2011 S-USIH Conference

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Society for U.S. Intellectual History

2011 Conference and Annual Meeting

The Graduate Center

CUNY

November 17 and 18, 2011

Conference Program
(Registration information can be found here.)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Business Meeting, 9:00-10:30 a.m. (C197)

Society for U.S. Intellectual History Executive Committee Annual Meeting

Introduction of meeting by Ray Haberski, 2011 conference committee

Open to all S-USIH members

Coffee & Tea, Proshansky Lobby, 9:30 a.m.

Session A, 10:00-11:45 a.m.

Panel A1 C201	Psychology, Psychiatry and American Social Thought Daniel Wickberg, University of Texas at Dallas “Sympathy and Self-Hatred in American Social Thought” Simon Taylor, Columbia University “The Influence of Anxiety: American Psychiatry and the Culture of Dread, 1950-1970” Voichita Ileana Nachescu, Raritan Valley Community College “Radical Feminism and the Psychotherapeutic Sensibility of the 1960s” Chair/Commentator: Heather Murray, University of Ottawa

Panel A2 C202	An Intellectual History of Media Policy: Narratives of the Public Interest in the Age of Commercial Media Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania “Social Democracy or Corporate Libertarianism?: The Postwar Collision of Narrative and Logic in U.S. Media Policy” Allison Perlman, University of California-Irvine “Equality of Opportunity or Equalization: Educational Television, Policy Discourse, and Segregation” Kyle Riismandel, New Jersey Institute of Technology “The V-Chip and Suburban Regulation of Media” Chair/Commentator: Richard John, Columbia University
Panel A3 C203	American Slavery: Reinforcements and Reactions Peter Wirzbicki, New York University “Transcendentalism and the Fugitive Slave Act” Vanessa Varin, Louisiana State University “Myth and Power: The Relationship Between Fiction and Capital Justice in the Early South” Gregory Matthew Adkins, Columbus State Community College “Neoclassical Philosophy and Antislavery” Chair/Commentator: Charles Capper, Boston University
Panel A4 C204	Twentieth-Century European Thought in American Contexts Anthony Chaney, The University of Texas at Dallas “The Double Bind in the Postwar Era” Eric Brandom, Duke University “Violence and Naïveté: Georges Sorel and the Narration of the American 1960s” Pehr Englén, Drew University “What the Paul de Man Affair Illustrates” Chair/Commentator: Christopher Brooks, East Stroudsburg University
Panel A5 C205	*Configuring the Cold War: Constructive Courtroom Narratives in Dennis et al v. United States, 1949 (Roundtable)* Chair: Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University Lisa Davis, Independent Scholar Barbara Falk, Canadian Forces College / RMC Fred Jerome, Independent Scholar

“Brown Bag” Session (Lunch Provided), 12:00 noon-1:00 p.m. (C197)

A Perspective on the State of the Field of Intellectual History

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Syracuse University

“Ideas: The Preserve of Intellectuals?”

Comment: Robert Westbrook, University of Rochester

Coffee & Tea, Proshansky Lobby, 1:00 p.m.

Session B, 1:15-3:00 p.m.

