30-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:45
The Quest for Peace and Freedom: The Peace
Movement, Civil Rights, and Race in the 20th Century United States
Chair: Dawn Herd-Clark (Central
Michigan University)
Race-ing Domestic Peace:
African-American Activists in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1945
Joyce Blackwell-Johnson
(Meredith College)
An Imperfect Fit: Radical Pacifism and Civil Rights on the Journey of Reconciliation
Marian Mollin (Virginia Tech)
James Farmer, Race, and American Pacifism, 1914-1968
Leilah Danielson (University of
Texas at Austin)
Comment: Robbie Lieberman (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
Transnationalist Perspectives on 20th
Century Peace Activism
A Transnational Perspective on
the American Peace Movement During World War I: Judah L. Magnes, American Pacifist and Zionist
Daniel P. Kotzin (Kutztown
University)
‘Women on the Other Side’:
The Impact of Women’s International Activism on Local Peace Movements, 1963-1965
Amy Schneidhorst (University of
Illinois-Chicago)
Transnational Peace Activism:
The International Movement for East Timor and U.S. Foreign Policy
Brad Simpson (Northwestern
University)
Chair/Comment: Ian Lekus (Duke University)
Peace Prized: Invoking Legends of Peace in
Education and Politics
Monumental Politics: Raoul Wallenberg, Kofi
Annan, and Human Rights
Tanja Schult (University
College of Södertörn)
Jimmy Carter and the Nobel
Peace Prize
Irwin Abrams (Antioch College)
Confronting Peace Making:
Teaching the Nobel Peace Prize
Gottfried Paasche (York
University) and Joaquin Kuhn (University of Toronto)
3:00-4:45
Perceptions of Protest: The Vietnam War
Jane Fonda in Hanoi: Peace
Activist and Lightning Rod for a Nation Defeated
Mary Hershberger (Capital
University)
‘Hanoi Jane’: The Biography
of a Political Icon
Jerry Lembcke (Holy Cross
College)
In Retrospect: Histories of
Vietnam Antiwar Protest
Charles Chatfield (Wittenberg
University)
Chair/Comment: Natasha Zaretsky (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
The Cold War: Protests, Myths, and Aftermath
Civil Defense and Mass Protest
in the Nuclear Age
Dee Garrison (Rutgers
University)
Unraveling a Myth: Was the End
of the Cold War Really Not Foreseen?
Jérôme Elie (Graduate
Institute of International Studies, Geneva)
‘The Wooster Ten’:
Protesting the War in the Persian Gulf, 1991
Jessamyn Neuhaus (Case Western
Reserve University)
Chair/Comment: E. Timothy Smith (Barry University)
6:00--Banquet
Presentation of DeBenedetti Prize
Keynote Speech: John D’Emilio (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Saturday, April 26, 2003
8:00-8:45--Continental Breakfast and informal meeting of H-Peace
8:45-10:15
Peace Issues and Activism in Modern Africa
Pastoralism, Small Arms, and
the Changing Gender Roles in the North Rift, East Africa
Kennedy Mkutu (University of
Bradford)
‘Between Humanitarian Support
and Peace Activism’: The Contributions of International Peace Movements to the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
Oluwatoyin Babatunde Oduntan (Olabisi
Onabanjo University, Nigeria)
Building Peace From Below: The
Case of Youth in Pastoralist Communities in East Africa
Inyani K. Simala (Maseno
University, Kenya)
Perfectionist Peace: A Historical/Theological Investigation of the Relationship Between the East African Revival and Peace
in the Great Lakes Region
Robert K Lang’at (Drew University)
Intellectual History and Philosophy of Pacifism
Benthamite Radicalism and the
Peace Question in Britain During the 1840s and 1850s
Michael John Turner (University
of Sunderland, UK)
Garrisonian Abolitionism and
Tolstoyan Pacifism Allied?: An Early 20th Century Radical Pacifist Exploits a Connection
Rory Stauber (Ohio Northern
University)
State of Emergency, Self-Defense, and the End
of Pacifism: Gunther Anders and the Debate Over Violence in West Germany During the 1980s
Jason Dawsey (University of
Chicago)
10:30-12:00
G.I. and Veteran Opposition to the Vietnam War
Quaker House in Fayetteville, North Carolina
Chuck Fager (Director, Quaker
House, Fayetteville, NC)
Associational Declarations and War Stories in
the GI Vietnam Antiwar Movement
Joseph Coady (Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale)
‘Spread the Alarm That We Are
All Prisoners of This War’: Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Operation POW
Keri L. Manning (University of
Kentucky)
Chair/Comment: Michael S. Foley (College of Staten Island)
Gender and Pacifism During the World Wars
