RMIHC Panels 2009
Saturday, September 12
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Registration/Check-in
ATLAS Building
1:30 – 3:00pm PRESENTATIONS: SESSION I
PANEL I-A: Politicized Environments: Politics, Environmental Justice, and Conservation in Twentieth-Century Europe
Room: ATLAS 1B29
Chair: Dr. David Spires, University of Colorado (History)
Commentator: Katie Friesen, University of Colorado (History)
Presentations:
Ted Rogers, University of Colorado (History)
The Once and Future Fascist: British Fascism, Royalists, and the
Abdication of Edward VIII
Martin Kalb, Northern Arizona University (History)
A Matter of Environmental Justice? The Rise of the Green Party in
Germany
Sarah Hamilton, University of Michigan (History)
Franco, the Hydraulic Paradigm, and Environmental Reality in
Spain, 1939-1975
PANEL I-B: Contesting Identities: National, Subaltern, and Individual Identities in Britain and the Commonwealth
Room: ATLAS 1B31
Chair: Dr. Myles Osborne, University of Colorado (History)
Commentator: Brian Kett, University of Colorado (History)
Presentations:
Kate Imy, University of Northern Colorado, (History)
Growing Attached to Detachment: The Generation Gap and
Perceptions of South Asia in Interwar England
Benjamin Montoya, Highline Community College, (History)
"A United Empire": Remembrance of "the Fallen" as a form of National Cohesion in post-Great War England, 1918-20
Dawn Durante, Arizona State University (English Literature)
Victorian Press Reception to the Aborigines Protection Society
PANEL I-C: Challenging Boundaries: Reflections of Race and Gender in the Americas
Room: ATLAS 104
Chair: Dr. Francisco Barbosa, University of Colorado (History)
Commentator: Lindsey Turk, University of Colorado (History)
Presentations:
Aubrey Wilder, University of Colorado (Art History)
Guided by Guadalupe: Juan Diego in the Art of New Spain
Michael Lee, University of Colorado (History)
Forgotten Alliance: Jews, Chicanos, and the Dynamics of Class and
Race in Denver, Colorado, 1967-1971
Sarah Koning, University of Illinois, (History)
No Reservations Needed: Women, the Middle Class and Public
Spaces in Mexico City, 1868-1910.
3:00pm – 3:15pm BREAK
3:15pm – 4:45pm PRESENTATIONS: SESSION II
PANEL II-A: From Munch to Marching!: Exploration in European and American Art and Literature
Room: ATLAS 104
Chair: Dr. Lucy Chester, University of Colorado (History)
Commentator: Jesus Solis
Presentations:
Cynthia Drake, University of Colorado (English Literature)
Forster’s Hybrid Spirituality and the Colonial Rhetoric in A Passage to India
Lindsey Batchman, University of Colorado (History)
The Gendered Nature of Happiness
in American Women’s Intellectual Writings, 1830-1860
PANEL II-B: European Intellectual History
Room: ATLAS 1B29
Chair: Dr. Matthew Gerber, University of Colorado (History)
Commentator: Colin Church, University of Colorado (History)
Presentations:
Amy Lotman, University of Colorado (History)
Revisiting Voltaire: Julien Benda and the Twentieth Century Through an Enlightenment Lens
Charles Cahill, University of Wisconsin (History)
Bonhoeffer as Pragmatist? A Look at the American Flavor of Bonhoeffer’s Ethics
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“Money is a sterile thing”: Martin Luther on the Immortality of Usury Reconsidered
PANEL II-C: Imperialism and Cultural Contacts
Room: ATLAS 1B31
Chair: Dr. Mary Ann Villarreal, University of Colorado (History)
Commentator: Doug Snyder, University of Colorado (History)
Presentations:
Aaron Irvin, University of California (History)
The Use of Ethnography In Tacitus’ Agricola and Germania
Brandon Mills, University of Illinois (History)
Constructing Citizens at Home and Abroad: The Racially Bounded Universalism of the Antebellum African Colonization Movement
Kirk Fatool, Purdue University (History)
Mission Impossible: Resistance and Partnership in the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in Lagos, Nigeria
6:00 – 8:00pm Dinner
(Koenig Alumni Center)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Sutter
Sunday, September 13
8:00 – 9:00am Registration/Check-in
ATLAS Building
9:00 – 10:30am PRESENTATIONS: SESSION I
PANEL I-A: Liberty, Leisure, and Loss: Land Use, Labor Contracts, and Trauma in the Rural South
Room: ATLAS 104
Chair: Dr. Ralph Mann, University of Colorado (History)
Commentator: Gene Tesdahl, University of Colorado (History)
