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2013 HOTCUS Annual Conference
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
5-7 July 2013
www.hotcus.org.uk
www.northumbria.ac.uk/americanstudies/
Conference organizers:
Dr. Sandra Scanlon (University College Dublin) and
Dr. Joe Street (Northumbria University)
The organizers wish to thank the Royal Historical Society for supporting postgraduate attendance at HOTCUS
Contents
Conference Timetable
Friday 3
Saturday 4
Sunday 8
Restaurant list 10
Accommodation and Travel Directions, Maps 13
Friday, 5 July
14.30-15.45 Registration
LOCATION: City Campus East 1 (Law/Business School)
16.00-18.00 Annual Lecture
Professor Wesley Hogan, Virginia State University
“You Have to Stand Up, You Don't Have to Survive”: Civil Rights and Memory in the United States.
LOCATION: City Campus East 1 (Law/Business School): Lecture Theatre 003
19.00 Conference Dinner, the Courtyard, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Walking map on p. 17; please contact conference staff if you require a taxi.
Please head up the short flight of stairs at the main entrance and turn left at the top. The courtyard will be in front of you, with the bar area up the ramp to your left. A lift is available if you need assistance (to the right of the stairs). The courtyard overlooks the Tyne River and can get a little breezy in the evening, so please dress accordingly. Should the weather be inclement, the courtyard will be covered and outdoor heaters lit. There is also a large indoor area with extra seating.
The dinner will feature a buffet selection of local hot and cold food. Hot food will be barbecued to order and service will start at 7.30pm. A cash bar will be open until 11.30pm and the venue must be clear by midnight. The walk back to the accommodation will be uphill for most of the way. Taxis can be ordered; alternatively, take a short walk over the Millennium Bridge to the Quayside taxi ranks.
Unfortunately, the Baltic galleries close at 6pm in the evening, and so it will not be possible to visit them during the dinner. They will, however, be open as normal during the days of the conference. A visit is highly recommended if you have time. Please visit the website for further information: http://www.balticmill.com/
Saturday, 6 July
9.00-10.30 Session I
Panel A: Rights, Norms, and Values in U.S. Foreign Relations, 1961-1973
City Campus East 1, Room 007
Chair: Simon Hall, University of Leeds
Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, UK
‘The Vietnam War and the Shifting Grounds of Legitimacy’
Sarah B. Snyder, University College London, UK
‘“At Home and Around the World”: Kennedy’s Commitment to Human Rights’
Simon Stevens, Columbia University, USA
‘“An Unusual Ministry with Money”: The American Ecumenical Churches and Investments in South Africa, 1966-1973’
Panel B: Black Power and American Identity
City Campus East 1, Room 009
Chair: Brian Ward, Northumbria University
Zoe Hyman, University of Sussex, UK
‘The NAACP, South Africa and the International Fight for Racial Equality, 1948-1965’
Zoe Colley, University of Dundee, UK
‘“When the Prison Gates Open, the Real Dragon Will Fly Out”: George Jackson, Black Power, and the Radical Prison Rights Movement’
Dawn-Marie Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
‘“Redefining Today’s Women with Strength, Dignity, Honor, Beauty and Class”: The Official Magazine of the Millions More Movement’
Panel C: Understanding the Conservative Movement
City Campus East 1, Room 024
Chair: Benjamin Houston, Newcastle University
David Sarias, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Spain
‘Opportunists, “Traitors” and “Dupes”: Re-considering Anticommunism within the American Conservative Movement from Truman to Nixon’
John W. White, College of Charleston, USA
‘South Carolinians for Eisenhower and the Birth of the Modern Republican Party in South Carolina’
Tom Packer, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, UK
‘Conservatisms in the South’
Saturday, 6 July
10.30-11.00 Coffee/Tea City Campus East 1, Café area
11.00-12.30 Session II
Panel A: Grassroots, Astroturf, and Patriotism: Presidents and Public Opinion
City Campus East 1, Room 007
Chair: Iwan Morgan, University College London
James Cameron, University of Cambridge, UK
‘“The Real Grass Roots of America”: The Nixon Administration, Astroturf Organisations and the Domestic Politics Arms Control, 1969-1972’
Sarah Thelen, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
‘Opposing the Opposition: The Nixon Administration and the 1969 Moratorium and Mobilization Protests’
David Fitzgerald, University College Cork, Ireland
‘Supporting the Troops, Supporting the War: the Bush Administration, Veterans Groups and the Persian Gulf War’
Panel B: Anglo-American Relations
City Campus East 1, Room 009
Chair: Michael Cullinane, Northumbria University
Philip R. Gannon, University of Durham, UK
‘US Public Opinion and the 1945 Anglo-American Loan’
Malcolm Craig, University of Edinburgh
‘America, Britain, and the “Islamic Bomb,” 1974-1980’
Alison Holmes, Humboldt State University, USA
‘Transatlantic US-UK Diplomacy: A Bridge from “New” to “Global”?’
Panel C: Conservative Encounters
City Campus East 1, Room 024
Chair: Alf Thomas Tønnessen, Volda University College, Norway
Robbie Maxwell, University of Edinburgh
‘A “Populist” for Business: George S. Benson and the Conservative Response to War, Reconversion and the Specter of Organized Labor’
Mark McLay, University of Edinburgh
‘The Republican Challenge to the Early Great Society’
Karen Heath, University of Oxford
‘Conservatives and the Politics of Art in the 1970s’
Saturday, 6 July
12.30-13.30 Lunch City Campus East 1, Café area
13.30-15.00 Session III
Panel A: Conservative Christian Encounters with Culture, Politics, and the Market from the Cold War to the 1990s
City Campus East 1, Room 007
Chair: Robert Mason, University of Edinburgh
Maura Jane Farrelly, Brandeis University, USA
Richard John Neuhaus
Hilde Løvdal, University of Oslo, Norway
Billy Graham
Randall Stephens, Northumbria University, UK
‘The Rise of Christian Rock Music during the Late 1960s and Early 1970s’
Panel B: Race Relations from the Early to Mid-20th Century
City Campus East 1, Room 009
Chair: Daniel Scroop, University of Glasgow
Olly Ayers, University of Kent, UK
‘Reconsidering the Origins of the “Long” Civil Rights Movement: Black Workers and the Rise of Organized Labour in the Urban North during the Great Depression’
Charissa Threat, Northeastern University, USA
‘Nursing Civil Rights: The American Nurses’ Association and its Intergroup Relations Committee’
Deborah Kitchen-Døderlein, University of Oslo, Norway
‘Interracial Sex and Romance in Hollywood Movies’
Panel C: Intelligence and Public Diplomacy
City Campus East 1, Room 024
Chair: David Sarias, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Spain
Steve Long, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
‘Political Warfare and the Limits of American Power in the Early Cold War’
Helen Bury, University of St. Andrews, UK
‘Letters to the Kremlin 1955-1961: Eisenhower, Bulganin and Khrushchev – A Study in Personal Diplomacy’
Christopher J. Fuller, University of Southampton, UK
‘The Eagle Comes Home to Roost: The Historic Origins of the CIA’s Lethal Drone Program’
15.00-15.30 Coffee/Tea City Campus East 1, Café area
15.30-16.30 Session IV
Panel A: Intellectuals and American History
City Campus East 1, Room 007
Chair: Hilde Løvdal, University of Oslo, Norway
Nick Witham, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
‘Historian in Public?: Richard Hofstadter and the Writing of The American Political Tradition (1948)’
Benedikt Brunner, University of Münster, Germany
‘Interpretations of the Religious Crisis of the 1960s on both Sides of the Atlantic - A Comparison of Theologians in the USA and Germany’
Panel B: Anti-War Protest
City Campus East 1, Room 009
Chair: Jonathan Bell, University of Reading
Fabian Hilfrich, University of Edinburgh
‘Wars, Anti-war Protest, and the End of American Civilization: The Cases of E.L. Godkin and George F. Kennan’
Robert Mason, University of Edinburgh
‘Spiro Agnew and the Antiwar Movement, 1968-1972’
16.30-16.45: Break
16.45-17.30: HOTCUS Annual General Meeting (members welcome)
City Campus East 1, Room 009
18.00 Drinks Reception
Exhibition Area, CCE1
Evening:
Free evening: please see the restaurant list for information.
Sunday, 7 July
9.00-11.00 Session V
Panel A: Civil Rights and Southern Society
City Campus East 1, Room 007
Chair: Emma Long, University of East Anglia
Christine Knauer, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany
‘The Death of “Judge Lynch”: White Southerners and the Last Lynchings after the Second World War’
Benjamin Houston, Newcastle University, UK
‘A Manner of Segregation: Racial Etiquette and the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville, Tennessee’
Mary Battle, College of Charleston
‘In the Storm So Long: Interpreting Civil Rights in Charleston, South Carolina through Digital Public History Projects’
Panel B: Transatlantic Relations
City Campus East 1, Room 009
Chair: David Gleeson, Northumbria University
Zinovia Lialiouti, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
‘Aspects of American Cultural Penetration in Post-War Greece’
Candice Gerken, Plymouth University, UK
‘American Foreign Policy and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974’
Victor Gavín, University of Barcelona, Spain
‘Henry Kissinger and Spain after Franco: Stability and Order’
11.00-11.30 Coffee/Tea City Campus East 1, Café area
Sunday 7 July
11.30-13.00 Session VI
Panel A: Fighting America’s Wars
City Campus East 1, Room 007
Chair: Patrick Andelic, University of Oxford
D’Ann Campbell, Culver Stockton College, USA
‘Eleanor Roosevelt as America’s Wartime Voice’
Richard Jensen, Montana State University, Billings, USA
‘How Wikipedia Fights America’s Wars’
Panel B: Radical Encounters
City Campus East 1, Room 009
Chair: Randall Stephens, Northumbria University
Jeffrey A. Johnson, Providence College, USA
‘“Road to a Frame Up?”: San Francisco’s 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing’
Alfred C. Cardone, King’s College London, UK
‘“Soldiers, in the Name of Democracy, Let Us All Unite!”: The Tea Party, the Occupy Movement, and Neo-Populism’
Alf Thomas Tønnessen, Volda University College, Norway
‘“From Insider to Outsider: Jim DeMint, the Tea Party Movement, and the Heritage Foundation’
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Conference ends.
