Panelists Seeking Panelists Forum
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ReplyDeleteHi all,
ReplyDeleteI would like to organize a panel focused on immigration and U.S. foreign policy. I study U.S.-Mexican relations and plan to present a paper that discusses how a ratcheting up of consular restriction of Mexican immigration to the United States, as well as a large repatriation of Mexican immigrants to the Mexico during the Great Depression, defused a diplomatic crisis caused when Congress attempted to place a quota on Mexican immigration during the late 1920s/early 1930s.
I am open to different regional and time focuses. Please contact me at bmontoya@schreiner.edu if you are interested in forming a panel.
Thank you,
Benjamin Montoya, Ph.D.
Schreiner University
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ReplyDeletePosted on behalf of Lauren Stauffer:
ReplyDeleteHello everyone,
I am interested in forming a panel that analyzes how the end of the Cold War presented a rare moment for Western foreign policy to continue to engage in Cold War rhetoric while also beginning to pivot towards the planning for a post-Cold War world. It is my hope that this panel will provide an opportunity to discuss foreign policy contradictions and shifts that occur during the Reagan and GHWB administrations. Such contradictions and shifts could seemingly arise between mid-level and upper-level policymakers or between governments. My paper will focus on NATO and the 1982 Falklands War.
I am in search of one more panelist, a commentator, and chair. If you are interested, please contact me at: lauren.stauffer@uconn.edu
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ReplyDeletePosted on behalf of Mattias Fibiger:
ReplyDeleteHello,
I'm looking to organize a panel on South-South diplomacy during the Cold War. My paper--called "Soeharto's Cold War"--examines the Indonesian New Order's efforts to promote its doctrine of national resilience in island Southeast Asia in the 1970s. I'm hoping for a panel with both spatial and temporal breadth, so it'd be great to pair with scholars working on Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere in Asia, and on periods other than the seventies.
Please contact me at mef249@cornell.edu if you are interested.
Hello Matthias, this is Kenny whom have sent you an Email around 10 days ago to form a panel. Can you receive that?
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ReplyDeleteI am interested in forming a panel on emotions history. My paper will look at U.S. policy toward Vietnam in 1968 to show how senior foreign policy advisors crafted their arguments to appeal to Johnson’s personality and emotions. Other papers on the role of emotions in shaping foreign policy would be ideal, but in the past panels on emotions history have also been more loosely organized around approaches to emotions history, so any papers on emotions and foreign relations are welcome.
If you are interested, please contact me at gabrielle.westcott@uconn.edu.
Thank You,
Gabrielle Westcott
HI Gabrielle,
DeleteI hope my paper is the right fit! I am working on American and Soviet women who became pen-pals in 1944 and then tried to maintain their friendships during the Cold War. They wrote until 1952 when HUAC shut them down. I am focusing on how emotional bonds and trust can be created through letter-writing. I view the whole project as a kind of diplomacy of emotion, forged through discussion of intimate experiences like: motherhood, death and loss, parenting, etc. I am really interested in learning more about the history of emotions in general. If you need another panelist, will you let me know? I am a faculty member at Boston University.
Yours,
Alexis Peri
Posted on behalf of Shaine Scarminach:
ReplyDeleteI’m looking to form a panel on US foreign policy and the environment writ large. I’m working on a paper that examines the Reagan administration’s rejection of the Law of the Sea treaty in the early 1980s. I’d like to put something together with others working on environmental issues from whatever angle or time period.
Alternatively, if anyone is working on a panel about Reagan-era foreign policy and doesn’t mind having an environmental subject taking up some space, I would be up for that as well.
If interested, let me know at shaine.scarminach@uconn.edu
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ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI’m interested in forming a panel along the following lines:
Panel Title: “America’s Representative to the World: The Challenges of Teaching Presidential History in the Trump Era”
Panel Description: The panel participants will discuss their experiences with teaching the American presidency in the undergraduate classroom. Themes for discussion will include the evolution of the president’s role in making foreign policy decisions, how the changing role of the media portrays the president and his decisions to Americans and the rest of the world, the challenges of relating past presidential decisions to current events, the evolution of the president’s role as the leader of the free world, and a discussion of the most useful primary and secondary sources to educate undergraduates on this important topic. The panelists will each share experiences relating to these themes and welcome a significant amount of interaction from the audience.
