New York State Association of European Historians

Annual Meeting

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October 2 and 3, 2009
SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY

Registration and Reception on Friday: 5:00-6:00
 

Friday dinner: 6:00-7:30

Keynote address: 7:30

Timing is Everything, Some Thoughts on an Academic Career
Professor David Costello, Canisius College
 

Saturday October 3, 2009

Saturday registration & continental breakfast: 8:00-10:00 i

Session Panels

Session One: 8:30-10:00 am.

1-1.  BY SEA, BY AIR, AND BY PROXY: EUROPEAN POWER PROJECTION

Chair:  Robert J. Bird, Jr., St. John Fisher College

 Commentator:  Sara Abosch, University of Memphis.

 Pamela Celata, St. John Fisher College, “Two if by Sea: An Exploration of British Amphibious Doctrine.”

 David MacGregor, St. John Fisher College, “By Air to Battle: European Power Projection in the 20th Century.”

 Robert J Bird, Jr. St. John Fisher College, “The Decline of European Power Projection in the Post-Imperial Era.”

1-2.  EXPLORING WESTERN EUROPEAN NOTIONS OF SELF: RELIGION, BIOGRAPHY AND WORK

Chair/Commentator:  Wendy Pojmann, Siena College

 Katherine Clark, SUNY College at Brockport, “Visualizing The Widow’s Spiritual Bereavement: Medieval Texts, Renaissance Images.”

 Anna Biel, SUNY Albany, “A Personal Quest For the Moral Self in the Immoral World:  Grigorii Vinskii’s Memoir, My Time.” 

Jennifer Lloyd, SUNY College at Brockport, “Women as Religious Professionals in Britain in the Late Nineteenth Century:  Forerunners or Marginalized?”

1-3. PROJECTING THE NATION:  COMMERCE AND ‘CLAUSTROPHOBIA’

Chair/Commentator:  Rick Fogarty, SUNY Albany

 Martha Reiner, “Content Categories and Language Time Perspectives in Hakluyt’s Voyages (1589).

 Michael Zaborowski, SUNY Albany, “The Gendering of Space in Colonial Burma.”

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
 

Session Two: 10:30-12:00

2-1. HARNESSING THE PUBLIC SPACE:  CLASSROOMS, LIBRARIES, AND MUSEUMS

Chair/Commentator:  Barbara Blaszak, Lemoyne College

 Barbara Fox, Suffolk County Community College, “The Books are all Gone: Post World War I Public Libraries and Children in Devastated France.”

 David Marshall, Suffolk Community College, “Das Museum fur (ulmat) Deutsche Geschichte: A Sunday Getaway?”

 Michael Marino, Fordham University, “The Teaching of European History in America, 1800-1919.”

2-2. OTTOMAN REFORMERS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSLIM POLITICAL THOUGHT: 1798-1923

Chair/Commentator:  York Norman, Buffalo State College

 Birsen Bulmus, Appalachian State University, “Osman bin Süleyman and the undoing of Ottoman plague reform at the turn of the nineteenth century.”

 Mustafa Gokcek, Niagara University, “Ziya Gökalp and Reforming Islam.”

 York Norman, Buffalo State College, “A man of contradictions? Reframing Namik Kemal’s notions of Islamic nationhood in late Ottoman history.”

2-3. ARTISTIC AND RESIDENTIAL SPACE IN MODERN FRANCE:  DANCE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Chair/Commentator:  Julie Gibert, Canisius College

 Camelia Lenart, SUNY Albany, “Martha Graham and Bethsabee de Rothschild—An Artistic Friendship in the Service of Modern Dance.”

 W. Brian Newsome, Elizabethtown College, “The Evolution of the Single-Family Home in France, 1945-1975

12:00-1:30 pm Saturday luncheon & business meeting

Session Three: 1:30-3:00 pm.

3-1. CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN LEADERS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Chair/Moderator:  Jenny Lloyd, SUNY College at Brockport

 David MacGregror,  St. John Fisher College, “The Chancellorship of Angela Merkel: Grand Coalition or Grand  Illusion?”

 Colonel Kevin Farrell, USMA, “‘New Labour’ Under Siege: Gordon Brown in Context”

 Ken Nelson, Rochester Institute of Technology, “Russia Under the Putin/Medvedev Team:  Continuity or Change?”

3-2. PROPAGANDA, POLITICAL LEGITIMACY, AND NAVAL PROCUREMENT:  REACTION AND INNOVATION IN STUART ENGLAND

Chair/Commentator:  Zdenka Gredel-Manuele, Niagara University

 Joy Zappia, Buffalo State College, “Mid to late 17C British Perspectives on Anti-Catholicism”

 Joseph Cope, SUNY College at Geneseo, “The Irish Stroker and the King’s Evil:  Valentine Greatrakers, Charles II and the Construction of Royal Power.”

 Andrew Nicholls, Buffalo State College, “Drebbel’s Submarine: Wonders, Procurements, and Reform Efforts in the Early Stuart Royal Navy”

Conference Fees:
 

You should make checks payable to NYSAEH and send them to:  
Barbara J. Blaszak, History Department, Le Moyne College, 	
1419 Salt Springs Road, Syracuse, NY 13214

There are three places to stay near campus:

Holiday Inn Express from $105

EconoLodge from $40 (gets bad internet reviews!)

Victorian Bed and Breakfast from $75 limited space

They are all small and are not willing to set aside blocks of rooms for a discount.

Jennie indicated that the other option would be hotels in the Rochester area, 
probably near the airport would be most convenient.  
She said that would be about a 30 minute drive to campus