17th Annual Conference 9–11 July 2018 University of North Georgia usa

17^th Annual Conference

9–11 July 2018

University of North Georgia

USA




The Transatlantic Studies Association

Annual Conference

July 9-11, 2018

Monday

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  1.30-3.30pm: Registration
  
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  3.30-5pm: Roundtable
  
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  5-5.30pm: Coffee
  
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  5.30-6.30pm: Keynote
  
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  6.30-8.30pm: Drinks reception
  

Tuesday

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  9-10.30am: Panel session 1
  
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  10.30-11am: Coffee
  
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  11am-12pm: Keynote
  
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  12-1.30pm: Lunch
  
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  1.30-3pm: Panel session 2
  
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  3-3.30pm: Coffee
  
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  3.30-5pm: Panel session 3
  
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  5-6pm: AGM
  

Wednesday

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  9-10.30am: Panel session 4
  
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  10.30-11am: Coffee
  
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  11am-12.30pm: Panel session 5
  
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  12.30-2pm: Lunch
  
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  2-3.30pm: Panel session 6
  
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  3.30-4pm: Coffee
  
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  4-5.30pm: Panel session 7
  
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  5.45-6.45pm: Keynote
  
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  7pm: Reception & Conference dinner
  
  
  
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Room Key
HNS – Health & Natural Science

DH – Dunlap Hall

YH – Young Hall

NOC – Newton Oakes Center

Monday, July 9, 2018
1.30-3.30pm: Registration (Dahlonega Campus, Banquet Hall)
3.30-5pm: Roundtable (Banquet Hall): North Georgia in a Transatlantic World

Chair: Donna Gessell, University of North Georgia, USA.

Comments: Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia, USA.

Chris Baker, Walters State Community College and

Rosann Kent, University of North Georgia, USA.

“Homecooking! Foodways and Moonshine as Voices of Dissent in Appalachia and the British Isles.”

5-5.30pm: Coffee (Banquet Hall)
5.30-6.30pm: Keynote (Banquet Hall)
Chair: Kristin Cook, SOAS University of London, England.


Dr Lloyd C. Gardner, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, USA.

“Trump and the Post-Modern Presidency: 2001-2018.”
6.30-8.30pm: Drinks reception (Banquet Hall)
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

9-10.30am: Panel session 1
1A (HNS 227)

Panel: Sheep, Horse, and Ecologies Chair: Donna Gessell

Iker Saitua, University of California, Riverside, USA. “The Desirables and the Undesirables: Basque Immigrants in the Western Sheep Industry, Racist Exclusion of Mexicans, and the Immigration Act of 1965.”

Philip Homan, Idaho State University, USA. “The Equine Middle Passage of the Transatlantic Horse Trade: American Horses and Mules for the South African War, 1899-1902.”

Mary Carney, University of North Georgia, USA. “Ecologies of Total War: Edith Wharton’s Transatlantic Essays.”
1B (HNS 223)

Panel: A Century of the Middle East in Transatlantic Relations Chair: Simon Topping

Michael Cullinane, University of Roehampton, England. “Theodore Roosevelt and Arthur Balfour: Friendship without Familiarity.”

Richard Damms, Mississippi State University, USA. “Eisenhower, Macmillan and the Conundrum of Anglo-American Cooperation in the Middle East after Suez.”

Geraldine Kidd, University College Cork, Ireland. “Sundered with a Kiss: HRC’s Relationship with Israel-Palestine.”

1C (NOC 015)

Panel: Creating and Mapping Communities Chair: Niels Eichhorn

Caleb Wittum, University of South Carolina-Columbia, USA. “’The Refuse of all Nations and the Republic of Amelia Island in the Transatlantic Community, 1817.”

Robert Caldwell, Jr., University of Texas at Arlington, USA. “Albert Gallatin’s Map and the Dawning of Ethnological Mapping, (1836).”

Iñigo Fernández, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City. “Ah, lucky he who could be in Asturias For all times! El Correo Español and the Asturian Community in Mexico (1889-1900).”

Marcos Roberto Pisarski, Jr. and Silvana do Rocio de Souza, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. “The Social and Cultural Marginalization of Polish Immigrants and their Descendants in Curitiba/PR (Brazil) Area: An Analysis from the Perspective of the Food Culture.”

1D (NOC107)
Panel: Comparing Europe and the United States through the Security Lens Broadly Defined Chair: Craig Greathouse

Nathan Price, University of North Georgia, USA. “Party’s Over? The Decline of Mainstream Political Parties and the Resurgence of Nationalism.”

Craig Greathouse, University of North Georgia, USA. “Strategic Stances and Restrictive Elements: Comparing the Most Recent European Union and American Strategic Doctrines in the Face of Existing Strategic Cultures.”

Luca Ratti, University of Rome 3, Italy. “"The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy under Trump: Much Ado about Nothing?"

Christopher Kroh, University of North Georgia, USA. “Institutional Uncertainty and the Future of Transatlantic Security: Potential Impact of Declining Public Confidence in European Democratic Institutions upon U.S. Foreign Policy Goals.”

10.30-11am: Coffee (HNS Lobby and Dunlap Lobby)



11am-12pm: Keynote (HNS 232 - Auditorium)
Chair: Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia, USA.



Dr Lester Langley, Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, USA.

“The Long American Revolution and the Making of the Two Americans: National, Hemispheric, and Transatlantic Perspectives.”

12-1.30pm: Lunch (Banquet Hall)



12.30-1.25: Management Committee Meeting for 2017-2018 MC (President’s Dining Room)



1.30-3pm: Panel session 2

2A (HNS 223)

Panel: Power Relations in History and Literature across the Atlantic Chairs: Tatiana Prorokova and Geraldine Kidd

Mark Quintanilla, Hannibal-LaGrange University, USA. "'As all men are born to die': The Governor's Duel and Transatlantic Dispute in Grenada."

Cherif Sadaoui, University of Paris 13, France. “From Rifian to Choctaw: Towards a Transatlantic Ethno-textual Poetics of Linguistic Re-appropriation.”

Turgay Akbaba, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. “"Turkey Between the East and the West: Imagining a Cliental State in the Middle East, 1950-1960."

Murat Bayar, The Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey. "North-South vs. South-South Approaches to Foreign Aid: American, Chinese, and Turkish Cases."

2B (HNS 232 - Auditorium)

Panel 1: Exploring the Anglo-American Political Tradition: International Law and Cultural Debate in the Anglo-Sphere

Chair: David Ryan

David Clinton, Baylor University, Texas, USA. “International Law and Institutions.”

David Haglund, Queen’s University, Canada. “The Anglo-Sphere.”

Robert Hendershot, The Grand Rapids Community College, Michigan, USA. “Anglo-Saxonism in Comparison.”

2C (NOC 015)
Panel 1: Transnational Transatlantic Relations Chair: Thomas Mills

Christoph Nitschke, Keble College, University of Oxford, England. “Brokers of foreign relations before the Panic of 1873.”

Austin Loignon, University of Texas at Arlington, USA. “Bringing Light to the World: John Harvey Kellogg and Transatlantic Light Therapy.”

Zac Peterson, Georgia State University, USA. “ ‘A Luta Continua’: The American Committee on Africa and the Struggle in Lusophone Africa.”

3-3.30pm: Coffee (HNS Lobby and Dunlap Lobby)
3.30-5pm: Panel session 3

3A (HNS 227)
Panel: Transatlantic Literatures and the Stuff of Legend Chair: Finn Pollard

Kathy Maddocks, Swansea University, Wales. “A Nineteenth-Century American Perspective of British Legends: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Knights of the Round Table.”

Tatiana Prorokova, University of Marburg, Germany. "‘Enslavement of the Masses': Literary Imaginings of the American Antebellum South and British Industrial North, 1852-1861." 

Peter Hugill, Texas A&M University, USA. “Transatlantic 'Imperialism': Views of the World in British and American Children's Literature from the 1880s to the 1930s.”

3B (HNS 223)
Panel: Movement, Migration, and Partitioning Peoples
Chair: Michael Cullinane

Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University, USA. “New Beginnings: Crossing the Atlantic to Escape the Past.”

Simon Topping, University of Plymouth, England. “ ‘A Testy Old Gentleman’: David Gray, U.S. Diplomacy, and the Irish Partition during World War Two.”

Raluca Viman-Miller, University of North Georgia, USA. “The Impact of Migration on Political Behavior: Europe vs. American Models.”

3C (NOC 015)
Panel: ‘Ideas Across the Pond’: International Politics and Progress in the Transatlantic Context Chair: David Clinton

Discussants: David Clinton and Marjorie Jeffrey, Baylor University, Texas, USA

Constance Post, Iowa State University, USA. “Transatlantic Contestations in Hannah Mather Crocker’s Observations on Women’s Rights: Catherine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More.”

Clinton Condra, Baylor University, Texas, USA. "The International Relations Thought of Jonathan Swift." 

Marjorie Jeffrey, Baylor University, Texas, USA. “Winston Churchill on Friendship in International Relations.”


3D (NOC 107)
Panel: D.C. Watt Panel: Slavery, Abolition, and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century: The American South in Comparative Perspective
Organised by the winner of the 2017 D.C. Watt Prize, Jake Richards, Harvard University

Chair: David Haglund

Ann Tucker, University of North Georgia, USA. “Slavery and Southern Nationalism in an Age of Revolutions.”

Cathal Smith, National University of Ireland, Galway. “The American South’s ‘Second Slavery’ and Ireland’s ‘Second Landlordism’: Similarities, Differences, and Connections." 

Niels Eichhorn, Middle Georgia State University, USA. “Civil War, Reconstruction, Home Rule:

The Shared Experiences of Hungary and the U.S. South.”

5.00-6.00pm: AGM (YH 112)

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

9-10.30am: Panel session 4

4A (NOC 107)

Panel: Transatlantic Mobility, Cultural and Literary Exchange Chair: Ian Afflerbach

Shannon Gilstrap, University of North Georgia, USA. “Transatlantic Railways: Matthew Arnold’s Lecture Tour.”

Idalina Conde, ISCTE-IUL, University of Lisbon. “The Transatlantic Leonardo: Visual and Cultural Exchange between Europe and the United States.”

Anne-Catherine Bascoul, University of Nice-Sophia, Antipolis, France. "A Journey through the Atlantic: Hybridity and Transatlantic Identity in Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing.”

4B (NOC 014)
Panel: Armament and Disarmament Chair: Craig Greathouse

Joseph Jockel, St. Lawrence University, NY, USA and Joel Sokolsky, Royal Military College of Canada. “Re-armament in the ‘Golden Age’: Canada and NATO in the Early 1950s.”

Francesca Cerutti and Daniela Vignati, University of Milan, Italy. “The Special Relationship meets Détente: United Kingdom, United States, and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.”

Susan Colbourn, University of Toronto, Canada. “Nuclear Weapon Free Zones and the Struggle over the Euromissiles, 1977-1982.”

4C (YH 216)
Panel 2: Exploring the Anglo-American Political Tradition: Imperialism, Business & Free Trade Chair: Kristin Cook

David Ryan, University College Cork, Ireland. “Imperialism.”

Joseph McKinney, Baylor University, Texas, USA. “Contemporary Business and Financial Thinking in the US and the UK.”

Thomas Mills, University of Lancaster, England. “Free Trade and Protectionism in British and American Foreign Policy, 1850-1950.”

4D (YH 202)
Panel: Culture Matters: Anglo-American Relations and the Intangibles of 'specialness' Chair: Robert Hendershot

Dana Cooper, Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas, USA. “Debating Downton.”

Finn Pollard, University of Lincoln, England. “…together they produce an effect that is…rather amazing’: The Anglo-American Romance in Fiction and the Great Rapprochement.”

Alan Dobson, Swansea University, Wales. “Is there an Anglo-American Political Tradition?”

