Preliminary Conference Program Schedule

Friday March 12, 2004





4:00 - 6:00pm

Arrival and registration: Hancock Conference Center


6:00 - 7:00pm

Reception: Rotunda, 2nd floor
Sponsored by the McGraw-Hill Companies, publishers of world history


Evening

Dine on your own in Boston




Saturday March 13, 2004



8:00 - 10:00am

Session 1: New Research in World History

Room B: (Panel)
Migration in Global, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives:
Recent Research and Making It Work in a Dissertation

Chair: Roger Beck, Eastern Illinois University

Panelists
  • Tiffany Trimmer, Northeastern University
    "Can Migrant Networks Work in Reverse? Testing the Limits, and Logic, of Interdisciplinary Migration Theories"
  • Anne Chao, Rice University
    "Chinese-American Immigration History through Literature"
  • Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern University
    ""Migration Networks, Radicalism, and Globalization: Syrians and Italians in Egypt, 1880-1914"
Room C: (Panel)
Imperialism In World History: Frameworks of Analysis and the Nature of Empire

Chair: Marc Jason Gilbert, North Georgia College and State University

Panelists
  • Jeremy Neill, Northeastern University
    "Sir, We can Fight Well, But we do not Understand Military Arrangements."
  • Lia Paradis, Rutgers University
    "Bringing it All Back Home: the Project of Return for the Anglo- Sudanese, 1940-1965"
  • Joshua Weiner, Northeastern University
    "1571: A Global Imperial History. Action and Interaction in the Spanish Empire"
  • Marc Jason Gilbert, North Georgia State College and State University
    "Florence Nightingale and the Fallacy of Liberal Imperialism"
Room H: (Panel)
Ideas and Intellectuals

Chair: Gale Stokes, Rice University

Panelists
  • Mary Jane Maxwell, Washington State University
    "In the Midst of the Faiths: Afanasii Nikitin in the Fifteenth Century Dar al-Islam"
  • Yinghong Cheng, Delaware State University
    "The Beijing-Moscow-Havana Triangle and the Chinese Influence in the Cuban Revolution (1959 to 1966):
    In the Eyes of Chinese Diplomats"

  • Caroline Biltoft, Princeton University
    "Reversing the Curse of Babel? International Language Movements and Inter-War Chasms"
Room L: (Panel)
Visuality in World History

Chair: Kevin Reilly, Raritan Valley Community College

Panelists
  • Ralph Croizier, University of Victoria
    "World Art and World History"
  • Kathleen Kimball, Union Institute and University
    "Red Handed"
  • Paula Lupkin, Washington University in St. Louis
    "Building up World History: The Role of Architecture in Cross-cultural Exchange"
Room P: (Panel)
Interdisciplinary Research and World History

Chair: Kent Gang Deng, London School of Economics

Panelists
  • George Dehner, Northeastern University
    "Examining the Swine Flu Program through Scientific and Medical Literature"
  • Pascal Goeke, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies - IMIS
    "(Id)entities and (B)orders - The notion of hybridity and strategies of transnational migrants between Nuremberg and the Balkans"
  • Chris Harris, Northeastern University
    "The Road Less Traveled By: Analyzing Rural Vermont using a Cross Disciplinary Perspective"
  • Caroline Reeves, Williams College
    "Reclaiming IO: Interdisciplinary approaches to International Organizations"


10:00 - 10:30am

Break: Foyer and Atrium, 3rd Floor


10:30 - 12:30

Session 2: Programs of Graduate Education in World History
Room P: (Roundtable)
Graduate Programs

Chair: Adam McKeown, Columbia University

Panelists
  • Stephen Rapp, Georgia State University
  • Edmund Burke III, University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Zhang Weiwei, Nankai University
  • R. Bin Wong, Univeristy of California, Irvine
  • Stacy Tweedy, Northeastern University
Room L: (Roundtable)
Environmental World History

Chair: Anthony N. Penna, Northeastern University

Panelists
  • Paul Adams, Shippensburg University
  • Mark Cioc, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • David Christian, San Diego State University
  • John F. Richards, Duke University
Room B: (Roundtable)
Who Needs World Historians? Graduate Education and the Job Market in Higher Education

Chair: David Northrup, Boston College

Panelists
  • H. Parker James, World History Center, Northeastern University
  • Jerry Bentley, University of Hawaii
  • Harvey Green, Northeastern University
  • Robert Townsend, American Historical Association


12:30 - 1:30pm

Lunch: John Hancock Room, 2nd floor

Speaker: Andreas Aase, Agder University College
"Teaching World History: A Norwegian Perspective"


1:30 - 3:30pm

Session 3: Professional Development
Room B: (Roundtable)
Professional Development for Pre-Service Teachers

Chair: Ken Curtis, California State University, Long Beach

Panelists
  • Ross Dunn, San Diego State University
  • Tim Keirn, California State University, Long Beach
  • Laura Ryan, Grossmont College
Room L: (Roundtable)
Boston World History Symposium: A Model of Collaboration

Chair: James Diskant, World History Center, Northeastern University

Panelists
  • Kathleen Ennis, Primary Source
  • Kathleen Woods Masalski, Five Colleges Center for Asian Studies
  • Pamela Kachurin, Harvard University
  • Barbara Petzen, Harvard University
Room P: (Roundtable)
Professional Development (In-Service) for World History

Chair: Linda Black, Texas A&M University

Panelists
  • Alan Karras, University of California at Berkeley
  • Anand Yang, University of Washington
  • Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Room C: (Roundtable)
Making the Move from Regional History to World History

Chair: Howard Spodek, Temple University

Panelists
  • Ane Lintvedt, McDonogh School
  • Carter Findley, Ohio State University
  • Lynn Lees, University of Pennsylvania
  • Jacky Swansinger, State University of New York at Fredonia
  • John Bohstedt and Julie Sass, University of Tennessee at Knoxville



3:30 - 4:30pm

Informal "Breakout" Sessions:

(Refreshments available in Foyer and Atrium)



4:30 - 6:00pm

Plenary Address
Robert E. Perry Room (Room P), 3rd floor

Patrick Manning, Director, World History Center

"Concepts and Institutions for World History: The Next Ten Years"



6:00 - 7:00pm

Reception (Book Party): Fpyer & Atrium, 3rd floor
Sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan Publishers



7:00 - 8:30pm

Dinner: John Hancock Room, 2nd floor

Speaker: Monty Armstrong, Cerritos High School
"Teachers Discuss Teaching: The AP-World Discussion List"
Sponsored by the McGraw-Hill Companies, publishers of world history




Sunday March 14, 2004



8:30 - 10:30am

Session 6: Institutions Supporting World History
Room H: (Roundtable)
Possibilities for Research Funding in an Innovative Field of Study

This session has been cancelled.
Invitations to address this topic were sent to seven major governmental and private institutions of research funding.  All declined or failed to respond.  A "breakout" session on this topic will be held Sunday.
Room C: (Roundtable)
Prospects for Publication in World History: Monographs and Textbooks

Chair: Robin Kilson, Northeastern University

Panelists
  • Lewis Bateman, Cambridge University Press
  • Lyn Uhl, McGraw-Hill
  • Clark Baxter, Wadsworth Publishers
  • Markus Wiener, Markus Wiener Publishers
  • Peter Coveney, Oxford University Press
Room B: (Roundtable)
Standards, Textbooks and Teacher Training Issues for Middle and High School

Chair: Shabbir Mansuri, Council on Islamic Education

Panelists
  • Susan Douglass, Council on Islamic Education
  • Munir Shaikh, Council on Islamic Education
  • Karima Alavi, Dar al Islam Teacher Institutes, Abiquiu, NM
Room P: (Panel)
World Historians, Education, and Politics

Chair: David Kalivas, Middlesex Community College

Panelists
  • Barbara Brown, Boston University
    "US Politics and the Future of World History"
  • Robert Mitchell, San Fernando Senior High School
    "Working With and Against the State"
  • Peter Gran, Temple University
    "World History Teachers and the LAUSD"
Room L: (Panel)
Transnational Connections in World History

Chair: Candice Goucher, University of Washington, Vancouver

Panelists
  • Charlotte Karungi, Makerere University and University of Cape Town
    "The Future of History: Challenges of Teaching and Professional Development in History"
  • Frank Hadler, GWZO at University of Leipzig
    "World History in Eastern Europe"
  • Mathias Middell, European Network in Universal and Global History
    "World History in Western Europe"
  • Emrah Sahin, Bilkent University
    "We Too Can and Should Research and Teach World History: Reflections on the Scrutiny of World History in the Near East"
  • Chen Zhiqiang and Zhang Zhilian, Nankai University and Beijing University
    "Global Discussions on the AP World List"


