New York State Association
of
European Historians
61st Annual Meeting
October 28-29, 2011
Canisius College
Buffalo, NY
Registration
Second Floor, Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center
Reception: 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Dinner:
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Grupp
Fireside Lounge, Student Center
Keynote address: 8:00 p.m.
Grupp Fireside Lounge, Student Center
“The King’s Travels and the De-sacralisation of Monarchy in the Enlightenment”
Professor Dorinda Outram
Gladys I. and Franklin W. Clark Chair in History, University of Rochester
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Second Floor, Old Main
Session One, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Challenges in Creating Modern Germany
Old Main 200
Ken Orosz, Buffalo State College, Chair and Commentator.
John Liquori, SUNY Potsdam, “Sophie Scholl and the German Ideal of Resistance”
Jake Newsome, SUNY Buffalo, “Discovering a ‘Homocaust’? Autobiography as Perspective on the Idea of a Nazi ‘Gay Genocide’”
Larry Jones, Canisius College, "Adolf Hitler and the 1932 Presidential Elections"
"Establishing the Soviet State
Old Main 201
David Costello, Canisius College, Chair and Commentator.
Andrew Wise, Daemen College, “An American Bolshevik: The Evolution of Boris Reinstein’s Political Ideology”
Matthew Lenoe, University of Rochester, “Children, The Land, and Stalin in Red Army Letters, 1941: Preliminary Findings”
Steven Maddox, Canisius College, “Violence and Humanity in Nazi-Occupied Leningrad Province”
Britain and International Relations in the era of the World Wars
Old Main 204
David Valone, Quinnipiac University, Chair and Commentator
Greg Parsons, SUNY Oswego, “British Conservative Opinion and the Problem of Germany after the First World War”
Stanley Pycior, Mount Saint Mary College, “The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations”
Sara Abosch, University of Memphis, “Between London and Jerusalem: Britain, the Yishuv and Counter-Insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, 1941-48”
Coffee Break, 10:30-11:00 a.m.
Session Two, 11:00-12:30 p.m.
The Great War Generation
Old Main 200
Sara Abosch, University of Memphis, Chair and Commentator.
Jenny Lloyd, SUNY Brockport, “The First Ordination of a Woman in the Congregational Church of England and Wales, 1909-17”
Pat Gallagher, SUNY Albany, “Interlude in Purgatory: The British War Generation in the 1920s”
Anya Lee, SUNY Albany, “Nos Amis Etrangeres: French Feminism and Foreign Women Between the Wars”
Medieval Culture and Imagery
Old Main 201
Katherine Clark, SUNY Brockport, Chair and Commentator.
John Arnold, SUNY Fredonia, “An Early Medieval Angelology at Mont St.-Michel”
Tim Thibodeau, Nazareth College, “The Mitre and the Diadem: Ecclesiology and Liturgical Vestments in William Durand’s (c. 1230-1296) Rationale”
Stephen J. Molvarec, University of Notre Dame, “What Good is an Egyptian Heart in the Desert? Images of the Egyptian Life in Carthusian Polemic”
Emerging Perspectives on the Historiography of World War Two (Student Panel)
Old Main 204
Fred Dotolo, St. John Fisher College, Chair and Commentator.
Graham Wilcox, St. John Fisher College, “Hammering the Sickle: Perspectives on the Russo-Finnish Wars, 1939-45”
Faiza Filfil, St. John Fisher College, “Germany and the Atomic Bomb: Perspectives on the Politicization of Science”
Pan-Islam, Nationalism and anti-colonialism in the Late Ottoman Empire
Old Main 210
Brian Newsome, Elizabethtown College, Chair and Commentator
Birsen Bulmus, Appalachian State University, “Kasim Izzeddin & Ottoman Sanitary Reforms in the Hijaz”
York Norman, Buffalo State College, “Rafik Bey Azmazade and the Legacy of political dissent in the Ottoman Empire”
Mustafa Gokcek, Niagara University, “Nationalism vs. Islamism: Ideological Debates in the Late Ottoman Empire”
12:45-1:45 p.m. Lunch & Business Meeting
Grupp Fireside Lounge, Student Center
Session Three: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Forging Connections: Collecting Practices and the Creation of Political, Social and Cultural Bonds
Old Main 200
Jenny Lloyd, SUNY Brockport, Chair and Commentator.
April Kiser, Canisius College, “’We culled out those we thought most natural, and resembling the life’. Collecting Pictures and Knowing Nature in the 17th century”
Perry Beardsley, SUNY Fredonia, “Exhibiting Transatlantic relations: The Four-Nation Celebration and the Construction of ‘Old’ Fort Niagara”
Culture of the Italian Renaissance
Old Main 201
Andrew Nicholls, Buffalo State College, Chair and Commentator.
Lyn Blanchfield, SUNY Oswego, “Words that Wound: ‘Dog’ and ‘Pig’ as Public Insults in late Medieval Italy”
Martin Ederer, Buffalo State College, “Catechetics in the Italian Renaissance: Domenico de’ Domenichi’s Rudimenta ad sciendum et servandum necessaria”
Conflict and Reconstruction in Post-War Europe
Old Main 204
Richard Fogarty, SUNY Albany, Chair and Commentator.
Brandon Moran, Buffalo State College, “The Role of Myth-Building in Postwar Germany”
Ben Mercer, College of Staten Island (CUNY), “The Crisis of Youth Politics in Western Europe in the mid-1960s”
Exploiting and Creating Connections: The Role of the West in World History
Old Main 210
Ed Judge and John Langdon, Le Moyne College, Discussants
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Courtyard by Marriott (4100 Sheridan Drive, Amherst, NY) at a rate of $105 for the night of Friday, October 28. The rooms will be held until October 3.
To reserve your room, please contact the hotel directly at 716-626-2300 and ask for the NYSAEH rate, or click one of the following links to go directly to the reservation page:
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