10.30-11am: Coffee (DH Lobby and YH Lobby)
11am-12.30pm: Panel session 5

5A (NOC 107)
Panel: Politics and Culture in the 1970s and 1980s Chair: Dino Knudsen

Benjamin Pack, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA. “A Socialist Wedge: Allende's Chile in Anglo-American Relations.”

Rivers Gambrell, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, England. “Pigskin on Parade: The Forgotten Legacy of the World League of American Football.”

Sielke Kelner, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. “‘The Honeymoon between the Administration and President Ceausescu is Over’: How the Jackson-Vanik Amendment Jeopardized Ronald Reagan's Relations with Moscow's Maverick.”

5B (NOC 014)
Panel: Race and Identity in Transatlantic Relations Chair: Joyce Stavick

Gnimbin Ouattara, Brenau University, Georgia, USA. “Adahu and the First African Reaction to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.”

Junghyun Hwang, Hansung University, Seoul, Korea. “Revisiting Salem, Reconsidering the Human: Tituba, A Slave of Love in Maryse Conde’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.”

Ian Afflerbach, University of North Georgia, USA. “From the Booker Prize to the Presidency: On the Idea of the ‘Racial Sellout’.”

5C (YH 216)
Panel: Cold War Transatlantic Relations Chair: Richard Damms

James Lockhart, American University in Dubai, UAE. “Gabriel González Videla and the Transatlantic Origins of the Cold War.”

Moritz Pöllath, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. “Agents, Fascists, and Provocateurs: The Use and Impact of Disinformation to Delegitimize Uprisings in Eastern Europe in 1953, 1956, and 1968.”

Dirk Voss, St. Louis Community College at Meramec, USA. “The American Press and Franco’s Spain, 1939-1960.”

5D (YH 202)
Panel 2: Transnational Transatlantic Relations Chair: Constance Post

Barbara McCaskill and Sidonia Serafini, University of Georgia, USA. “From the Local to the Atlantic: The Spectacular Print Inventions of the Rev. “P.T.” Stanford.”

Rebekah McMillan, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA. “The Problem of Poverty: German Poor Relief and Transatlantic Social Work.”

Karina Lickorish Quinn, Queen Mary University of London, England. “A Confluence of Cosmovisions: Exploring Transatlantic Syncretism Through the Nation-Building Novel”.

12.30-2.00pm: Lunch (Banquet Hall)



1-1.55pm: Management Committee Meeting for 2018-2019 MC (President’s Dining Room)

2-3.30pm: Panel session 6

6A (NOC 107)
Panel: Graham Greene, Haiti and The Comedians Chair: Mary Carney

Joyce Stavick, University of North Georgia, USA. “Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier’s Published Denunciation of Graham Greene.”

Donna Gessell, University of North Georgia, USA. “’No Heights and No Abysses’: Greene’s Morality in The Comedians Simplified.”

Creina Mansfield, Independent Scholar, USA. “Graham Greene’s Haitian Novel: A Sort of Comedy.”

6B (NOC 014)
Panel: 100 Years of Wilsonianism: Global Historical Perspectives Chair: Kristin Cook

Discussant: Ashley Cox

David Clinton, Baylor University, Texas, USA. “Wilsonianism and the Sweep of American Foreign Policy History.”

Clinton Condra, Baylor University, Texas, USA. “Salisbury’s Critique of Liberalism.”

Ashley Cox, SOAS University of London, England. “A Man for All Seasons: Wilson and the Declaration of War.”


6C (YH 216)
Panel: Transatlantic Security Issues: 1970 to 9/11 Chair: Joel Sokolsky

Dino Knudsen, The Museum Mosede Fort/Denmark 1914-18. "‘Democracy is self-defeating.’ Internal threats within the transatlantic societies in the 1970s, The Crisis of Democracy and the Trilateral Commission."

Luís Rodrigues, ISCTE-IUL, University of Lisbon, Portugal. “US Military Presence in Europe during the Cold War and After: The Military Base in Azores, Portugal.”

John Deni, U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute. “Staying Alive by Over-Eating? The Enduring NATO Alliance at 70."