Panel B1 C201	Intellectual History and Art: Aesthetics, Reception and Social Practice George Cotkin, California Polytechnic State University “In Search of Moby-Dick: A Novel and Its Readers” Joan Rubin, University of Rochester “Ideology and Practice in the Career of Robert Shaw” Michael Kimmage, Catholic University “Philip Roth’s American Tragedy” Chair/Commentator: Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University
Panel B2 C202	Narratives of Transition, Reaction and Conversion: Liberal Intellectual Responses to the Sixties Tim Lacy, Monmouth College “Reactionary Liberalism: Mortimer J. Adler’s Post-Sixties Faith in the ‘American Testament’” Bryn Upton, McDaniel College “Leftist Legacies: How Personal Politics and Memoir are Rewriting the 1960s” Daniel Geary, Trinity College Dublin “Children of the Lonely Crowd: David Riesman, Liberalism, and Youth Revolt in the 1960s” [The panelist is unable to attend. His paper will be read by the chair.] Chair/Commentator: Howard Brick, University of Michigan
Panel B3 C203	Defining Disciplines at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Ethan Miller, Freie Universitat Berlin “Culture and the Cosmopolitan Historical Consciousness of Franz Boas” Peter Olen, University of South Florida “Method as Madness: American Philosophy’s Tortured Narrative of ‘Progress’” Emilie Raymer, University of Chicago “Thorstein Veblen as Scientist: The Case for The Theory of the Leisure Class as a Scientific Text” Chair/Commentator: Andrew Jewett, Harvard University
Panel B4 C204	Islands in the Southern Stream? Safety, Sublimation and Interracialism on Black College Campuses, 1874-1930 Jennifer Eckel, University of Texas “‘And Thy Neighbor as Thyself’: Atlanta University Sociology and Lugenia Burns Hope’s Neighborhood Union” Lauren Kientz Anderson, University of Kentucky “A Nauseating Sentiment, a Magical Device, or a Real Insight? Interracialism at Fisk University in 1930” Chair/Commentator: James A. Levy, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Panel B5 C205	Narratives of Sickness, Captivity and Disaster in Early America Samantha Steele, Western Michigan University “The Captivity of Hannah Duston: Using Literature to Map the Changing Patterns of Native Americans in New England Society” Ken Kurihara, Fordham University “Angel of Home on the Sea: Gender and 19^th Century Shipwreck Narratives” Julia Mansfield, Stanford University “Drawing Conclusions: Maps and Myths in Disease Narratives of the Early Republic” Chair/commentator: Amy Wood, Illinois State University

Session C, 3:15-5:00 p.m.

Panel C1 C201	Intellectual Life of the 1920s David Farber, Temple University “Capitalist Intellectuals: The Case of John Raskob in the 1920s” David Greenberg, Rutgers University “A Pruned and Temperate Democratic Theory: The Lippmann-Mencken Debate” Paul Murphy, Grand Valley State University “The Roots of Twentieth-Century Cultural Criticism in 1920s America” Chair/Commentator: Neil Jumonville, Florida State University
Panel C2 C202	God and War in Twentieth-Century America Raymond Haberski, Marian University “‘The Best Game in Town’: How Richard John Neuhaus Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love War” Robert Vanderlan, Cornell University “Obliteration: The ‘Debate’ Over Strategic Bombing During World War II” Charles Richter, George Washington University “On to Armageddon!: The Apocalyptic Rhetoric of the Assemblies of God in the Interwar Years” Chair/Commentator: Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania
Panel C3 C203	Biography, Autobiography and Memoir in American Intellectual History Mark Smith, University of Texas at Austin “What Makes a Good Biography from an Intellectual History Perspective?: Grappling with Richmond Pearson Hobson” Steven Weiland, Michigan State University “Academic Autobiography and Intellectual History: The Late Life Register of Stanley Cavell” Kathryn Telling, University of Nottingham “‘Unfree, Uncourageous, and Radically Uneducated’: Mary Daly’s Changing Relation to Institutionalized Education, 1968-2006” Chair/Commentator: Marilyn Fischer, University of Dayton
Panel C4 C204	Science, Narrative and Intellectual Authority in Cold War America David Hecht, Bowdoin College “Narratives and Numbers: Social Science and Intellectual Imagination in Cold War America” Paul Rubinson, Bridgewater State University “A Scientific Apocalypse: Politics, Objectivity and the Narrative of Nuclear Winter” Audra Wolfe, Independent Scholar “Science, Freedom and the American Way” Chair/Commentator: Paul Erickson, Wesleyan University
Panel C5 C205	That 70s Panel Peter-Christian Aigner, City University of New York “Rethinking Daniel Patrick Moynihan” Jordan Grant, American University “Meaning in the Malaise: Boredom and the Remaking of the American Mind in the Seventies” Alissa Wilkinson, The King’s College “Building Christian Bookstores in the Bunker: Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelicals, and the Genesis of a Subculture” Chair/Commentator: Samuel Zipp, Brown University

Plenary Event, 6:00-8:00 p.m. (C201-202)

U.S. Women’s Intellectual Traditions (Roundtable)

Introduction of panel by Mike O’Connor, chair, 2011 conference committee

Chair: Louise W. Knight, Northwestern University

Maria Cotera, University of Michigan

Megan Marshall, Emerson College

Philippa Strum, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Sherie M. Randolph, University of Michigan

Reception in Honor of the Founding of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Brendan’s (42 W 35th Street), 8:30-10:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Coffee & Tea, Proshansky Lobby, 8:30 a.m.

Session D, 9:00-10:45 a.m.

Panel D1 C201	New Narratives of the Second World War (Roundtable) Chair: Beth Bailey, Temple University Citizen and State: James Sparrow, University of Chicago Time and Place: Brooke L. Blower, Boston University Race and Nation: Nico Slate, Carnegie Mellon University
Panel D2 C202	Religion and Secularization in the Nineteenth Century Michael Lee, Eastern University “Narratives of Deism in Early America” Mary Kupiec Cayton, Miami University “Secularism and U.S. National Narratives: Reframing the Second Great Awakening” Andrea Turpin, Baylor University “Articulating the Moral Purposes of Women’s Higher Education: Comparing Secularization at Wellesley and Bryn Mawr Colleges” Chair/Commentator: Christopher Shannon, Christendom College
Panel D3 C203	Intellectual Friendships in the Twentieth Century David Weinfeld, New York University “‘Some of My Best Friends Are Black, Some of My Best Friends Are Jewish’: The Friendship of Alain Locke and Horace Kallen” Kevin M. Schultz, University of Illinois at Chicago “Ideas as Weapons: Understanding the 1960s Through Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley, Jr.” Camelia Lenart, University at Albany “A Different ‘Special Relationship’: Martha Graham and the British Cultural Luminaries John Gielgud, E. M. Forster, and Henry Moore” Chair/Commentator: Kenneth Bindas, Kent State University
Panel D4 C204	Gender and American Conservatism Adam Laats, Binghamton University “‘Postwar Conservatism?’: The Roots of the American Conservative Movement and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1919-1939” Stacie Taranto, Ramapo College of New Jersey “Conservative Intellectual Thought, Suburban Housewives, and ‘Family Values’” Ronnie Avital Grinberg, University of Colorado at Boulder “The New York Intellectuals, Masculinity, and the Roots of Neoconservatism” Chair/Commentator: Alyson Cole, Queens College
Panel D5 C205	Universities and Democracy Julian Nemeth, Brandeis University “Looking in from the Outside: Communist Critiques of the Postwar Academy” Julie Reuben, Harvard University “Social Scientists and the Post-World War II General Education Movement” Joy Rohde, Trinity University “From Expert Democracy to Beltway Banditry: How the Anti-War Movement Expanded the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex” Chair/Commentator: Thomas Bender, New York University

Session E, 11:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

Panel E1 C198	Niebuhr, America, and the World William Inboden, University of Texas-Austin “Niebuhr and American Intervention in World War II” Andrew Preston, Cambridge University “Niebuhr and International Organizations during the Cold War” Healan Gaston, Harvard University “Niebuhr and Judeo-Christian Identity in America” Chair/Commentator: Gary Dorrien, Union Theological Seminary
Panel E2 C201	Narrative, History and Social Movements Daniel Hurewitz, Hunter College “‘Those Faggots—We’d Have Nothing to Do With Them!’: Gay Activists’ Resistance to Allying Themselves with a Transgender Community” Michelle Moravec, Rosemont College “Fictive Histories of the Feminine: Lyotard, Habermas and Feminist Manifestos” Eric Larson, Harvard University “Decline and Dissent: The U.S. Labor Left and National Decline in the 1980s” Chair/Commentator: Mary Ellen Lennon, Marian University
Panel E3 C202	Behavior, Personality, and the Self in Twentieth-Century American Social Thought David Varel, University of Colorado-Boulder “Personality Testing and the Problem of the Individual in American ‘Mass’ Society, 1917-1950” David Steigerwald, The Ohio State University “‘Hollo, I must lie here no longer’: The Assertion of the Self from the Will to Believe to the Me Decade” Ethan Schrum, University of Virginia “Institutionalizing the Behavioral Revolution: James G. March and Social Science at the University of California-Irvine in the 1960s” Chair/Comment: Leo P. Ribuffo, The George Washington University
Panel E4 C203	The Founding Era as Subject and Object of Narrative Jonathan Wilfred Wilson, Syracuse University “The Pictorial Scholarship of Benson Lossing: Visualizing the Public in Antebellum Historical Writing” Alin Fumurescu, Tulane University “Narratives of Representation and Compromise During the American Founding” Jeffrey Malanson, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne “‘If I had it in his Hand-Writing I would burn it’: The Authorship Controversy over George Washington’s Farewell Address” Chair/Commentator: Christopher McKnight Nichols, University of Pennsylvania
Panel E5 C204	Literary Turns: Art, Politics and Philosophy Marlene Clark, City College of New York “Framing a Story: Rauschenberg’s Erased De Kooning Drawing” Lisa Szefel, University of the Pacific “The ‘Literary Turn’ in Postwar American Politics” Martin Woessner, City College of New York “Literary Turns in Recent American Philosophy: Cavell, Nussbaum, and Rorty” Chair/Commentator: Paul Croce, Stetson University

Panel E6

C205

Liberals and Conservatives at Mid-Century

Anne Kornhauser, City College of New York

“Resituating Hayek: Hayek, Twentieth Century Liberalism and the Rule-of-Law Ideal in 1940s America”

Maria Fedorova, Washington State University

“Anti-Intellectual Discourse Within Historical Narratives in the 1950s”

Chair/Commentator: Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, University of Southern Denmark

“Brown Bag” Session (Lunch Provided), 1:00-2:00 p.m. (C197)

Paul Goodman Changed My Life (screening and discussion)

Excerpts from the feature film documentary Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011)

Jonathan Lee, Director and Producer

Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University

Michael Fisher, University of Rochester

Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study

Coffee & Tea, Proshansky Lobby, 2:00 p.m.

Keynote Address, 2:15-3:45 p.m. (C201-202)

Society for U.S. Intellectual History 2011 Conference Keynote Address

Introduction of the speaker by S-USIH President Andrew Hartman

Pauline Maier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Ratification: Bringing Ideas Down to Earth”

Session F, 4:00-5:45 p.m.

Panel F1 C198	*Daniel Rodgers’s Age of Fracture* (Roundtable)** Chair: Benjamin L. Alpers, University of Oklahoma Mary Dudziak, University of Southern California Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University James Livingston, Rutgers University Lisa Szefel, University of the Pacific Respondent: Daniel Rodgers, Princeton University
Panel F2 C203	To Build a New Man: Elites, Progressives and American Higher Education Catherine Liu, University of California, Irvine “The Meritocracy Narrative” Brian Ingrassia, Middle Tennessee State University “To ‘find and teach a new way of life’: Critics of Intercollegiate Football and the Rejection of Progressive Era Education, 1919-1939” Robert Thomas, Columbia University “Designs for Living: Robert Redfield, the Reconciliation of the Cultural and Social Sciences at Chicago in the 1940s, and Postwar Conservative-Liberal Ideology” Chair/Commentator: John Louis Recchiuti, University of Mount Union
Panel F3 C204	Confrontations and Interventions in American Aesthetic Thought Robert Genter, Nassau Community College “Robert Rauschenberg and the Politics of Confession” Clay Matlin, University of Rochester “Barnett Newman and the New Sublime” Sam Huntington, University of Rochester “‘Grotesque Fidelity:’ Thomas Nast and the Aesthetics of Caricature” Chair/Commentator: T.J. Jackson Lears, Rutgers University
Panel F4 C197	Traveling Minds: Rethinking Intellectual Transfer Between Europe and the US (Roundtable) Chair: James Kloppenberg, Harvard University Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jeremy Blatter, Harvard University Henry M. Cowles, Princeton University Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University
Panel F5 C205	The Intellectual Framework for the Religious Right: Creating Narratives of Alienation in the 1960s and 1970s Daniel K. Williams, University of West Georgia “The Quest for a Theology of Life: Catholic and Evangelical Intellectuals and the Abortion Issue in the 1960s and 1970s” Robert Daniel Rubin, Keene State College “Putting the Court in Its Crosshairs” Emma J. Long, University of Kent “Evangelicals, the Supreme Court, and the First Amendment: Reconsidering the ‘Wall of Separation’” Chair/Commentator: R. Laurence Moore, Cornell University

Wine & Cheese Reception, 5:45-7:00 p.m.

Plenary Event, 7:00-9:00 p.m. (ERH)

American Exceptionalism: History and Politics (Roundtable)

Introduction of panel by Ben Alpers, 2011 conference committee

Chair: Mike O’Connor, Georgia State University

Beth Bailey, Temple University

Eric Foner, Columbia University

Michael Kazin, Georgetown University

Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania

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