Saturday
April 17, 2010
SPRING CONFERENCE PROGRAM
All events will
be held in Building One, Central Campus, Salem State College. Parking is
available outside the
building. For a map location go to http://www.salemstate.edu/maps/ Building One is #16.
8:008:30:
REGISTRATION and Welcome, Building One Lobby
MORNING SESSION I: 8:30 - 10:00
8:30 Session 1:Roundtable: “What Else
Do We Teach When We Teach History?” Room: CC111
Chair: Woden Teachout, Union Institute and University/Goddard College
Cheryl Boots,
Paula Emery, U32 Junior/Senior High School
Rebecca
Noel,
Denise Youngblood,
Comment: The Audience
8:30 Session 2:
Perspectives on the World Wars Room
CC112
Chair: Robert Smith,
Karen Goodno,
Charles Grimes,
Melanie Murphy,
the First World War?”
Comment: Christopher Mauriello,
8:30 Session 3: Chinese Education and Art Room: CC113
Chair: Li Li,
Lian Wang,
States for the Twentieth Century”
Comment: Julien Farland,
8:30 Session 4:
Politics of the 1960s and 1970s
Room CC114
Chair: Andrew Darien,
Hanna Clutterbuck,
Ideology”
Anna Cook,
Jamie J. Wilson, Salem State College, “‘We are a multiracial
people. We always were.’:
Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and Jewish Identity in New York City During the Civil
Rights and Black Power Movements”
Comment: Andrew Darien,
8:30 Session 5: Smallpox Inoculation in Revolutionary
Chair: Sara S. Gronim, C. W. Post Campus,
Ann M. Becker,
Melissa Grafe,
Community, 1775 - 1783”
Andrew Wehrman, Northwestern University, “In These Infectious Times: The Popular
Politics of Inoculation in Revolutionary
Comment: Sara S. Gronim, C. W. Post Campus,
8:30 Session 6:
Living and Working in Nineteenth-Century
Chair: Laura Prieto,
Kimberly S. Alexander,
George Branigan, Stonehill College, and Alessia Di Censo, Stonehill College, “Bad Girls?
Public Spaces, Private Faces”
Catherine Thompson,
Practice, and the Role of Physicians’ Wives in Early
Comment: Nancy Schultz,
8:30 Session 7:
Race and Gender During the
Era of the American Revolution Room CC237
Chair: Sandra
S. Young, Boston College
Sean Condon,
Slavery during the American Revolution”
Charlotte A. Haller,
Jillmarie Murphy,
Wheatley's Poem 'To His Excellency General Washington'”
Comment: Melanie Gustafson,
BREAK FOR BOOK EXHIBITS AND REFRESHMENTS,
10:00 – 10:30
MORNING SESSION II: 10:30 - 12:00
10:30 Session 8: Landscapes and the Built Environment Room: CC238
Chair: Steven Bedford,
Adam Krakowski,
Timothy Melia,
Ecology in the Merrimack River Since 1980”
Tony Penders, University of
Comment:
Steven Bedford,
10:30 Session 9:
Education and Activism in Early TwentiethCentury
Chair: Brooke Orr,
Jennifer Cote,
Colleen Mahoney,
Conflicts of Identity in the Margaret Brent Suffrage Guild of
Kelly Marino, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Making a Scene for Suffrage: Emily Pierson and the Tactics of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association,1910-1917”
Comment: Brooke Orr, Westfield State College
10:30 Session 10: Cold WarPolitics in the
Chair: Avi Chomsky,
Andrew Liptak,
Julia Sloan,
Marta Crilly,
Postwar Strategy Against Communism”
Comment: Avi Chomsky, Salem State College
10:30 Session 11: More than Just Spectacle: Horrors, Fights and Death in France, Britain and America Room CC112
Chair: Arianne Chernock,
Jason Cavallari,
Theatre du Grand Guignol in
Adam Chill, Castleton State College, “‘Heroic Females’: Women Boxers in Georgian
Robert E. Cray, Jr.,
John Lovewell: Death and Memory in Dummer’s War, 17721725”
Comment: Arianne Chernock, Boston University
10:30 Session 12: Worlds of
Business Room CC113
Chair: Jessica Lepler,
Ben Feldman, Independent Scholar, “A Rite of Return: Serendipity and Historiography in the Re
creation of the Life of Henry Knight Dyer (1846
- 1912), President of the Dennison
Manufacturing Company”
Laurie Selleck,
Exceptionalism and the Ford Motor Company’s 1957 Around the World Campaign Tour”
Robert E. Weir,
Comment: Jessica Lepler, University of New Hampshire
10:30 Session 13:
