Policy (and Conference) By Other Means
All times U.S. Eastern Standard Time
Friday, November 13
10:15 AM
Welcome remarks by John Hall, President, SMH
10:30 AM – 12 PM
Panel 1: Specters of Empire: Imperial Soldiers in the Cold War’s Bloodlands
- “From One War to Another: French Colonial Officers and the Ashes of Imperial Jewels”
Ann-Sophie Schoepfel - “Resistance Reimagined: Post-Imperial Taiwan and the White Group, 1942-1952”
Ko-Hang Liao - “An Invisible Empire in the Cold War: Manchkuo and the Japanese Anticommunist Internationalism, 1939-1961”
Andrew Levidis - “Accidental Cold Warriors: Japanese Officers Returning from Stalinist Prisons and Campus, 1950-1956”
Sherzod Muminov - Danny Orbach, Panel Chair and Commenter
Panel 2: “Towards the Mecca of Freedom”: Runaway Slaves, the Laws of War, and Military Emancipation during the American Civil War
- “”Slavery Must Die by the Laws of War”: Military Emancipation in the British Atlantic and United States before the Civil War”
Scott Ackerman - “”Fulfillment of the Prophecies of Loss”: Secession, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politically Informed Origins of Self-Emancipation in Virginia”
Evan Turiano - “The Arming Slaves Debate and the Paradoxes in Confederate Military Strategy”
David Campmier - Luke Reynolds, Panel Chair
- Barbara Gannon, Panel Commenter
12 PM – 1:30 PM
Behind the Scenes of World War II: Overlooked and Understudied Moments in Conflict
- “Finally in the Army Now: The Luftwaffe Field Divisions November 1943-January 1944”
Michael Stout - “Developing Doctrine: 7th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment in the Normandy Campaign”
Victoria Sotvedt - “Wehrmacht Decision-Making: Allison’s Conceptual Models in Operation Citadel, 1943”
Keith Prushankin - Terry Beckenbaugh, Panel Chair
- Matthew Schwonek, Panel Commenter
2 PM – 3:30 PM
Roundtable: Negotiating Cultural and Intellectual Boundaries in Professional Military Education
Discussants: Michael Bell, Aurore Chow, Richard Wiersema, and Nikolas Gardner
Panel 2: War and All Its Means: Emotions and the Psychological Effects of Warfare in the Anglophone World
- “”Long Periods of Boredom”: British Letter-Writing and the Mundane History of the First World War”
Alex Nordlund - “Patton’s Warrior Ethos and Combat Fatigue: A Psychological Explanation for the August 1943 “Slapping Incidents””
Robert Kane - “”This little army, worn down by fatigue, by sickness, by wounds and deaths”: Moral Hardiness in Early U.S. Frontier Warfare”
Joseph Miller - Ian Isherwood, Panel Chair and Commenter
3:30 PM – 5 PM
Panel 1: Weather, Wellness, and Whaling: The Impact of Environment on the U.S. Civil War
- “Volatile Conditions: Weather’s Role in the Battles of Forts Henry and Donelson”
Cameron Boutin - “The Golgotha of America: Water, Sickness, and Grant’s Failed Attempt to Reroute the Mississippi River”
Lindsay Rae Privette - “The American Civil War and Whaling: A Very Sharp Harpoon and an Irreversible Blow
Justin W. Vance - Susannah J. Ural, Panel Chair and Commenter
Panel 2: Reforming the Army, Reforming the Country: 18th Century Military Reforms and their Repercussions on Domestic Politics and Society
- “”Changing the Spanish Empire Forever”: The Bourbon Military Reforms and Their Effects on Spanish Internal and External Policy”
Sascha Möebius - “Cumberland, Conway, and Prussia: The British Army Reforms of 1782”
Alexander Burns - “The Other 1776: Reform and French Military Dress in the Late Ancien Régime”
Matthew Keagle - Daniel Krebs, Panel Chair
- Gregory Urwin, Panel Commenter
6:30 PM – 8 PM
Graduate Student Roundtable and Networking: “What is on Your Minds: Jobs, Time Management, and COVID”
Discussants: Devon Collins, Mike Hankins, Nathan K. Finney, and Jessica J. Sheets
