WELCOME TO TSA 2022
Following the cancellation of the TSA conference in 2020, and the holding of our first fully online conference in 2021, it is something of an understatement to say how delighted we are to be holding our first in-person gathering since we last met in Lancaster in 2019. We have a particularly special conference in store. This year’s meeting features 37 panels from a range of disciplines, including history, politics and international relations, and literary and cultural studies. As well as three keynote lectures, we also have two plenary roundtable sessions and an early career workshop on academic publishing.
It is, however, with some sadness that we gather this year, following the death earlier in 2022 of the TSA’s founding Chair, Alan Dobson. Alan was a close friend and colleague to many and we will be honouring him with a special roundtable on his life and work at this year’s conference.
We are delighted to be returning to Canterbury for this year’s meeting, this time at the University of Kent. Canterbury is a city steeped in history and culture, and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the UK. It has a wide selection of pubs, restaurants and shops which we would encourage you to explore.
Continuing the strong social element of TSA, a drinks reception will take place on the opening evening of the conference in the K-Bar in Keynes College. The conference will close with a formal dinner at the Cathedral Lodge, located within the grounds of Canterbury Cathedral.
The annual conference will see the award of a number of prizes, including the TSA-Cambridge University book prize, the TSA-Palgrave-Macmillan Research Award, and the DC Watt prize for the best paper presented at the conference by an early career scholar. As with previous conferences, the TSA has happily offered a number of travel grants to early career scholars to aid their attendance at the conference.
The TSA AGM will take place during the conference, as well as the annual meeting of the TSA management committee. Please come along to the AGM to hear about recent developments in TSA and plans for further ventures.
Wishing you a very enjoyable conference,
Thomas Mills, TSA Chair
important information
Below you will find the conference programme, including all panel sessions, keynote lectures and other events across the three days.
Please note, this page will be updated with any changes to the programme as the conference progresses. Please consult this online version of the programme to access the most up to date information.
CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
monday 4 July 2022
Conference Registration from 2pm onwards (Keynes Atrium)
Plenary roundtable on ‘The Transatlantic Alliance in International Politics from 9/11 to Covid-19’: 3.30pm-5.00pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
Coffee break: 5.00pm-5.30pm (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
Keynote lecture by Professor Jussi Hanhimäki: 5.30pm-6.30pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
Drinks reception: 6.30pm (K-Bar, Keynes College)
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Tuesday 5 July 2022
Panel session 1: 9.00am-10.30am
Coffee break: 10.30am-11.00am (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
Keynote lecture by Dr Sarah Meer: 11.00am-12.00pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
Lunch: 12.00pm-1.30pm (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
TSA Annual General Meeting: 12.30pm-1.20pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
Panel session 2: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Coffee break: 3.00pm-3.30pm (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
Panel session 3: 3.30pm-5.00pm
Plenary roundtable on ‘The Life and Work of Alan Dobson’: 5.15pm-6.45pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
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WEDNESDAY 6 July 2022
Panel session 4: 9.00am-10.30am
Coffee break: 10.30-11.00am (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
Panel session 5: 11.00am-12.30pm
Lunch: 12.30-2.00pm (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
Early Career Workshop on Academic Publishing: 12.30pm-1.50pm (Keynes, Seminar Room 12)
TSA Management Committee Meeting: 12.55pm-1.55pm (Keynes, Seminar Room 11)
Panel session 6: 2.00pm-3.30pm
Coffee break: 3.30pm-4.00pm (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
Panel session 7: 4.00pm-5.30pm
Keynote lecture by Professor Mark Webber: 5.45pm-6.45pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
Conference dinner at Canterbury Cathedral Lodge: Coach departs at 7.00pm
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
MONDAY 4 JULY 2022
Conference welcome: 3.20pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
PLENARY ROUNDTABLE: 3.30-5pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
“The End of an Era? The Transatlantic Alliance in International Politics from 9/11 to Covid-19”
