2002 National Conference Preliminary Program: May 16-18, 2002 Atlanta, Georgia

2002 National Conference Preliminary Program MAY 16-18, 2002 ATLANTA, GEORGIA Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:30-5:30 PM Opening Plenary Session RECEPTION DINNER-CHRISTOPHER LASCH LECTURE Friday, May ¡7,2002 Breakfast 7:30-9 AM Session! 9-10:45 AM Sessioni! 11:15 AM-I PM Luncheon 1-2:30 PM SPECULATIONS ON RECONSTRUCTION WITH BILL FREEHLING. GENE GENOVESE. AND AUDIENCE Phi Alpha Theta Luncheon 1-2:30 PM "A BAD MARRIAGE: RECONSTRUCTING SCOTLAND AS NORTHERN BRITAIN." DEBORAH SYMONDS Session ¡I! 2:45-4:30 PM Saturday, May 18, 2002 Breakfast 8-9:30 AM Session ¡V 10 AM-12 PM Luncheon 12-1:30 PM A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE JOURNAL OFTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETr WITH ELIZABETH FOX-GENOVESE AND LAURA CRAWLEY Session V 1:30-3:30 PM Closing Plenary 4-5:30 PM PLENARY SESSION: CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY POLITICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS I >.n?J I„indes. Harvard University "China and the West: NWr the Twain Skill Meet" Sc)TTXXIr Drescher, University ofPittsburgh "White Atlantic! The Choice tor African Slaw Labor iii the Americas" Moderator: TBA PLENARY SESSION: CHRISTOPHER LASCH LECTURE Natalie Zemotl I >.ius. University ofToronto Moderator: Robert Lcrner, Northwestern University PLENARY SESSION: SUMMARY DISCUSSION Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Emory University "Reconstructions'' Commenti David Moltke-Hansen. HistoricalSociety ofPennsylvania George Huppert, University ofIllinois at Chicago POLITICAL USES OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF CATASTROPHES Kevin ( !tamer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis "The Lamentations of Germany: The Historiography ot the Thirty Years' VAr1 1790-1890" William Mulligan, University College, Dublin, Ireland "Historical Stéréotypes and the Ixinco-German Relationship after the Fra World War" Moderator. TIiA Comment: fames V H. Melton. Emory University INTELLECTUALS IN EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRISES Thomas C Bchr. University ofHouston "The Eternal Return of Natural Law: The Revival of Scholastic Natural Law Thought in Europe during the Restoration and Luigi Iaparelli D'Azeglio, S.J. (1 792-1862)" Niles R. Holt. Illinois State University "Between Science and Politics: Rudoll Yircliow and the Reconstruction of German Liberalism" Moderator: TBA Comment: TBA MODERN AFRICAN RECONSTRUCTIONS George Sochan, Bowie State University "East African Slave Trade and British Involvement" Mar)' L. Montgomery, University ofMaryland "Decolonization as Reconstruction: Great Britain, the United States, and the Reconstruction of Independence in Ghana, I957-I960" Kolby W. BiU, The College ofWilliam andMary " 'Reason. I Sacrifice You to the Morning Breeze': The Négritude Movement as a Cultural Response to European Colonization in francophone Africa" Moderator: TBA Comment: TBA RELIGIOUS RECONSIDERATIONS OF SOCIAL CRISES: THIRTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES Piotr Gorecki. University ofCalifornia. Riverside "A Monastic History as Reconstruction and RecoveryAbbot fttcr and the Henrykow Book" Susan Bocttchcr, University ofTexas "Reformation Rupture and tlk- Reconstruction of Ecclesiastical Authority in Lutheran Histories of the Reformation: Re-envisioning the Church's Past in the Later Sixteenth Century" continued on page Id 15 I-rank Williams. Reinhardt College "Reconstituting Society in Agenais after the Hundred Years War" Moderator: TBA Comment: TBA EARLY MODERN BRITAIN Margaret Sankey, Auburn University "Revenge, Reconciliation, and Reconstruction: The British State and the Jacobite Prisoners of the 1 71 5 Rebellion" Steven Torres, Yeshiva University "Reconstructing tin- IVv]UoI War Moderator: TBA Comment: IBA CULTURAL RESPONSES TO THE NAPOLEONIC WARS Todd Larkin, Montana Slate University "The Aesthetics of Expiation: Louis .Will's Cultural} Politics, I8I5-I820" Thomas Albert Howard. Gordon College "Prussia, Napoleon, and the Rise of the Modern Umwcsty" Brent Maner. University ofTulsa "Reconstructing tlx- Ancient German Past: Historical Preservation alter tlie Napoleonic Invasions" Moderator: IBA Comment: TBA ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION OF FRANCE AFTER WWI Michael S. Smith, University ofSouth Carolina "Snatching Economic Victory from ?lie Jaws of Defeat: The Destruction, Reconstruction, and Rationalization of French Steel, l·) 1 4-1 929" E P. Fitzgerald, Carleton University "French Reconstruction After the Great War: An Inevitable failure-' Joshua M. Humphreys, New York University Institute ofFrench Studies "Reconstruction. Social Reform, and the Rationalization of I-rcnch Thought after World War G Moderator: TBA Comment TBA DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC POLICY AFTER WWII Jamie Miller, Bard College "Personality. Ideology, and Interest in the Reconstruction of the World Trading System: The Case of Stafford Gripps and Will Clayton" John Patrick Diggins, City University ofNew York Graduate Center "Tlx· Fall of Communism and the Reconstruction of Russia" Alfred C. Micrzejcwski...