2018 S-USIH Conference Schedule

2018 S-USIH Conference Schedule

Warwick-Allerton Hotel

Chicago, IL

[Note: Careful readers will observe that a few details still need to be ironed out before this is published, but all time slots should be considered final. Please direct all questions about this schedule to Tim Lacy, 2018 Conference Chair (timothy.n.lacy-at-gmail-dot-com).]

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Thursday, November 8

Registration Table, 5-7:00 pm, 23rd Floor Lobby

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Plenary Reception (cash bar), 5-7:00 pm, Tip Top Tap 23rd Floor (West)

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Plenary Speaker, 7-9:00 pm, Tip Top Tap 23rd Floor (West)

Currency: Race and the Circulation of an American Ideal

Jonathan Holloway, Northwestern University

Friday, November 9

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Publisher’s Booths & Beverage Service, All Day, Huron Room (23rd Floor, East)

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Session 1, 8-9:45 am

Panel 1, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (South)

Replaying the Cards: A Reconsideration of Henry Adams’ Hand in U.S. Intellectual History

Chair: Sara Georgini, Massachusetts Historical Society

• “Henry Adams: Knowledge and Neglect” – William Decker, Oklahoma State University
• “Locating Henry Adams in the Era of Consensus History” – Christopher Hickman, Tarleton State
• “Henry Adams, Tourists, and Time Travel” – Peter Kuryla, Belmont University
• “The Nature of Henry Adams” – Sara Georgini, Massachusetts Historical Society

Panel 2, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (North)

Teaching Intellectual History to the Many Varieties of Undergraduate Students (Roundtable)

Chair/Moderator: L.D. Burnett, Tarleton State University

• Michael P. Wakeford, University of North Carolina School of the Arts
• Bryn Upton, McDaniel College
• Andrea L. Turpin, Baylor University
• Jamie Cohen-Cole, George Washington University
• Ben Alpers, University of Oklahoma

Panel 3, Michigan Room, 23rd Floor

Postwar Environmental Thought: Debating the Boundaries of Intellect

Chair: Keith Mako Woodhouse, Northwestern University

Comment: Elesha Coffman, Baylor University

• “Arthur Koestler’s The Ghost in the Machine and the emerging ecological consciousness” – Anthony Chaney, University of Texas at Dallas
• “Deep Ecology in Humboldt County: Bill Devall and a philosophy for direct action” – Daniel Rinn, University of Rochester
• “Wendell Berry and Professional Authority in the Age of Fracture” – Matthew Stewart, Syracuse University

Panel 4, Olmsted Room, 4th Floor

Ideas Where You Find Them: Where is Cultural History in the Resurgence

of Intellectual History? (Roundtable)

Chair: Samuel Zipp, Brown University

Comment: Michael Kramer, Middlebury College

• Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania
• Eric Avila, University of California, Los Angeles
• Emily Remus, Notre Dame University
• James W. Cook, University of Michigan

Panel 5, Mies Van Der Rohe Room, 4th Floor

Populist Thought and Activism: The 1890s, Social Activism, and the Development of Modern Social Movements

Moderator: Robin Marie Averbeck, Sacramento City College

• “Reinterpreting the Chicago Teachers Federation: Teachers and Social Politics in a New Liberal Era in Chicago, 1897–1907” – Cale Erwin, Indiana State University
• “Of Yielding to the Ambition ‘For Doing  Good’: Jane Addams on the Pullman Strike and the Awakening from Individual to Social Morality” – Jacob Kuhn, Purdue University
• “The Great Wells of Human Experience: Communication, Reform, and Revolution in Chicago, 1884-1910” – Abigail Modaff, Harvard University
• “Creating the Commonweal: Coxey’s Army, Henry Demarest Lloyd, and the Populist Influences on the Twentieth Century, 1894-1900” – Wesley Bishop, Purdue  University

Panel 6, Frank Lloyd Wright Room, 3rd Floor

Countryside Counterpoints: Rural Intellectual Traditions in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