Presentations:
Ian Draves, University of Arizona (History)
"It's Easier to Pick a Tourist Than It Is a Bale of Cotton": The Rise of Recreation on the Great Lakes of the South
Edward Andrus, University of Arkansas (History)
Contract Slavery: The Continuation of Antebellum Labor Conditions in Clark County, Arkansas
David Trout, University of Michigan (History)
Timescaping Trauma in the Early Republican West
PANEL I-B: Cold War Perspectives: 1960s and 1970s America
Room: ATLAS 1B25
Chair:
Commentator: Mike Limberg, University of Colorado (History)
Presentations:
Chris Foss, University of Colorado (History)
More Worthy Than the Rest? Comparing U.S. Press Coverage of Argentina and Poland in the Late Cold War Period
Doug Snyder, University of Colorado (History)
“Fantastic And Absurd Utterances”’: The Vietnam War And (Mis)Perceptions Of Anti-Americanism In U.S.-French Relations
Nicholas Swails, Colorado State University (History)
Détente or not Détente that is the Question: The Nixon Administration’s Response to Transnational Palestinian Terrorism in 1970
Daniel Hummel, Colorado State University (History)
"What Civlization Has Come To": Intellectualizing the Neoconservative Preoccupation with Israel in the Era of Détente
PANEL I-C: Religion and American Identity: 1800 – 1980
Room: ATLAS 1B31
Chair: Dr. Lynn Ross-Bryant, University of Colorado (Religious
Studies)
Commentator: Rachel Smith, University of Colorado (History)
Presentations:
Kara French, University of Michigan (History and Women’s Studies)
The Shakers and the Ohio Mob: Masculinity and the Limits of Citizenship in the Early American Republic
Ronit Stahl, University of Michigan (History)
Unity Without Uniformity: Ecumenicism and the American Military Chaplaincy, 1918-26
Kurt Morris, University of Massachusetts (American Studies)
“I See Some Strange People Coming To Church:”
Christian Scare Films of the 1970s
PANEL I-D: From Opera Houses to Manga: Visual Culture in
Clothing, Cartoons, and Architecture
Room: ATLAS 1B29
Chair: Dr. Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado (History)
Commentator: Lindsey Batchman, University of Colorado (History)
Presentations:
Stephanie Silberman, University of Colorado (Art History)
Feudal Japan in Modern Anime and Manga: Bleach, Naruto, and Samurai Champloo
Kaitlyn Stout, University of Denver (Art History and Museum Studies)
Dickens Opera House: Symbol for a Community
Katie Knowles, Rice University (History)
Fashioning Slavery: Slaves and Clothing in the Antebellum United States South
Alison White, University of Massachusetts (American Studies)
A Paradoxical Perspective within a Progressive Movement: Political Images from Men's Support of the Fight for Women's Suffrage
10:30am – 10:45am BREAK
10:45am – 12:15pm PRESENTATIONS: SESSION II
PANEL II-A: Culture and Politics: America’s Twentieth Century
Room: ATLAS 1B31
Chair: Dr. Mark Pittenger, University of Colorado (History)
Commentator: Rob Morrison
Presentations:
Mike Limberg, University of Colorado (History)
"Terrible Turks" to Modern Nationalists: American Discourses on Turkey, 1919-1927
Roger Robinson, University of Missouri (History)
The Constitutional Debate Over The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
Colin Church, University of Colorado (History)
Masks of Perfect Clarity: A Semiological Analysis of the Cold War Cultural Criticism of Jacques Barzun
Emily Sorsher,University of California (History)
Walt Disney: An Educator for Tomorrow(land)
PANEL II-B: Law and Order: Politics and Philosophy in England and the United Kingdom
Room: ATLAS 104
Chair: Dr. Patrick Tally, University of Colorado (History)
Commentator: Cassey Anderson, University of Colorado (History)
Presentations:
Brian Kett, University of Colorado (History)
“[T]o immortalize the Honour and Glory of Englands dreaded, and vndaunted Nation” : English Humanists and the Transition to English Humanism in the Seventeenth Century
Amy Moenning, Saint Louis University (History)
Redefining Anlo-Saxon Kingship: Alfred the Great, the Pastoral Care Model, and Asser's Life of King Alfred
Joshua Hyles, Baylor University (History)
Sneaking a Dragon Into Brussels: Can Wales Find Its Voice in Post-Devolution Britain and Europe?
PANEL II-C: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Room: ATLAS 1B29
Dr. Phoebe Kropp, University of Colorado (History)
