[UFPJ] Empire, Resistance, and the War in Iraq Conference Next Month!

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http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/hawconf/

Empire, Resistance, and the War in Iraq
A Conference for Historians and Activists
University of Texas, Austin
February 17-19, 2006

We invite you to attend the first scholarly conference in
the U.S. to examine the origins of and opposition to the
war in Iraq in historical perspective.  Speakers will
examine the history of resistance to U.S. empire, the
history of international peace and justice movements, the
relation of gender to imperialism and war, and the defense
of civil liberties and democratic institutions in wartime.
 In addition, speakers will discuss the Iraq war in
long-term historical context.  We encourage audience
participation, and each session includes questions,
answers, and discussion.

On Sunday a diverse panel will present their thoughts on
what historians and activists can learn from each other.
 Following their presentations, we will have an open
discussion on what we as historians and activists can do
on our campuses, in our communities, and in this country
to contribute to and build anti-war consciousness and
activity.

Click here for detailed schedule:
 http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/hawconf/.
The conference is in the Thompson Conference Center with
the exception of the Friday night keynote, which is in the
LBJ Auditorium in Sid Richardson Hall.

Registration for the Historians Against War Conference
Early registration before February 1 is $40 (or $25 for
students or low-income/unemployed), payable either on-line
through PayPal (easiest for us) or by check. On-site
registration is $45 (or $30 for students or
low-income-unemployed). Registration includes admission to
the entire conference, including the Friday and Saturday
night plenaries, and all the panels. It also includes a
coffee break, lunch, and afternoon cookies on Saturday.

Name:

Address:

Institutional affiliation:

Email:

Lodging
This hotel is holding a block of rooms, and is located
about three blocks from the conference center.

Rodeway Inn
2900 N I H 35
Austin, TX 78705
(512) 477-6395
$69.95 per night

Historians Against the War is a network of history
teachers, scholars, and activists seeking to bring
historical analysis to bear on U.S. foreign policy and its
social/political impact. To find out more, visit the HAW
website at www.historiansagainstwar.org


Conference Schedule (as of Jan. 2)

Friday Evening Plenary, 7:00 pm
Keynote Speakers:
     Howard Zinn, Boston University (retired), author and
activist
     Andrea Smith, University of Michigan

Saturday Morning Panels
NOTE:  One panel is scheduled for each time slot.

Empire and Resistance, 8:30 – 10:15
Chair/commentator:  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, California State
University at Hayward
Amee Chew, Why the War Is Sexist (and Why We Can’t Ignore
Gender Any More; Here’s a Start for Organizing) (tentative
title)
Alan Dawley, The College of New Jersey, Anti-Imperialism
in the Wilson Era
John Mason Hart, University of Houston, The Rise of the
American Empire
Ngocnga Nguyen, University of California San Diego, U.S.
Wars as “Race Wars”
Colleen Woods, City University of New York Graduate
Center, The Significance of Disloyalty: The American
Imperial Project and the New York City Public Schools,
1916-1919

The U.S. in the Middle East, 10:30 – 12:15
Chair:  Peter Dimock, Columbia University Press
Commentator:  Irene Gendzier, Boston University
Magnus Bernhardsson, Williams College, A New War or an Old
Battle: Interpreting and Teaching the War  (not yet
confirmed)
Sara Dougherty, University of Rochester, The Munich
Analogy and the Persian Gulf War
John Foran and Joe Conti, University of California Santa
Barbara, The Bush Foreign Policy: A Genealogy of Its
Origins, Course, and Possible Futures
Rahul Mahajan, New York University (title not yet
determined)
Nada Shabout, A ‘Liberated’ Iraq: Simulation Through
Cultural Destruction

Saturday Lunch, 12:30 – 1:30
Lunch will be provided.  It is covered by the cost of
registration for the conference.

Saturday Afternoon Panels

Bush Policies: Change or Continuity, 1:30 – 3:15
Chair/commentator:  Joan Hoff, University of Montana
Paul Atwood, University of Massachusetts Boston, War and
Empire Are and Always Have Been the American Way of Life
James Carter, Texas A & M University, War Profiteering
from Vietnam to Iraq
Anita Durkin, University of Rochester, Shift in Symbol:
Metaphorical War-Mongering, of The Tale of Two Bushes
Walter Hixson, University of Akron, Might as Well Face It,
We’re Addicted to War

Defending Democracy and Civil Liberties, 3:30 – 5:15
Chair:  Ben Alpers, University of Oklahoma
Jeffrey Kerr-Richie, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, The Empire Strikes Back: 7/7 and the British
War in Iraq
Peter Kirstein, St. Xavier University, The Silencing of
the Left in Wartime
Saul Landau, Media and War  (not yet confirmed)
Jana Lipman, Yale University, Guantánamo: Legal Debates,
Human Rights, and Labor

Saturday Evening Plenary, 7 pm
Speakers:
     Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
     Irene Gendzier, Boston University

Sunday Morning Panel, 9:30 – 12:15
“What Activists and Historians Can Learn from Each Other”
Chair:  Marc Becker, Truman State College
Commentator:  Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of
Technology
Dan Berger, University of Pennsylvania, Anti-Imperialist
Lessons and Legacies from the Weather Underground
Peter Dimock, Columbia University Press, The Iraq War as a
Point of No Return in American History
Carolyn (Rusti) Eisenberg, Hofstra University, Nixon and
Kissinger’s Tips for the Peace Movement
Kenneth Long, St. Joseph College, No Good Wars: Teaching
the History of Modern American Wars as a Means of
Resisting Current Ones
Roger Peace, Florida State University, An Ideological
Crusade: The Reagan Administration’s War Against Nicaragua
in the 1980s
Shanti Marie Singham, Williams College, Teaching about the
French Algerian War during the US Iraq War

www.historiansagainstwar.org

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