Chair: TBD

• “ ‘A Stamp of Femininity’: Women’s Intellectual Discourse and Regional Identity in Jacksonville, Illinois, 1865-1900” – Jenny Barker-Devine, Illinois College
• “Immigrants and the Making of Midwestern Enclaves” – Sara Egge, Centre College
• “A Church, a School, and a Newspaper: Building a Nineteenth-Century Rural Intellectual Tradition” – Andrew Klumpp, Southern Methodist University

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Break, 9:45-10 am

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Session 2, 10 – 11:45 am

Panel 1, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (South)

Conspiracy Theory, Religion, and Politics in American History

Chair/Comment: Jane Dailey, University of Chicago

• “‘What a pleasure it is to see one’s work thrive so well’: Religious Conspiracy Theories and Partisan Politics during the Federalist Era” – Andrew Forney, Texas Christian University
• “A Fraudulent Thesis: Conspiracy Theories from the Obama Years” – Patricia Turner, University of California, Los Angeles
• “The Only Viable Explanation: Henry Morris and the Satanic Origins of Evolutionary Science” – Carl Weinberg, Indiana University

Panel 2, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (North)

The Gender of Intellectual History

Chair/Comment: Rosalind Rosenberg, Barnard College

• “Finding Gender in “Free Range” American Thought” – Lilian Calles Barger, Independent Scholar
• “Sex in Brain, Gender in Thought: The Case of Helen Hamilton Gardener” – Kimberly Hamlin, Miami University (OH)
• “We Can’t Gender Intellectual History Without Women’s Voices: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy as a Case Study” – Andrea L. Turpin, Baylor University

Panel 3, Michigan Room, 23rd Floor

Pragmatism, Pedagogy and Artistic Practice in the Postwar Avant-Garde: Black Mountain College and After

Chair: George Cotkin, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo

Comment: Casey N. Blake, Columbia University

• “Pragmatism and Pedagogy: John Dewey and John Cage at Black Mountain College” – Kate Stanley, Western University
• “‘Make Yrself Yr Own Place’: Charles Olson’s Pedagogy at Black Mountain College” – Jude Webre, Columbia University
• “The Populism of Allan Kaprow’s Experimental Pedagogy” – Emily Capper, University of Minnesota

Panel 4, Olmsted Room, 4th Floor

Refracted International: Interwar American Interpretations of World Affairs

Chair/Comment: Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University

• “Competing Internationalisms: Friends of Soviet Russia’s Famine Relief Campaign contra Interwar Humanitarianism” – Heide Fehrenbach, Northern Illinois University
• “The Limits of Non-Diplomacy: Deportations and The Writ of Habeas Corpus” – Savitri Maya Kunze, University of Chicago
• “The Unprecedented World Court: The Permanent Court of International Justice and Legal Internationalism in Interwar America” – Lael Weinberger, University of Chicago/Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Panel 5, Mies Van Der Rohe Room, 4th Floor

Foundational Revolutionary Texts in Conservative Times

Chair/Comment: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Syracuse University

• “‘The Declaration of Independence was… the End of the Revolution’: Natural Rights and Conservative Principles in New England’s Elite” – Asaf Almog, University of Virginia
• “Commonwealth Common Sense: Patronage and the Republican Tradition in the Early Works of Thomas Paine” – Max Matherne, University of Tennessee Knoxville
• “‘Mrs. such a one acts out of her sphere’: The Gendered Politics of Revolutionary Action” – Melissa Morales, Fordham University

Panel 6, Frank Lloyd Wright Room, 3rd Floor

The American Way of War: The Thin Red Line as Fiction, Film, and Popular Philosophy

Chair/Comment:         Joel Isaac, University of Chicago

• “Repetitions of a Captain: The Thin Red Line, Wallace Stevens, and the Problem of the Hero” – Roy Scranton, University of Notre Dame
• “The War of the World: Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line as Cosmic Philosophy” – Martin Woessner, The City College of New York
• “The Normative and the Sublime: The Phenomenological Frame of Whiteness and the Affective Economy of Creation” – M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University

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Lunch (independent/off-site), 11:45 am-1:30 pm