HOTCUS Newcastle 2013
Restaurant List
There are two easily accessible areas for a meal near the Holiday Inn and Claude Gibb Hall. Jesmond is a short walk from the Holiday Inn and is a hub for swanky bars, bistros and Italian restaurants. It tends to attract the Geordie Shore types, the occasional hen and stag party and some of Newcastle’s richer students. This makes it sound awful, but it is pretty pleasant, if increasingly boisterous as the night progresses. The main strip is Osborne Road, on which most of the following restaurants lie (there are more if you want to explore; these are just the ones that the Northumbria staff have visited recently). We’d recommend booking in advance, particularly if you have a large group:
Italian
Fratellos Jesmond Road (next door to the Holiday Inn) 0191 212 5500
Scalinis 61 Osborne Road NA2 2AN 0191 240 7777
Firenze The Courtyard off Holly Avenue West, 7 Osborne Road NE2 2AE 0191 281 2136
There are also a number of other Italian places along Osborne Road, including some chain restaurants.
Indian
Valley Junction Old Jesmond Station, Archbold Terrace NE2 1BF 0191 281 6397
(yes, this is based in an old railway carriage)
Mrs. Ali’s Scottish Life House, Block B, 11-17 Archbold Terrace NE2 1DP 0191 281 9988
Daraz 4 Holly Avenue, West Jesmond NE2 2AR 0191 281 8431
Bistro-style
Louis’ Restaurant 71-73 Osborne Road NE2 2AN 0191 281 4545
Cherry Tree 9 Osborne Road NE2 2AE 0191 239 9924
As You Like It Archbold TerraceNE2 1DB 0191 281 2277
There are also a large number of bars on Osborne Road which offer food and beer.
The second area is the city centre (or, in local parlance, tha Toon). Things are a little more spread out here. Newcastle’s reputation as a party/fighting city is overblown, and the rowdier elements tend to stick to three areas – the so-called ‘diamond strip’ (Collingwood Street and Mosley Street; NE1 1JF), the Bigg Market (NE1 1UN) and The Gate (NE1 5RZ). They are worth a visit from an anthropological point of view, although the food tends to be bar snacks and burgers. Outside of these areas, there are a number of very fine real ale pubs and some excellent restaurants. Again, booking is worthwhile although there are dozens of restaurants spread throughout, so please don’t consider this an exhaustive list.
Bistro
Blackfriars (expensive but excellent) Friars Street NE1 4XN 0191 261 5945
Broad Chare 25 Broad Chare, Quayside NE1 3DQ 0191 211 2144
Pan Haggerty 19-21 Queen Street NE1 3UG 0191 221 0904
Red House 32 Sandhill, Quayside NE1 3JF 0191 261 1037
Indian
Rasa 27 Queen StreetNE1 3UG 0191 232 7799
Dabba Wal 69-75 High Bridge, NE1 6BX 0191 232 5133
Italian
Sabatinis 25 King Street, NE1 3UQ 0191 261 4415
Marco Polo 33 Dean Street NE1 1PQ 0191 232 5533
Caffe Vivo 27 Broad ChareNE1 3DQ 0191 232 1331
Pani’s (a Newcastle institution) 61-65 High Bridge, NE1 6BX 0191 2324366
There are numerous other Italian restaurants dotted about town. You are never far from one!
Vietnamese
Little Saigon 6 Bigg MarketNE1 1UW 0191 233 0766
(yes, on the Bigg Market, but it’s an oasis of calm)
Chinatown has lots of places on Stowell Street NE1 4XQ. If one’s full, just try next door!
Other
Big Mussel 15 SideNE1 3JE 0191 232 1057
Real Ale pubs in town
This is a list of Northumbria staff-approved pubs in the centre of town. There are (obviously) many more to choose from, but at these you can be guaranteed a decent pint of ale (if that is what you fancy) and a friendly atmosphere. Most will get quite busy as the night progresses.
Bacchus NE1 6BX
The Bridge Hotel NE1 1RQ (also does food)
The Broad Chare as the restaurant
The Crown Posada NE1 3JE
The Forth Hotel NE1 5DW (also does food; loud in the evening)
The Hotspur NE1 7RY
Lady Grey’s NE1 6AQ (also does food)
The New Bridge NE1 6PF
The Red House as the restaurant
The Town Wall NE1 5DW (also does food)
Accommodation
Conference accommodation is at two locations. Postgraduate delegates will be located at Claude Gibb Hall, Northumbria University; other delegates at the Holiday Inn, Jesmond Road NE2 1PR. You are welcome to check in at your accommodation prior to registration at the conference.
Travel directions and maps
Please find below travel information in order for you to plan your visit to Newcastle. You will find instructions on how to reach the conference accommodation from Newcastle’s two central transport hubs–Central Station, for those arriving by train, and Newcastle International Airport. You will also find maps showing you how to get to conference venues across the city.
We hope that you have a safe and pleasant journey to Newcastle and look forward to welcoming you to Northumbria University.