PROGRAM
WORLD WAR I:
DISSENT, ACTIVISM, & TRANSFORMATION
Georgian Court University
Lakewood, New Jersey, USA
17-18 October 2014
Co-Sponsored by Peace History Society
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FRIDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2014
7:45-8:30 AM
Little Theater Foyer (A&S Building)
Registration & Breakfast
8:30-8:45
Little Theater
Welcome:
Scott H. Bennett, Professor of History, Georgian Court University
Rita Smith Kipp, Dean, Arts & Sciences, Georgian Court University
PANELS: 9:00-10:30
SESSION #1: Little Theater
PANEL: Pacifist Peace and Justice Activism in the World War I Era
CHAIR: Elizabeth Agnew, Ball State University (Indiana)
PRESENTERS:
David W. McFadden, Fairfield University (Connecticut)
“Move as the Way Opens”: Radical, Pacifist, and Religious Origins of People-to-People
Diplomacy, U.S. and Russia, 1916-1921
Allan Austin, Misericordia University (Pennsylvania)
Giving “Brotherhood . . . New Meaning”: The Great War and New Intersections of Quaker
Activism on Race and Peace
David L. Hostetter, Independent Scholar (California)
Uncommon Commitment: The Fellowship of Reconciliation, The Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom, and the Origins of Twentieth Century Peace Activism in the United
States
SESSION #2: A&S 165
PANEL: Friends in War, Friends in Peace: French & American Visions of War, Peace, and Post-War
Transformation, 1914-1924
CHAIR: Araceli Hernández-Laroche, University of South Carolina Upstate (South Carolina)
PRESENTERS:
Nadine Akhund, Sorbonne-Institute for History of International Relations and European Civilization
(France).
A Wartime Correspondence: A Unique Testimony of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, 1914-1924
Michael Clinton, Gwynedd Mercy University (Pennsylvania)
A French Pacifist at War, 1914-1918: Paul-Henri d’Estournelles de Constant
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Michael E. McGuire, Marian Court College (Massachusetts)
American Friends of France? U.S. Quakers, the Reconstruction of Devastated France, and
Franco-German Relations, 1917-1919
SESSION #3: A&S 103
PANEL: American Jewish and Protestant Responses to World War I
CHAIR: Rosalyn Baxandall, Labor School, CUNY (New York)
PRESENTERS:
Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University (Pennsylvania)
The Christian Century and Liberal American Protestantism, Transformed by the Great War
Harvey Strum, Sage College of Albany (New York)
World War I and the Jews of the Capital District of New York
Ehud Manor, Oranim College (Israel)
The Yiddish-Socialist-American Press and World War I: The Warheit--Forverts Debate"
10:30-10:45
Little Theater Foyer
Break and Coffee
10:45-12:15
Little Theater
SESSION #4: Plenary Session I
PANEL: Resistance Was Not an Option: African Americans at Home and Overseas in World War I
CHAIR: Reena N. Goldthree, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire)
PRESENTERS:
Jeffrey T. Sammons, New York University (New York)
The African American Campaign for Martial Inclusion and the Contested Origins of the 15th
NYNG/369th RIUS aka ‘The Rattlers’
John H. Morrow, Jr., University of Georgia (Georgia)
Black Participation in World War I: The 369th Regiment in France in 1918
Chad Williams, Brandeis University (Massachusetts)
War Guilt: W. E. B. Du Bois, African Americans, and the Meaning of World War I
12:15-2:00: Lunch & Legacies of War Project
Casino
Ingrid Sharp, University of Leeds (UK)
PANELS: 2:15-4:00
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SESSION #5: A&S 165
PANEL: Women’s Peace and Suffrage Activism in the United States, the Hague, and Jamaica during
World War I
CHAIR: David McFadden, Fairfield University (Connecticut)
PRESENTERS:
Wendy E. Chmielewski, Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Pennsylvania)
“For the Nation and For the Cause”: Response and Rhetoric of U.S. Suffragists to World War I
Margaret Vining, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
Peace, Suffrage, & Civil Rights in the First World War: Sophonisba Breckinridge as Academic
Activist
Dalea Bean, University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
“Franchise for the women that we like”: Gendered Contradictions of Activism for the Vote for
Jamaican Women in the Post World War I Era
SESSION #6: Little Theater
PANEL: Impact and Legacies: Social and Political Consequences of World War I
CHAIR: Chuck F. Howlett, Molloy College (New York)
PRESENTERS:
Mary Laurents, University of Maryland--Baltimore County (Maryland)
Service, Sacrifice, Disillusion, and Resistance: The Generational Fracture of Upper Class
Ideology and Allegiance in Britain during the First World War and in the Interwar Period
Annmarie Hughes, University of Glasgow (UK)
The Effects of the Great War on Women and Children in Scotland
Levon Chorbajian, University of Massachusetts Lowell (Massachusetts)
History by Fiat: Lying About the Armenian Genocide from 1915 to the Present
Norman Markowitz, Rutgers University—New Brunswick (New Jersey)
The Red Scare and the Making of J. Edgar Hoover, 1917-1921
SESSION #7: A&S 103
PANEL: Antiwar Literature and World War I
CHAIR: Pamela J. Rader, Georgian Court University (New Jersey)
PRESENTERS:
Cynthia Wachtell, Yeshiva University (New York)
The Best Antiwar Book from the First World War You've Never Read and Why:
Ellen N. La Motte’s The Backwash of War
Russ Pottle, Misericordia University (Pennsylvania)
Battlefield Echoes from World War I in Ernest Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”
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Edward T. Larkin, University of New Hampshire (New Hampshire)
“Scientific Pacifism” in Alfred Hermann Fried’s Mein Kriegstagebuch
4:00-4:15
Little Theater Foyer
Break and Coffee
PANELS: 4:15-5:45
SESSION #8: A&S 103
PANEL: Conscience in Action: Pacifism and Conscientious Objection during World War I
CHAIR: Jonathan Lurie, Rutgers University—Newark (New Jersey)
PRESENTERS:
Anne Yoder, Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Pennsylvania)
Brothers Unarmed: David and Julius Eichel
Seth S. Tannenbaum, Temple University (Pennsylvania)
Activism Without “Radicalism”: American Activism on Behalf of Conscientious Objectors
during World War I
Maria Santelli, Center on Conscience & War (Washington, DC)
In Defense of Conscience: Lessons from World War I through Today
SESSION #9: A&S 165
PANEL: Dissent and Resistance in Germany, France, and the USA during World War I
CHAIR: Johanna Church, Johnson & Wales University (Rhode Island)
PRESENTERS:
Ingrid Sharp, University of Leeds (UK)
Beyond German Militarism: German Resistance to the First World War
Elizabeth Agnew, Ball State University (Indiana)
Jane Addams, World War I, and “Pacifism in Practice”
Andrew M. Johnston, Carleton University (Canada)
Jeanne Halbwachs and the Soci t d tudes documentaires et criti ues sur la guerre
SESSION #10: Little Theater
PANEL: Female Writers / Poets and World War I
CHAIR: Russ Pottle, Misericordia University (Pennsylvania)
PRESENTERS:
Maria Geiger, Georgian Court University (New Jersey)
No Trench Required: Validating the Voices of Female Poets in WWI
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Russell McDonald, Georgian Court University (New Jersey)
Truth, Ethical Love, and the Way to Peace in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier
Kathleen A. Brown, St. Edward’s University (Texas)
“Dissenters from the religion of patriotism”: Women’s Anti-war Poetry in The World
[Oakland, CA], 1917-1918
6:00-7:00: Reception
Mansion
7:00-9:30: Banquet and Keynote
North Dining Room / Casino
Adam Hochschild: The War Within the War: An Unknown Story of World War I
--Introduced by Rumu Das Gupa, Professor of Sociology, Georgian Court University
--Book Signing Following Keynote Address
SATURDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2014
8:00-8:30 AM
Little Theater Foyer (A&S Foyer)
Registration & Breakfast
PANELS: 8:30-10:15
SESSION #11: Little Theater
PANEL: Race, Labor, Ethnicity, and Empire in World War I
CHAIR: Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University (Pennsylvania)
PRESENTERS:
Elizabeth McKillen, University of Maine (Maine)
Race, Empire, and U.S. Working-Class Opposition to the Labor Clauses of the Versailles
Peace Treaty
K. Kale Yu, Nyack College (New York)
Enemies in the Pews: Targeting “Unpatriotic” German, Swedish, and Norwegian Immigrant
Churches during the First World War
Aldo Antonio Lauria Santiago, Rutgers University—New Brunswick (New Jersey)
War, Labor Recruitment and Colonial Migration: Puerto Ricans in the US South, 1917-1940
SESSION #12: A&S 165
PANEL: Medical and Psychological Transformations: Healing and Remembering World War I
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Soldiers and Veterans
CHAIR: Mary Laurents, University of Maryland--Baltimore County (Maryland)
PRESENTERS:
Tara M. Fueshko, Drew University (New Jersey)
Legitimizing Mental War Trauma through Shell Shock
Johanna Church, Johnson & Wales University (Rhode Island)
Literary Representations of the Neurological Manifestations of Trauma as a Result of
World War I
Jessica L. Adler, Florida International University (Florida)
Centers of Revolution: Protest, Advocacy, and Medical Care in World War I America
SESSION #13: A&S 103
PANEL: Peacemaking, Anticolonialism, and Cultural Commemoration in the USA and Europe
in the World War I Era
CHAIR: Michael Clinton, Gwynedd Mercy University (Pennsylvania)
PRESENTERS:
Cecilie Reid Joyner, Boston College (Massachusetts)
World War I: A New American International View and the End of Lake Mohonk
Andrew S. Chatfield, American University (Washington, DC)
In Support of the Crown Jewel: Americans Who Backed Indian Anti-Colonial Nationalism in the
United States
Molly Sergi, Kent State University (Ohio)
Cultural and Intellectual Movements: World War I Commemorating the Dead, the Meaning of
Memorials and Collective Memory in Europe
10:15-10:30
Little Theater Foyer
Break and Coffee
10:30-12:00
Little Theater
SESSION #14: Plenary Session II
PANEL: World War I: Wounded Men as Prologue and Epilogue
CHAIR: Edward Witman, Georgian Court University (New Jersey)
PRESENTERS:
Jerry Lembcke, College of the Holy Cross (Massachusetts)
“Shell Shock” in the American Imagination: World War I’s Most Enduring Legacy
Fiona Reid, University of South Wales (UK)
“My friends looked at me in horror”: Coping with Wounds and Wounded Men in the
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First World War
John V. H. Dippel, Independent Scholar (Connecticut)
Avenging the Primal Wound: Women as the Unacknowledged Enemy in World War I
12:15-2:00 Lunch & Keynote
North Dining Room / Casino
Harriet Hyman Alonso: Building a Feminist-Pacifist Peace Movement: The Early Years
--Introduced by Johann Vento, Associate Professor of Theology, Georgian Court University
--Book Signing Following Keynote Address
PANELS: 2:15-3:45
SESSION #15: Little Theater
PANEL: Femininity and Masculinity, Defined by War: A Gendered Look at World War I
CHAIR: Jeremy H. Neill, Educational Testing Services (New Jersey)
PRESENTERS:
Melissa Ziobro, Monmouth University (New Jersey)
Get the Message Through: Women Have Rights, Too
Chrissie Reilly, Defense Logistics Agency (Virginia)
Good Wives, Wise Mothers, Modern Girls: Women in Japan during World War I
Maryanne Rhett, Monmouth University (New Jersey)
“It’s a Boy!”: Gender, Nationalism, and the Balfour Declaration
SESSION #16: A&S 165
PANEL: Theorizing War: World War I and Cultural Paradoxes on Both Sides of the Atlantic
CHAIR: Aldo Antonio Lauria Santiago, Rutgers University—New Brunswick (New Jersey)
PRESENTERS:
Catherine Canino, University of South Carolina Upstate (South Carolina)
The Paradox of World War I: The War that Argues Against Itself
Araceli Hernández-Laroche, University of South Carolina Upstate (South Carolina)
Theorizing Paradox: Revolution in Time of War
Rosalyn Baxandall, Labor School, CUNY (New York)
Meyer London, Congressman and Reluctant Rebel
SESSION #17: A&S 103
PANEL: World War I Dissent in Images, Cartoons, and Media
CHAIR: Claribel Young, Georgian Court University (New Jersey)
PRESENTERS:
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Chuck F. Howlett, Molloy College (New York)
The Imagery of Dissent and Tragedies of War
Denise Spivey, Florida State University (Florida)
Teaching Multicultural Activism through Political Cartoons
Amy Aronson, Fordham University (New York)
Manufacturing Dissent: Crystal Eastman, Media Activism and the Campaign to Prevent War
4:00-4:15 Closing Comments
Little Theater
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