Following the roundtable discussion, SMH Officers & Trustees will network with graduate student attendees in small groups
Saturday, November 14
10:30 AM – 12 PM
Panel 1: Aspects of Military History in the 20th Century
- “Food Fights: The Militarization of the Grain Supply during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945”
Yuk Lum Jennifer Yip - “Americanization Policy by Other Means: U.S. Army Ethnic Soldiers and Singing during World War I”
Alex Paul - Daniel Moran, Panel Chair and Commenter
Panel 2: Sailor, Soldier, Mother, Wife, Volunteer-and Veteran? Writing More Inclusive Military History
- “The Wife of a Fleet Admiral: Analyzing the Pacific War through the Admiral Nimitz’a Correspondence to Catherine Freeman Nimitz”
Richard Hulver - “The Female Commemorative Landscape at Arlington National Cemetery”
Allison Finkelstein - “The Navy’s First Enlisted Women, Heroines of World War I”
Regina Akers - Mattea Sanders, Panel Chair and Commenter
12 PM – 1:30 PM
Roundtable: International Comparative Military History: Comparing Wars of Decolonization Project
Discussants: Brian Linn, Huw Bennett, Martin Thomas, Pierre Asselin, and Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Panel 2: Transformed Landscapes: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Environment during the Civil War
- “”A Region Which Will at the Same Time Delight and Disgust You”: Landscape Transformation in the Civil War Defenses of Washington”
Nathan Marzoli - “The Environment as Social Space between Union and Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War”
Lauren Thompson - “The Landscape of Policy: Civil-Military Policy and Northern Virginia’s Environment in the Second Bull Run Campaign”
Mike Burns - Adam Petty, Panel Chair and Commenter
2 PM – 3:30 PM
Panel 1: Casualties by Other Means: Disease, Drugs, and Suicide in U.S. Army History
- “Self-Inflicted Losses: U.S. Army Suicide from the 19th Century to the Present”
Michael Doidge - “Medics, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: The Army Medical Department Tackles the Drug Abuse Problem in the U.S. Army, Vietnam 1970-1973”
Donald Hall - “The Pathogen Gets a Vote: U.S. Military Fights Against Ecological Enemies in Latin America”
Heather Salazar - Dale Smith, Panel Chair and Commenter
Panel 2: The Colonial Legacies of African Military History
- “Forging the Commonwealth: Interracial Encounters and the King’s African Rifles in the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960”
Kate Imy - “”Purchased by Government out of Guinea Ships”: Enslaved African Recruitment for the British West India Regiments, 1795-1808″
Kyle Prochnow - “Military Governance in a War Zone: Colonial Soldiers’ Roles in the Occupation of German East Africa, 1916-1918”
Michelle Moyd - “Agents of Colonialism: Tirailleurs Sénégalais and Tirailleurs Haoussas in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, 1892-1894”
Sarah Westwood - Timothy Parsons, Panel Chair and Commenter
3:30 PM – 5 PM
Panel 1: Reflections of Policy in Disposable Culture: How Ephemeral Print Sources Created Outlets for Promoting Military Masculinity and Creating Communities for the Underrepresented
- “The Wolf and the Marriageable Serviceman: Soldiering Sexuality in American Cultural Imagery during World War II”
Michele Curran Cornell - “Dewey Mania! The Media, Consumerism, and the Making of American Identity”
Charles Harris - Brian K. Feltman, Panel Chair and Commenter
Panel 2: Clausewitz’s Supreme Question: Understanding Modern Wars Roundtable
Discussants: Joyce Sampson, Antulio Echevarria, Thomas Meagher, Michael Jones, and Lee Eysturlid
6:30 PM – 8 PM
Keynote Address: Professor Jennifer Keene
“The World War I Centennial in Retrospect“