Peace History Society

Presenters: Francis College, Neumann College and Burlington County College: Softer Realism, More Inclusive Dialogue: Hilary Conroy with Sophie Quinn Judge on Avoiding Pacific War, 1898-1966
Laura Kathryn Baines, Boston College: Under the Eyes of God: Religion, Southerners, and the Civil War
Robert McParland, Felician College: Overcoming Abstraction through Dialogue: Thomas Merton’s Struggle with Peacemaking

Engendering the Nation-State in Times of War and Peace
Moderator: Kevin J. Callahan, Saint Joseph College

Presenters: Edward Price, University College London: From Insipid Warrior to Helpless Passivity: Germany’s Changing Gender Roles in War and Peace 1914-1920
James J. Kimble, Seton Hall University: “Uncle Sam’s Fist” and “the Soft Underbelly of Europe”: Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Allied Personification in World War II
Daniel Conway, University of Bristol, UK: Contesting the Masculine State: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa

10:30-10:45: Break and Coffee

Plenary Session I: 10:45-12:30

The Peace History Society: A History and Analysis by Some of Its Early Leaders
Discussants:
Berenice Carroll, Purdue University
Charles Chatfield, Wittenberg University
Blanche Wiesen Cook, John Jay College and Graduate Center of CUNY
Sandi Cooper, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center of CUNY
Arthur Waskow, Shalom Center, Philadelphia
Larry Wittner, State University of New York, Albany

12:45-2:15: Lunch and Presentation of Awards

Panels: 2:15- 3:45

Women, Peace and Justice on Broadway
Moderator: Scott Irelan, Illinois State University

Presenters: Harriet Alonso, The City College of New York, CUNY: Robert E. Sherwood: Women, War and Peace on the Interwar Broadway Stage
Anne Fletcher, Southern Illinois University: Depression, War, Kitty Duval and Women in The Time of Your Life
Robbie Lieberman, Southern Illinois University: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?: FBI Surveillance of Lorraine Hansberry, 1951-1965

Gender, Conflict Mediation, and the Politics of Peace
Moderator: Berenice Carroll, Purdue University

Presenters: Wendy E. Chmielewski, Swarthmore College Peace Collection: Peace and Politics: The Role of Women in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Exchange of “Friendly Addresses”
Virginia Iris-Holmes, California Institute of Technology: Making Peace between Arabs and Jews: Einstein’s Creative, Sincere, Persistent Responses to Palestine 1929
Lynn M. Kutch, Kutztown University: Like Agamemnon and Clytemnestra: Ilse Langner’s Gendered Perspective on the Politics of War and the Prospects of Peace

3:45-4:00: Break and Coffee

Panels: 4:00-5:30

Gender, Self-Immolation, and the Soldier Experience in the Cold War and Vietnam War Era
Moderator: Kathleen Kennedy, Western Washington University

Presenters: David Hostetter, Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies: A Hunger for Peace: Dorothy Hutchinson, Lawrence Scott and Fasting to Confront the Cold War
Robert Topmiller, Eastern Kentucky University: Fighting for Reconciliation: Female Activism in Wartime South Vietnam
Karen Turner, Holy Cross College: There Are No Heroes: Vietnamese Female Soldiers in War and Peace

Gender and the Social Costs of War in American Military History
Moderator: Charles Howlett, Molloy College

Presenters: Mark Stepsis, Fordham University: The Costs of Combat: Paying for Civil War Soldiers’ Service
Melissa Ziobro: “The Simple Headquarters of a Grant or Lee Were Gone Forever:”: Gender Integration as an Exigency of Modern Warfare
Eric Stephen Singer, American University: Cold War, Gender and the Baltimore Freeway Revolt

5:45-6:45 Wine/Beer Hour.: Larry Wittner—on the banjo—singing peace & justice songs (audience participation).
7:00-8:00 Banquet and Awards
8:00-10:00 Screening of Documentary Film: “The Camden 28”: Followed by discussion with Anthony Giachinno, the film’s director, and members of the Camden 28 who raided a Camden draft board in 1971

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2007

8:00-8:30 Breakfast

Panels: 8:30-10:00

Peace, Justice and Prisoners: North American Women Confront War in the Twentieth Century
Moderator: Susan Zeiger, Regis College

