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3:30-6:00 p.m. Registration
Location: University Hall Commons
4:30–6:00 p.m. PHS Board Meeting
Location: University Hall W204
6:00–8:00 p.m. Welcome Reception
Location: Assumption Hall
7:30 a.m. Registration Opens
Location: University Hall Commons
7:30 a.m. Exhibits Open
WRL100 1923-2023
Location: University Hall Commons
Friends in Peace, Friends in Protest: The American Friends Service Committee
Co-Curated by: Don Davis (AFSC), David Hostetter (PHS), and James Davey & Ines Monsalve (GMercyU)
Location: Keiss Library & Learning Center
8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Publications & Organizations Fair
Location: University Hall Commons
8:00–8:30 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
Location: University Hall W105
8:45–10:15 a.m. Session One
Panel 1: Confronting Nuclear Danger from Hiroshima to Fukushima (CANCELLED)
Panel 2: Non-Alignment, Neutrality, and the Promotion of Peace during the Cold War
Christian Peterson (chair)
Che Guevara, Non-Alignment, and Peace through Anti-Imperialism
Aidan Ratchford
Antifascism, Disarmament and Non-Alignment: Yugoslav Partisan Veterans as Agents for Peace
Tina Filipovi?
Peace, Disarmament, and Defence System: Neutral and Non-Aligned European States during the Cold War
Ana Kladnik
Location: Connelly Faculty Center Tiered Classroom
Panel 3: Memorializing & Symbolizing Peace
Wendy Chmielewski (chair)
The Art of Dissent and Peacebuilding
Deborah Buffton
The Politics of Memory: Campus Martyr Memorials
Jenna Altomonte & Todd Rowan
The Tank as a Symbol of War – and Peace?
Laura Haendel
Where Peace Makers, Peace Movements and Museums Meet: On Empathy and Negotiating Peace Through Antiquities from Yemen Abroad
Alexander Nagel
Location: University Hall W204
10:15–10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m.– 12:00 p.m. Session Two
Panel 4: Cold War Antinuclear Protest in Word and Deed
Paul Rubinson (chair)
“We do not wish to be defiant”: Anti-Civil Defense Protests 1955–1962
Alexandra Southgate
Exposing Shelters: The Antinuclear Activism and Poetry of CND's Pat
Arrowsmith
Isabel Cook
Chains of Production, Chains of Protest: Women’s Peace Camps: 1980-2000
Shelley Rose
NATO-Double-Track-Decision, the German Peace Movement, and the Reaction of German Authors
Julia Trumpold
Location: University Hall E107
Panel 5: Christian Witness for Peace and Justice in the Twentieth Century
David Hostetter (chair)
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Century of Jehovah's Witness Peace Testimony
Gary Perkins
Abandoning Peace in War: The Militarism Debate in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
John Laaman
The Christian-Humanist Peace Praxis of Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr: From Protest to Movements
Peter Cousins
Location: Connelly Faculty Center Tiered Classroom
Panel 6: Peacemaking in the Global Cold War
Brian Mueller (chair)
Latin American Mediation of Cold War Conflicts
Marc Becker
The Global Dimensions of Protests for Peace during the Nigerian Civil War,
1967-1970
Oluchukwu Ignatus Onianwa
Joanne Landy and the Campaign for Peace and Democracy—East and West's Transnational Struggle for a "Détente from Below," 1982-1991
Christian Peterson
Location: University Hall W204
12:00–2:00 p.m. Lunch
Location: Waldron Griffinaerie
2:00–3:30 p.m. Plenary Session One
A Peaceful Superpower: A Roundtable Conversation about the World’s Largest Antiwar Movement
Robert Shaffer (moderator)
David Cortright
Carolyn Eisenberg
Kate Hudson
Jonathan Hutto
Location: University Hall W105
3:30–3:45 p.m. Break
3:45 –5:15 p.m. Session Three
Panel 7: Reconsidering Nuclear Disarmament Activism in the Late Cold War and Beyond
Toshihiro Higuchi (chair)
“Three Megatons of ‘Peace’: The MX Missile Controversy and the Meaning of
Survival in the Late Cold War
Henry Maar
Moral Democracy and Victorian Values: British Disarmament Debates in the 1980s
Anthony Eames
Occupied Skies: US Military Tests and Indigenous Sovereignty in the Late 20th Century
Andrew Ross
Location: University Hall E107
Panel 8: Defiant Ones: American Activists Against War and Imperialism in the 20th Century
Tracy K'Meyer (chair)
From the Anti-Imperialist League to the Central America Movement
Roger Peace
Amos Pinchot: Patrician for Peace
David Patterson
Catholics Supporting the Cuban Revolution: Dorothy Day in 1962, Betty Campbell and Peter Hinde in 1989
Gail Presbey
Location: Connelly Faculty Center Tiered Classroom
Panel 9: Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History
Scott Bennett (chair)
Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History
Jerry Elmer
WWII COs: Germfask CPS: The Alcatraz Camp
Jane Kopecky
Military Resistance is Conscience in Action
Chris Lombardi
Location: University Hall W204
5:30 –6:30 p.m. PHS Membership Meeting & Awards Presentations
Location: University Hall E107
8:00–8:30 p.m. Voices of Gwynedd Performance
Location: University Hall W105
8:30-10:00 p.m. Keynote Address
“How Does Civil Rights History Help Us—and Not—in Understanding What We’re Facing Now?”
George Lakey
Location: University Hall W105
8:00 a.m. Registration Opens
Location: University Hall Commons
8:00 a.m. Exhibits Open
WRL100 1923-2023
Location: University Hall Commons
Friends in Peace, Friends in Protest: The American Friends Service Committee
Co-Curated by: Don Davis (AFSC), David Hostetter (PHS), and James Davey & Ines Monsalve (GMercyU)
Location: Keiss Library & Learning Center
8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Publications & Organizations Fair
Location: University Hall Commons
8:45–10:15 a.m. Session Four
Panel 10: Protesting & Resisting War and Fascism, 1919-1945
Christy Snider (chair)
Campaigning for a Feminist Peace: WILPF’s Activism between the World Wars
Clara-Anna Egger
For Civil Liberties and Against Fascism: The 1933 Far East Anti-War Congress
Ke Ren
Location: University Hall E107
Panel 11: Responses to the Russian-Ukrainian War
Ana Kladnik (chair)
Facing a War-Time Challenge: U.S. Peace and Progressive Organizations React to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, 2022
Robert Shaffer
Conscientious Objection and Draft Evasion in Ukraine during the Russian-
Ukrainian War
Yurii Latysh
The New Era of Hacktivism: Blurring the Line between Violence and Non-
Violence in the Ukrainian Cyberwar
Jared Matthew Wright
Location: Connelly Faculty Center Tiered Classroom
Panel 12: Contemporary Peace Activism in Global Practice (CANCELLED)
10:15–10:30 a.m. Break
10:30–12:00 p.m. Plenary Session Two
War Resisters League, 1923-2023: A Century of Revolutionary Nonviolent Activism for Peace & Justice
Scott Bennett (moderator)
Mandy Carter
Ed Hedemann
Matt Meyer
Joanne Sheehan
Location: University Hall W105
12:00–2:00 p.m. Lunch
Location: Waldron Griffinaerie
2:00–3:30 p.m. Session Five
Panel 13: War Tax Resistance Beyond Thoreau
Ed Hedemann (chair)
Ruth Benn
Betsy Corner & Randy Kehler
Lincoln Rice
Location: University Hall E107
Panel 14: Swords into Plowshares: Catholic Opposition to the Bomb
David Cortright (chair)
Catholic Opposition to Nuclear Weapons: The Legacies of Megan Rice, SHCJ, and Drew Christiansen, SJ
Carole Sargent
The Nuns, the Priests, and the Bomb: Documenting Plowshares Protest & Protestors
Helen Young
Reflections of a Plowshares Protestor
Steve Baggarly
Location: University Hall W204
Panel 15: Case Studies of Nonviolence & Peaceful Resistance
Gail Presbey (chair)
Foundation for Change: The Pacifist Research Bureau and the Implementation of Nonviolence
David Hostetter
Seeding Global Nonviolence: How Transnational Activists Cross Pollinated Radical Approaches to Peace during the American War in Vietnam
Erica Fugger
Peaceful Resistance: A Case Study of Kosovo
Jusuf Salih
Location: Connelly Faculty Center Tiered Classroom
3:30–3:45 a.m. Break
4:00–5:30 p.m. Session Six
Panel 16: Movements for Peace, Justice, and Internationalism in Europe, 1889–1914
Deborah Buffton (chair)
Forging Peace and Internationalism: The Example of Austrian Socialist Victor Adler during the Second International, 1889-1914
Kevin Callahan
The International Peace Bureau and the Labour Movement 1891-1914: Agency and Relationships within the Peace Struggle
Fredrik Egefur
The Watershed Years: Suffrage, Feminism and Peace in Britain 1908-1914
Jóhanna Jochumsdóttir
Location: University Hall E107
Panel 17: Confronting American Cold War Interventionism in Vietnam and Central America
Roger Peace (chair)
Preventative Medicine & the Vietnam War: Doctors’ Debates over Care of Injured Children
Theresa Keeley
Forgotten Front: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement at Community Colleges
Seth Kershner
From Rambo to Gandhi: Veterans Fighting for Peace in Central America in the
1980s
Brian Mueller
Location: University Hall W204
Panel 18: Teaching Peace
Shelley Rose (chair)
“This Place Have Been in a Mess”: Using Place-Based Sources to Teach about the History of Non-Violent Protests and Social Justice
Christy Jo Snider
Teaching Peace History Through Tribunal Documentation
Janet Gerson
Forward Into Memory: A Mnemotechnics of Peace and Justice History
Hope Elizabeth May
Location: Connelly Faculty Center Tiered Classroom
5:30-6:00 p.m. Farewell Remarks
Location: University Hall W105