THURSDAY, JUNE 1
2:15-3:45pm
Session IA American Imperialism
Moderator: Glenn Blackburn, University of Virignia-Wise
Frederick Adams, Drake University: “The Strange Career of American Imperialism”
Michael G. Carew, Baruch College: “Globalization, Empire, and Imperialism in Historical Perspective: The Dilemma of American Economic Imperialism, 1929-1945”
Session IB Globalization and Public Health
Ian R. Dowbiggin, University of Prince Edward Island: “Reproductive Imperialism: Sterilization and Foreign Aid in the Cold War”
Charles L. Geshekter, California State University, Chico: “The Globalization of AIDS: On Using History to Critique Fundamentalism in Public Health”
Paul Rhode, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Alan Olmstead, University of California-Davis: “Biological Globalization”
4:00-5:30pm
Session IIA Empire, Britain, and America
Moderator: Marc Trachtenberg, UCLA
David Cannadine, The Institute of Historical Research, University of London: “Dominion, Past and Present: Empire, Britain, and America Revisited”
Session IIB Christianity, Globalization, and Imperialism
Moderator: Randall Stephens, The Historical Society
David J. Bobb, Hillsdale College: “Humility, Compassion, and Prayer: Augustine’s Radical Critique of Imperial Rule”
Glenn W. Olsen, University of Utah: “Globalization in Recent Theological Thought”
Paul Shore, Saint Louis University: “Jesuits in Eastern Europe and the Greco-Catholic Churches: Imperialism or the Union of Brethren?”
5:30-6:30pm Reception
Sponsored by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and an anonymous donor on behalf of Cambridge University Press
8:00pm PLENARY SESSION
Christopher Lasch Lecture
Linda Colley, Princeton University: “Biography across Boundaries: Global History, Imperial History, and Elizabeth Marsh”
FRIDAY, JUNE 2
8:30-10:00am
Session IA Internal Imperialism in the United States
Moderator: Donald Avery, Harford Community College
T.J. Olson, University of London: “Expanded Homesteading and the U.S. Civil War: A Case of Domestic Imperialism”
Paul Quigley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: “The Particular and the Universal in Antebellum American Nationalism: The View from the South”
Session IB The British Empire
Jay R. Mandle, Colgate University: “British Rule in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean”
Ralph Menning, University of Toledo: “’Not Often in a Giving Mood’: The Foreign Office and the Politics of Imperial Barter, 1905-1910”
Antoine Mioche, University of Versailles: “Spreading Liberty without Democracy: The Extension of the Rule of Law in the British Empire”
10:15am-11:45pm
Session IIA Representations of Empire
Moderator: Martin Arbagi, Wright State University
Patrice Ballester, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail: “The Landscape of World Fairs and International Exhibitions in the Occident, 19th, 20th, 21st Centuries: Foundation, Mirror, and Psyche of Globalization/Imperialism?”
Daniel Skinner, CUNY Hunter College: “From Athens to Baghdad: Imperialism and Its Rhetorical Artifice of Need”
Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: “Celebrating Empire: Ancient Rome in the London Tube”
Session IIB Warfare, Past and Future
William Caferro, Vanderbilt University: “War and the Debate over the Renaissance Economy”
Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology: “Why Is It That Europeans Ended Up Conquering the Rest of the Globe? The Origins of Western Europe’s Comparative Advantage in Violence”
Mark Moyar, Marine Corps University: “Military History in the 21st Century”
Session IIC The Circulation of Goods and Ideas
Moderator: Scott Marler, Rice University
Heather N. McMahon, University of Virginia: “A Modern Media Movement: The Arts and Crafts Movement as an International Trend Carried through Print Media”
Bryant Simon, Temple University: “The Flat World Up Close: Starbucks, Cultural Exchange, and Everyday Cultural Capital”
Martin V. Woessner, The City University of New York: “Coca-Cola for Camus, Hi-Fis for Heidigger: American Intellectualand Cultural History in the Age of Globalization”
11:45-1:45pm Lunch
1:45-3:15pm
Session IIIA The Beginnings of Empire
Moderator: Kimberly Kagan
Pamela K. Crossley, Dartmouth College: “Qing Imperial Beginnings”
Arthur M. Eckstein, University of Maryland: “From Informal Collaboration to Formal Administration: The Character of Rome’s Empire under the Middle Republic (338-146 B.C.)”
