PHS at the AHA (January 4, 2025)
All three PHS-sponsored panels were well-attended: over 30 people showed up for the first panel, and approximately 20 each for the second and the third.
Peace History Society Session 1: Pacifist Internationals: Reflections on a Century of Nonviolent Activism for Peace and Justice
Chair: Wendy E. Chmielewski, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Papers:
Scott H. Bennett, Georgian Court University, "Secular Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters' International"
Catia Cecilia Confortini, Wellesley College, "Feminist Pacifism: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"
Peter Cousins, University of Granada, "Religious Radical Pacifism: The International Fellowship of Reconciliation"
David Hostetter, independent scholar, "Quaker Pacifism: The American Friends Service Committee"
Peace History Society Session 2: The Military Recruiting Crisis in Historical Context
Chair: Panel: Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy
Scott Harding, University of Connecticut
Charles F. Howlett, Molloy University
Seth Kershner, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amy Rutenberg, Iowa State University
Peace History Society Session 3: Alternatives to War in US History
Chair: Sarah Snyder, American University
Papers:
Trygve Throntveit, Minnesota Humanities Center, "The Alternative American Century"
Marc Becker, Truman State University, "Latin American Mediation of Cold War Conflicts"
Roger Peace, United States Foreign Policy History and Resource Guide, "Envisioning Common Security in the 1980s and 1990s"
PHS/ War Resisters League Exhibit Table with Ruth Benn and Frida Berrigan
PHS Executive, Board, and Speakers' Dinner
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