The Peace History Society

 “Peace Activism and Scholarship:  Historical Perspectives of Social, Economic, and Political Change”

  November 3-5, 2005

  Winthrop University , Rock Hill , SC

  Thursday November 3, 2005

 Board Meeting: 6 pm-8 pm

 Reception: 8 pm-9:15 pm     Winthrop Conference Center Lobby

  Friday November 4, 2005

 9 am—General Meeting

 Opening Remarks:  Mitch Hall , PHS President

  9:30-11 am         

PHS Roundtable: “Straddling Two Worlds: Historians Grapple with Their Work in the Academy and on the Streets” ( Baruch Room – Conference Center )

• “Combining Work as an Historian and Activist: A Personal Account” -   Lawrence Wittner, State University of New York

•  “A History without a History: What I learned as a Historian Studying My Activist Roots” - Marian Mollin, Virginia Tech University

•  “The Historian as Activist (and vise versa): Researching and Writing a ‘Relevant’ History of U.S. Foreign Relations” - Brad Simpson, University of Maryland , Baltimore County

•  “Seeking a Place in the Middle: Plotting a Path to Becoming a Scholar Activist” - Virginia Williams, Winthrop University

1:30-3 pm

1. Academics Challenge Militarism ( Baruch Room – Conference Center )

• “ Ethics in the Classroom: Academic Freedom in a time of war” - Sharon Jumper, Walden University

•  “The Role of the Academy in ‘The Struggle Against the Bomb: 1945-present” - Dorothy Sulock, University of North Carolina At Asheville

 Commentator:  Chris Van Aller, Winthrop University

2. Women Activists in the 19^th Century (Thurmond 208)

• “The Quaker Lady and the Young Frenchmen: Prisilla Peckover’s Role in the French Peace Movement” - Michael Clinton, Gwynedd-Mercy College 

• “The Interplay of Writing, Renown, and Reforms in the Career of L. Maria Child” - Tisa M. Anders, Independent Scholar

 Commentator:  

3. Social movements, Anti-imperialism, and Radicalism (Thurmond 308)

• “The Road to Social Justice and Peace in Vieques: Achievements of Today and Models for Tomorrow” - Pia Saunders , Vieques, Puerto Rico

• “Radical Flanks in U.S. Anti-War Movements: A Comparative Analysis” - Stephen Samuel Smith, Winthrop University

Commentator: E. Timothy Smith, Barry University

 3:30-5:00 pm

1.      Print Culture and Peace Activism (Thurmond 208)

•  “Peace Activists Among Writers of Norwegian Textbooks on Modern History” - Frode Lindgjerdet, Independent Scholar

•  “An Unarmed Propaganda of Truth’: Print Culture and American Pacifism in the 1920s and 1930s” - Joselph Kip Kosek, Yale University

•  “Protest, Cyberactivism and New Social Movements: The Reemergence of Protest Movements in the Face Movement Post 9/11” -    Victoria Carty , Niagara University

Commentator:  Charles Howlett, Molloy College

 2.      Gender and Activism (Thurmond 308)  

• “Scientist, Pacifist: The Life Work of Kathleen Lonsdale” - Rachael Waltner Goossen, Washburn University

•  “Planning for Peace: Virginia Gildersleeve at the United Nations Conference on International Organization” - Christy Snider, Berry College

•  “Speak Truth to Power: Quaker Scholarship, Race, and Sexuality During the Cold War” - Wendy Chmielewski , Swarthmore College

 Commentator:  Jennifer Disney, Winthrop University  

3.      Anti-Imperialism in Asia ( Baruch Room – Conference Center )

• “Opposing Imperialism in Guam and Indonesia After World War II: The Work of Scholar/Activists Laura Thompson and Raymond Kennedy” - Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University

• “The Orange Colored Poison: The Continuing US Ecological Assault on the Children of Vietnam ” - Robert J. Topmiller, Eastern Kentucky University

• “Interrupting the Cycle of militarism: The Japanese Case as a Lesson for 21^st-century America ” - Francis H. Conroy, Brulington County College and F. Hilary Conroy, University of Pennsylvania (emeritus)

Commentator:  Ed Haynes, Winthrop University

Banquet, 7 pm - Tuttle Dining Room (McBride Hall)

Welcome:  Dr. Tom Moore, Academic V.P., Winthrop University

Presentation of the Scott Bills Prize:  E. Timothy Smith, Barry University

Introduction of the Keynote Speaker:  Virginia Williams, Winthrop University

Keynote Speaker: Fr. Roy Bourgeois, M.M., Founder of School of the Americas Watch

Saturday, November 5, 2005

9:30-11 am           

1.      From Women’s Suffrage to Human Rights: Women’s Peace Initiatives in the 20^th Century (Thurmond 208)

• “Women Activists: Linking Women’s Rights and Peace since 1914” - Prudence A. Moylan, Loyola University Chicago

• “Peace Organizing in the Heartland: Woman’s Peace Party Activism in Cincinnati , Minneapolis , and Grinnell, Iowa, 1915-1917” - Barbara Steinson, DePauw University

      Commentator:  Lynne Dunn, Winthrop University

    2.      Social Activists Confront Economic Violence (Thurmond 308)  

• “The World Economic Forum:  A Scholarly Perspective” - Marc Becker , Truman State University  

• “ Winthrop University Study Trip to Chiapas , Mexico ” - April Gordon, Jennifer Disney, Hollie Blake , and Jared Funderburk  

            Commentator:  Roger Peace, Florida State University

  1:30-3:00 pm  

1.      Peace Theory in an Anti-Intellectual Age (Thurmond 208)  

• “The Rise of Anti-intellectualism as an Antidote to Social-Political Activism” - Thomas Fiutak, University of Minnesota  

• “If democracy were synonymous with humanity there would be no need for any foreign policy’: Reflections on Democracy and Lasting Peace During World War I” - Carl Bouchard, Universite du Quebec a Montreal  

Commentator: Michael Lipscomb, Winthrop University

    2.      Campus Peace Activism and the Vietnam War ( Baruch Room – Conference Center)  

• “The Vietnam Era Peace Movement at Central Michigan University ” - Mitchell Hall, Central Michigan University  

• “Antiwar Activism at Indiana University ” - Mary Ann Wynkoop, University of Missouri-Kansas City

• “Southern Dissent: The 1970 Protests at the University of South Carolina ” - Andrew Grose , Winthrop University       

Commentator: Kenneth Heineman, Ohio University-Lancaster

3.      Christian Peace Activism (Thurmond 308)  

• “The ‘Good War’ and Baptists Who Refused to Fight It” - Paul R. Dekar, Memphis Theological Seminary  

• “Getting History Right:  The Precursors to ‘The Challenge of Peace’ and Their Present Implications” - Todd David Whitmore, University of Notre Dame  

Commentator:  LeDayne Polaski, Conference Coordinator, Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America

  3:30-5 pm

    1.      American Activists and Cultural Constructions of Africa (Thurmond 208)  

• “Mixing Nigerian Cocktails: American Cultural Constructions of Nigeria in the 1960s” - Larry Grubbs, University of Georgia  

• “’An International alliance of People of all Nations Against Racism’: Nonviolence and Solidarity in the Antiapartheid Activism of the American Committee on Africa , 1952-1965” - David Hostetter, Director of Research and Programs, Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Shepherd University

• “ African Universities and the Adoption of Peace, Justice, and Conflict Resolution in the Curriculum” - Pefok Dingana Collins, Yaounde Cameroon  

Commentator:  Opolot Okia, Winthrop University  

2.      Dissent and Resistance in the Vietnam Era and Beyond ( Baruch Room )

•   “Action and Assessment in the First Generation of Writing about U.S. Vietnam War Resisters in Canada ” - Joseph Jones, University of British Columbia  

• “The Blossoming Seeds of the Sixties: Peace Activism at British and American Universities in the 1970s” - Carrie Hoefferle, Wingate University  

• “Voices of Protest Against War in the 1960s: Bob Dylan and Joan Baez” - Diana Soteropoulos, Winthrop University  

Commentator:  Michael Foley, College of Staten Island , CUNY  

3.      Peace Initiatives in Wartime (Thurmond 308)  

• “Peace Initiatives during the First World War: A Typology” - E. Peter Fitzgerald, Carleton University  

• “British Public Opinion, Lord Shelburne and the Peace of Paris , 1781-1782” - Rory T. Cornish, Winthrop University  

            Commentator:   Lawrence Wittner, State University of New York at Albany