New York State Association of European Historians

Annual Meeting

  

Siena College

Loudonville, NY

 

Click here for Registration Form (Available in August) 

 

Friday, September 24, 2010

Registration and Reception: 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Dinner: 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Keynote address: 7:30 p.m.


Gender Equality and the New Europe:

France and the European Economic Community in the 1950s

 

Professor Laura Frader, Northeastern University

 

 

 

Saturday, September 25, 2009

Saturday registration & continental breakfast: 8:00-10:00 a.m.


Session Panels

 

Session One, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

 

1.1. Colonialism and Post-colonialism

 

Nicholas Waddy, Alfred State College, chair and commentator.

 

Ken Orosz, Buffalo State College,
 “Allegations of Allied Mistreatment during the Great War: The Case of German Missionaries in Cameroon.”

 

Michael Zaborowski, The Museum of History and Industry,
"Distinct but Not Unique: Examining the Place of Lusotropicalism in Postcolonial Discourse."

 

1.2. Warfare in Fact and Fiction

 

Frederick H. Dotolo, Saint John Fisher College, chair and commentator.  

 

Michael Marino, The College of New Jersey,
“The Spanish Civil War and the Birth of Modern Warfare.”

 

Michael Rosenfeld, Pace University,
“Anti-Fascism and National Character in the Second World War Novels of Patrick Hamilton.”

 

1.3. Shaping Perspectives in Germany

 

Barbara Blaszak, Lemoyne College, chair and commentator.

 

Matthew Ciocchi, The New School for Social Research,

“Leibniz and the Mechanization of Knowledge.”

 

Regina Woronowicz, U.S. Military Academy,

"Becoming a Child of Hitler."

 

John N. Liquori,

“Sophie Scholl and German Idealism: How German Writers and Literature Influenced a Revolution.”

 

Coffee Break, 10:00-10:30 a.m.

 

Session Two, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

 

2.1 Orthodoxy and Catholicism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

 

Julie Gibert, Canisius College, chair and commentator.

                                

Anna Biel, The University at Albany,

“Sacred Marriage, Sacred Duty: Religious Models behind the Idealization of Wifehood by the Decembrist Wives.”

 

Martin Ederer, Buffalo State College,

“Modernity, the ‘Social Question,’ and Human Migration:  Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and his Missionaries of St. Charles, 1887-1934.”

 

 

W. Brian Newsome, Elizabethtown College,

“The Mystical Body of Christ and French Catholic Action, 1926-1945.”

 

2.2 The Revolution, the Circus, and Teetotalism in Russia and Poland

 

David Devereux, Canisius College, chair and commentator.

 

Marcus Schulzke, The University at Albany,

“The Russian Revolution and the Politicized Military.”

 

Meredith Roman, SUNY-Brockport,

"An American Road Trip and the Soviet Circus: The Strange Politics of Anti-Racism in the U.S.S.R. during the Popular Front Era."

 

Leszek Murat, The University at Albany,

“ ‘Comrades, We Must Show a Collective Contempt for Drunkards’ ”: Institutionalized Teetotalism of Security Functionaries in Communist Poland, 1944-1989.”

 

2.3 Origins: Peoples and Nations: Student Panel

 

Richard Fogarty, The University at Albany, chair and commentator.

 

Derek Hunt Stanley, U.S. Military Academy,

“The Early Celts.”

 

Thomas Richardson, U.S. Military Academy,

"The Pope and Italian Unification."

 

Asael Flores, U.S. Military Academy,

"La Virgen de Guadalupe: A Symbol of Mexican Independence."

 

 

12:00-1:30 p.m. Saturday luncheon & business meeting

 

Session Three: 1:30-3:00 p.m.

 

3.1 France: Old Regime and Restoration

 

Warren Roberts, The University at Albany chair and commentator.

 

Junko Takeda, Syracuse University.

"Civic Republicanism in Absolutist France: Marseille, Colbertisme and the Mediterranean, 1660-1720."

 

Robert Kruckeberg, Alfred University,

"Public Finance and the Royal Lottery at the End of the Old Regime."

 

Markus J. Prutsch, University of Helsinki,

“ ‘Monarchical Constitutionalism’ and the French Charte of 1814.”

 

3.2 Modern Germany

 

Helena Waddy, SUNY-Geneseo, chair and commentator.

 

Jeffrey S. Gaab, Farmingdale State College,

“Beerhall Politics in Munich, 1920-1923.”

 

Annette Lippold, The University at Albany,

 “Christian Marriage Counseling Services in 1920s Germany.”

 

 Zdenka Gredel-Manuele, Niagara University,

 “German Post-War Reconstruction and the Role of Zeitgeschichte.”

 

3.3. Monsters, Miracles, and Wonders in Early Modern Europe

 

Scott Taylor, Siena College, chair and commentator.

 

Ken Kurihara, Fordham University,

 “Christoph Irenaeus’ De Monstris (1584): Curiosity and Theological Controversy in 16th-Century Lutheran Germany.”

 

Joseph Cope, SUNY-Geneseo,

“The Bairn and the Bishop: Regulating a Case of Wonderous Healing in Seventeenth-Century England.”

 

Angela Haas, Binghamton University,

“The Search for Faithful Witnesses: The Crisis of Miracles in Eighteenth-Century France.”