Chair: Thomas Mills, Lancaster University
Participants: Philip Cunliffe (University of Kent), James McKay (Royal Military College of Canada), Luca, Ratti (University of Rome 3), Barbara Zanchetta (King’s College London)
Coffee break: 5.00pm-5.30pm (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
KEYNOTE LECTURE: 5.30PM-6.30PM (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
Chair: Thomas Mills, Lancaster University
Professor Jussi Hanhimäki (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
“Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era”
Drinks reception: 6.30pm (K-Bar, Keynes College)
TUESDAY 5 JULY 2022
Panel session 1: 9.00am-10.30am
Panel 1A: Transatlantic Influences: Cultural and Diplomatic Transmission Belts (Keynes, Seminar Room 12)
Chair: Chris Jespersen, University of North Georgia
David Mayers, Boston University, “Chasing After Strange Gods: Two Americans in the Third Reich – Philip Johnson, Mildred Fish-Harnack”
Andrew Williams, University of St Andrews, “Courroies de transmission? De Gaulle’s Ambassadors in the United States, 1943-46 and 1958-63”
Panel 1B: War on the Web: The Digital Battle for Narrative Control in the Transatlantic Community (Keynes, Seminar Room 13)
Chair: Alec Dionne, Tufts University
Daniel Kroth, Tufts University, “Innovation, Motivation and Information: Digital Alliance Management in the Russo-Ukrainian War”
Maggie Fischer, Tufts University, “Digital Ethics and Human Rights in the Russo-Ukrainian War”
Laura Stahl, University of Michigan, “The Battle for Public Opinion: Russo-Ukrainian Digital Narratives on German Reddit”
Panel 1C: Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture (Keynes, Seminar Room 14)
Chair: Robert Howes, King’s College, London
Paweł Sowinski, Polish Academy of Sciences, “Transatlantic opportunity: London’s front line of the book program for Eastern Europe, 1958-1990”
Fernando Valcheff García, University of Michigan, “‘As unfathomably deep as the ocean’: A Transatlantic Reading of Van Gogh’s Legacy in Literature and Cinema”
Marilén Loyola, Lake Forest College, “Resignifying Stages in Spain and Mexico: An Exploration of Transatlantic Memory Theater in the 21st Century”
Panel 1D: DC Watt Panel: Crisis? Whose Crisis? Economic Turmoil as a Driver for Change in Transatlantic Relations (Keynes, Seminar Room 15)
Panel convened by Asensio Robles López, the 2021 winner of the DC Watt Prize for the best paper presented at the TSA annual conference.
Chair: Thomas Mills, Lancaster University
Flavia Canestrini, Paris Institute of Political Studies, “Economic statecraft and the redefinition of American hegemony in the 1980s”
Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, “The ‘Mantle of Multilateral Anonymity’: the United States, the International Monetary Fund, and Juscelino Kubitschek’s Brazil, 1956-1959”
Asensio Robles López, European University Institute, “High time for interdependency: How the Oil Shock helped justify the creation of the G7”
Panel 1E: La Science Française au Panama: Knowledge, Identity, and Republicanism during the “French Canal Era”, 1878-1914 – Panel I (Keynes, Seminar Room 11)
Chair: Rolando de la Guardia Wald, University of Panama
Rolando de la Guardia Wald, University of Panama, “History of Internationalism”
Itzela Quirós, Ministry of Culture of Panama, “Urban History”
Mishelle Prestán, University of Panama, “Social and Ethnic History”
Andrés Ramos Cabrales, Universidad del Sinú, “Economic History”
Panel 1F: Movements and Ideologies: Reform, Revolution and Elitism (Keynes, Seminar Room 16)
Chair: Dirk Voss, St. Louis Community College
Rebekah O. McMillan, Angelo State University, "An Age of Uncertainty: The Long Depression, the Social Question, and Transatlantic Reform"
Dennis Hickey, Western Pennsylvania University, "Workers of the World Unite? The Fragmentation and Relegation of the “Former Working Class”
Dino Buenviaje, University of California, Riverside, "Anglo-Saxonism & Nuclear Warheads: The Special Relationship in the Early Cold War"
Catherine Bateson, “‘To blot out Slavery’s stain’: The National and Global Messages and Meaning of the Battle of Gettysburg’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary"
Coffee break: 10.30-11.00am (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
KEYNOTE LECTURE: 11.00am-12.00pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
Chair: Finn Pollard, University of Lincoln
Dr Sarah Meer (University of Cambridge)
“American Claimants: Transatlantic Tales of Humility and Grandeur”
Lunch: 12.00pm-1.30pm (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
TSA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: 12.30pm-1.20pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
All conference participants are invited to join the TSA’s Annual General Meeting to discuss the association’s activities over the last year, future plans for conferences and other initiatives and elections to the Management Committee.
Panel session 2: 1.30pm-3.00pm
Panel 2A: International Law, Race, Trade and Anglo-American Strategic Relations, 1812-1922 (Keynes, Seminar Room 12)
Chair: Gavin Bailey, University of Stirling
Anna Brinkman-Schwartz, King’s College London, “Protecting Capital: Maritime Strategy and the Development of Anti-Slave Trade Treaties 1817-1865”
Giuseppe Paparella, University of Exeter, “Which ‘China Market’? Ideological Thinking, Scientific Racism, and the American Attitude Towards China in the late 19th Century"
Greg Kennedy, King’s College London, “The Washington Naval Conference, 1921-22: A Blue-Print for a Modern Sino-American Naval Disarmament Agreement?”
Panel 2B: Transatlantic Relations during World War II (Keynes, Seminar Room 13)
Chair: Victor Gavin Munte, University of Barcelona
Kelly Spring, George Washington University, “SPAM Goes to War: American Food Relief to the British Home Front during the Second World War”
Marta García Cabrera, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, “U.S. intelligence services in the Canary Islands during World War Two: information and espionage in the Mid-Atlantic”
Graham Cross, Manchester Metropolitan University, “The Eighth Air Force and the United States of America (Visiting Forces) Act 1942”
Panel 2C: La Science Française au Panama: Knowledge, Identity, and Republicanism during the “French Canal Era”, 1878-1914 – Panel II (Keynes, Seminar Room 11)
Chair: Rolando de la Guardia Wald, University of Panama
Jonathan Chávez, University of Panama, “History of Science and Technology”
Víctor Ortiz, University of Panama, “Cultural History and Identity”
Susana Luna, Independent Scholar, “Women’s History”
Panel 2D: Nineteenth Century Literature and Print Culture (Keynes, Seminar Room 14)
Chair: Frank Christianson, Brigham Young University
Lucy Whitehead, Cardiff University, “Gone West: British Literary Manuscripts and the American Archive, 1890–1963”
Madeline Parker, Indiana University, “John Bristed: An Overlooked Model of Transatlantic Idealism”
Emma Horst, Loyola University Chicago, “English Pre-Raphaelitism, European Aestheticism, and an American Künstlerroman: A Transatlantic Reading of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening”
Panel 2E: Latin America between the Great Powers (Keynes, Seminar Room 15)
Chair: Thomas Mills, Lancaster University
Dalton Michael Benson, University of Iowa, “Soft Power and Científicos: The Porfiriato on the World Stage”
Tony McCulloch, University College London, "Roca-Runciman Revisited: Anglo-American Relations and Argentina during the ‘Infamous Decade’, 1933-1943"
Jared Pack, University of Arkansas, "A Marriage of Convenience: Human Rights, National Security, and Anglo-American Policy in the Southern Cone"
Michael Powers, Angelo State University, “Titans of Corruption: Politics, Corporations, and Vice in the Atlantic World”
Panel 2F: Transatlantic Alliances and US Interventionism (Keynes, Seminar Room 16)
Chair: Alison Holmes, Cal Poly Humboldt
Matthew Hill, Liverpool John Moores University, "The power of democracy promotion to explain and legitimise US foreign policy: the Obama administration"
Thomas Stelzl, University of Passau, "German-American Divergence as a Cultural Phenomenon: Reasoning Decisions about War and Peace in Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), and Ukraine (2022)"
Frédéric Heurtebize, Université Paris Nanterre, “A City in the Middle of a Plain? Donald Trump and American Exceptionalism”
Michele Testoni, IE University, “Breaking up the consensus? The ‘transatlantic turn’ of the Spanish neoconservative government (2000-2004)”
Coffee break: 3.00-3.30pm (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
Panel session 3: 3.30-5.00pm
