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2011
Friday, March 25th
8:30 AM

Registration/coffee

151 Eggers Hall

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Welcome from Prof. Junko Takeda and Prof. Laurie Marhoefer

151 Eggers Hall

8:30 AM - 8:40 AM

9:15 AM

Session 1: Building a Bridge to the Late Twentieth Century: The American 1970s | The Polish Desk: Radio Free Europe, Human Rights, and Jimmy Carter‟s Polish policy 1976-77

Brian Trenor, North Carolina State University

100A Eggers Hall

9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Session 1: Building a Bridge to the Late Twentieth Century: The American 1970s | Breaking Points: Women, Sexuality, Pornography and the Vicissitudes of Feminist Group-making Projects, 1974-1986

Quin Shakra, Sarah Lawrence College

100A Eggers Hall

9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Session 1: Origins of Empire: Growth of American State Power | To "Tend to the Good of the Community": The Problem of Eminent Domain in the Post-Revolutionary Period

Kara E. Pierce, University of New Hampshire

151 Eggers Hall

9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Session 1: Representational Microcosms | Fashions For A Woman With A Future: Women, World War II and the Language of Uniforms

Alexandra Elias, Syracuse University

Lemke Room, Bird Library

9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Session 1: Representational Microcosms | “Am I an American? No. Am I, then, a Chinese...?” Portrayals of Chinese Americans in Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan Novels

Paul Arras, Syracuse University

Lemke Room, Bird Library

9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

11:15 AM

Session 2: Elites and Ethnicity | Gone Turk? Loyalty and Orthodoxy in a Dispute Between Two Jesuits in the Levant

Robert Clines, Syracuse University

Lemke Room, Bird Library

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

12:45 PM

Lunch

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

1:45 PM

Plenary Session: Coercion, Persuasion, and Resistance: Negotiating Foreign Dominion in the Middle Ages

Suzanne Mariko Miller, George Washington University

220 Eggers Hall

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

3:30 PM

Session 3: Legitimacy and the New: The Emergence of a Status Quo | National Ascendency and Intellectual Degeneracy: Nietzsche‟s and Overbeck‟s Cultural Criticisms of Modern Germany

Warren D. Hynson, Boston University

220 Eggers Hall

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Session 3: Memory and Power | The Purposes of a Text: Tommaso Caffarini‟s The Legend of Maria of Venice

L. Giovanna Urist, Syracuse University

151 Eggers Hall

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM