PANELS SESSION I

I-A. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON COLD WAR POLICY
Chair: Tom Zeiler, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Andy DeRoche, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

George Kennan and God: An Odd Pairing in the Fight Against Communism
Alan Bearman, Department of History, Kansas State University

Partnership Diplomacy: Towards a New Understanding of Eisenhower's Foreign Policies
Jessica Martin, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Ideological and Policy Origins of the Internet, 1957-1965
Andrew Russell, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

I-B. REVISITING THE ART AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Chair: Ronald Bernier, Department of Art History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Diana Williams, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Art of Seduction in "The Franklin's Tale"
Nadja Pisula-Litoff, Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder

Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Complexities of Reform, Defense, and Moderation
Devin Hunter, Department of History, University of Colorado at Denver

Herrad of Landsberg
Angela Feres, Department of History, San Diego State University

I-C. URBAN SPACE AND LANDSCAPE IN IMAGE AND EXPERIENCE
Chair: Erika Doss, Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Todd Coulter, Department of Theatre/Dance, University of Colorado at Boulder

"A Simple Variation on a Theme": Image, Text and Signification in Ed Ruscha's Early Work
Lisa Pasquariello, Department of Art History, Stanford University

Come and Go: Los Angeles, Mobility, and Resistance to Imperial Hegemony
Eric Rekeda, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Breaking the Frame: (Re)Visions of American Identity in the Landscape Photography of Judy Dater and Ansel Adams
Anna Marley, Department of Art History, University of Southern California

I-E. RELIGION, BIOGRAPHY, AND POPULAR CULTURE
Chair: Martha Hanna, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Mark Matera, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Women, Witches, Sex, and Violence: Witchcraft in Early Modern England and Scotland
1560 to 1730
Gwendollyn Ulrich-Schlumbohm, Department of History, San Diego State University

History and Religion: The Holocaust in the Work of Elie Wiesel
Hélène P. Buteux, Department of History, University of Central Arkansas

The Early History of Japanese Animation: Technology, Animation, and Popular Culture
Masatoshi Tominaga, Graduate School of Education, Culture, and Society, University of Pennsylvania

PANELS SESSION II

II-A. LAW AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Chair: Marjorie McIntosh, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Jennifer McNabb, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Negotiation of Space in Early Stuart Parish Churches: Evidence from the Cheshire Consistory Courts
Susan Guinn-Chipman, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

He's a Whore; She's a Bully: Nontraditional Defamation in Sixteenth Century Cheshire
Beth Kovacs, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Mutabilitie Stripped: An Analysis of Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos with Regard to English Common Law
Maren Donley, Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder

II-B. PROGRESSIVISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER OVER NATURE
Chair: Mark Pittenger, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Christine DeVries, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

"The Boy had become a Man": Boys, Hunting, Wildlife Conservation, and Masculinity in Progressive Era America
Erik Loomis, Department of History, University of New Mexico

Conservation through Efficiency: Mormons, Farmers, and the Utah Agricultural College, 1895-1925
Jesse Schrier, Department of History, Utah State University

Food Safety Related Trade Disputes in the Nineteenth-Century, Transatlantic World
Justin Kastner, Department of Food Science, The Food Safety Network, University of Guelph

II-C. WOMEN’S ACTS, GENDERED IDENTITIES
Chair: Anne Marie Pois, Women’s Studies Program, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Allison Wickens, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tao-ing the Painted Houses of Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Morocco: Gender, Islam and the Decoration of Private Spaces
Marsha Robinson, Department of History, Ohio State University

The Musical Impulse of the Ibsen Female: A Feminist Exploration of Dance as an Instrument of Will, Liberation and Exceedance in Modern Drama
Pamyla Stiehl, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Many Faces of a Plains Indian Grandmother
Anne Dotter, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas and University of Strasbourg

II-D. EXERCISES OF EMPIRE: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL POLITICS
Chair: Noel Lenski, Department of Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Todd Upton, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Appius Claudius Caecus: Patrician and Politician
Amanda Coles, Department of Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder

Justinian and King Arthur: The Sixth Century Evidence for Diplomatic Contact between Byzantium and Britain
Christopher Bowles, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow

The Collapse of the Nahua Empire: A Study of the Weakness of Over-Expansion
Jennifer Freitas, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

II-E. RECONFIGURATIONS OF THE POST-WORLD WAR II ORDER IN EUROPE
Chair: Max Friedman, Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Nancy Brown, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Green Challenge to American Hegemony
Kristin Ahlberg, Department of History, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Selective Memory and Amnesia: Jewish Art Collections in France, 1940 to the Present
Elizabeth Karlsgodt, Department of History and Institute of French Studies, New York University

Romania: A Kidnapped Revolution and the History of a Pseudo-Transition
Chris Ivanes, Department of History, University of Memphis

PANELS SESSION III

III-A. STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE AND REDEFINITION IN LATIN AMERICAN CONTEXTS
Chair: Robert Ferry, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Tom Romero, Department of History and School of Law, University of Michigan

Puppet or Politician? Carlos Castillo Armas and the Guatemalan Labour Movement
Anne Lefever, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Philosophy of Reasoning: The Rastafari of Jamaica
Jeanne Christensen, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Los Pastores of Peru: Domination and Resistance in Northwestern Colorado
Eric Larson, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

III-B. RELIGION, RITUAL, AND REFORM
Chair: Ira Chernus, Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Kathleen Mulhern, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Potential of Cross-Cultural Ritual Studies: Muslim and Christian Death Rituals
Eric Giles, Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder

Order Amongst the Masses: John Pintard and the Hope for Piety and Tradition in the Early Republican Era
Thomas Smith, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Swedenborgianism and Nineteenth-Century L. Maria Child
Tisa Anders, Department of Religion and Social Change, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology

III-C. AMERICAN COLONIALISM AND FORMS OF RESISTANCE
Chair: Ralph Mann, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: John Grider, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

One Goal, Two Systems: Government and Missionary Boarding Schools, 1846-1900
Tamara Levi, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Revisiting the Sterile Battlefields: Family Planning, Politics, and Indian Identity
Julie Severson, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Men in Chicana Feminism
Fawn-Amber Montoya, Department of History, University of Arizona

III-D. EXERCISES OF POWER: THE STATE AND SOCIETY
Chair: David O’Hara, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Emily Allen, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Setting the Poor to Work: Workhouse Schemes in England, 1655-1714
Diana Shull, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Exemplary Justice: The Unusual Trial of Nathaniel Thompson, William Paine, and John Farwell
Susan Duncan, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Spitting on Incapables, Madmen, and Cheats: The Rejection of Cultural Bolshevism and the Nazi Philosophy of Art
Sean Kalic, Department of History, Kansas State University

III-E. WESTERN PLACES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY
Chair: Nicki Gonzales, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Commentator: Diana DiStefano, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tahosa Valley and Longs Peak: Architecture, Identity, and Landscape
Susan Zietkiewicz, Department of Manufacturing Technology and Construction Management, Colorado State University

"Ski Like a Native": Image, Identity, and the Creation of Aspen, 1937-Present
Duke Richey, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

Ethnicity and the Making of Place: Toward an Environmental History of Japanese America
Wendy Rex-Atzet, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder