The 69th annual meeting of the New York State Association of European Historians will be held at SUNY Canton on October 4-5, 2019. SUNY Canton is located in scenic upstate New York, about 90 minutes from Ottawa and about two hours from both Syracuse and Montreal.
The NYSAEH is a regional historical association that welcomes innovative ideas and presentations. Our members are drawn from across the United States, Canada, and Europe. The annual meeting is a collegial setting for the presentation of works-in-progress and we strive to create a welcoming environment for all scholars, including graduate students and independent scholars.
Conference Registration
Follow this link to access the conference registration form.
Conference Accommodation
The NYSAEH has reserved a block of rooms at the Fairfield Inn & Suites, Canton, at a special conference rate of $169/night. Reserve online by September 15, 2019, in order to secure this rate.
Conference Program
A copy of the conference program is also available to download from this link in .pdf format.
FRIDAY, 4 OCTOBER
4:00-5:00 pm Board of Directors Meeting
5:00-6:00 pm Opening Reception
6:00-7:00 pm Dinner
7:00-8:30 pm James S. Valone Lecture, “Why Suffrage”
Carol Faulkner, Associate Dean and Professor of History, Syracuse University
SATURDAY, 5 OCTOBER
8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast and Welcome
9:00-10:30 Concurrent Sessions I
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Concurrent Sessions II
12:15-1:00 Lunch/Business Meeting
1:00-2:30 Concurrent Session III
CONCURRENT SESSIONS I (9:00-10:30 AM)
SESSION 1A: State Power and the Individual
Chair: Yvonne Seale, SUNY Geneseo
The Model City: Antagonistic Political Circumstances in the Greco-Roman City-State
Connor Becz, SUNY Albany
Imperial Upheaval: An Analysis of the Byzantine Emperors of the 11th century
Marven Corrielus, SUNY Albany
Solicitor Brown and His Boy: Love, Sex, and Scandal in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Averill Earls, Mercyhearst University
SESSION 1B: War, Espionage, and the Enemy
Chair: David Devereux, Canisius College
“More Savage than the Indians”: Europeans, European-Americans, and Amerindian Soldiers in Eighteenth Century North America
Nicholas M. Charnley, SUNY Albany
Examining The 1916 Canadian Parliament Building Fire
Heribert von Feilitzsch, Independent Scholar
Nineteenth-Century Colonialism on the Soviet Screen: Miklukho-Maklai as a Template for Transforming a Nazi Enemy into a Cold War Enemy
Bryan K. Herman, University at Albany
CONCURRENT SESSIONS II (10:45-12:15)
SESSION 2A: Early Modern Politics and Religion
CHAIR: Lyn Blanchfield, SUNY Oswego
From Conflict to Co-Existence: The Relations Between the English Settlers at Gravesend and Local Native Groups, 1643-1664
Eric Platt, St. Francis College
St. Thomas Aquinas in the Renaissance: Domenico de’ Domenichi’s ‘Oratio in laudem Sancti Thomae de Aquino”
Martin Ederer, SUNY Buffalo State
“Esteemed now to be a strange thing…”: Stuart Dynasticism, Scottish Patriotism, and the Chartering of Nova Scotia, 1621
Andrew Nichols, SUNY Buffalo State
SESSION 2B: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Empire
Chair: Mustafa Gokcek, Niagara University
Building the Empire: The Rise and Fall of Railway Construction in French Africa, 1879-1945
Tyson Luneau, University at Albany
British Air Bombing Policy, the Security of India and the World Disarmament Conference, 1932-1934
David K. Varey, Royal Military College of Canada
“Mixed with recent foreign blood”: The Harvard Irish Mission and scientific racism in the Free State, 1932-1936
Joe Cope, SUNY Geneseo
LUNCH and BUSINESS MEETING
CONCURRENT SESSIONS III (1:00 PM-2:30 PM)
SESSION 3A: Teaching Symposium–Inclusive, Active, and Experiential Learning in the Premodern Classroom
Chair: Yvonne Seale, SUNY Geneseo
Waging War in the Roman Empire: An Exercise in Problem Solving and Strategic Thinking Sarah C. Melville, Clarkson University
Cooking, Casting, and Creating: Experiential Learning in the Medieval Classroom Carolyn Twomey, St. Lawrence University
Bringing Medieval Cities to Life in the Modern Classroom Louisa A. Burnham, Middlebury College
SESSION 3B: The Spread of 20th-Century European Ideas In American Psychology
Chair: David Valone, Quinnipiac University
Imagining America: The Views of Late 19th and Early 20th Century European Middle-Class Intellectuals on American Culture and Society
Axel Fair-Schulz, State University of New York College at Potsdam
European Psychological Seeds Planted in America: Sigmund Freud and Carl G. Jung
at the 1909 Clark University Lectures and their Empire State Holiday
William E. Herman, Emeritus, State University of New York College at Potsdam
Pavlov’s Reflex to America: The Reality and Soviet Propaganda Views of Ivan Pavlov’s Visits to America
Bryan K. Herman, SUNY Albany