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S-USIH Business Meeting, 12:30-1:30 pm, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (South)

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Session 3, 1:30-3:15 pm

All-Conference Plenary

No Things but in Ideas (Roundtable)

Chair/Comment:  Raymond Haberski, Jr., Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

• Jonathan Holloway, Northwestern University
• Amy Kittelstrom, Sonoma St. University
• Daniel Wickberg, University of Texas, Dallas
• David Sehat, Georgia State University

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Break, 3:15-3:30 pm

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Session 4, 3:30-5:15 pm

Panel 1, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (South)

“A Model of Christian Charity” and American Intellectual History: Three Ways to Tell a Story

Chair/Moderator:        Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin

• “Remaking the City on a Hill” – Richard Gamble, Hillsdale College
• “Folding Time: The Construction of Intellectual-Textual Foundations” – Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University, Emeritus
• “The Digital Story of the City on a Hill” – Abram Van Engen, Washington University in St. Louis

Panel 2, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (North)

The Old Christian Right, Revisited (Roundtable)

Chair/Moderator:        Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University

• Rick Perlstein, Independent scholar/Author
• Michelle M. Nickerson, Loyola University Chicago
• Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago
• Leo P. Ribuffo, George Washington University

Panel 3, Michigan Room, 23rd Floor

Sport, Fitness, and Free Market Anti-Intellectual Ideologies in the Late 20th-century United States

Chair/Comment: Susan K. Cahn, University of Buffalo

• “Reckoning with John Galt and Swami Nirmalananda: Gendered Leadership and Ideological Legacies in ‘Long 1990s’ Free-Enterprise Fitness Cu” – Anne M. Blaschke, College of the Holy Cross
• “The Anti-Intellectual Coach: The Implicit Politics of Sports from the New Left to the Present” – Andrew McGregor, Purdue University
• “‘A Girl Like Me? I Would Have Been a P.E. Teacher!’: Physical Fitness, Personal Empowerment, and Privatization in the Long 1980s” – Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The New School

Panel 4, Olmsted Room, 4th Floor

Franco-American Debates on the Problems of Industrial Society

Chair/Comment: Howard Brick, University of Michigan

• “James Burnham in Paris: The Managerial Revolution and the French
• Problematization of Bureaucracy”- David Sessions, Boston College
• “Cuba’s Great Debate Abroad: Marxists and the Problem of Socialist
• Transition, 1963-1970” – Michal Schatz, University of Pennsylvania
• “May 1968 and the Transatlantic Origins of Neoconservatism” – Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Yale University

Panel 5, Mies Van Der Rohe Room, 4th Floor

Music, Conservatism, and the Culture Wars (Roundtable)

Chair/Comment: David Stowe, Michigan State University

• Jeremy C. Young, Dixie State University
• Chelsea Watts, College of Central Florida
• Diane Pecknold, University of Louisville

Panel 6, Frank Lloyd Wright Room, 3rd Floor

America’s Ideas, America’s Wars

Chair/Comment: Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University

• “Debating Diplomacy of the “Free Hand” in Peace and (Cold) War: Isolationist Principles and Policies, 1930s-1950s” – Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University
• “America’s Wars and Conservatism’s Contested Meanings from the Old to New Right” – Kevin Y. Kim, University of Washington
• “The Varieties of Patriotism: Grassroots Views from the ‘Good War’ to the ‘Forgotten War’” – Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, University of Iowa

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Dinner (independent/off-site),  5:15-7 pm

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Plenary Roundtable, 7-9 pm, Tip Top Tap 23rd Floor (West)

Christianity and the Problem of Anti-Intellectualism

Chair: Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Curtis Evans, University of Chicago Divinity School
• Maura Jane Farrelly, Brandeis University
• Martin Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School
• Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame/Regent College

Saturday, November 10

Publisher’s Booths & Beverage Service, All Day, Huron Room (23rd Floor, East)

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Session 5, 8-9:45 am

Panel 1, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (South)

The Public, Intellectuals, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century

Chair/Comment: Joy Rohde, University of Michigan

• “Foreign Policy Intellectuals and Domestic Public Opinion in the 1940s” – Tom Arnold-Forster, University of Cambridge
• “Democracy, Crisis, and the Rise of Think Tanks from the 1930s-1950s” – Daniel Bessner, University of Washington
• “‘Perhaps a Better Word is Security’: Social Scientists, National Security, and the Domestic Costs of U.S. Globalism” – Dexter Fergie, Northwestern University
• “The ‘Problem of the Public’ in the Discipline of International Relations in the 1920s” – Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex

Panel 2, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (North)

Critiquing Liberal Consensus: Views from Inside and Out

Chair: Kevin Boyle, Northwestern University

• “The Legacy of Qualitative Liberalism: John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and the Transformation of American Politics” – Scott Kamen, University of Toledo
• “Socialist from Below: Hal Draper and the twentieth century American Left” – Andrew S. Higgins, Lesley University
• “Get Real: The Politics of Francis Fox Piven” – Robin Marie Averbeck, California State University Chico

Panel 3, Michigan Room, 23rd Floor

Evangelical Experts

Chair: Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

• “Evangelical Anti-Communist Experts, Information Management, and Creation of Religious Difference During the Cold War” – Michael McVicar, Florida State University
• “Doctoring the Culture Wars: Medical Knowledge and the Crusade Against Gay Rights” – William Schultz, University of Pennsylvania
• “Confidence Men: Christian Right Leaders and the Promotion of Climate Skepticism” – Robin Globus Veldman, Texas A&M University

Panel 4, Olmsted Room, 4th Floor

Open

Panel 5, Mies Van Der Rohe Room, 4th Floor

Rethinking the Interwar Cultural Front

Chair/Comment:  Leilah C. Danielson, Northern Arizona University

• “The Church as a Shelter for American Marxism: The New York Labor Temple  Between the Wars” – Janine Giordano Drake, University of Providence
• “The Intellectual Vagabondage of Floyd Dell and Joseph Freeman: New Lyrics for the Old Left?” – Robin Vandome, University of Nottingham,
• “An Accumulation of Unveracities: V.F. Calverton’s Marxist Aesthetics” – Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University

Panel 6, Frank Lloyd Wright Room, 3rd Floor

Anti-Intellectualism in Modern American Conservative Activism

Chair:  Forthcoming

• “Secular Humanism and the Rise of Evangelical Postmodernism in the 1980s” – Rachel Coleman, Indiana University – Bloomington
• “Anti-Intellectualism in A.C.E. Educational Curriculum” – Matt Smith, University of Tennessee
• “The Alt-Weekly Right: The Institute of Educational Affairs and the Rise of Conservative College Newspapers” – David Walsh, Princeton University

Panel 7, Buckingham Room, 3rd Floor

Anti-intellectualism and Anti-Semitism

Chair/Comment: Benjamin Alpers, University of Oklahoma

• “Rebecca Gratz, Isaac Leeser, and Anti-Semitism as Anti-intellectualism in Jacksonian America” – Rebecca Brenner, American University
• “Alternate Realities: Market Sensibilities, Anti?Semitism, and Anti-Federalism During the Farm Crisis, 1978-­?1988” – Rebecca Shimoni-Stoil, Johns Hopkins University
• “Anti-Semitism in Europe and America: Historical Memory and Jewish Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, 1963-­?1988” – Eric Morgenson, SUNY Albany

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Break, 9:45-10 am

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Session 6, 10-11:45 am

Panel 1, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (South)

Reparations and the University of Chicago’s Ties to Slavery (Roundtable)

*Sponsored by the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)*

Chair: TBD

• Kai Parker, University of Chicago
• Caine Jordan, University of Chicago
• Guy Emerson Mount, Auburn University

Panel 2, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (North)

Reinventing Conservatism in the Late Twentieth Century?