Please contact me at nanslove@iun.edu if interested in participating.
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ReplyDeleteI'm forming a panel on U.S. policy toward indigenous/ethnic minorities in the 20th century. My paper is on US policy toward Central American indigenous groups in the 20th century. I'd be interested in collecting papers related to other groups worldwide, including in North America, Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe. Please contact dedalive@gmail.com if you're interested.
ReplyDeleteDear colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI am forming a panel on Japanese direct investment into the United States since World War II. Such investment could be economic (i.e. exporting to the U.S., forming subsidiaries of Japanese companies, etc.), cultural, or in attempting to increase tourism to the U.S. from Japan. My own work deals with exports and subsidiaries to the western U.S. from Japan since the 1970s. If you're interested in joining as a panelist or chair/commentator, please contact me at foss@up.edu.
Best,
Chris Foss, University of Portland
Dear Colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI am seeking a commentator for a panel on late Cold War Panel that explores the influences of changes in US Cold War ideology on policy decisions towards China, and Europe in the Reagan and Bush administrations. If you are interested please email me at samantha.taylor@usnwc.edu
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ReplyDeleteI’m working on a history of U.S. relations with Liberia in the 19th century, and I’m hoping that we could put together a panel on U.S.-Liberian or U.S.-West African relations. I’m interested in presenting a paper on the decade leading up to and then following American recognition of Liberia. Is there anyone out there who could be part of this panel?
ReplyDeleteKenneth J. Blume
kenneth.blume@acphs.edu
Hello everyone,
ReplyDeletewe're looking for a third panelist. Our panel analyzes how concepts of terrorism and counterterrorism (broadly defined) changed over time, with a particular focus on international and transnational actors. Our panel will focus on the origins of different understandings of terrorism, their political implications, and their structural legacies. If you are interested, please contact me at silke.zoller@temple.edu.
Best,
Silke Zoller, Temple University
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ReplyDeletePosted on behalf of Markus Schoof:
ReplyDeleteDear all,
I am looking for fellow panelists who would be interested in presenting on topics surrounding American religion abroad or U.S.-Brazilian relations. U.S.-Latin American relations in the 20th century could serve as a broader alternative.
My paper would revolve around American Protestants in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s and the Good Neighbor Policy.
Kindly let me know if you would be interested: schoof.3@buckeyemail.osu.edu "
Thanks,
Markus Schoof
Ohio State
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ReplyDeleteDear colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI am still interested in forming a panel on Japanese direct investment into the United States since World War II. Such investment could be economic (i.e. exporting to the U.S., forming subsidiaries of Japanese companies, etc.), cultural, or in attempting to increase tourism to the U.S. from Japan. My own work deals with exports and subsidiaries to the western U.S. from Japan since the 1970s.
If someone out there doing a U.S.-East Asian relations or U.S.-Japan panel is looking for a panelist or chair/commentator, I'd also be willing to entertain that possibility. Please contact me directly at foss@up.edu.
Thank you, and all best,
Chris Foss, University of Portland
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ReplyDeleteHi all,
ReplyDeleteI am looking for 1-2 more presenters for a panel on infrastructure and infrastructural development overseas as it relates to US foreign policy. We already have 2 presenters as well as a chair, so we are looking for one or two more people to round out the panel.
The papers on the panel already cover a wide geographic range (Eastern Europe to India), so any regional focus should work.
Any time period is okay, but early 20th century would be preferred.
Please contact me at ekyleromero@gmail.com if you have questions or if you're interested in joining the panel.
Thanks!
Kyle Romero
Hi everybody,
ReplyDeleteI’m looking to put together a panel that looks at the intersection of popular culture and American foreign policy. I’m interested in presenting a paper centered around the broader popular culture of the 1980s and its intersection with the antinuclear movement of the period. I’m open to any aspects of popular culture and foreign policy, narrow or wide in scope, nuclear themed or non-nuclear themed. If interested in putting together a panel, email me: hrmaar@gmail.com
Cheers,
Henry Maar
Hi everybody,
ReplyDeleteWe are seeking a chair and a commentator for a panel on state terrorism during the Cold War. Myself and the other panelists are part of forthcoming publication with the International Center for Terrorism Studies on this subject. The publication will be in print soon, and so the panel and papers are together, consistent, and related to an available publication. We need a chair and a commentator. Please email me at travisp@scf.edu or through my website Philiptravis.com
I look forward to hearing from some of the great scholars out there!