Print Culture and Political Culture in Colonial and Post
Revolutionary America Room CC114
Chair: Dane Morrison,
Sean Delaney, Northeastern University, “The Transatlantic Dimension of Mid-SeventeenthCentury Print Culture”
Charles Heaton,
Kara E. Pierce,
Comment: James Leamon, Bates College
10:30 Session 14: New
Perspectives on Wars, Governmentsand StateMaking Room CC237
Chair: James Bidwell,
Martin Menke,
Joshua A. Sooter, Northeastern University, “The Duplicitous Filipino: American Representations of Filipinos during the FilipinoAmerican War”
Robert Niebuhr,
Early Cold War”
Comment: James Bidwell, Anna Maria College
10:30 Session 15:
Margaret Fuller and Her “Friends”: Women in the
American Renaissance
Chair: Bonnie Anderson,
Laurie Crumpacker,
Paula Doress Worters, Brandeis Women’s
Rosie Rosenzweig, “Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center, “The Relevance of
Lydia Maria Childe to 21st Century Feminism”
Kristin Water,
Curriculum in Women’s Studies”
Comment: The Audience
12:00 – 1:30 LUNCHEON with Presidential Address and Business Meeting
Presidential Address
by Laura Prieto,
1:30 - 3:00 PLENARY SESSION: Telling
Difficult History in Public Places
This plenary session will
begin with short presentations by
public historians and
then open up to a discussion between the moderator, panelists, and audience.
Chair: Ranger Chuck Arning, National Park Service,
Participants:
•
James DeWolfe
Perry IV, The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery
•
Rae Gould, Department of Anthropology, Connecticut College/Nipmuc Nation
•
Louis P. Hutchins, Senior Curator/Historian, National Park Service, Witness Tree
Project: A Collaboration between the
Film: “Traces of the Trade: A Story from
the Deep North”
RECEPTION: 3:00 – 4:00
4:00 Adjournment
Pre-Registration
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NEHA SPRING MEETING PRE-REGISTRATION
NEHA CONFERENCE
April 17, 2010 Salem, Mass.
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NEHA
CONFERENCE
April
17, 2010
THE
ANNUAL SPRING MEETING of the New England Historical
Association will be held at Salem State College,
PRE-REGISTRATION
saves members money and greatly speeds arrival at the conference. Although
registration at the conference is possible, luncheon seating is limited. The pre-registration form enclosed herewith
should be completed and mailed to the executive secretary by April 10. Please do not mail pre-registrations after
April 10, as they may not arrive in time.
Registration will be available on the day of the conference. Please feel free to photocopy the program and
registration material to share with students and colleagues.
REGISTRATION
is required for members and non-members who attend the conference, including
each panelist. Registration begins
at 8:00 a.m. All sessions will be held
in Building One, Central Campus. Members
are encouraged to bring copies of their recent publications as well as other
relevant professional literature for display.
TRAVEL
INFORMATION: Custom driving instructions are
available on the Salem State College website:
http://www.salemstate.edu/maps/directions.php. Choose “Central Campus” as your
destination. Building One, where we will
meet, is #16 on the campus map.
OVERNIGHT
ACCOMMODATIONS: Overnight accommodations are available
at a NEHA rate from the historic Hawthorne Hotel in downtown
LUNCHEON
will be on the Salem State College
campus. Please indicate any special
dietary restrictions on the reservation form.
Luncheon tickets may be available on the day of the conference, but no
special dietary requests can be honored at that time. Election of new NEHA officers will take place
at the luncheon. Members unable to
attend the meeting or the luncheon should contact the Executive Secretary well
in advance for an absentee ballot or request an absentee ballot at the
Registration table. Members are asked to reserve luncheon in advance since this
facilitates meal planning.
Please pre-register by mail if possible:
this will speed arrival & registration.