Panel 3A: The West Siberian Pipeline Crisis – 40 years on (Keynes, Seminar Room 12)
Chair: Effie G. H. Pedaliu, LSE IDEAS
Rachel Utley, University of Leeds, “‘In every good marriage, at times there’s talk of divorce…’”
Armin Grünbacher, University of Birmingham, “West Germany, CoCom and the West Siberian Pipeline Crisis”
Richard Smith, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, “‘A lesson in how not to conduct alliance business’: Britain and the West Siberian Pipeline dispute”
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, University of Athens, “Innocent Bystander? NATO and the West Siberian Pipeline Crisis”
Panel 3B: US Foreign Policy in a Transatlantic Context: From Bush to Biden (Keynes, Seminar Room 13)
Chair: Tony McCulloch, University College London
Ben Clements, University of Leicester, “From Bush to Biden: British public opinion towards UK-US relations in the 21st Century”
Lucrezia Luci, University for Foreigners of Perugia, “Historical Responsibility and Deviant Analogies in International Politics: The Case of the Transatlantic Rift”
Panel 3C: Democracy, Human Rights, and Transatlantic Coalition-Building (Keynes, Seminar Room 14)
Chair: Matt Hill, Liverpool John Moores University
Joe Renouard, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, “Human Rights in the Age of Decoupling: Building a Common Transatlantic Approach to China”
Rasmus Søndergaard, Danish Institute for International Studies, “‘Toward a Community of Democracies:’ Visions for Democratic Unity in the late Cold War”
Umberto Tulli, University of Trento, “A More Democratic Community?: Assessing the EU Copenhagen Criteria from a Transatlantic Perspective”
Panel 3D: Transatlantic Peace-making at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Keynes, Seminar Room 11)
Chair: Ashley Cox, SOAS, University of London
Neil Suchak, University of Oxford, “An ‘Auspicious Harbinger of Peace.’ Waging peace in the wake of the 1895-6 Venezuela Crisis”
Dan Larsen, University of Cambridge, “What Kind of Peace? American Peace Diplomacy, Germany, and Great Britain in Late 1916”
Michael Clinton, Gwynedd Mercy University, “The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace & the Interparliamentary Union, 1912–1919”
Olga Koulisis, Murray State University, “Educating a Nation of Leagues: Banker Public Efforts to Normalize Transatlantic Cooperation within the United States, 1918-1924”
Panel 3E: Alliance Politics and the War in Ukraine (Keynes, Seminar Room 15)
Chair: David Mayers, Boston University
David Ryan, University College Cork, "‘Ukraine and the Incoherence of US foreign policy: pluralism, universalism and spheres of influence"
Luca Ratti, University of Rome 3, "NATO’s response to the Ukrainian conflict: a neoclassical realist analysis"
Patricia Daehnhardt, NOVA University Lisbon, “The role of Germany in transatlantic security and the war in Ukraine”
Panel 3F: NATO, the EU and the decline of MENA: Geopolitics, Great Powers competition and Hybrid Threats (Keynes, Seminar Room 11)
Chair: David Garcia Cantalapiedra, Complutense University of Madrid
David Garcia Cantalapiedra, Complutense University of Madrid, "‘Hybridization’ vs. Hybrid Threats: Western debate and impact in the Greater Maghreb”
Raquel Barras, University of Madrid, “The decline of MENA and the rise of the Greater Maghreb Regional Security Complex”
Plenary roundtable: 5.15pm-6.45pm (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
‘The Life and Work of Alan Dobson’
Chair: Gaynor Johnson
Participants: Gavin Bailey, Beverley Dobson, Chris Jespersen, Steve Marsh, David Ryan
Please join us to reflect upon and celebrate the life and work of TSA founding Chair, Alan Dobson.
WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2022
PANEL SESSION 4: 9.00am-10.30am
Panel 4A: Art as a Medium of Transatlantic Diplomacy for Native American Sovereignty in the Cold War (Keynes, Seminar Room 12)
Chair: David Stirrup
Mark Parker, University of Kent, "‘You Are On Indian Land’: Red Power Graffiti as Decolonial Diplomacy"
Gyorgy Toth, University of Stirling, “‘Buckskin Curtain’ Diplomacy: The Role of Art in the Transatlantic Alliance for American Indian Sovereignty of the Late Cold War"
Panel 4B: War and its Aftermath (Keynes, Seminar Room 13)
Chair: Graham Cross, Manchester Metropolitan University
Martin Griffin, University of Tennessee, “Under Pressure: The Stone Face, African-American Expats, and the War in Algeria”
Claire Demoulin, Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, “Reeducating German POWs Through Films: The Ambiguous Transatlantic Position of the Exiled Artists in the U.S”
Amanda Swain, University of Chicago, “Italy and the Affects of Affluence in Early Post-45 U.S. Literature”
María Luz Arroyo Vázquez, The National Distance Education University, “US-American Women War Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War”
Panel 4C: Race and Resistance in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Keynes, Seminar Room 14)
Chair: Finn Pollard, University of Lincoln
Winston Hill, Yale University, "Blaming ‘Turbulent Spirits’: Jamaica, New York, and the Imperial Narrative of Factiousness"
Dann J. Broyld, UMass Lowell, "North American Black Abolitionists of Transatlantic Thought, Travel, and Tact in the Decades Before the Civil War"
Charles Bradshaw, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, “‘An Ottoman Malta on the Coasts of America’: Secret Witnesses and ‘Algerine’ Conspiracy”
Panel 4D: The UK-US Special Nuclear Relationship, Panel I (Keynes, Seminar Room 11)
Chair: Marisa MacAuley, Brereton Bailey Solutions Ltd and Nick Ritchie, University of York
Rob Green, Royal Navy (retired), “The UK-US Special Nuclear Relationship”
Andy Stirling, University of Sussex, “Neglected crucial transatlantic and wider geopolitical civil/military nuclear entanglements”
Rob Forsyth, Royal Navy (retired), “A nuclear missile submariner’s view of the US-UK relationship”
Oliver Barton, London School of Economics, “‘No Special Privileges’? British Nuclear Forces, Transatlantic Relations, and the INF Negotiations, 1983”
Panel 4E: Commemorating Heroes and Villains in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Keynes, Seminar Room 15)
Chair: Gavin Bailey, University of Stirling
Anne Marie Martin, Catawba College, "Loyalty and Exile: The Political Use of Wartime Burial in the Revolutionary Atlantic"
Stephen Bowman and Gyorgy Toth, University of Stirling, "The Memory of John Paul Jones in Anglo-American Relations, 1900s-1970s"
Coffee break: 10.30-11.00am (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
Panel session 5: 11.00am-12.30pm
Panel 5A: The Transmission of Anglo-American Ideas (Keynes, Seminar Room 12)
Panel Convened by the late Alan Dobson
Chair: Robert Hendershot, Grand Rapids Community College
Steve Marsh, Cardiff University, “Anglo-American Relations: A Political Tradition of Special Relationship(s)”
Gavin Bailey, University of Stirling, "Burkean Peace Theory: Burke, the English School and the Special Relationship in International Relations"
David Ryan, University College Cork, “The US Postcolonial e/Empire: The Case of the Missing Upper Case”
Panel 5B: Constructing Canadian Identity from Abroad: The Impacts of Externality on Shaping our Understanding of Canada (Keynes, Seminar Room 13)
Chair: Richard Nimijean, Carleton University
Munroe Eagles, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, "Reflections from (the Very Near) Abroad – Being Canadian in the Canada/U.S. Borderlands"
Andrew C. Holman, Bridgewater State University, "Exile in America: Rendering Canadian History from the Margins"
Andrew Ives, Université de Caen Normandie, "Expatriate Scholarship in the Field of Canadian Studies: Gaining New Perspectives from a More Distant Vantage Point"
Steven Hayward, Colorado College, "‘Proving Canada’: A Canadian Writer in the American Academy”
Panel 5C: Indigenous and Diasporic Voices (Keynes, Seminar Room 14)
Chair: Kathryn Gray, University of Plymouth
