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Comment here to find other panelists! Good luck! Also, many people use H-Diplo to form panels. You can subscribe at http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/.
ReplyDeleteLooking for panelists! The broad category: Progressive Era Diplo. Can narrow it down email rlittle@tcu.edu
ReplyDeleteLooking for panelists on the US and Israel. Please email Dr. Michael Cairo at mcairo@transy.edu
ReplyDeleteLooking for a panel, my paper can fit into multiple categories, U.S. in Asia, U.S. in developing nations, U.S. policy in the Cold War. Please email Kimberlee Ortiz at kimberlee.ortiz@ttu.edu
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DeletePhil Travis is forming a panel on "topics in the late Cold War;" see his post from October 6. I'm considering joining myself.
I would be very interested in presenting on a panel focused on religion and foreign policy. Specifically, I'd like to present a paper on the Religious Right and the Reagan administration's foreign policy. Please e-mail me: hatfiej1@ohio.edu if you have an idea for a panel that deals with those categories.
ReplyDeleteGreetings--I am looking for anyone interested in putting together a panel that can fit into these categories: domestic influences on U.S. foreign policy, U.S.-Canada borderlands, or national/state governments & the post-1945 period. Please contact me at christopher.foss@colorado.edu if interested.
ReplyDeleteHello! I am a post-graduate looking to form a panel that focuses on post-WWII tensions with the Soviet Union, specifically atomic diplomacy and our relationship with the Pacific Islands. I did a great deal of research on the topic of "Operation Crossroads" and how it further damaged our relationship with the Soviet Union due to its blatant display of American atomic might. I can be reached at klgoodso@mail.usf.edu. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteLooking for a panel on that broadly covers US foreign policy during the Nixon era. Other topics can include Cold War presidents, the relationship between universities and foreign policy, and abuses of govt. power. Please email me Michael Koncewicz at mkoncewi@uci.edu
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ReplyDeleteI am trying to organize a session on Early Republic foreign relations. I have a chair, a commentator, and one presenter, but need two other presenters. Anyone interested can contact me, Hal Friedman, at friedman@hfcc.edu
ReplyDeleteI am trying to organize a roundtable on institutional diversity among the membership of SHAFR, particularly how diplomatic historians at other than research universities integrate diplomatic and foreign relations history into their teaching and scholarship. So far, I have a chair, a presenter from a two year college, and a presenter from a small four year college. I'm looking for a diplomatic historian who serves as a librarian and/or archivist as well as potentially someone from a museum or even a corporation. Those interested can contact me, Hal Friedman, at friedman@hfcc.edu
ReplyDeleteI am looking to organize a panel on the United States and Latin America during the Cold War. My paper will look at U.S. public diplomacy in the region during the 1960s. Papers examining new approaches to Latin America’ Cold War or topics on other themes in U.S.-Latin American Cold War relations would fit. Please contact Matt Jacobs at mj174009@ohio.edu if interested
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DeleteI do US-Central American relations during the late Cold War. I have secured a chair in Dr. George C. Herring and am looking for two other presenters. Do you have any interest in joining a panel?
Phil Travis
I am interested in forming or joining a panel (preferably the latter) on gender politics and/or sexual violence and foreign relations. My paper would focus on prostitution and sexual assault during the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916-1924). Please contact Micah Wright at Micah921@tamu.edu.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking to form or join a panel relating to the United Nations and US foreign policy. My paper will examine economic development assistance (specifically food aid) as pursued by policymakers within the Kennedy Administration and the UN Secretariat prior to the launching of the First Development Decade in 1961 and the establishment of the UN/FAO World Food Programme. Please contact Aaron Rietkerk at a.d.rietkerk@lse.ac.uk if interested.
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DeleteI would be interested in contributing something on US-UN relations. I'll drop you an email.
All the best,
Alanna O'Malley
Hi Aaron,
DeleteI am interested in contributing something on the US at the Bretton Woods conference, based on some new, previously unknown evidence. Let me know if you are interested or how I can contact you.
Michael Franczak, Boston College
I am currently organizing a panel for this years SHAFR. I am hoping for a panel that is centered on "topics in the late Cold War" and particularly US relations with areas of the developing world. I have secured acclaimed scholar Dr. George C. Herring to chair this panel and am currently seeking two other presenters to join myself as panelists. I am a PhD candidate at Washington State University and am currently finishing up my dissertation. My research deals with the United States and Nicaragua in the 1980s. Is anyone interested? Please contact me at philip.travis@email.wsu.edu.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for the interest expressed in the panel. The panel is now full. Thank you!
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I am looking for others interested in a panel on U.S.-African relations. My own paper will deal with the United States and the coming of the Nigerian Civil War and Biafran genocide. Please contact Stephen McCullough at smccullough@lincoln.edu.
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ReplyDeleteI am interested in forming a panel on "people-to-people" diplomacy in U.S. foreign relations. The papers do not have to all focus on the same period (e.g. they don't all have to examine Cold War-era initiatives), but ideally they will overlap in analyzing the motives, methods, and outcomes/consequences of government and non-government attempts to increase understanding and interactions between Americans and foreign citizens. My own paper examines the efforts of private voluntary organizations involved in overseas humanitarian work during the Eisenhower years.
ReplyDeleteIf you're interested, please contact me at jmather1@slu.edu My paper could also work with a panel on the role of NGOs in U.S. foreign relations, or non-military dimensions of Cold War containment.
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DeleteLooking for a panel on either Euro-American relations, cold war and culture, universities and foreign policy, or public and cultural diplomacy.
ReplyDeleteI am working on US-Italian exchanges of academic competences and personnel, and transfers of models of knowledge and higher education management, between 1945 and 1970. My approach lies between cultural diplomacy and "denationalization" of academic knowledge.
I can focus my paper on mobility programs for students and scholars, action of American cultural foundations in Italy, US influences on Italian unviersity reforms and on the emergence of new disciplines in Italian social sciences.
If intersted, please contact me at andrea.mariuzzo@gmail.com
Looking to form a panel based on Diplomacy and Colonialism during the Progressive Era. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate working on my dissertation. My proposed paper focuses on the political and racial beliefs of young American colonial administrators in the Philippines, especially regarding self-determination for "colonial" peoples.
ReplyDeleteIf interested, please contact Patrick Kirkwood at kirkw1pm@cmich.edu
I am organizing a panel on the theme of immigration and US foreign relations. There are two panelists thus far, one paper focuses on Irish immigrant involvement in America's anti-Chinese movement and its ramifications for US-China relations while the other discusses the foreign policy implications of the National Origins Act. If you are interested in presenting a paper on this theme or serving as chair, please contact me at bm323@georgetown.edu
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ReplyDeleteI'm looking to create a panel on diplomacy and technology, with special emphasis on the relationship between the United States and global technological regimes. My paper addresses the U.S.-Canadian aerial relationship from 1919 to 1926, dealing specifically with the cross-border use of aircraft and the influence of the 1919 Convention Relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation on that relationship. If interested please email me at szs0051@auburn.edu.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking to either join or create a panel on U.S.-Middle East relations (in the 1970s preferably, though not necessarily), the impact of congressional-executive relations on foreign policy, or religion in foreign policy. If someone is looking for a panelist or has any interest in joining a panel, please contact me at kekolander@mix.wvu.edu.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to join a panel on American -British relations at the turn of the century 1899-1902. I'm looking at the American diplomatic reaction (publicly and privately) to the Boer War/South African War, 1899-1902. Jodie.Mader@Thomasmore.edu
ReplyDeleteA colleague and I are organizing a panel that examines the efforts of U.S. NGOs to shape post-Soviet society and support democratization during and after the collapse of the U.S.S.R. We currently have papers that look at philanthropic organizations and religious groups, and are seeking 1-2 additional papers that focus on NGOs of other types (academic, environmental, etc.). If anyone is interested in joining our panel, please contact me at lft7k@virginia.edu.
