SHAFR 2007 Annual MeetingMarriott Westfields, Chantilly, Virginia (June 21-23, 2007) The web-site for the 2007 meeting has been deactivated but is being preserved here for archival purposes. On behalf of the Program Committee (Clea Bunch, Dave Engerman, and Katie Sibley), we, the Co-Chairs of the 2007 Program Committee, warmly invite you to attend the conference this June. This year, SHAFR breaks its thirty-two year tradition of holding its annual meeting at a university. Instead, the 2007 meeting will take place at the Westfields Marriott Conference Center in Chantilly, Virginia. All conference events will take place in the Westfields hotel. You can find all the relevant information on registration, lodging, and transportation on this website. The Program Committee expects to have a splendid conference. Because we had an overwhelming number of submissions of panels and papers, the Committee increased the number of sessions to 54 from our usual 48. The Committee proudly notes that approximately 60 of this year’s participants reside outside the United States. This befits the increasing international nature of our membership and profession. The conference opens with a luncheon beginning at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, 21 June. Our concluding panels will be from 4-6 p.m. on Saturday, 23 June. Friday and Saturday nights are free for excursions into Washington. Many of us intend to take in a baseball game (Washington Nationals). The Program Committee recommends all 54 of the sessions. But there a few sessions the Committee would like to highlight.
Finally, the Co-Chairs, who have attended most SHAFR Conferences and availed themselves of the pleasures of staying in the various university residences are hard at work on their presentation, “Dorm Rooms, Cafeterias, and Low-Rent Hotels We Have Known.” Best, Steve Rabe RegistrationPlease note: Requests for refunds of registration and/or meal fees paid to SHAFR, must be received by Sara Wilson at [email protected] by Friday, June 8th On-line registration is no longer available. Conference participants should plan to pay with cash or check (no credit cards accepted) when they arrive on site. Standard: $85 ($100 after June 1st)
Thur., June 21, Luncheon, 11:30 PM – 1:30 PM: $26 (standard) $13 (students) Speaker: General Michael V. Hayden, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Standard Rate ($26): Student Rate ($13):
Sat., June 23, Women Historians in SHAFR Breakfast, 7:45 AM -9:00 AM: $12 (standard) $6 (students) Standard Rate ($12): Student Rate ($6):
Conference ProgramTo print the conference program click here THURSDAY, 21 JUNE SHAFR Council Meeting: 8:00am – 11:30am (Franklin Room) Luncheon: 11:30am – 1:30pm Speaker: General Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency SESSION I (2:00pm – 4:00pm) PANEL 1: The Foundations of Middle East Conflict and Cooperation: Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California at Santa Barbara Attack at Samu: A New Perspective on Hussein's Reconciliation with Nasser US-Israeli Strategic Relations, 1964-1967 Tactics of Peace: Reason and Caprice behind Nasser's Post-war Policies Commentator: Salim Yaqub PANEL 2: Let the Games Begin: Politics and Culture in the Cold War Chair: Christian G. Appy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Maltz Affair Revisited: How the American Communist Party Relinquished its Cultural Authority at the Dawn of the Cold War Lightning Joe Collins and the Role of the Postwar Foreign Service Raising the Stakes: Poker, Chess and Richard Nixon's Madman Theory Reconsidered Commentator: Mark P. Bradley, Northwestern University PANEL 3: Salvador Allende & the Chilean Coup of 1973 Chair: Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia State College and University A Tradition of Modernization: The Alliance for Progress & the Culture of Social Rationalization in the U.S. Government & in Chile, 1961-1973 A Different 9/11: Cuba and the Chilean Coup of 1973 Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende: Study of U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Coup in Chile Commentator: Michael Sullivan, Drexel University PANEL 4: Re-Examining the Anglo- American Relationship in the Twenty-First Century Chair: Fraser Harbutt, Emory University The Iron Lady and the Cowboy: Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and the Special Relationship at High Tide "We're in this Together": A Reassessment of the Relationship between the Presidents of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain Commentator: Fraser Harbutt PANEL 5: The Carter Administration's Foreign Policies-Human Rights Chair: Dave Schmitz, Whitman College Taking the High Road to Failure: Carter's Human Rights Agenda in East-West Relations Moral Necessities and National Interest: Rethinking U.S.