Provisional Programme June 2015 University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

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1 26-28 June 2015 University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Friday 26 June :30pm-3:00pm: Registration (Arts Building, Floor 1, American Studies Corridor) 3:15pm: Bus to Norwich Cathedral Hostry (meet at the American Studies Corridor, Floor 1, Arts Building) 4:00pm: Plenary Lecture: Professor Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge): Title TBC 6:00pm: Drinks Reception 7:00pm: Conference Banquet 10.00pm: Return bus to UEA campus 1

2 Saturday 27 June 2015 (All sessions in the Julian Study Centre) 9:00am-10:30am: Session 1 Panel 1: Neglected Problems in American Conservatism (Chair: Karen Heath) JSC 1.01 Gareth Davies (University of Oxford), Conflicted Conservatives: The Right and Disaster Politics since the 1960s Tom Packer (University of Warwick), Progressives Left Behind : Rethinking The Southern Conservative Tradition Christopher Brown (University of Oxford), The Eisenhower Doctrine and the end of Modern Republicanism? Panel 2: New Perspectives: The US Cold War and South East Asia (Chair: Thomas Tunstall Allcock) JSC 1.02 Alex Ferguson (University of Southampton), A Critical Year in Indochina: Failing French Resolve and U.S. Ambassador to Saigon Donald Heath s Efforts to Keep France in the Franco-Viet Minh War, January-December 1953 Ben Walker (University of Manchester), America s Deadliest Secret Agent : US Foreign Policy, the Philippines, and the Legend of Edward Lansdale Luke Middup (Independent Scholar), US Strategy in Vietnam: An Inevitable Defeat? Panel 3: Race, Discipline, and Protest (Chair: TBC) JSC 0.01 Vivien Miller (University of Nottingham), Hanging v. Electrocution: Debating Capital Punishment in the Early 20th Century American South Simon Topping (Plymouth University), Race and Discipline: US Military Discipline in Northern Ireland During World War Two Tom Adam Davies (University of Sussex), Poster Boy for the Great Society: George Forman, Radical Black Protest, and American Identity Panel 4: Thinking About Protest (Chair: TBC) JSC 1.03 Kerry Flett (University of Edinburgh), We Ain t Getting What We Should : The History of the Civil Rights Movement and the Movements it Leaves Behind Kyle Harvey (Macquarie University), Feminists, Bombs, and Babies: The Meeting of Anti-Nuclear and Pro-Life Activism in the United states Tom Lennon (University of York), Sent to Hell Where They Belong : Black Versus Black Violence in the Early Civil Rights Movement, :30am-11:00am: Coffee Break (Julian Study Centre foyer) 2

3 11:00am-12:30pm: Session 2 Panel 5: Rethinking the Nixon Era (Chair: TBC) JSC 1.02 Oline Eaton (King s College London), Nixon in Camelot: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Watergate, and the Kennedy Myth, November 1973 Ben Harvey Sporle (Canterbury Christ Church University), Richard Nixon: The First Native American President? Karen Heath (University of Oxford), Politics and the American Artist in the 1970s Panel 6: New Perspectives on the Cold War (Chair: Nick Witham) JSC 0.01 John Munro (Saint Mary s University), Anticommunism and Anticolonialism in the US and the World, John Morello (DeVry University), Memories of a Forgotten War Tom Bishop (University of Nottingham), The Fallout Shelter Father on the New Frontier: John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Nuclear Survival Jennifer Luff (Durham University), It Didn t Happen There? British and American Civil Libertarians and Early Cold War Anticommunism Panel 7: Race, Labour and Poverty in the 1960s Deep South (Chair: Gary Gerstle) JSC 1.03 Katherine J. Ballantyne (University of Cambridge), Maximum Feasible Coordination: Memphis Student and Community Activists Battle Issues of Race and Labour Post 1965 Emma Folwell (University of Leicester), Fighting the War on Poverty : Community Action and the Mississippi Republican Party David Ballantyne (Leiden University), Straddling the Fence: South Carolina Democrats and the Limits of Racial Change, c :30pm-2:00pm: Lunch (Julian Study Centre foyer) 3