ReplyDeleteI am looking to create a panel on U.S.-China relations during the Cold War, with particular emphasis on the 1970s and 1980s but also the previous decades. Not only diplomatic history but also economic and cultural relations in order to provide fresher interpretations of the topic within the context of the Global Cold War. The role of european countries in the shaping of U.S.-China relations, the UK primarily, would be welcomed too. My paper focuses on U.S.-China relations in the post normalization years. If interested to join to join the panel please email me at pachetti.federico@libero.it.
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ReplyDeleteI am organizing a panel tentatively titled "Race, Labor and the Imperial Pacific," and am looking for a third and final panelist. The first paper, by Prof. Andrew Urban of Rutgers University, explores how Chinese exclusion policies in the US were implemented and enforced in such a manner to allow for Chinese servants in the employ of missionaries, railroad and business executives, and government officials, to move freely across the border, despite their status as laborers. The second paper, by myself (PhD candidate at the University of Toronto), agues that "white" American worker's response to turn of-the-century Pacific Empire building was an attempt to construct themselves as agents of empire, for fear of becoming imperial subjects.
ReplyDeleteIf interested please contact Will Riddell at w.riddell@mail.utoronto.ca
I am looking for panelists, who would be interested to present their papers during SHAFR 2014, Annual Meeting, which is going to take place in June 19-21 2014. I am open to discuss possible, slight modifications of the panel. Since there is only one month left to submit proposals, I am looking forward to receive feedbacks as soon as possible ( preferably by November 10th ) at m.stanecki@uw.edu.pl
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Peace vs. Security – the United States and the strategic dilemma of peacemaking in the Cold War.
The panel will be devoted to analysis of the global and regional initiatives towards peacemaking, such as support and development initiatives (European Recovery Program – the Marshall Plan) or detente, such as conventional and nuclear arms limitation treaties, test bans, etc.
The panel would have two dimensions. The first will be devoted to the reception of the US peacemaking initiatives abroad and their impact on the third parties' (both sides of the Iron Curtain) national security / foreign policy. The second will focus on the American opinions and thoughts regarding similar initiatives conducted by other countries from Eastern and Western Hemisphere (such as Polish, Soviet, British disengagement initiatives).
The main goal of the panel would be to identify strategic significance of the peacemaking initiatives and their role in conducting global foreign policy by the United States, showing at the same time their reception outside the US. Moreover, multinational and multi regional perspective definitely will help to answer the following scientific questions:
What is the correlation between peace and security? Is it possible for peaceful initiative to threaten national or international security?
What kind of foreign policy goals can be achieved by proposing such plans or treaties?
What are the main problems of implementing or executing those initiatives?
The final and strategic question, which probably is going to remain unanswered, would be devoted to the question to what extent the peacekeeping initiatives were sincere or honest.
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ReplyDeleteI am looking to create or join a panel on the economic issues of American foreign relations, with topics (e.g.) on trade relations, U.S foreign direct investment (outward from the U.S.) and foreign investment in the United States, the role of the U.S. Chambers of Commerce abroad and their impact on bilateral relations, etc... (The papers do not have to all focus on the same period).
ReplyDeleteMy own paper will examine the role of U.S. direct investments in Switzerland, focusing on the America’s increasing direct investments between 1950 and 1970, at a time of "Americanization" of Europe.
Since we do not have much time, do not hesitate to contact me. Virginie.Fracheboud@unil.ch
I would like to organize a panel on American efforts at cultural exchange and public diplomacy during the Cold War. Specifically, I would be interested in papers on people-to-people programs, either organized by governmental agencies or private organizations. My own paper will be on academic exchange between the US and the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1968, and will particularly look at the experiences of Americans who participated in these exchanges and how these academics perceived their role in the Cold War.
ReplyDeleteIf interested, please contact me at kbh75@msstate.edu.
I would like to join a panel that covers diplomacy during the Nixon administration, NGO diplomacy, or environmental diplomacy. My paper looks at the role of American environmental NGOs during the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment. Specifically, I look at their ability to organize on an international level and the relationship between their experience at the conference and contemporary political affairs.
ReplyDeletePlease contact me at apbrown@mix.wvu.edu if interested.