-Latin American Relations in a Human Rights Era The "Loss" of Iran: Carter's Return to Realpolitik Commentator: Scott Kaufman, Francis Marion University PANEL 6: Limited Influence: American Efforts to Shape China, 1920-1951 Chair: Eric Patterson, Vanguard University of Southern California The End of an American Enterprise in China: The Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Case Study Americans and Chiang Kai-shek: Origins of a Special Relationship American and Chinese Liberalism in the Pacific War Commentators: Charles Hayford, Northwestern University & Li Li, Salem State College PANEL 7: Do Individuals Really Matter? A Roundtable Discussion of the Force of Personality within Diplomatic History Chair: Mark Moyar, U.S. Marine Corps University Two Biographies: Harry Truman and Dean Acheson Bush in China: How Foreign Service Changed George H.W. Bush's Presidency Robert Bowie--Analyst and Academic Puppet, Despot, Sage: Using Biography to Reassess Ngo Dinh Diem and US Relations with the First Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963 Warmongers and Peacemakers: New Biography and Informal Diplomacy SESSION II (4:30pm - 6:30pm) PANEL 8: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation: Anglo-American Relations and the Middle East, 1944-64 Chair: Andrew Priest, University of Wales Ambassadors Abroad-British and American Ambassadors/Ministers in Saudi Arabia, 1943-1944 Sterling, Middle East Oil, and Anglo-American Conflict, 1944-1956 Complementary Goals, Conflicting Priorities?: Anglo-American Relations, Southwestern Arabia, and the Harib Incident, 1963-64 Commentator: Michael Hopkins, Liverpool Hope University PANEL 9: US-China Rapprochement and Normalization: Chinese Policies and Japanese Reaction Chair: Ron Lilly, Northern Virginia Community College Radicalization or Realism?--Assessing China's Japan Policy and its Impacts on the Sino-US Normalization and the US-Japan Security Alliance from the Late 1960s to the 1970s Myth or Reality: China's Elite Politics and U.S.-China Relations, March 1973-December 1975 "Shock" or Catalysis: Japan's Reactions to US-China Rapprochement Commentator: Gregg A. Brazinsky, George Washington University PANEL 10: Culture and Gender in the Reagan Era Chair: Walter Hixson, University of Akron Three Anime Classics Interpret Japan’s Role in the Pacific War and Beyond "Surely Vietnam Veterans were Men": Public Policy and Masculinity in Reagan's America Lost in Translation?: Anime as Global Culture in Reagan's America, 1977-1989 Commentator: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University PANEL 11: Digital Resources for Cold War History Chair: Jennifer Walton, Granite State College The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) Goes Digital: The Office of the Historian's Online "E-Volume" as a Resource for Diplomatic History Soviet Society and the Cold War: The Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives The End of the Cold War: Making the History of 1989 Commentator: Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive PANEL 12: Case Studies in Democratization?: The United States and Eastern Europe in the 1980s Chair: Tom Blanton, National Security Archive The Western Response to the Democratic Transition in Hungary, 1985-1991 Blueprint for a Conspiracy: Reevaluating the Sources and Effectiveness of American Support for Solidarity, 1982-1989 US Foreign Policy and the End of the Division of Germany Commentator: Mark Kramer, Harvard University PANEL 13: Inside International Trade: Power, Politics, Human Rights and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Chair: Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder Who Designs?: Great Power Politics and the General Agreement of 1947 How European Integration Challenged the GATT, American Leadership, and Liberal Trade, 1947-1968 U.S. Foreign Economic Policy from Truman to Nixon Commentator: Alfred Eckes, Ohio University PANEL 14: Roundtable: Ghana's Independence: The USA and the Shifting Contours of Black Freedom Cary Fraser, Pennsylvania State University
PLENARY SESSION (7:00pm – 9:00pm) PANEL 15: Domestic Politics Roundtable Chair: David Engerman, Brandeis University Making Law, Making War, Making America When Liberals Were Hawks Commentator: Mark Lawrence, University of Texas/Yale University Commentator: Robert McMahon, Ohio State University Reception: 9:00pm – 10:00pm
DIPLOMATIC HISTORY Editorial Board Meeting: 7:45am – 9:00am (Franklin Room) SESSION III (9:00am – 11:00am) PANEL 16: Diplomatically Speaking: How Historians of American Foreign Relations Communicate with the American Public Warren Bass, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD PANEL 17: Visioning Development in Asia: American Concepts and Strategies in the Eisenhower Years Chair: Nicole Sackley, University of Richmond Modern Reston, Modern India: Redefining the Village in Suburban Virginia and Uttar Pradesh Promoting Systems Compatibility: Regional Approaches v. State Building John Foster Dulles and "Development": Close Encounters in Asian Areas Commentator: Nicole Sackley PANEL 18: Europe Between the Superpowers in the Era of Détente and the Vietnam War, 1968-1973 Chair: Klaus Larres, University of Ulster Swedish Vietnam Criticism Reconsidered: Social Democratic Vietnam Policy As a Swedish Version of Ostpolitik Prague, Berlin and London: British Policies on Détente, Ostpolitik and Berlin Quadripartite Negotiations, 1968-69 Détente, the Sino-American Opening, and the Vietnam War, 1968-1973: The Polish Perspective France's Peace Diplomacy and Economic Development Program Regarding Vietnam, 1968-1973 Commentator: Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison PANEL 19: Feminism and Internationalism in World War One: Struggling for Peace and Women's Rights Chair: Serge Ricard, Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III) Women's Activism and Citizen Diplomacy in World War I: The Impact on Woodrow Wilson Mead, Balch, Addams: Feminism, Pragmatism, and the Vicissitudes of Liberal Internationalism Women's Rights and International Democracy: Woodrow Wilson's Defense of Women's Suffrage in 1918 Italian Feminists and World War I: From Internationalism to Nationalism and Americanism Commentator: Carol Chin, University of Toronto PANEL 20: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1970-1981 Chair: Sarah Snyder, Georgetown University The Nixon Administration, Brazil, and the International Campaign Against Torture Shared Values or Opposing Interests?: Human Rights in Transatlantic Relations Commentator: Mark P. Bradley, Northwestern University PANEL 21: The State Department and Intelligence Authority in World War II Chair: Thomas Boghardt, International Spy Museum Is Counterintelligence an Affair of State or Justice?: The Bureaucratic Struggle over Responsibility in Two Wars The State Department, the FCC, and the Latin American D/F Program during the Second World War The FBI, State Department and Intelligence in the Western Hemisphere Commentator: Katie Sibley, St. Joseph's University
Lunch Break: 11:30am - 1:30pm
SESSION IV (1:30pm - 3:30pm) PANEL 22: New Perspectives on Early Globalization Chair: Edward Crapol, College of William and Mary Asiatic Cholera and Peruvian Bark: American Physicians and the World, 1800-1840 Globalization and Extraterritoriality in American Foreign Relations from American Banana to Alcoa Applauding the Opium War: John Quincy Adams and Britain's Global War vs. Slavery Commentator: Joseph Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas PANEL 23: Returning Diplomatic Historians to H-Diplo: A Roundtable Chair: Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder Christopher Ball, Iowa State University PANEL 24: Communication and US-Japan Relations During the 1940s Chair: Ronald Spector, George Washington University Solving the Enigma of Japan's Delayed Final Note at the Start of the Pacific War Preventative War and Diplomatic Communication Senator Elbert Thomas and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1941-1948 Ambassdor Joseph Grew and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937-1941 Commentator: Ronald Spector PANEL 25: Crisis Management of Management Crisis?: U.S.-Latin America Relations During the Kennedy Years Chair: Stephen Rabe, University of Texas at Dallas The Chastening of a Cold Warrior: John Kennedy and Political Extremism in Latin America Kennedy's Fiasco: U.S. Domestic Politics and the Bay of Pigs The Limits of Hegemony: The Kennedy Administration and the Argentine Coup of 1962 Omnipotence and Impotence: The Kennedy Administration's Response to the 1962 Peruvian Coup Commentator: Stephen Rabe PANEL 26: Minds at War: Expertise and the National Security State, 1945-68 Chair: Michael Latham, Fordham University Cold War Casualty: Politics and Scholarship at the Institute of Pacific Relations Activism of Appeasement?: Linus Pauling, Edward Teller, and the Battle for Cold War Science Social Research in the Pentagon: Project Camelot and the Scientific Management of American Foreign Affairs Vietnam: The American Turn Toward Peace Commentator: Michael Latham PANEL 27: NATO and the Gaullist Challenge in the 1960s: Anglo Chair: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut The French Withdrawal of NATO: An Inevitable Crisis? A Welcome Relief?: French Withdrawal from NATO, the Gaullist Challenge and Ango-American Responses The Bilderberg Group and the Gaullist Challenge to NATO Commentator: William Hitchcock, Temple University PANEL 28: The Politics of Foreign Aid: Domestic and International Considerations Chair: Kristin Ahlberg, Department of State “A Crumbling Bastion”: Economic Development, Nation Building and the Politics of Foreign Aid in Southern Vietnam, 1958-1960 “One of the Most Vexing Problems of American Foreign Policy”: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Considerations of the Foreign Aid Program The United States and Coordination of Aid Policies in the Development Assistance Committee, 1961-1965 “A Corrupting Influence”: Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy in U.S.-Guinean Relations, 1966 Commentator: Kristin Ahlberg