War, Peace, and Gender: The
Women’s Peace Army in Australia During World War I
Sharon Lobo (University of
Melbourne)
The Birthright of Modern
Feminist Pacifism: The Rhetoric of Maternal Labor in U.S. Women’s Peace Activism
Erika Kuhlman (Utah State
University)
‘Some of Their Finest
American Boys’: Conscientious Objectors, Gender, and the Draft in World War II
Timothy Stewart-Winter
(University of Chicago)
Chair/Comment: Christy Jo
Snider (Berry College)
12:15-1:30--Lunch with local
activist Tom Jones (Farwell, MI)
1:45-3:15
Local and Regional Dissent During the Vietnam War
Michigan Democrats and the
Vietnam War
Mitchell Hall (Central Michigan
University)
Peace Activism in the Vietnam
War Era at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Caroline Hoefferle (Wingate
University)
‘Shut It Down’: The May 1970 Student
Strike at Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
James Eichsteadt (Syracuse
University)
Chair/Comment: Melvin Small (Wayne State University)
Art, Music, and Peace Movements
‘Where Are the Voices’ of
Peace and Justice?: Carlos A. Cortez: Soapbox Rebel, World War II C.O., and IWW Artist/Bard
Scott Bennett (Georgian Court
College)
Cultural Workers of the World
Unite: 1960s Music Culture in Chile and the United States
Deidre Hughes (Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale)
The Middle East Peace Quilt: An International
Community Art Project
Sima Elizabeth Shefrin
(Vancouver artist)
3:30-5:00
Rethinking Vietnam War Dissent
Those Who Fought On: The
Antiwar Movement During the Cease-Fire, 1973-1975
Christopher Powell (Central
Michigan University)
Escaping Over the Wall: Popular
Magazine Coverage of Vietnam War Era Draft Evaders Who Went to Canada
Donald W. Maxwell (Indiana
University)
Draft Dodger and Deserter
Reconciliation, 1972-1977
Jason Friedman (Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale)
Chair/Comment: Andrew Hunt (University of Waterloo)
Women’s Peace Activism
Patriotism and Pacifism in
Wartime: Contemporary Relevance of the World War I Era Women’s Peace Movement
Judy Whipps and Pennie Alger
(Grand Valley State University)
Women’s Power United: The
Collaboration of Womanpower Unlimited and Women Strike for Peace
Tiyi M. Morris (DePauw
University)
The Search for Peace and
International Sisterhood: WILPF in Nigeria, 1950-1970
Anene Ejikeme (Barnard College)
Chair/Comment: Wendy
Chmielewski (Swarthmore College)
5:15-6:00--PHS Business Meeting
6:00-8:00--Dinner on Your Own
8:00--Cyril Pearce
Play/Workshop
Sunday, April 27, 2003
8:15-9:00--Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30
Crossing Boundaries in Middle East Peacemaking
Just Peace and Nonviolence in
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism: A Basis for Making Peace in Palestine
Bert DeVries (Calvin College)
Ethnic Violence in the Middle
East and Beyond
Magid Shihade (University of
Washington)
Potential and Limitations of
Bi-national Peace Organizations Under Fire: Ta’ayush and Past Experiences of Arab-Jewish Movements in Palestine/Israel
Gerardo Leibner (Tel Aviv
University)
Chair/Comment: Becky Torstrick (Indiana University-South Bend)
Peace and Human Rights in Latin America
Nonviolent Insurrection in
Ecuador: The 1944 Glorious May Revolution
Marc Becker (Truman State
University)
Grassroots Movements and U.S.
Policy in Latin America Since the End of the Cold War
Virginia S. Williams (Winthrop
University)
Chilean Media and Discourses of
Human Rights
Kristen Sorensen (Indiana
University)
10:45-12:15
Teaching Peace: Roundtable II
Chair: Marian Mollin (Virginia
Tech)
Teaching Peace History: The
Challenge of Gendered Assumption
Prudence Moylan (Loyola
University Chicago)
The Besieged City Defends
Itself By Culture: Surprising Implications for the Peace Classroom
Paul Strom (University of
Colorado)
Keeping Conflicts at Bay: The
Past, Present, and Future of Peace Education for the Indonesian Youth
Christine Susanna Tjhin
(Indonesian Pluralism Institute)
Comment: The Audience
The Pax Americana in Early Cold War Western
Europe
“Here I Am, An Insignificant
Midwesterner”: Conflict and Concord in American Mennonite Relief Work in France, 1945-1957
M. J. Heisey (State University
of New York at Potsdam)
‘So Powerful and So
Terrifying’: British Peace Activism and Mass Perceptions of the Special Relationship
Robert M. Hendershot (Central
Michigan University)
German Pacifism in the Wake of
Zero Hour, 1945-1951
Andrew Oppenheimer (University
of Chicago)
Chair/Comment: Eric S. Estes (Duke University)