Preliminary 2004 THS Conference Schedule: June 3-6, 2004 at the Spruce Point Inn near Boothbay Harbor, Maine "Reflections on the Current State of Historical Inquiry"

September 2003 · Historically Speaking29 Preliminary 2004 THS Conference Schedule June 3-6, 2004 at the Spruce Point Inn near Boothbay Harbor, Maine "Reflections on the Current State of Historical Inquiry" Program Directors: Peter Coclanis, University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill George Huppert, University ofIllinois at Chicago Ann Mover, University ofPennsylvania James Tracy, University ofMinnesota WE ENVISION THIS CONFERENCE as a conversation about what makes history a discipline. Since historians cannot rely on a single method tofit all situations, tve expectto takea close look at differentapproaches to thepast. Weare interestedas well in thechallenges createdby the natureofavailablesources, andby theissues thatarisewhen one borrows theoreticalapproachesfrom other disciplines. In an age thatsees itselfas moving beyondmodernity, theground-has shiftedunder the variousgrandnarratives ofits European origins. Hence wehope to casta criticaleye on traditional chapters in that narrative, such as the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. At the same time, we hope topromote ongoing efforts to framethehistories ofAfrica, Asia, andtheIslamicworldin terms ofcategories notshaped by European narratives. Weexpectthathistorians workingwith manydifferentkinds of sources andrepresenting oilfields andperspectives willbeparty to these discussions. We hopethatthisfourth nationalmeetingwillserveasapointofdeparturefora clear-sightedanalysis ofthe likelyfuture ofhistoricalstudies in the new century. For program updates please visit www.bu.edu/historic/conference04.html THl RSDAV, JLN F 3,2004 2:15-3:45 PM Session IA Ireland andAmerica Moderator: Joseph Morrison Skelly, College of Mount Saint 'Vincent DavidNoel Doyle, University College, Dublin "A Creative Irritant: IrishAmerica and the TransAtlantic Diffusion ofLiberal Democracy, 1820-1880" Joseph Morrison Skelly, College ofMount Saint Vincent "AEuropean Exception, a Trans-Atlantic Phenomenon : The Resiliency ofLiberal Democracy in Independent Ireland, 1922-2002" Session IB Historical Inquiry in the Federal Government Moderator: Edward Keefer, General Editor, Foreign Relations ofthe US Series; Office ofthe Historian, Department of State Michael Warner, CIA History Staff "Kafka as Translated by Lewis Carroll: Pitfalls and Rewards ofIntelligence History in the Federal Government " Erin Manan, Department ofState "Tapes, Documents, and the Foreign Relations of the United States Series" James Siekmeir, Department ofState "The Chile Declassification Project" Matthew Festa, Judicial Law Clerk, US District Court, Eastern Kentucky "TheApplication ofa Usable Past: Toward Reconciling the Professional Standards ofHistory and Law" Patricia MacCaughan, University ofMinnesota "Caught between History and Law: An Historiographical Question ofOrigin" Session ID Science andReligion inAmerica Moderator: Darryl G. Hart, Intercollegiate Studies Institute Jon H. Roberts, Boston University "Science, Liberal Protestantism, and Philosophical Idealism in America" RonaldL. Numbers, UniversityofWisconsin, Madison "Science and Secularization inAmerica" Session IE Digital Media andLibraries: The Searchfor Sources? Moderator: David Moltke-Hansen, Historical Society of Pennsylvania Cristel de Rouvray, London School ofEconomics "The Implications ofDigital Media for the Historical Profession" Kenneth Carpenter, HarvardUniversity Library, retired "The Historical Contingency ofLibrary Collecting" Tiago Mata, London School ofEconomics "The Implications ofDigital Media for the Historical Profession" 4:00-5:30 PM Session HA Conservative History: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going Moderator and Commentator: George H. Nash, Independent Scholar Gregory L. Schneider, Emporia State University "The Protean Character ofModernAmerican Conservatism " Donald T. Critchlow, Saint Louis University "What Grassroots Conservatism Tells Us: Reconsidering the New Revisionist History ofConservatism" Session ?? The (Non) BombingofAuschwitz: CounterfactualHistory in aFilmDocumentary Presentation: Paul B. Miller, McDaniel College Film: They LookedAway (narrated by Mike Wallace) Session HC American Religious History Moderator: Donald A. Yerxa, Eastern Nazarene College Thomas Kidd , Baylor University "Expansion and Globalization inAmerican Religion , 1492-1865" Kurt Peterson , North Park University "Expansion and Globalization inAmerican Religion , 1865-2004" Session IC Law and History Moderator: Martin Burke, Lehman College, CUNY Commentator: Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga 30Historically Speaking · September 2003 Session IID RevisionistApproaches to American Historiography Moderator: Pete Banner-Haley, Colgate University FrederickAdams, Drake University "We Took the MostTraveled Path: AReconsideration ofthe Revisionist Interpretation ofU.S. ForeignPolicy" Jean Paul Benowitz, Temple University "The Challenges ofDefining the Realm ofModem American History" Kenneth Barkin, University ofCalifornia, Riverside "W.E.B. DuBois's Love Affair with Germany" Session HE Redefining Early Modern History Moderator: Ann Mover, University ofPennsylvania John Monfasani, State University ofNew York at Albany "What's in a Name? Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modem: A Reconsideration Philip M. Soergel, Arizona State University "Would the Reformation byAny Other Name Smell as Sweet?" April G. Shelford, American University "From Erudition to Enlightenment: Defining Intellectual Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries" Reception 5:30-6:00 PM Christopher...