4 2:00pm-3:00pm: Session 3 Panel 8: Education History (Chair: Andrew Hartman) JSC 1.01 Nicholas Strohl (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Debating the Federal Role: The Truman Commission and the Limits of US Higher Education Policy John Bloxham (University of Nottingham), The Classicising of the American Mind: Plato versus Theory in the Culture Wars Panel 9: Travel, Race and Social Change (Chair: TBC) JSC 1.03 Cara Rodway (British Library), Camps, Courts, and Class: Social Change and the American Roadside in the 1930s Rosemary Pearce (University of Nottingham), African-American Servicemen and Women in the War Against Segregated Transport Panel 10: Eleanor Roosevelt and American Politics (Chair: TBC) JSC 1.01 Felix Harcourt (Columbus State University), The First Lady and the Tiger: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Collapse of Tammany Hall Melissa Cooper (University of East Anglia), Eleanor Roosevelt and the 1930s Anti- Lynching Movement 3:15pm-4:15pm: HOTCUS AGM (JSC 0.01) 4:30pm-6:00pm: Plenary Lecture (JSC 0.01): Dr. Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University): A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars A list of restaurants for dinner can be found at the end of the programme. 4

5 Sunday 28 June 2015 (All sessions in the Julian Study Centre) 9:00am-11:00am: Session 4 Panel 11: America in the World (Chair: Laura McDonald) JSC 1.02 Margaret Manchester (Providence College), A Golden Age of Nasserism? Changing Anglo-American Perceptions of Nasser s Egypt Victor Gavin (University of Barcelona), From an Executive Agreement (1953) to a Treaty (1976): The History of the Unbalanced Relationship Between Washington and Madrid Executives Mark Shanahan (University of Reading), The Road to the White House Started in London Panel 12: Religion, Politics and Ideas (Chair: TBC) JSC 0.01 Rachael Gilbert (University of East Anglia), Analysing Individualism Within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Brad Baranowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison), War and Justice: John Rawls s Philosophical Temperament John Chandler (Université de Valenciennes), Faith-Based Policy: Still Around After All These Years Emma Long (University of East Anglia), Yet Another Threat To Religious Freedom : Religion, Politics, and the Roots of the Religious Liberty Debate Panel 13: American Politics and Political Economy (Chair: Tom Bishop) JSC 1.03 Robbie Maxwell (University of Edinburgh), The Emergence of a Pioneer Conservative: George S. Benson ( ) and the Right s Response to Economic Modernity James Hillyer (University College London), Consolidating the Keynesian Revolution: Walter W. Heller, John F. Kennedy and the New Economics, Patrick Andelic (University of Oxford), The Old Economic Rules No Longer Apply : The National Planning Idea and the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, Daniel Rowe (University of Oxford), Reconstructing US Industry in an Era of Economic Uncertainty, :00am-11:30am: Coffee Break (Julian Study Centre foyer) 5

6 11:30am-1:00pm: Session 5 Panel 14: Race, the South, and Popular Culture (Chair: Felix Harcourt) JSC 1.02 Jemma Carter (University of East Anglia), Representations of Gender, Family and the Home Within 20 th Century African-American Lynching Plays Hannah Graves (University of Warwick), Zanuck Knows Best: Gratitude and Attitude During Hollywood s Race Year Christian O Connell (University of Gloucestershire), Songs of the South : Images of the Southern Past in British popular Culture Panel 15: Body Politics in the 1980s: Grassroots Organising on the Left and the Right in the Reagan Era (Chair: Jonathan Bell) JSC 1.03 Will Riddington (University of Cambridge), The Grassroots Anti-abortion Movement, Congressional Politics and the Hatch and Helm Amendments, Charlie Jeffries (University of Cambridge), Women and Children? The Role of Adolescence in the Feminist Sex Wars Joe Ryan-Hume (University of Glasgow), The Returning Tide of Liberalism: The Nomination of Robert Bork to the US Supreme Court in :00pm-2:00pm: Lunch (Julian Study Centre foyer) 2:00pm: Conference Closes Maps, directions, restaurants etc. 6