Presenters: Heather Fryer, Creighton University: “Notes from a ‘Fanatic’”: A Chronicle of Gendered Rage, Divided Loyalty, and an Anthropologist’s Elusive Quest for Justice on the American Homefront
Suzanne K. McCormack, Community College of Rhode Island: ‘One of the shakiest, unnerving experiences’: A Community Organizer meets US POWs in 1967 Hanoi
Frances Early, Mount Saint Vincent University: Re-Imaging War: The Voice of Women of Canada and the Opposition to the Vietnam War

The Role of Identity in Women’s Peace Activism
Moderator: Marian B. Mollin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Presenters: Christy Jo Snider, Berry College: Mary Emma Woolley and the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference
Prudence Moylan, Loyola University Chicago: Making the Connection between Gender Equality, Disarmament and Peace in the Interwar Years 1918-1938
Joyce Blackwell, Saint Augustine College: “I Am a Peace Warrior”: Erna Prather Harris and Peace Reform Activities in the Black and Jewish Communities, 1956-1985

10:00-10:15 Break and Coffee

Plenary Session II: 10:15-11:45

Future Directions in Gender and Peace History: The American Example
Moderator: Frances Early, Mount Saint Vincent University

Participants: Ian Lekus: Tufts University: Do Anti-Militarists Have Balls? Masculinity in the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
Ruth Alexander, Colorado State University: The Intentions of Cold War Internationalist Women: Their Language and Movement through Geopolitical Space
Kathleen Kennedy, Western Washington University: Thinking about Just War, Savagery and Gender in Popular Culture: The Case of Xena Warrior Princess

Lunch: 12:00-1:15

Panels: 1:30-3:00

Gender, Human Rights and the Law
Moderator: Scott H. Bennett, Georgian Court University

Presenters: Gregory F. Walsh, Boston College: Gender and the New Jersey Council of Safety during the American Revolution
Kerstin Nordlöf, Mid Sweden University: The Comparative Aspects of Gender Governing Protected Witnesses
Farhad Malekian, Institute of International Criminal Law, Sweden: The Miserable Wedding of Positivism and Naturalism

Gender and Peace Initiatives during World War I
Moderator: Sandi Cooper, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center of CUNY

Presenters: E. P. Fitzgerald, Carleton University: The Missions of Berta Szeps-Zukerkandl to Switzerland in 1917: An Episode in Personal Peace Diplomacy during the First World War
David S. Patterson, Independent Scholar: Women’s Activism and Citizen and Wilsonian Diplomacy in World War I
Brigitte Rath, University of Vienna: Olga Misař: A Feminist Peace Movement Protagonist during the First World War and until 1938
Barbara J. Steinson, Depauw University: Contested Meanings of Women’s Opposition to War: Rethinking the 1915 International Congress of Women at The Hague

3:00-3:15: Break and Coffee

Panels: 3:15-4:45

Gender, Vietnam Draft Resistors and Constructing Identities of Peace Activists in the Popular Press
Moderator: Charles Chatfield, Wittenberg University

Presenters: Trond Nerland, Hedmark University College, Norway: Selective Conscientious Objection and the Just War Tradition in the American Press during the Vietnam War Era
Joseph Jones, Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver: Women in the Vietnam-Era Exile Movement as Reflected in the Pages of Amex-Canada Magazine
Laura Adams Knudson, Texas Woman’s University: Peace Activist or Anti-War Radical: Media Representations of Cindy Sheehan

Gender, Social Movements, and the Struggle for Social Justice
Moderator: Virginia Williams, Winthrop University

Presenters: Marc Becker, Truman State University: Constructing Women’s Suffrage in Ecuador’s 1944-1945 Constituent Assembly
Andrea Estepa, Oberlin College: Redefining “Survival”: Women Strike for Peace’s Campaign for Economic and Racial Justice at Home during the Vietnam War Years
Martin Halpern, Henderson State University: ‘Open It Up or Shut It Down’: Peace Activists, Women’s Liberationists, Trade Unionists and the 1970 University of Michigan Black Action Movement Strike

Open Business Meeting: 5:00-6:00

All PHS members invited

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