SESSION V (4:00pm – 6:00pm) PANEL 29: Kennedy & Nuclear Weapons Chair: Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University "We did not trade Cuban Missiles for Turkish missiles": President Kennedy, the Senate, and the Cuban Missile Crisis JFK's Israel Problem: US Nuclear Concerns with Israel in the Early 1960s Kennedy, McNamara, and the Foundations of the Rationale Against Missile Defense, 1961-1964 Commentator: Andrew Johns, Brigham Young University PANEL 30: The (Mis)Uses of History: The Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq Chair: Robert Schulzinger, University of Colorado, Boulder Will History Remember Iraq? Forgotten Memories from the Philippine-American War Presidents Truman and Bush and the Perils of Regime Change Which Vietnam Analogy?: Contested Memories of Vietnam and Political Rhetoric about Iraq Commentator: David Anderson, California State University, Monterey Bay PANEL 31: The US National Security Adviser and the Cold War World: Bundy, Rostow, Kissinger, Brzezinski and the Making of US Foreign Policy Chair: Mark Kramer, Harvard University Dean of the World: McGeorge Bundy and Kennedy's Foreign Policy, 1961-63 America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War Henry Kissinger and European-American Relations Reflections on Zbigniew Brzezinski's Role during the Carter Years Commentator: William Burr, National Security Archive/George Washington University PANEL 32: Roundtable: The United States, Japan and South Korea Security Relations, Past and Future Chair: William Stueck, University of Georgia Gregg A. Brazinsky, George Washington University PANEL 33: Resources and Tools for Teaching the History of U.S. Chair: Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University Introducing the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) Roy Rosenzweig, Director, CHNM, George Mason University Commentary: Carol Adams, Ottawa University PANEL 34: Southern Africa in the Cold War: Great Power Interventions and Local Reactions Chair: Cary Fraser, Pennsylvania State University White Rhodesia and the Cold War South Africa and the Cold War: The Year of 1976 The US Government and South African Nuclear Capability, 1949-1995 Commentator: Cary Fraser, Pennsylvania State University PANEL 35: Sport and American Foreign Relations, 1949-1972 Chair: Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin, Madison Denazification, Democratization, and the Cold War: The State Department's Manipulation of the German Olympic Committee American Sport Policy and the Cultural Cold War: The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Years "Real Friends": Constructing Soviet-American Friendship Through Olympic Ice Hockey Commentator: Jeremi Suri
Women Historians in SHAFR Breakfast: 7:45am – 9:00am The Pleasure (and Pain) of Writing About Powerful Women in Foreign Affairs
SESSION VI (9:00am – 11:00am) PANEL 36: Henry Kissinger: Cold War Villain, International War Criminal, or Conventional Cold War Statesman? Chair: Keith Olson, University of Maryland Jussi Hanhimaki, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva PANEL 37: A Necessary Reinterpretation of Presidential Power and Policy Making: The Secret Tapes of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Chair: Brian Etheridge, Louisiana Tech. University “We Will Not Pull Out of Vietnam Until the War is Won”: A Comparative Discussion of the Evolving History of America in Vietnam from the Kennedy and Johnson Tapes A Fresh Look at Policy-Making in the Nixon White House: Tales from the Nixon Tapes A Cancellation Crisis? The 1972 Easter Offensive & US-Soviet relations. Commentator: Ken Hughes, Miller Center, University of Virginia PANEL 38: Transnational Histories of Indigenous Peoples Chair: Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University Jihad and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia: United States Colonial Policy in the Southern Philippines, 1898-1946 The Inter-American Indian Institute and the First "Other American" Mindanao's Muslims Commentator: Kenton Clymer PANEL 39: Security Issues in US-Japan Relations Chair: Roger Dingman, University of Southern California Prelude to Okinawa: Nuclear Agreements and the Return of the Ogasawara Islands to Japan The Sata Cabinet and the Making of Japan's Non-Nuclear Policy Presence and Credibility: Homeporting the USS Midway at Yokosuka Commentator Commentator: Michael Schaller, University of Arizona PANEL 40: War, Migration, and Citizenship Chair: Petra Goedde, Temple University Black Yanks in America's Pacific: Military Service, the National Security State, and Interpersonal Politics, 1945-1953 "So They'd Disappear": Southeast Asian Refugees, Congressional Resettlement Policy, and the Politics of Race, Citizenship and War The Other Internment: The United States, Latin America, and "Enemy Aliens" during World War II Commentator: Petra Goedde PANEL 41: The Interwar Era as a Foretelling of US Pre-Eminence: Establishing American Diplomatic Consensus Chair: Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester Cordell Hull and U.S. Foreign Economic Policy: Building Multilateralism One Trade Deal at a Time The Contest for an American Foreign Policy Vision, 1928-1940 The Idea of a New World Order is No New Idea Blockade vs. Bread: Hoover, Britain, and the Conflict Over Humanitarian Aid during the First and Second World Wars Commentator: Andrew Johnstone, University of Leicester Luncheon and Presidential Address: (11:30am - 1:30pm) Intelligence and Strategy: Historicizing Psychology, Policy, & Politics
SESSION VII (1:30pm – 3:30pm) PANEL 42: Race, Violence and Pan Americanism in Latin America: 1920-1945 Chair: Alan McPherson, Howard University John Peter Williams, the Panamanian Robin Hood: Race Identity, and Crime on the Isthmus, 1918-1923 Pan American Responses to the 1937 Haitian/Dominican Massacre A View of the Lagoon from Mexico: World War II, Murder, and Race in U.S.-Mexican Relations Commentator: James Siekmeier, U.S. Department of State PANEL 43: Linking Security and Prosperity: Explorations into the Political Economy of NATO Chair: Lawrence S. Kaplan, Georgetown University Efficiency versus Nationalism in the Origins of NATO: Collective Balanced Forces Against National Balanced Forces “From…the Standpoint of Security”: NATO and the Dollar Gap Social-Democratic Objections to NATO in the Netherlands and the Instrumentality of American Military Aid The U.S. Strategic Materials Program and its Impact on Allied Countries; Stockpiling and Norway 1950-1962 Commentator: Lawrence S. Kaplan PANEL 44: New Frontiers: Great Power Rivalry and Third World Resistance in the 1960s Chair: Douglas Little, Clark University A Wind of Change?: Apartheid in the World, 1960-1963 “A Genuine Departure?”: Robert W. Komer and American Policy Toward the Nonaligned World, 1961-1966 Honor and Dignity: Al-Karamah and the Diplomacy of Resistance, 1968 Commentator: Douglas Little PANEL 45: Diverse Doctrines: New Perspectives on the Nixon Doctrine From Asia to Latin America Chair: Jeffrey Kimball, Miami University From Operation Cooperation to Operation Condor: U.S. Narcotics Control and Poppy Eradication in Mexico, 1969-1976 Be Careful What You Wish For: The Nixon Administration, "Vietnamization," and the Opening of the People's Republic of China, 1969-1972 Embracing the New Order at a Distance: The Nixon Administration and Indonesia, 1969-1974 Commentator: Jeffrey Kimball PANEL 46: A "Valuable Batch of Brains": Postwar Foreign Policy Intellectuals from the Bureaucracy, the Academy, and the Public Sphere Chair: XXX Sumner Welles, William Bullitt, and Leo Pasvolsky: Three Bureaucrats in Search of an Idea The Hard-Won Relevance of Émigré Realism during the Early Cold War Shouting at Power: Norman Podhoretz and American Foreign Policy Kennan and the War on Terror Commentator: XXX PANEL 47: Foreign Policy, the Vietnam War, and the Environment: Chemical Defoliation Across Decades and Borders Chair: Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan The Wild West and the New Frontier: The Kennedy Administration, Vietnam, and Operation Ranch Hand Agent Orange & Vietnam Putting the Present Behind Us: Détente, Disarmamemt and Environmental Warfare in Vietnam Commentator: Andrew Jon Rotter, Colgate University
SESSION VIII (4:00pm – 6:00pm) PANEL 48: Idealism and the Making of U.S. Cold War Foreign Policy Chair: Erin Mahan, Office of the Historian, US Department of State Thomas Finletter and Multilateralism in US Foreign Policy George W. Ball in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations G. Mennen Williams and the Contest to Decide U.S. policy towards Africa, 1961-1966 Commentator: XXXX PANEL 49: “Space, Place and Latin America": A Roundtable on the Intersection of History and Geography in the Inter-American Relations Chair: Alan McPherson, Howard University Latin America in the World Brazil The Caribbean Central America: The Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign of 1980 The Southern Cone PANEL 50: Questioning Imperial Legacies: The United States and the Philippines, 1898-1950 Chair: Paul Kramer, University of Michigan Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1938-39 Imperialism during Isolationism: Transitions in