Kimberly Kagan, Yale University: “From State to Empire”
Frank Ninkovich, St. John’s University: “Imperialism, Globalism, and Empire in U.S. Foreign Relations”
Session IIIB Definitions of Empire
Patrick A. Cavaliere, University of New Brunswick: “Race, Imperialism, and Empire in Fascist Italy: The Jewish Question Revisited”
Linda S. Frey, University of Montana and Marsha L. Frey, Kansas State University: “The Rhetoric of Fraternity, the Reality of Conquest: The French Revolutionary Empire”
John M. Headley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: “Of Empire and Its Corollary Civilization (1500-1800)”
3:30-5:00pm
Session IVA British Imperial Thought
Moderator: Joseph Lucas, The Historical Society
C. Brad Faught, Tyndale University College: “An Imperial Iconoclast: W.E.Gladstone, the Rights of Small States and Beleagured Peoples, and the Roots of Modern Internationalism”
Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs, University of Florida: “‘Stretched Even to the Ends of the Earth’: Fraternalism, Imperialism, and Globalization”
Timo Särkkä, University of Jyvaskyla: “J.A. Hobson’s Paradigm of Imperialism: British Liberal Attitudes to the South African War (1899-1902)”
Session IVB Economics and Public Policy
Moderator: David L. Carlton, Vanderbilt University
Tilak K. Doshi, Dubai Metals & Commodities Centre: “Oil and Globalization: Themes in the Historical Development of an Industry”
Andrew A. Keeling, University of California, Berkeley: “Transport Capacity Management and Transatlantic Migration, 1900-1914”
R. Bin Wong, UCLA: “Social Theory, Economic History, and Public Policy: Some Chinese Connections”
5:15-6:30pm PLENARY SESSION
Moderator: Donald Yerxa, Editor, Historically Speaking
Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia: “Moving on to Multiplicity: An Africanist's Reflections on the Singularities of ‘History’ as We Have Known It”
8:00pm Performance: Shakespeare Goes Global
SATURDAY, JUNE 3
9:00-10:30am
Session IA Globalization: Its Origins and Progress
Dennis O. Flynn, University of the Pacific: “Born Again: Modern Globalization’s 16th-Century Origins”
Carl Pletsch, University of New Haven: “Is ‘Globalization’ the Vaunted ‘New World Order’?”
Robbie Robertson, University of the South Pacific: “The Quiet Revolution: Globalization, Imperialism, and Development”
Session IB Moderate Conservatism in the Postwar Period: Britain, Germany, Italy, and the U.S.
Moderator: Douglas Forsyth, Bowling Green State University
Roy P. Domenico, University of Scranton: “A Christian Alternative: Catholic Cultural Politics in Italy, 1948-1962”
Maria Mitchell, Franklin & Marshall College: “Moderate Conservatism in the Federal Republic: The Christian Democratic Union”
David Stebenne, Ohio State University: “The American ‘Middle Way’: Moderate Conservatism in the Postwar Period”
10:45am-12:15pm
Session IIA Rethinking Globalization
Teresa Miriam Van Hoy, University of Houston: “One Century of Guano History, 1863-1963”
John Marriott, University of East London: “Imperial Modernity as Globalization: London and Calcutta in the 19th Century”
Session IIB National Politics in a Global Era
Moderator: Jeffrey Vanke, Independent Scholar
Richard Gilman-Opalsky, New School University: “Narrowing the Focus, Role, and Understanding of Political Public Spheres to a National Framework: An Historical and Theoretical Account”
Robert E. Herzstein, University of South Carolina, Columbia: “Alfred Kohlberg: Counter-Subversion in the Global Struggle against Communism, 1944-1960”
Timothy N. Thurber, Virginia Commonwealth University: “Goldwaterism Triumphant?: Race and the Debate Among Republicans over the Direction of the GOP, 1964-1968”
Session IIC Asia, Industrialization, and Foreign Capital
Richard J. Grace, Providence College: “Can a Drug Dealer Also Be a Nice Guy?”
Amar J. Nayak, Xavier Institute of Management: “Globalization of Foreign Direct Investment in India, 1900-2000”
Debin Ma, London School of Economics: “Treaty Ports and Industrialization in 19-20th Century China”
12:15-1:45pm Lunch
Phi Alpha Theta Luncheon
Peter Klassen, California State University, Fresno: “Poland, Pioneer of Freedom in Early Modern Europe”
1:45-3:15pm
Session IIIA America and Globalization
Moderator: Pete Banner-Haley, Colgate University
Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Louis Kyriakoudes, University of Southern Mississippi: “Selling Which South? Development Strategy and Economic Change in the Era of Globalization, North Carolina, 1950-2000”
Michael Dennis, Acadia University: “All in the Name of Global Competition: Americans and the Rage for Downsizing”
Session IIIB America and Europe
Moderator: Joyce Malcolm, NEH/Bentley College
Sam W. Haynes, University of Texas, Arlington: “‘Conflicting Sensations’ and the National Sense of Self: Anti-British Sentiment in the Early Republic”
Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University: “Alliance, Empire, or Something In-Between: Henry Kissinger and the American Role in Europe”
3:30-5:00pm
Session IVA American Identities
Moderator: John Wilson, Books and Culture
Glenn T Mitoma, Independent Scholar: “American Empire and the Globalization of Human Rights: The Cases of Charles H. Malik and Carlos P. Romulo”
Thomas F. O’Brien, University of Houston: “The American Mission of Globalization”
Session IVB Empires in Asia
David M. Gordon, CUNY, Graduate Center: “Inching Toward Globalization: France, China, and Southeast Asia, 1940-1950”
Spencer A. Leonard, University of Chicago: “A Fit of Absence of Mind? Ideology and Interest in the East India Company’s Conquest of Bengal”
Caroline Hui-yu Ts’ai, Academia Sinica: “Colonial Governance in Taiwan under Japanese Rule, 1895-1945: With Specific Notes on Wartime Taiwan in Modern Japan’s Empire-Making”
5:15-6:30pm PLENARY SESSION
Deepak Lal, UCLA: “Empires and Order”