Chair/Comment: Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College

• “How the GOP became the ‘party of ideas’ in the 1970s and 1980s” – Lawrence Glickman, Cornell University
• “America First, Again” – Nicole Hemmer, University of Virginia
• “Edward Shils and the Reinvention of Tradition in the 1970s and 80s” – Daniel Wickberg, University of Texas, Dallas

Panel 3, Michigan Room, 23rd Floor

Activists and Academics Under Fire: Political Anti-Intellectualism in 20th-century America

Chair: Patrick Redding, Manhattanville College

Comment: Andrew Jewett, Boston College

• “W. I. Thomas, Chicago Sociology, and Anti-Intellectualism in WWI America” – Clifford Wilcox, Independent Scholar, Ventura, California
• “A Scientist Rebels’: Norbert Wiener’s Rejection of the Militarization of Cybernetics, 1947 – 1954” – Fred Beuttler, University of Chicago
• “The ‘Totalitarian Disease’, American Intellectuals and the Concept of Totalitarianism in the 1960s and 1970s” – Sophie Louise Joscelyne, University of Sussex

Panel 4, Olmsted Room, 4th Floor

Rethinking Aesthetics and the Post-WWII Period

Chair:  Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University

Comment: Richard Candida-Smith, University of California, Berkeley

• “‘The wilderness of good and evil’: Postwar America and the Problem of Happiness” – Clay Matlin, University of Rochester
• “Donald Judd’s Anarchist Aesthetics” – Robert Genter, Nassau Community College
• “Naturalism and the American Avant-Garde” – John Erik Hmiel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panel 5, Mies Van Der Rohe Room, 4th Floor

Praying Like a State?: What Religion Tells Us about Government, and Vice Versa (Roundtable)

Chair/Comment: Open

• Janine Giordano Drake, University of Providence
• Mark Edwards, Spring Arbor University
• Aaron Pattillo-Lunt, University of Chicago
• Ronit Y. Stahl, University of California-Berkeley
• Cyrus O’Brien, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

Panel 6, Frank Lloyd Wright Room, 3rd Floor

The Magical and the Mundane: Historical and Methodological Re-Assessments of Modern “Disenchantment” 

Chair/Comment: Howard Brick, University of Michigan

• “Enchantment in Thought and Culture: Historical Methods and the Consequences of Time” – Charles Howell, University of Oxford
• “Un-laboring the Phonograph: Technological Change and the Corporate Enchantment of American Sound Recording” – J. Martin Vest, University of Michigan
• “From Awed to Awesome: The Changing Emotional Experience of Enchantment” – Susan J. Matt and Luke Fernandez, Weber State University
• “Joseph Beuys, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Question of Re-enchantment” – Taylor Worley, University of St. Andrews

Panel 7, Buckingham Room, 3rd Floor

 Just Say No: Intellectualism and Anti-Intellectualism in America’s War on Drugs

Chair/Comment: Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Cornell University

• “The Coming Parent Revolution: Anti-Intellectualism in the Anti-Marijuana Campaign” – Emily Dufton, Takoma Writers, LLC
• “Moralizing From the Family Quarters: Narrative Over Nuance and Knowledge in the War on Crack” – Michael Durfee, Niagara University
• “DARE to Say No: Anti-Intellectualism in Anti-Drug Education and Policing in Crack Era Los Angeles” – Max Felker-Kantor

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Presidents’ Lunch (ticket needed) Noon-1:15 pm, Buckingham, 3rd Floor

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Session 7, 1:30-3:15 pm

All-Conference Plenary Roundtable, Buckingham Room or Tip Top Tap

Populism, Democracy, and Anti-intellectualism

Chair:  Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania

• Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College
• David Sehat, Georgia State University
• Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin

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Break

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Session 8, 3:30-5:15 pm

Panel 1, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (South)

Understanding the Secular in Post-1945 America

Chair: Grant Madsen, Brigham Young University

Comment: Charles Capper, Boston University

• “Confronting the Secular in an Era of Religious Revival: The Paradox of the 1950s” – Ethan Schrum, Azusa Pacific University
• “Race, Religion, and Suburban Integration” – Karen Johnson, Wheaton College (IL)
• “Making Peace with the Secular: Why Mainline Protestants Became Comfortable with Secular America (and Evangelicals Didn’t)” – Daniel K. Williams, University of West Georgia
• “What Can the “Post-Secular” Tell Us About the Discourse of Secularism?” – K. Healan Gaston, Harvard Divinity School