John Gilmour, Royal Military College of Canada. "The Genesis of Canada's Current National Security Infrastructure: September 11, 2001 to April 2004”.

3.30-4pm: Coffee (YH Lobby)
4-5.30 Panel session 7

7A (YH 216)
Panel: Transatlantic Shell Shock: British and American Literatures of World War One Trauma Chair: Kyounghye Kwon

Discussant: Kyounghye Kwon, University of North Georgia, USA

Austin Riede, University of North Georgia, USA. “Transatlantic Shell Shock: Great War Trauma in British and American Literature.”

Kristin Kelly, University of North Georgia, USA. “The Truth Hurts: Calling Out Complicity in Siegfried Sassoon’s “Blighters” and Brian Turner’s “Sleeping in Dick Cheney’s Bed."

Jason Parks, Anderson University, USA. “Reporting from the Neuropathic Ward: Eugene Jolas, Multilingual Modernism, and the ‘Malady of Language’.”
7B (YH 202)
Panel 3: Exploring the Anglo-American Political Tradition: Transatlantic Diplomacy and Comparative Constitution Chair: Robert Hendershot

Kristin Cook, SOAS University of London, England. “‘Taylor’s Holy Living and Dying’: Early Anglican Transatlantic Diplomacy and Colonial Identity Politics.”

Gavin Bailey, Independent Scholar, Scotland. “Paine, the Founding Fathers, the Constitution and Early Political Debate.”

Alan Dobson, Swansea University, Wales. “The Growth of Liberalism in the U.K. and the U.S.”

7C (YH 203)
Panel: Transposing Landscapes and Iconography across American and British Cinema
Chair: Shane Toepfer

Discussant: Shane Toepfer, University of North Georgia, USA

Jeffrey Marker, University of North Georgia, USA. “Shit Just Got Real on the Village Green: Transatlanticism in the Films of Edgar Wright.

Candice Wilson, University of North Georgia, USA. “Doctor Who’s Manifest Destiny: Imperial Cultures in the Trans-Atlantic.”

Yelizaveta Goldfarb Moss, University of North Georgia, USA. “Architectural Palimpsest: Transatlantic Remakes in Antonioni and de Palma.”

Keynote Panel (YH 202)

5.45-6.45pm: Transatlantic Relations in the Age of Trump

Chair: Raluca Viman-Miller, University of North Georgia, USA. Comments: Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia, USA.



James McKay, Royal Military College of Canada, “How Transatlantic is the Trump Administration?”

7pm: Reception & Conference dinner (Wolf Mountain Winery)

Shuttles to the Winery will be provided.

CONFERENCE CLOSE

The TSA is pleased to welcome The Scholar’s Choice to host the 2018 book display.

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The Transatlantic Studies Association and Cambridge University Press wish to congratulate the winner of the CUP-TSA Book Prize for 2016 titles:

Dr Dino Knudsen

The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance: Informal Elite Diplomacy, 1972-82 

(Routledge, 2016)




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TSA Executive, 2017-2018

Chair: Professor Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia, USA.

Vice-Chair: Dr Thomas Mills, University of Lancaster, England.
Secretary: Dr Kristin Cook, SOAS University of London, England.

Treasurer: Dr Gavin Bailey, University of Stirling, Scotland.

Management Committee, 2017-2018

David Clinton, Baylor University, Texas, USA.

Alison Holmes, Humboldt State University, California, USA.

Gaynor Johnson, University of Kent, England.

Geraldine Kidd, University College Cork, Ireland.

Mark Meirowitz, SUNY Maritime College, New York, USA.

Constance Post, Iowa State University, USA.

Luca Ratti, University of Rome 3, Italy.

Professor David Ryan, University College Cork, Ireland.

Michele Testoni, IE University, Madrid, Spain

Honorary Trustees

Michael Cullinane, University of Roehampton, England.

Anthony Jackson, University of Dundee, Scotland.

Andrew Williams, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

TSA Charity Number: SC039378
Scottish Charity Regulator