2002 Conference: Historical Reconstructions Atlanta, Georgia, May 16-18

30Historically Speaking · November 2001 2002 Conference: Historical Reconstructions Atlanta, Georgia, May 16-18 Thursday May 1 6, 2002 1 2:00—8:00pm Registration 2:30—5:00pm Plenary Session: CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENTAND NINETEENTH-CENTURY POLITICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS Welcome: George Huppert, President.The Historical Society, University of Illinois at Chicago Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh "White Atlantic? The Choice for African Slave Labor in the Americas" David Landes, Harvard University "China and the West: Never the Twain Shall Meet" Moderator: Sean Wilentz, Princeton University 5:l5pm Reception 6:30pm Dinner 8:00pm Plenary Session: CHRISTOPHER LASCH LECTURE Natalie Zemon Davis, University ofToronto Moderator: Robert Lerner, Northwestern University Friday May 1 7, 2002 7:30""—4:30pm Registration 7:30—9:00"" Breakfast 9:00—10:45"" THE BALKANS SINCEWWII Gerasimos Augustinos, University of South Carolina "Ravaged Space, Splintered Convictions: Re-Constructing Greece After World War II" Yitzchak Kerem,Aristotle University "Reconstructing the ex-Yugoslavia: Creating New Societies or Perpetuating Old Problematic Dreams?" Moderator: Joseph Lucas.The Historical Society Respondents: Sarah Kent, University ofWisconsin, Stevens Point John Treadway, University of Richmond CULTURAL RESPONSES TO THE NAPOLEONIC WARS Thomas Albert Howard, Gordon College "Prussia, Napoleon, and the Rise of the Modern University" Todd Larkin, Montana State University "The Aesthetics of Expiation: Louis XVIII's Cult(ural) Politics, 1815-1820" Brent Maner, University ofTulsa "Reconstructing the Ancient German Past: Historical Preservation After the Napoleonic Invasions" Moderator: Owen Connelly, University of South Carolina Respondent: James Friguglietti, Montana State University, Billings ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION OF FRANCE AFTER WWI E.P. Fitzgerald, Carleton University "French Reconstruction After the Great War: An Inevitable Failure?" Joshua M. Humphreys, NewYork University, Institute of French Studies "Reconstruction, Social Reform, and the Rationalization of French Thought after World War I" Michael S. Smith, University of South Carolina "Snatching Economic Victory from the Jaws of Defeat:The Destruction, Reconstruction, and Rationalization of French Steel, 1914-1929" Moderator:William Keylor, Boston University Respondent: Edmund Clingan, University of North Dakota THE RECONSTRUCTION OFJEWISH COMMUNITIES DURINGAND AFTER THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVM David Weisberg, Hebrew Union College "The Reconstruction of Jewish Communities During the Persian Era" Edwin Yamauchi, Miami University "The Reconstruction of Jewish Communities During the NeoBabylonian Era" Moderator: Edwin Yamauchi, Miami University Respondent: Kevin L. Spawn, Simpson College REVISITING THE DEBATES ON AMERICAN RECONSTRUCTION Mark Smith, University of South Carolina "State of the Field" Mark Wahlgren Summers, University of Kentucky "The Constructive Unreality of Reconstruction Policy-Making" Moderator:William W. Freehling, University of Kentucky Respondents: Thavolia Glymph, Duke University Harold Woodman, Purdue University November 200 1 Historically Speaking 31 I 1:1 5am— l:00pm DIPLOMATICAND economic policy AFTERWWII John Patrick Diggins, City University of New York Graduate Center "The Fall of Communism and the Reconstruction of Russia" Alfred C. Mierzejewski, Athens State University "Uneasy Partners: Ludwig Erhard and the Allied Occupation Authorities, 1945-1955" Jamie Miller, Bard College "Personality, Ideology, and Interest in the Reconstruction of the World Trading System:The Case of Stafford Cripps and Will Clayton" Moderator: Marc Trachtenberg, University of California, Los Angeles Respondent: Jeffrey Vanke, Guilford College EARLY MODERN BRITAIN Jennifer Ridden, University of Cambridge "Reconstructing Ireland within Britain:The Irish Elite and Liberal Reform after the 1 798 Rebellion." Margaret Sankey,Auburn University "Revenge, Reconciliation, and Reconstruction:The British State and the Jacobite Prisoners of the 1715 Rebellion" Steven Torres,Yeshiva University "Reconstructing the PequotWar" Moderator: Mark Fissel,Augusta State University Respondent: Jeremy Black, University of Exeter MODERN AFRICAN RECONSTRUCTIONS Kolby W. Bilal.The College ofWilliam and Mary '"Reason, I Sacrifice You to the Morning Breeze:" The Négritude Movement as a Cultural Response to European Colonization in Francophone Africa" Mary E. Montgomery, University of Maryland "Decolonization as Reconstruction: Great Britain, the United States, and the Reconstruction of Independence in Ghana, 1 9571960 " George Sochan, Bowie State University "East African Slave Trade and British Involvement" Moderator:Arthur Abraham,Virginia State University Respondent: Patricia Romero,Towson University POUTICAL USES OFTHE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF CATASTROPHES Kevin Cramer, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis "The Lamentations of Germany:The Historiography of the Thirty Years' War, 1790-1890" William Mulligan, University College, Dublin "Historical Stereotypes and the Franco-German Relationship After the First World War" Moderator: Robert Herzstein, University of South Carolina Respondent James VH. Melton, Emory University...