Panel 2, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (North)

Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualisms (Roundtable)

• Anne Kornhauser, CCNY/CUNY Graduate Center (Chair/Moderator/Participant)
• David Greenberg, Rutgers University
• Benjamin Serby, Columbia University
• Nicole Hemmer, University of Virginia

Panel 3, Michigan Room, 23rd Floor

The Religious Left in the Long 1960s: A State-of-the-Field (Roundtable)

Chair/Moderator: Leilah Danielson, Northern Arizona University

• Sarah Azaransky, Union Theological Seminary
• Lilian Calles Barger, Independent Scholar
• Sergio Gonzalez, Marquette University
• Casey Bohlen, Bucknell University

Panel 4, Olmsted Room, 4th Floor

Voices Heard & Unheard: The Marketplace of Ideas in the Cold War

Chair/Comment: Daniel Bessner, University of Washington

• “The Fight for Science and Freedom: Recovering the Role of Science in Cold War-Era Cultural Diplomacy” – Audra Wolfe, Freelance Writer
• “Scientists Looking at Science Looking at Scientists: Challenging Essentialism and Its Policy Implications in the 1970s and 1980s” – Sarah Bridger, California Polytechnic State University:
• “Oscar Lewis as a Cold War Intellectual” – Patrick Iber, University of Wisconsin
• “Pocketbooks, Morality, and Human Rights: The Institute for Policy Studies and Economic Human Rights” – Brian Mueller, Independent Scholar

Panel 5, Mies Van Der Rohe Room, 4th Floor

“Founders Chic” as Anti-intellectualism (Roundtable)

Chair/Moderator: Andrew Schocket, Bowling Green State University

• Rebecca Brenner, American University
• Daniel Roeber, Florida State University
• Margaret Flamingo, University of Wisconsin
• Zachary Kopin, University of Michigan

Panel 6, Frank Lloyd Wright Room, 3rd Floor

New Approaches to the Study of Black Intellectual History (Roundtable)

*Sponsored by the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)*

Chair: Chernoh Sesay, DePaul University

• Hettie Williams, Monmouth University
• Peter Cole, Western Illinois University
• Melanie Chambliss, Columbia College Chicago
• Marsha Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Panel 7, Buckingham Room, 3rd Floor

Trumpian Themes in Context (Roundtable)

Chair: Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Cornell University

• Race – Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University
• Women, Sex, and Gender – Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, New School
• Business – Lawrence B. Glickman, Cornell University
• Science and Expertise – Andrew Jewett, Boston College
• Americanism and Religion – Wendy Wall, SUNY Binghamton

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Dinner (independent/off-site), 5:15-7 pm

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Plenary Reception (cash bar), 5:30-7 pm

Plenary Roundtable, 7 pm, Buckingham Room, 3rd Floor

1. S-USIH Prize Announcements, Sarah E. Gardner, President, S-USIH
2. Latinx Intellectuals

Chair: Gerry Cadava, Northwestern University

• Maria de los Angeles Torres, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Ruben Flores, University of Kansas
• Lourdes Torres, DePaul University

Sunday, November 11

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Publisher’s Booths & Beverage Service, Half Day, Huron Room (23rd Floor, East)

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Session 9, 8-9:45 am

Panel 1, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (South)

Rethinking Independence and Rights: Democracy, Labor Radicalism, and Racial Theory in Jacksonian America

Chair/Comment: Jeffrey Sklansky, University of Illinois at Chicago

• “Democracy and Personal Independence in Jacksonian Political Rhetoric” – Alex Zakaras, University of Vermont
• “Fourier’s ‘Right to Labor’ and Antebellum US Radicalism” – Sean Monahan, Brown University
• “The ‘Black Douglass’ and the ‘White Douglas’: Intellectual Resistance to Racial Modernity in Jacksonian America” – Joshua A. Lynn, Eastern Kentucky University