U.S. Colonial Administration of the Philippines, 1918-1932 "Midwives to Development": Social Welfare and the Discourses of Independence in Postwar U.S./Philippine Relations In and Out of Government: John Barrett, U.S. Statecraft, and International Interlocutors Commentator: Paul Kramer PANEL 51: Toward A Reaganite Foreign Policy Chair: Chester Pach, Ohio University Neo-Conservatives and the Reagan Revolution "Evil Empire": The Soul of Reaganite Foreign Policy Cold War Christians in the "Age of Reagan": The Christian Right's View of Foreign Policy, 1980-1992 Combating the Threat of Godless Communism: Religious Broadcasting in the Early Cold War Commentator: Anna Nelson PANEL 52: Roundtable: Atomic Diplomacy Chair: William Burr, National Security Archive, George Washington University Barton J. Bernstein, Stanford University PANEL 53: Roundtable: A Look Back as the Tet Offensive Turns Forty Chair: Jeffrey Kimball, Miami University The Tet Offensive and Hanoi's Revolutionary Strategy Soviet Biscuit Factories, Chinese Financial Grants: North Vietnam's Economic Diplomacy During and After the Tet Offensive Saigon in the Aftermath of the Tet Offensive Tet, Rolling Thunder and the Education of Clark Clifford Commentator: Randall Woods, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville PANEL 54: Woodrow Wilson's World: Sociocultural Issues in Wilsonian Foreign Policy Chair: Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University "Wilson's Mouthpiece?": The New York World and Mexico, 1913-1915 Insanity, Civilization, and a Hun: Woodrow Wilson's Lens on Kaiser Wilhelm, 1914-1917 An Imagined Axis: Visions of a Japan-Germany Alliance in U.S. and Japanese Political Discourses of the First World War Era Commentator: Mark Gilderhus, Texas Christian University Conference VenueJune 1 , 2007 Dear SHAFR Conference Participants: Our contracted reduced room rate at Westfields Marriott expired yesterday. It is unlikely that any rooms will become available there and, even if they did, the hotel is no longer obligated to offer the reduced rate. That being said, anyone wishing to continue to pursue the possibility of getting a room there should contact Westfields directly at 800-635-5666 or 703-818-0300. Because Westfields Marriott ran out of available rooms before our reduced rate expired, I was able to get them to offer us a courtesy rate of $99/night at the nearby Dulles Airport Courtyard Chantilly. To reserve a room there, call 800-635-5666 or 703-709-7100 and mention SHAFR. If the reservation clerk fails to offer you the $99 rate, refer them to our Marriott Event Manager, Susan Anderson, at Westfields. Please note that Courtyard Chantilly is not within walking distance of Westfields. You will need to provide your own transportation to the conference venue at Westfields, where free parking is available. Conference attendees who have room reservations and might like to split the cost with a roommate, and those without rooms looking for such available space, should consider posting entries on the "Message Board" indicating their interests.
http://cwp.marriott.com/iadwf/shafr2007annualmeeting/ TransportationParkingFree parking is available to all conference attendees in the Westfields Marriott parking lot. Valet parking is available for a fee. TransportationArriving by car: Arriving by air at Dulles International Airport: For departures from the hotel, please provide departure details to the Front Desk or Bell Desk at least 8 hours prior to your departure time. Please note that Westfields normally charges a $15 fee for this service, but it is complimentary for SHAFR Conference registrants. Arriving by train, bus, or by air at either Reagan National or Baltimore Washington International Airport: SHAFR Shuttle: SHAFR will provide a shuttle bus between the Vienna Metro Station and Westfields during the afternoon/evening of Wednesday, June 20; all day on Thursday, June 21-Saturday, June 23; and during the morning of Sunday, June 24. Please click here for the full shuttle schedule. Contact InformationFor questions or comments please contact Sara Wilson at [email protected] Book Exhibit and AdvertisersExhibitsThe following organizations have already reserved exhibit space at this year’s conference: Blackwell Publishers Anyone wishing to display materials at the conference must purchase an exhibit table. Space is limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. If your organization wants to make a reservation, please download and mail in this form: AdvertisingThe printed version of the conference program is in production and will be mailed to SHAFR members in March. The following have purchased advertising space in the program: Cornell University Press Plenary PapersMaking Law, Making War, Making America When Liberals Were Hawks
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