The European History Section convenes at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, which is normally held in early November. There is ordinarily a European history session in each conference time slot. Other sessions devoted to the fields of British, American, Latin American, and public history bring together the mostrecent scholarship by historians in the South.
Recent locations for the annual meeting have included Birmingham, AL; Orlando,FL; New Orleans, LA; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Fort Worth, TX; Baltimore, MD.
At the annual meeting, the European History Section hosts a luncheon during which it conducts its annual Business Meeting followed by the Mathews-Weinberg Luncheon Address.
The Mathews-Weinberg Luncheon
Address is held annually at the conclusion of the Business Luncheon meeting.
Initially, the Joseph J. Mathews luncheon address was named after Professor
Joseph J. Mathews of Emory University, a longtime and active member of the
Section and a dedicated patron of the profession of history in the South. In
2003, the address was renamed for both Professors Mathews and Weinberg.
Professor Gerhard Weinberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
a longtime and active member of the Section and a dedicated patron of the
profession of history in the South, is Professor Emeritus of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he taught for twenty-five years. He holds
the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is a distinguished scholar of Nazi
Germany.
EUROPEAN HISTORY SECTION RECEPTION
On the Friday evening of the Annual Meeting, the Section holds a reception. In recent years, the reception has been hosted jointly by the Section and the Southern Conference of British Studies.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 2010 ANNUAL MEETING
The European History Section of the Southern Historical Association invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels for presentation at its annual meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 4-7, 2010.
Papers on any aspect of European history, covering any time period, are welcome. The program committee especially encourages proposals involving comparative history, such as Europe and the Americas, Europe and Britain, Europe and Africa, or Europe and Asia.
Panels should consist of two or three papers, a commentator, and a chair. Graduate students, as well as Faculty members, independent scholars and graduate students are welcome to submit individual papers or panels, although a panel should not consist exclusively of graduate students.
All papers read are eligible for the Amos E. Simpson award.
Submissions should include a one-page description of each paper and a short (1-2 page) c.v. of each panelist. Proposals are due by October 1, 2009.
Or mailed to: Wayne H. Bowen, Chair EHS Program Committee Department of History, MS2960 1 University Plaza Southeast Missouri State University Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
2009 Executive Committee Meeting: Thursday, November 5, at 4:30PM, Grandstand, in the Marriott Louisville Downtown Hotel.
2009 EHS RECEPTION IN LOUISVILLE, KY
The reception will be held at the University Club of the University of Louisville, on Friday, November 6, from 5:30 til 7:00 PM. From the Marriott Louisville Downtown Hotel, follow 3rd Street to Cardinal Boulevard and turn right at the sign that says "Belknap Campus North Entrance". Follow First Street to the stop sigh, then turn left onto Brandeis Avenue. The University Club is at the end of Brandeis Avenue and the parking lot is on the left of the building. The distance is appr. 2.7 miles. Contact James Tent or Katharine Kennedy to arrange for transportation.
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2009 PROGRAM - NOVEMBER 5-8 IN LOUISVILLE, KY
Friday, November 6: 9:30–11:30 A.M. Paddock
9. NEO-CLASSICAL ATTITUDES AND LIBERAL VALUES:
LAFAYETTE AND THE TRANSATLANTIC REVOLUTIONARY
ERA
PRESIDING: Stephen D. Carls, Union University
Lafayette’s Early Years: Wunderkind, Wanderlust and Gloire
June Burton, University of Akron, Emeritus
Lafayette’s Other Tours: America, 1784 and France, 1829
Robert Rhodes Crout, The Lafayette Papers Project
The South and Lafayette’s Triumphal American Tour, 1824–1825
Neal Polhemus, South Carolina Historical Society
COMMENTS: Jordan Kelleman, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Friday, November 6: 9:30–11:30 A.M. Grandstand
10. NAZI ATROCITIES COMMITTED, RESISTED, AND REMEMBERED
PRESIDING: Nancy Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University
“The population...shouted that one would rather be shot instead of being
left to starve”: Food and German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union
Jeff Rutherford, Wheeling Jesuit University
Adding to the Ranks of the Resistance Movement against Hitler? German
Émigrés in the U.S. Army during World War II
Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University
Exhumation at Seelhorst Cemetery: “Coming to Terms” with the Past Amidst
Catastrophe in Hanover, 1945–1948
Alex d’Erizans, Borough of Manhattan Community College
COMMENTS: Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Emeritus
Friday, November 6: 2:30–4:30 P.M. Paddock
24. FILM, HISTORY, AND THE POLITICS OF PERCEPTION
PRESIDING: Alice-Catherine Carls, University of Tennessee, Martin
What’s So Funny About Rabbi Jacob? Situating Gerard Oury’s Cult Classic
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Michael Mulvey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Post-Troubles Comedies: How Conflict in Northern Ireland Became Funny:
Political Paradigm Shifts and Filmmaker’s Reactions
Andreas Huether, University of Freiburg
Primitivism in French Fascist Film Reception
Jared Bjornholm, Boston College
COMMENTS: Richard Voeltz, Cameron University
Friday, November 6: 2:30–4:30 P.M. Grandstand
25. FEEDING BODY AND SOUL: MEDICINE AND MAGIC IN
EUROPEAN HISTORY
PRESIDING: Frederick Baumgartner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
Freaks and Monsters? The Abnormal Body in Later Medieval Medicine
Kira Robinson, University of Minnesota
The Charlatan’s Tome: “True” and “False” Magic in a Fifteenth-Century
Venetian Manuscript
Michael A. Ryan, Purdue University
Food Adulteration and Claims of Medical Expertise in Nineteenth-Century
Britain
Erin J. Shelor, Millersville University
COMMENTS: Louis Haas, Middle Tennessee State University
Saturday, November 7: 9:30–11:30 A.M. Paddock
37. THE OTHER AS SUBJECT: TEACHING WOMEN’S HISTORY
FROM SURVEY TO SEMINAR
PRESIDING: Mary S. Hoffschwelle, Middle Tennessee State University
American Women’s History
Jan Leone, Middle Tennessee State University
Nancy Theriot, University of Louisville
Melinda Johnson Lickiss, University of Kentucky
European Women’s History
Ann Allen, University of Louisville
Karen Petrone, University of Kentucky
Nancy Rupprecht, Middle Tennessee State University
Saturday, November 7: 9:30–11:30 A.M. Grandstand
38. REMEMBERING AND MEMORIALIZING TRAUMATIC
EVENTS
PRESIDING: Wayne Bowen, Southeast Missouri State University
Evaluating the Recent Enemy: American Diplomatic Reports Concerning
Spain after the Spanish-American War, 1898–1902
Eric Jarvis, King’s University College
Motion and Sound: Investigating the New Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center
Wendy Koenig, North Central College
Memories of Conflicts: (De)Conflicting Memories? Exhibiting the 1798
Rebellion in Ireland, North and South in 1998
Thomas Cauvin, European University Institute, Florence
COMMENTS: James C. Albisetti, University of Kentucky
Saturday, November 7: Noon Kentucky F
EUROPEAN HISTORY SECTION LUNCHEON
Presiding: James Tent, University of Alabama, Birmingham
"Will No One Rid Me of this Troublesome Pope?" The Discontents of Napoleon's Roman Reverie -- Susan V. Nicassio, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Saturday, November 7: 2:30–4:30 P.M. Paddock
52. WAR, REVOLUTION, IMPERIALISM, AND THE LAW
PRESIDING: Matthew Stanard, Berry College
Barbarians at the Gates? Law and the Seizure of the Kshesinskai Mansion,
1917
Krista Sigler, University of Cincinnati
Legal War Mongering? The British Anti-War Rhetoric of the South
African War, 18991902
Jodie Mader, Thomas More College
Torture, Homosexuality, and Masculinities in French Central Africa:
The Faucher-d’Alexis Affair of 1884
Jeremy Rich, Middle Tennessee State University
COMMENTS: Steven Reinhardt, University of Texas, Arlington
Sunday, November 8: 9:00 –11:00 A.M. Paddock
62. THE UNITED STATES, EUROPE, AND THE POST-WAR
WORLD IN TRANSITION
PRESIDING: Susan Carrafiello, Wright State University
Cold-War Anti-Communism in Italy (19451956): National Features
and International Perspectives
Andrea Mariuzzo, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Yugoslav Labor Migration and Its Effects on Yugoslavia, 19651980
Brigitte Le Normand, Indiana University Southeast
American Post-War Cultural Policy and Generalissimo Franco’s Vision
of Iberian Painting
Carmen De Michele, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