10:30 - 11:00am

Break: Foyer and Atrium, 3rd Floor


11:00 - 1:00

Session 7: Links between Research and Teaching
Room L: (Panel)
The Frontiers of the Dar-al-Islam: Islamic History as Borderlands History

Chair: Erik Gilbert, Arkansas State University

Panelists
  • David Atwill, Penn State University
  • Michael Feener, University of California at Riverside
  • Erik Gilbert, Arkansas State University
  • Jonathan Reynolds, Northern Kentucky
Room P: (Panel)
Re-imagining World History Teaching Using Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Chair: Robert Strayer, SUNY Brockport, emeritus

Panelists
  • Robert Bain, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    "Re-imagining the Role of Scholarship for Teachers of World History"
  • Mimi Lee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    "Re-imagining the Textbook as a Secondary Source: Exploring the Possibilities in New Genres of Historical Writing to Promote Historical Inquiry"
  • T. Mills Kelly, George Mason University
    "Re-imagining the Role of Technology in Teaching World History"
Room H: (Roundtable)
Bridging the Gap between Research and Teaching:
A Roundtable on World History Connected: the Ejournal of Teaching and Learning

Chair: Despina Danos, Educational Testing Service

Panelists
  • Heidi Roupp, World History Center
  • Heather Streets, Washington State University
  • Timothy Weston, University of Colorado of Boulder
Room C: (Panel)
The Relevance of Globalization to the Field of World History

Chair: Geoffroy de Laforcade, Blackburn College

Panelists
  • Eric Martin, Lewis-Clark State College
    "Anti-imperialism and Globalization"
  • Jeff Sommers, North Georgia College and State University
    "The Empire Strikes Back!"
  • Aviva Chomsky, Salem State College
    "Labor, Violence, and Colombia."
Room B: (Roundtable)
Women in World History One: Linking Research and Teaching

Chair: Dorothea Martin, Appalachian State University

Panelists
  • Catherine Clay, Shippensburg University
  • Chandrika Paul, Shippensburg University
  • Christine Senecal, Shippensburg University


1:00 - 2:00pm

Lunch: Rotunda and Carver Room, 2nd floor

Speaker: Charles Hedrick, University of California at Santa Cruz
"The Ethics of World History"


2:00 - 3:00pm

Informal "Breakout" Sessions

(Refreshments available in Foyer and Atrium)


3:00 - 5:00pm

Session 9: Teaching in World History
Room B: (Panel)
World History in the Real World: Teaching in the Trenches

Chair: Michelle DenBeste, California State University, Fresno

Panelists
  • Melissa Jordine, California State University, Fresno
    "Differing Perspectives: Teaching World History at State Schools"
  • Maritere Lopez, California State University , Fresno
    "Meeting the Digital Initiative: Teaching World History On-line"
  • Lori Clune, California State University, Fresno
    "World History Standards: Problems and Possibilities of Teacher Preparation"
Room L: (Panel)
Adding a Zero: Increasing the World History Survey from 40 to 400

Chair: Gary Bailey, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"Preserving World History Surveys in the Context of Diminished Resources"

Panelists
  • Caleb Finegan, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    "Active Learning Strategies for Large World History Surveys"
  • R. Scott Moore, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    "The Benefits of Technology in a Large World History Survey"
  • Elizabeth Ricketts, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    "Team Teaching World History"
Room C: (Panel)
Teaching The Human Drama

Chair:Matthew Jacobs, University of Florida

Panelists
  • Patience Berkman, Newton Country Day School, Newton, MA
  • Karen Jernigan, Friends Seminary, New York City
  • Benjamin Leeming, The Rivers School, Weston, MA
  • Donald and Jean Johnson, New York University and the Asia Society
Room P: (Panel)
Teaching Migration

Chair: Jeremy Prestholdt, Northeastern University

Panelists
  • Sabine Liebig, University of Hannover
    "The Transatlantic University Seminar"
  • Kerry Ward, Rice University
    "Linking research and teaching on forced migration in world history"
  • Deborah Smith Johnston, Lexington High School
    "Teaching Migration in World History"