Sincerely,
Philip W. Travis
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteWe are looking for a third presenter for our panel focusing on misperceptions of US foreign policy in the 1970s. Our papers demonstrate that public perception often dramatically differs from the actual US policy objectives. The two papers discuss the prevalence of conspiracy theories and popular myths of US foreign policy looking at the cases of Kissinger and the Eastern Mediterranean and Brzezinski and Afghanistan respectively. Anyone interested in the topic please get in touch. We are also happy to discuss any ideas/approaches within this context.
Please e-mail me at A.Antonopoulos@ed.ac.uk
Thanks,
Athanasios
Dear Colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI'm organizing a panel on counter-revolutionary networks in the global south during the Cold War, and looking for a third paper. The panel will examine the ways in which era counter-revolutionary actors in Latin America, Africa, and Asia built and employed South-South diplomacy and regional alliances, mirroring their revolutionary antagonists. It will also explore the multiple and sometimes contradictory US responses to these partnerships.
Papers on Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, South and South East Asia, or trans-regional and transnational networks are all possibilities. If you are interested, please contact me at carl.w.forsberg@gmail.com.
Carl Forsberg, The University of Texas at Austin
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ReplyDeleteI would like to form a panel on the role play by US Congress on US foreign during the Cold War, especially, the 1960´s and 1970´s. My paper examines how Congress deal with the government of Peruvian reformist President Fernando Belaunde Terry (1963-1968). If anyone is interested, or has suggestions for a chair and/or commentator, please contact me at Barreto_n@up.edu.pe.
ReplyDeletePosted on behalf of Matthew Brundage:
ReplyDeleteHello all,
I am looking to form a panel broadly focusing on the development of U.S. foreign relations and foreign policy in the Pacific in the Nineteenth century.
My paper will discuss the role that the perceived threat of piracy along the Chinese coast in the mid-Nineteenth century played in the creation of an argument that the United States needed to increase its economic, diplomatic, and military presence in the region as a counterbalance to these threats.
Please contact me at mbrundag@kent.edu if you are interested, or if you think my paper would work for a different panel topic that you have in mind.
Best,
Mathew Brundage
Dear all,
ReplyDeleteWe are looking for a third presenter for our panel looking at how diplomatic normalization is wielded as a tool of US statecraft.
We focus on Sino-American relations in the 1970s and U.S.-Vietnamese relations in the post 1975 era, and are particularly interested in drawing American diplomatic and domestic policies into conversation. Our panel will ask what are the repercussions of absent economic and diplomatic ties for the politics of labor? For refugees? And the experiences of ordinary people living in countries on the receiving end of withheld diplomatic ties? How does our understanding of normalization change when we broaden it to include the roles played by non-state actors? We are seeking a third panellist whose work complements our focus on the PRC and Vietnam.
Please contact me at elizabeth.ingleson@sydney.edu.au or Amanda Demmer at amandademmer@gmail.com if you are interested.
All the best,
Elizabeth Ingleson
Hello all,
ReplyDeleteI am seeking a third panelist for a panel analyzing the ways in which sub-national, non-state actors pivoted the U.S., economically and diplomatically, toward a policy that looked upon East Asian nations not as inferior or client states, but as something closer to equals (and even holding the upper hand in some areas) during the late Cold War and early post-Cold War years (1980s-1990s). The focus broadly is on U.S.-East Asian relations in these years, but such sub-national or transnational actors could be from the U.S. or from any East Asian country.
If this sounds like it is of interest to you, please contact me at foss@up.edu.
Best,
Chris Foss
University of Portland
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ReplyDeleteHello all,
ReplyDeleteI'm working on developing a panel on the intersection of the Central Intelligence Agency and the public sphere of the United States; we're focusing on how the CIA attempted to influence coverage of activities in the third world. We have three panelists, but have been unable to find a chair/commentator.
If anyone would be interested in participating in such a capacity, please contact me at dphadley@gettysburg.edu.
Best,
David Hadley
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteWe're looking for a third presenter for a panel on US-Israel relations. If interested, please contact either Shaiel Ben-Ephraim at shaielb@ucla.edu or Ziv Rubinovitz at ziv.rubinovitz@sonoma.edu. Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving!
