New York State Association of European Historians

Annual Meeting

September 19 – 20
LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY

Registration and Reception on Friday: 5:00-6:00 in the Special Events Room of the Campus Center
 

Friday dinner: 6:00-7:30 in the Special Events Room of the Campus Center

(We are planning upscale buffet for the dinner rather than have guests make specific meal
selections because we'll make sure that we have enough options so that whatever
the dietary restriction someone might have, there'll be something for him/her to eat.)

Keynote address: 7:30 in Grewen Auditorium, third floor of Grewen Hall

"The Transformation of Historical Studies since the last third of the Twentieth Century from a Global Perspective."
Professor Georg Iggers, University at Buffalo

 

Saturday September 20, 2008

Saturday registration & continental breakfast: 8:00-10:00 in Reilly Hall, third floor

Session Panels

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

Reilly Hall 338

Muslim Nationalism in Europe, Stefanie Wichart, Niagara University Chair

York Norman, Buffalo State College, “Bosnian Nationalism under the Austro-Hungarians: A Re-assessment”

Birsen Bulmis, Appalachian State University , “Ottoman Nationalism and Quarantine Reform”

Mstafa Gokcek, Niagara University “Islam and Nationalism among the Muslim Intellectuals of Russia”
 

Reilly Hall 339

Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on British Counter-Insurgency Warfare: An Initial Exploration: Self-Chaired Session

Frederick Dotolo, St. John Fisher College  “Bullets to Bayonets: British Counter-Insurgency tactics during the War of American Independence”

Sara Abosch, Colby College  “Plowshares into Swords: British Counter-Insurgency Efforts in Palestine 1936-1948” (requested early session)

David MacGregor, St. John Fisher College,  “Air Control and Air Support: The Evolution of RAF Counter-Insurgency Doctrine from the 1920s to the 1960s”

Douglas Bicket, St. John Fisher College ( “Muddling Through: The Ad-hoc Nature of British Counter-Insurgency Efforts, 1950-present”
 

Reilly Hall 340

Women, Power and Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Timothy  Thibodeau, Nazareth College,  Chair.

Katherine Clark, SUNY Brockport,  “Keeper and Spy of Deeds and Conscience: The Powers and Functions of Religious Widowhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe”

Tricia Peone, SUNY Brockport, “ ‘My delicate firebrand-darlings’:
Women and Witch Marks in East Anglia, 1566-1647”

Janine Peterson, Marist College , “Women, Power, and Religious Dissent”
 

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
 

Session Two: 10:30-12:00

Reilly Hall 338

“Religion, Ribald, and Revolution: Confessional Disputes and Aspirations in European History” Jeffrey Anderson, SUNY Oswego, , Chair

Martin Ederer, Buffalo State College ”The Donation of Constantine, Lorenzo Valla’s Declamatio, and Domenico de Domenichi’s “Quaestio super c. Constantinus”: A Humanist’s Contribution to a Renaissance Debate”

Lyn Blanchfield, Le Moyne College,  “Public Insults in Savanarolan Florence”

Richard Schaefer: SUNY Plattsburgh  “Catholic Revolution of 1848?”
 

Reilly Hall 339

“Tragedy Anticipated?: Foreshadowing the Holocaust and Second World War” Dr. Kenneth Orosz, Buffalo State College  Chair

Zdenka Gredel-Manuele,  Niagara University  “Jews in Bamberg, Germany”

Leszek Murat, SUNY Albany,  “Poland and the American Clear Guilt Policy in 1939”

 

Reilly Hall 340

“Politics, Letters, and Conscience in Modern Europe”   David Valone, Quinnipiac University  Chair.

Dean Pavlakis: SUNY Buffalo, The Development of British Overseas Humanitarianism and the Congo”

Melanie Murphy, Emmanuel College,  “The Ideology of Jose Saramago: Portuguese Nobel Prize Winner”

12:00-1:30 pm Saturday luncheon & business meeting in the Special Events Room of the Campus Center.

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

Reilly Hall 338

Phi Alpha Theta Panel    Dr. David Devereux,   Canisius College,  Chair.

Daniel Belczak: Canisius Collge, “Bondis, Bloodfeuds, and Bishops: Why Iceland United With Norway in 1262”

John Kachelmeyer: Buffalo State College, "Military Campaigns of the Stuart Monarchs”

Jason Weixelbaum: Buffalo State College, “Facilitating the Nazis: American Business and the Third Reich”
 

Reilly Hall 339

“Popular Culture and Social Trends in the Age of the Cold War”     Dr. Julie Gibert, Canisius College,  Chair.

Camelia Lenart, SUNY Albany, “Who is Afraid of Martha Graham?: Some Consideration on the Reception of the American Modern Dance in Britain during the 1950s”

Anton Masterovoy:,The Graduate Center, City University of New York,  “The Other Vice: Smoking in the USSR”

Jaime Wadowiec,  SUNY Binghamton , “Desperate Housewives’: Race and Moral Economy of Femininity in the French Banlieue during the 1960s”
 

Reilly Hall 340

“Aspirations and Boundaries Considered in Modern Europe”     Wendy Pojmann, Siena College  Chair.

Todd Goehle, SUNY Binghamton,  “Embracing International Revolutions, Upholding Domestic Consensus: Conservative West German Tabloids and the Politics of the Prague Thaw, 1967-74”

Branislav Radeljic, University of London,  "Independent Kosovo: Whose responsibility?"

Best place to park for the Campus Center is in Lot C (designated for visitors & commuters). Best place to park for Grewen & Reilly Halls (which are connected) is Lot B (designated for faculty).

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