Renae Watchman, McMaster University, “Trans-Atlantic Indigeneity: Fictionalized Indigenous Literary Presence in Europe”
Elena María Ortells Montón, Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, “Home and Identity Formation in 21st Century Nigerian American Women Fiction”
Zahra Tootonsab, McMaster University, “Tribalography: Exploring Indigeneity and Search for Community Through Indigenous Stories”
Neisha Young, Drexel University, “Anancy Stories: A Transatlantic Web of Connection and Resistance for the African Diaspora”
Panel 5D: The UK-US Special Nuclear Relationship, Panel II (Keynes, Seminar Room 15)
Chair: Henrietta Wilson
Geoffrey Chapman, King’s College London, “Sub-strategic Trident: Origins and Crisis Stability”
Suzanne Doyle, University of East Anglia, “US Nuclear Superiority, Non-Proliferation and the US-UK Nuclear Relationship”
Tim Street, Nuclear Information Service, “The UK-US nuclear nexus: insights from the Ainslie archive”
Panel 5E: Transatlantic Alliance Politics in the Middle East (Keynes, Seminar Room 11)
Chair: Michele Testoni, IE University
Barbara Zanchetta, King’s College London, "Shifting stance on the “out of area” issue: NATO and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan"
James Mckay, Royal Military College of Canada, “The Fall of Kabul and Transatlantic Relations”
Sotiris Rizas, Academy of Athens, "A Post-Cold War reconfiguration of Transatlantic Relations: Erdogan’s Turkey and US recalibration of defense arrangements in the Eastern Mediterranean"
Mark Meirowitz, Suny Maritime College, "Turkish-US Relations and Turkish-Russia Relations After the Ukraine/Russia Crisis – A Delicate Balancing Act for Turkey"
Lunch: 12.30-2.00pm (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
Early Career Workshop on academic publishing: 12.30pm-1.50pm, KSR12
Chair: Andrew Williams, University of St Andrews Participants: Richard Baggaley (McGill-Queens University Press), Jussi Hanhimäki (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies).
All early career scholars are encouraged to attend. Those with more experience to offer are welcome too!
TSA MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING: 12.55pm-1.55pm (Keynes, Seminar Room 11)
Panel session 6: 2.00pm-3.30pm
Panel 6A: (Re)shaping National Identity (Keynes, Seminar Room 11)
Chair: Robert Hendershot, Grand Rapids Community College
Kathryn Gray, University of Plymouth, “Literary Legacies of Puritanism: New Readings in a Transatlantic Paradigm”
Catherine Grech, Collège de Saint-Laurent, “Blind Spots: Representing Modern French History in Quebec”
Frank Christianson, Brigham Young University, “‘National in Character’: A New Departure for Cultural Nationalism in 1890s London”
Alejandro Batista, University of Seville, "‘Not Valid For Travel in Spain’: US and UK Poetry about the Non-Intervention Agreement"
Panel 6B: New Histories of the Friendly Invasion: Precedents, Impact and Legacies (Keynes, Seminar Room 13)
Chair: Tia Culley, Cardiff University
Graham Cross, Manchester Metropolitan University, "The Female Friendly Invasion: the American Women’s Army Corps in Britain during World War II"
Simon Topping, University of Plymouth, "‘If you can’t see the hills, it’s raining. If you can see the hills, it’s about to rain’: Keeping the American forces occupied in Northern Ireland during the Second World War"
Panel 6C: The UK-US Special Nuclear Relationship, Panel III (Keynes, Seminar Room 14)
Chair: Nick Richie, University of York
Richard Damms, Mississippi State University, “The Genesis and Early Development of the 1958 Anglo-American Mutual Defense Agreement”
David Cullen, Nuclear Information Service, “The UK’s New Nuclear Warhead”
Christopher Hill, University of South Wales, “The Special Relationship as a ‘New Nuclear Imperialism’: Anglo-American Relations, Operation Dominic and Kiritimati”
Dan Plesch, SOAS, University of London, “Trident: Strategic Dependence and Sovereignty”
Panel 6E: Personalities in the Transatlantic Relationship (Keynes, Seminar Room 16)
Chair: Ashley Cox, SOAS, University of London
Discussant: Matt Hill, Liverpool John Moores University
Sherif Ahmed Amin, SOAS, University of London, “The Impact of President Trump’s Personality on US Foreign Policy in Regard to the Special Relationship”
Jack Clayton, SOAS, University of London, “How did the personality of “no drama Obama” affect the transatlantic relationship?”