Hello:
ReplyDeleteI would like to present a paper on how witnessing the treatment of African American troops deployed overseas during World War II shaped the way U.S. allies viewed the image of American democracy.
If you would like to form a panel or if I would fit on your panel, please contact me at douglas.bristol@usm.edu
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'd like to present a paper on American private bankers as actors of U.S. foreign relations before the Panic of 1873.
If you're looking to put together a panel on 19th century foreign relations, or if you would like to contribute a paper to the following tentative panel, please contact me: >> christoph.nitschke@keble.ox.ac.uk
The panel I have in mind will ideally feature different case studies of non-state actors who contributed to U.S. foreign relations in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. These could be transnational Americans like bankers, businessmen, journalists, missionaries, soldiers, etc., who acted on the grounds of private beliefs, capitalist business acumen, or a sense of duty; but who all established or exploited connections to the rest of the world which provided the working environment for American foreign policy.
Chris Nitschke
PhD student of American History
University of Oxford
Howdy!
ReplyDeleteI know it is late but I would like to present a paper on U.S. - Indian relations in the nineteenth century. If anyone has a panel idea or an open spot on a panel, please let me know.
W. Dale Weeks
PhD student
Texas A&M University
I am late as well, but I would be eager to present a paper on George F. Kennan's involvement in East Asia policy, either during his tenure (1947-1950) as director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, or during the Vietnam War (when he became a prominent public critic of US involvement). Please let me know if the subject fits into an existing panel.
ReplyDeletePaul Heer
Adjunct Professor
The George Washington University
I forgot to add: you can contact me at heerp1914@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteLooking to set up a panel on American experiences with/interpretations of totalitarian states and ideologies. Can be political, cultural, economic, diplomatic, etc in terms of focus. I would be writing on the role of totalitarianism in policy debates re Iraq in the 1990s. Email at joestieb@live.unc.edu if interested.
ReplyDeleteHi everyone,
ReplyDeleteMy paper focuses on US business and labor organizations' involvement in international economic policymaking between 1949 and 1954. It focuses in particular on private investment, economic development, and international labor standards. Please let me know if you are interested in forming a panel.
Melanie Sheehan
PhD Student, UNC-Chapel Hill
melrshee@live.unc.edu
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI am looking to form a panel on how the National Security State developed and how key policy actors structured foreign policy decision-making during the Cold War. My paper is entitled, "Nixon's War: Fighting the Institutional State." It will examine Nixon's attempts to centralize power in the presidency, and reshape the National Security State to maximize (his) presidential prerogatives. My paper will focus on the interregnum, and Nixon's critical first six months in leadership, as he sought to limit the power of the State Department and reduce congressional interference in national security matters. It will also explore how Nixon exploited the inherent malleability of the National Security Act of 1947 in his war against the institutional state.
Ashley Neale
Doctoral Candidate, University of Kansas,
ashleyneale@ku.edu
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteI am looking to form a panel on states of exception in the recent history of American migration.
My paper will focus on defacto stateless migrants in the interwar period, largely born in Czarist Russia, who drew from international norms to bolster their legal protections in the United States.
Please let me know if you would be interested in forming a panel.
Savitri Maya Kunze
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
smsedlacek@uchicago.edu
Hi! All,
ReplyDeleteI would like to see if I can join a panel. I would like to focus on the talks between U.S. and North Korea over the POW/MIA issues.
Seeking a group working on U.S.-Asia, late Cold War, non-official negotiations, or hostage negotiations.
Please let me know if your group is interested in my work.
My email address is zhaokun1@andrew.cmu.edu
LIU Zhaokun
PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Call for Panelists for SHAFR 2019: Culture and the Vietnam War
ReplyDeleteHi all,
I am looking to form a panel consisting of three papers (including myself), a chair, and a commentator with a focus on the cultural dimensions of the Vietnam War. This theme can include (but is not limited to) topics concerning: the subjective experiences of American and Vietnamese soldiers, stateside countercultural movements, interracial relationships between Americans and Vietnamese, and cultural or racial perceptions of Americans or Vietnamese.
Thank you very much, and I look forward to hearing from any and all interested parties!
Sincerely,
Addie Jensen
University of California, Santa Barbara
I can be reached at: addisonmjensen@ucsb.edu
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