Panel 2, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (North)

Religious Intellectuals and the Environmental Movement

Chair/Comment: Anthony Chaney, University of North Texas at Dallas

• “The Religion and Politics of Earth Day(s)” – Elesha Coffman, Baylor University
• “The Idea of Stewardship in Postwar Economic and Environmental Thought” – John W. Compton, Chapman University
• “The Christian Origins of National Parks” – John Nagle, University of Notre Dame

Panel 3, Michigan Room, 23rd Floor

Past Imperfect: Discussing Online Graduate History Education Through Film (Roundtable)

Chair/Comment: Christine Fojtik, Saint Xavier University

• Seth J. Bartee, Guilford Technical Community College
• James Fennessy, Southern New Hampshire University
• Lesley Skousen, Grantham University
• Robert Denning, Southern New Hampshire University

Panel 4, Olmsted Room, 4th Floor

Open

Panel 5, Mies Van Der Rohe Room, 4th Floor

Open

Panel 6, Frank Lloyd Wright Room, 3rd Floor

Open

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Break

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Session 10 – 10:00 am – 11:45 am

Panel 1, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (South)

Uses and Abuses of the Common Man Mythology: Race, Gender, and Anti-Intellectualism in the United States

Chair/Comment: Susan J. Pearson, Northwestern University

• “A Tale of Two Clowns: The Black Minstrel, the Frontier Jester, and the Making of the White Common Man” – Eran Zelnik, California State University, Chico
• “For the Well-being of Mankind”: The Rosenwald Fund Fellowship Program and Transformations in American Foundation Philanthropy, 1928-1941” — Emily Masghati, University of Chicago

Panel 2, Tip Top Tap, 23rd Floor (North)

In Search of Equality or Expedience? State and U.S. Government Policies and Practices on Race in Wartime

Chair/Comment: Raymond Haberski, Jr., Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

• “The U.S. Bureau of Naturalization and Asian American Whiteness during World War I and World War II” – Doug Coulson, Carnegie Mellon University
• “Diplomatic Pressure: Adolfo Domínguez, Civil Rights and World War II” – Matthew Gritter, Angelo State University
• “Good Neighbors at Last? World War II and the Texas Caucasian Race Resolution” – Cynthia Aashi Morales, Texas State University

Panel 3, Michigan Room, 23rd Floor

Variations of Anti-Establishment

Chair:  Dr. Lora Burnett, Tarleton State University

• “The Use of Anti-Establishment Politics during Reconstruction” – Colin McConarty, Boston College
• “Lakota Resistance and Miner Persistence: The Political “Establishment” in Dakota Territory” – Michael R. McLean, Boston College
• “Anti-Establishment According to the IWW” – Betsy Pingree, Boston College

Panel 4, Olmsted Room, 4th Floor

Modernism and Chicago: Liesl Olson’s Chicago Renaissance:  Literature and Art in the Midwestern Metropolis (Roundtable)

Chair/Moderator:  Paul Murphy, Grand Valley State University

• Liesl Olson, Newberry Library
• Adam Green, University of Chicago
• Daniel J. Singal, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Amy Mooney, Columbia College Chicago

Panel 5, Mies Van Der Rohe Room, 4th Floor

Intellectuals in the Service of Power: Urban Development, Disorder, and Design in the 1960s

Chair/Comment: Jessica Blatt, Marymount Manhattan College

• “Designing a Science of Human Settlement: The Delos Symposium and Urban Crisis” – Aria R. Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• “The ‘Bearded Professor’ and the Police: How the Social Scientists of the Kerner Commission Helped Bolster Police Authority and Power after the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s” – Alex B. Elkins, University of Michigan
• “Disclaiming the Lockean Inheritance: History, Consensus, and Development in U.S. Politics” – David J. Lee, Temple University

Panel 6, Frank Lloyd Wright Room, 3rd Floor

Open

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Conference ends at Noon

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[Note: Please direct all questions about this schedule to Tim Lacy, 2018 Conference Chair, at timothy.n.lacy-at-gmail-dot-com.]