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UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies

War and American Identity Conference

Department of History UCC
The Clinton Institute for American Studies UCD

The Clinton Institute for American Studies
University College Dublin
20 – 21 March 2009

Friday, 20 March
2:00     Welcome

2:15 – 3:45: Panel Session 1

Panel 1 (A):

Amy Rutenberg, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, ‘Citizen-Civilians: Federal Manpower Policy and the Redefinition of Masculine Citizenship in the Postwar United States’

W. Brian Piper, College of William and Mary, USA, ‘“I was bored in Iraq:” Performance and Gender in the Internet Videos of American Soldiers’

Jonathan Mitchell, Independent Scholar, Ireland, ‘Paramilitary Dramas: The “Remasculinization” of White American Manhood’

Panel 1 (B):

Peter H. Buckingham, Linfield College, USA, ‘World War I and American Identity: The View from Texas’

Malgorzata Gajda, University of Warsaw, Poland,  'The Gulf of Words: Peronal Narratives as a Counter-Commentary to The Media Spectacle'

Robert W. King, Utah State University, USA, ‘John Dewey, American Pragmatism, and the Fog of War’

Panel 1 (C):

Liam Kennedy, UCD, Ireland,  'The New Photojournalism: Documenting US Foreign Policy after the Vietnam War'

Caitlin Patrick, UCD, Ireland, 'The "Failed State" and "the Ghetto": Representing "Others" in Somalia and America'

Justin Carville (DIADT), Ireland,  'World Press Photo, 9/11 and the "Aftermath" of Photo-journalism'

3:45 – 4:15: Tea & Coffee

4:15 – 5:25: Plenary Session

Professor Marilyn B. Young, New York University, USA, ‘Limited War Unlimited: The U.S. in Korea and Vietnam’

Saturday 21 March

9:00 – 10:30: Panel Session 2

Panel 2 (A):

David Fitzgerald, UCC, Ireland, ‘Reconstructing Identity: The US Army, the Lessons of Vietnam and Counterinsurgency Doctrine in the 1970s’

Sarah Thelen, American University in Washington, DC, USA, ‘Silent No Longer: Identity, the Silent Majority and Nixon's Vietnam War.’

Heather Stur, University of Southern Mississippi, USA, ‘The Politics of Guilt and Rescue: Operation Babylift, Refugee Assistance, and the End of the Vietnam War’

Panel 2 (B):

Sam Edwards, Lancaster University, England, ‘Constructing a Perfect Past: D-Day and American Identity, 1944-2004’

Will Kaufman, University of Central Lancashire, England, ‘Woody Guthrie’s ‘Union War’

Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas, USA, ‘Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen.’

Panel 2 (C):

Lotfi Ben Rejeb, University of Ottawa, Canada, ‘Barbary Wars and American Identity’

Giorgio Mariani, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy, ‘An American Counter-Epic? Peace and War in Joel Barlow’sColumbiad’

Walter W. Hoelbling, University of Graz, Austria, ‘Warrior Nation?  The Discourse of War in U. S. Culture’

10: 30 – 11:00: Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 12:30: Plenary Session 2

Professor Robert K. Brigham, Vassar College, USA ‘Saving South Vietnam: Malaria Eradication and Nation-building in a Time of War.’

Professor Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, University of Iowa, USA, ‘The Other Religion: Nationalism and US Foreign Policy from the New Deal to the Cold War’

Professor Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham, England, ‘Freedom's Dilemmas: The Illusions of the American Unipolar In and Beyond Iraq’

12:30 – 1:30:  Lunch

1:30 – 3:00: Panel Session 3

Panel 3 (A):

Bevan Sewell, University of Nottingham, England, ‘The Lessons of War and Remaking America’s Foreign Policy Identity: The United States, Korea and Vietnam’

Tal Tovy, Bar Ilan University, Israel, ‘The Image of the Enemy in American Thought: The Wars of Korea and Vietnam as Test Cases’

Christine Knauer University of Tuebingen, Germany, ‘Remembering Korea, Constructing America’

Panel 3 (B):

Laura Gimeno-Pahissa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, ‘“Nobody Knows Anything about These Men who has not Seen them in Battle”: Reclaiming African American Identity in the American Civil War’

Albena Bakratcheva, New Bulgarian University, ‘War and Peace in Antebellum American Thinking: Thoreau’s Triumphant "Majority of One"’

M. Patrick Cullinane, University College Cork, Ireland ‘Literally Speaking: The “United States” and the War of 1898’

Panel 3 (C):

Nicholas Witham, University of Nottingham, England, ‘“I’m sick of these revisionists who want to re-fight the Vietnam War”: The Politics of Vietnam Syndrome in Oliver Stone’s Salvadorand Platoon’

Desmond Traynor, Clinton Institute for American Studies, UCD, Ireland, 'The American Taliban': Steve Earle, John Walker Lindh, and the 'Problem' of Socio-Political Commentary in Songwriting at Times of (inter)national Crisis'

Sandra Scanlon, University of Sheffield, England, ‘Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Grassroots campaigns to support POWs during the Vietnam War’

3:10 – 4:20:  Plenary Session 3

Professor Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University, USA, ‘Iraq as the “Good War”’

4:20 – 4:45: Tea and Coffee

4:45 – 6:15: Panel Session 4

Panel 4 (A):

Manuel R. Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, ‘Nuclear Fears: the Construction of an Enemy Identity in Puerto Rico in the Early Years of the Cold War’

Kaeten Mistry, University College Dublin, Ireland, ‘Perceptions of Success: The US, Italy and “Victory Culture” at the Origins of the Cold War’

Shawn Fisher, University of Memphis, USA, ‘The Cold War, the Second Reconstruction, and the Arkansas National Guard at Little Rock Central High’

Panel 4 (B):

David Ryan, University College Cork, Ireland,

Roger Peace, Andrew College, Georgia, USA, ‘Patriotism, Power Politics, and Ideology: The Reagan Administration's Drive to Oust the Sandinistas’   

Beerd Beukenhorst, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ‘Contested memories, contested policies: Memories of Vietnam in the Reagan administration’

Panel 4 (C):

Daniel Prosterman, Salem College, North Carolina, USA, ‘“Join the Sentinels of Liberty!”: American Popular Culture and Youth Mobilization in World War II,’

Stacey Scriver, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, ‘The Cost of Being American in a Time of Terror’

Artur Jaupaj, University of New York/Tirana-Albania, ‘Redefining West and/or Western Hero till 1960s’