Martin Farr, University of Newcastle, “Johnsonism and transatlantic foreign policy, 2016-2022”
Coffee break: 3.30pm-4.00pm (Keynes Atrium / Teaching Foyers)
Panel session 7: 4.00pm-5.30pm
Panel 7A: Personalities and Politics in US-Germany Relations (Keynes, Seminar Room 12)
Chair: Chris Jespersen, University of North Georgia
Dirk Voss, St. Louis Community College, “The Discovery of Germany, 1796-1816: How five Harvard students started an American obsession"
Samuel Beroud, University of Geneva, “Western Europe’s Godfather? Helmut Schmidt, the rise of Modell Deutschland and US-German relations, 1974-1976”
Bradford Morith, Texas A&M University, “Go West!...But How?: Irmgard AdamSchwaetzer’s and Robert Zoellick’s Different Economic Policy Plans to Overcome a Divided Germany and Europe, 1988-1989”
Panel 7B: Energy, Commerce and Crisis Management in the Late Cold War (Keynes, Seminar Room 11)
Chair: Tony McCulloch, University College London
Candace Sobers, Carleton University, "Negotiating the Cosmopolitan-Communitarian Divide: Anticolonial Nationalists, Decolonization, and International Society"
Werner Lippert, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "Moralizing Diplomacy in East-West Relations: The Emergence of Transatlantic Divergences on Western Energy Policy under the Carter Administration"
Mattia Ravano, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, "The unexpected lead: Transatlantic relations and Cold War economics (1980-1985)"
Panel 7C: Political and Cultural Exchanges (Keynes, Seminar Room 13)
Chair: Finn Pollard, University of Lincoln
Rodrigo Lopez Martinez, University of Manchester, “Transatlantic Lacanianism: Literature and Psychoanalysis from Argentina to Post-Franco Spain”
Steven K. Brehe, University of North Georgia, “Is Dracula Anti-Semitic?”
Robert Howes, King’s College London, "Il Guarany: José de Alencar, Opera and Transatlantic Cultural Exchange"
Panel 7D: National and Supra-National Perspectives on NATO (Keynes, Seminar Room 14)
Chair: David Ryan, University College Cork
Joseph T. Jockel, St. Lawrence University and Joel J. Sokolsky, Royal Military College of Canada, "Canada in NATO, 1949-2019"
Marina Pérez de Arcos, University of Oxford, "Last In. First Out? How “remain” won Spain’s 1986 NATO referendum"
KEYNOTE LECTURE: 5.45PM-6.45PM (Keynes, Lecture Theatre 1)
Chair: Michele Testoni, IE University
Professor Mark Webber (University of Birmingham)
“NATO in a Tripolar World: Does the New Strategic Concept Deliver?”
CONFERENCE DINNER: CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL LODGE, Coach departs from University of Kent campus at 7.00PM
CONFERENCE CLOSE
CONFERENCE ORGANISERS
TSA MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Thomas Mills, Lancaster University (Chair)
Kristin Cook, SOAS University of London (Vice-Chair)
Michele Testoni, IE University, Madrid (Secretary)
Finn Pollard, University of Lincoln (Treasurer)
Gavin Bailey, University of Stirling
David Clinton, Baylor University
Tony Jackson, University of Dundee
Gaynor Johnson, University of Kent
Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia
Werner Lippert, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Mark Meirowitz, SUNY Maritime College Constance Post, Iowa State University
Luca Ratti, University of Rome 3
Priscilla Roberts, City University of Macau
David Ryan, University College Cork
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME SUB-COMMITTEE
Thomas Mills, University of Lancaster (Co-Chair)
Kristin Cook, SOAS University of London (Co-Chair)
Robert Howes, King’s College, London
Gaynor Johnson, University of Kent
Kathryn Gray, University of Plymouth
Chris Jespersen, University of North Georgia
Tony McCulloch, University College London
Finn Pollard, University of Lincoln
Joe Renouard, Johns Hopkins Universi
ty SAIS
David Ryan, University College Cork
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME ADMINISTRATOR
Harriet Fletcher, Lancaster University