I would like to present a paper on the relationship between conspiracy theories in the U.S. regarding AIDS and Soviet disinformation on the topic -- namely, that the U.S. developed the AIDS virus at Fort Detrick through genetic engineering and released it upon an unsuspecting world. The paper could work for a panel on a number of different topics: information/disinformation/propaganda in the Cold War, transnational relations in the Cold War, the role of diseases or AIDS in international relations... Given the late date, I am open-minded about a potential panel.
ReplyDeletePlease contact me at selvaged@gmail.com if interested.
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DeleteWe are trying to make a panel on a “comparative study of American occupations” in any region of the world since the late nineteenth century (“occupation” broadly defined; Cuba, the Philippines, Germany, Japan, South Korea, South Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.). The purpose is to compare/ contrast while rethinking any of (or any combination of) the following themes: 1) US interests and objectives 2) occupation methods and policies 3) policy-planning processes 4) the role of ideology and culture 5) the relationship between occupier and occupied and the question of “agency.” We expect your research not only to describe basic facts, built upon the existing scholarship, but also to discuss new findings and suggest new perspectives. Accordingly, we welcome scholars with area studies training and revisionist interpretations. As Professor Michael Schaller would chair the panel, and I would serve as a commentator and/ or a presenter on the Allied (American) Occupation of Japan, we are looking for three or four more panelists. If you are interested in, please contact both Michael Schaller at schaller@u.arizona.edu and Masami Kimura at masamik@email.arizona.edu and send us a short description of your paper (200-250 words) which includes a reference to historiographical backgrounds and your scholarly contributions. Considering the December 1 deadline for paper/ panel proposal submissions, we hope to receive your paper proposal by November 22. After reviewing and selecting proposals, we will request a 50-100 word description and 1-2 page c.v., and ask you about equipment requests and scheduling preferences.
ReplyDeleteTwo scholars are currently looking for a third presenter for a SHAFR panel on U.S. human rights policies in Latin America during the Cold War. The first paper will take a comparative look at U.S. policies toward Chile and Cuba under Carter and Reagan; the second will examine National Endowment for Democracy programs in Latin America and the Reagan administration's efforts to market democracy promotion efforts as human rights policy. We can be flexible about framing the panel to incorporate your proposal related to this region/period. **One caveat**: Our proposal will specify that panel must be on first or second day of the conference due to one presenter's scheduling conflict over the weekend. SHAFR has indicated that they will take this into consideration. If interested, please contact us directly at edm5he@virginia.edu and vwalker@amherst.edu.
ReplyDeleteOn behalf of Ekavi Athanassopoulou, University of Athens:
ReplyDeleteLooking to create a panel on U.S.--Turkey relations during the Cold War.
Alternatively I would be very interested to join a panel that looks at U.S. relations with its allies in the late 1970s, or more narrowly on the impact of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on U.S. relations with its allies. My paper is on the impact of the invasion on U.S.--Turkey strategic co-operation. Please, e-mail ekaviath@yahoo.gr. Thanks.
I am trying to create a panel with people working on U.S. humanitarian policies. I am working on the influence of NGOs on humanitarian emergencies during the Cold War. Due to the late date, I am very open to times and places. Please contact me if you are interested at bash225@g.uky.edu
ReplyDeleteWe are looking for a third paper to complete a panel on antinuclear protests in the Eighties. The panel will be devoted to an analysis of the cultural and political dimensions of the nuclear debate in the early 1980s, in both Europe and the United States. The panel aims to address the ways in which disarmament protests and mass culture fostered a debate on states’ nuclear policies. In particular, it will address how the fear of nuclear annihilation helped to elevate public awareness of peace and disarmament issues; how disarmament movements attempted to influence government decision-making; how governmental officials attempted to shape the nuclear debate and to respond to antinuclear criticisms; how public attitudes were affected by the confrontation of antinuclear protests and official nuclear policy; and how the dialogue about nuclear weapons between scientists, antinuclear groups and policy-makers evolved.
