9 am Breakfast, welcome Room 263

9:30 – 11:00
Panel 1, Foreign Policy from Fenians to Federalism (Room 263)
Anthony Daly, “Caught in the Middle: Canada, America, Great Britain and the Fenians in 1866”
Louise McManus (Brandeis) “The Politics of Panic: Invasion Panics and British Foreign Policy”
Nathaniel Armistead, The acquis communautaire and the development of Federal Europe


Panel 2  Cultural Creation of Identity  (Room 265)
Ken Shelton, “Turks, Jews and Bastards: Identity Formation in the English Congregations of the Netherlands”
Adam Chill “Unmanly Ribbonmen?: Masculinity, Respectability and the Meaning of Lower-Class Nationalism in Post-War Ireland, c. 1822-1825.
Andrew Finstuen, “The Illusion of Opposition: Sigmund Freud and Christianity”
Chair/Commentator Paul Breines


11:10 – 12:40
Panel 3  Aspects of Boston Religion (Room 263)
 Jen Cote, “Subverting the Discourse of Domesticity: the Boston League of Catholic Women”
Megan Dwyer,
Damien Murray, “No Irishman is a Socialist:’ The Catholic Church and Irish-American nationalism in Boston after the First World War
Chair/Commentator, James O’Toole

Panel 4   Creating Urban Spaces  (Room 265)
Sarah Nytroe “The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial: Historical Memory and the Displacement of History”
 Sean Ferrier (Philosophy), “The Bauhaus and the movement towards Fascism in Weimar Germany”
Jared Bjornholm, “Situationism and Urban Space”


Lunch

1:15 – 3:15
Panel 5  Re-assessing Medieval Identities (Room 265)
Sally Shockro,  “From Constantinople to Northumbria: Byzantine influence on early medieval art”
Kylie Dodson, “Ethnicity and Identity in the Early Medieval World
Suzanne  Hevelone (Theology) ”Griselda as Mother: A reconsideration of the Tale of the Obedient Wife
David Crane, “Castles and Great Houses: Lordly power and displacement in the Anglo-Norman Town”
Chair/Commentator Tracey-Anne Cooper

Panel 6  Anti-Soviet Resistance  (Room 263)
Jared McBride (Northeastern), “Malyn: A “German Reprisal in Volhynia, July 1943”
 Irina Mukhina, “Warsaw Uprising, 1944”
James Morris, “The Music and Life of Vladmir Vysotsky: Btatnye Pesni as Social Criticism in the Soviet Union,
George Reklaitis (Northeastern) “Cold War Lithuania: Counterinsurgency and Counterintelligence”
Chair/Commentator Roberta Manning

3:25-4:15
Panel 7 Immigration and Race (Room 263)
Mike Mezzano, Philanthropy, Racialism and Restriction: Joseph Lee and the Immigration Restriction League”
Lorna Rinear (Rutgers) “The Deportation of Phyllis Edmeade”
David Sartorius, (UNC) “Race and pro-colonial loyalty in
nineteenth-century Cuba.”



Reception, Connelly House