ReplyDeletePotential contributors to the panel are encouraged to consider the following topics
- The influence of antinuclear protest on nuclear policy in the 1980s
- Popular reaction to the deployment of the ‘Euromissiles’
- European disarmament movements
- Antinuclear protest in the socialist world
- Depictions of nuclear war and environmental disaster in popular culture
Please send paper proposals and any questions to linkjm@tcd.ie and angela.santese3@unibo.it.
I am looking for papers to fill a panel that focuses on the ways that health issues and disease affect cultures and states. My own research centers on the 1918-1919 Spanish Influenza pandemic, social problems, and the growth of state power, but I am open to teaming up with anyone who researches health issues outside of the World War I time period. Please email me if you are interested or have any questions at jonathan.chilcote@uky.edu.
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ReplyDeleteI am interested in putting together a panel that focuses on migration and international relations. My work specifically deals with a provision of US immigration policy, the U.S. diversity visa lottery, that has facilitated recent African immigration and produced perceptions of American benevolence where the lottery operates. Related papers on this panel could deal with any national or international migration policies that have produced cultural transfer or transmission. Any era would do, though my paper is on the post-Cold War period. If you think we could make a fit work, please reach out - carlygoodman@gmail.com Thanks!
I am interested in assembling a panel on the United States Chancery in London (designed by Eero Saarinen; 1955-60), which is soon to be replaced by a new facility in South London. I am seeking two papers for a panel that will reconsider not only the chancery’s controversial architecture, but also the public programs and activities held in it, and the diplomatic missions that were launched and pursued in it. The SHAFR conference offers an especially interesting opportunity to bring a variety of disciplinary approaches, among them the history of American Foreign Relations, and architectural and art history, to the building and its legacy. Apologies for the late submission--I am an architectural historian new to SHAFR.
ReplyDeletePlease contact me (cammie.mcatee@gmail.com) if you are interested in participating in this session.
I am interested in joining a panel. My area of specialty is Portuguese-American Relations. I can present on a number of topics drawn from my dissertation "Shifting Alliances and Fairweather Friends: Portuguese American Relations, 1941-1951." Portugal was a neutral during World War II, but her neutrality was colored by her long-standing alliance with Great Britain. The topics I could draw from include: WWII-wolfram issue; WWII-Timor; WWII-Azores; and N.A.T.O.--Portugal as a founding member. If interested, please contact Paula Noversa Rioux at prioux@umassd.edu.
ReplyDeleteWe are looking for a commentator for an almost complete panel that brings together scholars from Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland to look at US relations with Central Europe in the 20th century.
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DeleteI would enjoy serving as commentator, if you are still looking for someone:http://www.bstu.bund.de/DE/Wissen/Forschung/Mitarbeiter/selvage.html, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/staff/douglas-selvage
We are looking for an additional panelist for a panel on U.S. and the Philippines.
ReplyDeleteThe panel is tentatively titled: Morality in America's Empire: U.S., Philippines, and Religion
If interested, please contact Mark Sanchez (mjsanch2@illinois.edu) and Tessa Wikelmann (winkelm2@illinois.edu) with your 50-100 word paper proposal.
Phil Travis (Wash State) and I (Chris Foss, University of Colorado-Boulder) are looking for an additional panelist for a panel tentatively titled "Negotiations, Nintendo, and Nicaragua: The Consequences of the Cold War in the Pacific, 1965-1990."
ReplyDeleteWe lost a panelist that had been doing a topic on Vietnam, but we'd also welcome anyone working on a late Cold War topic dealing with U.S. economic and/or general foreign relations with East Asian or Latin American countries or NGOs.
An added attraction is that we already have a chair and commentator secured. If interested, please contact me at christopher.foss@colorado.edu, or Phil at philip.travis@email.wsu.edu with a 50 to 100-word proposal.
Hi all--we have found our third panelist. Thanks to those of you who responded to Phil or I, and best of luck with your search.
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A bit late to be organizing a panel, but if anyone still needs a commentator on Cold War private or cultural diplomacy, or any aspect of 20th-century science diplomacy, I'd be happy to oblige. More on my background is available at my website. You can reach me via e-mail at audrajwolfe@gmail.com.
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