America and the world in the sixties. Multidisciplinary perspectives on american foreign relations during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations (1961-1969)

 
9h00-9h15_    Welcoming of participants

9h15-9h30_    Opening remarks

9h30-10h15_  KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Pierre Asselin, San Diego State University
Title: "Global Vietnam: How Hanoi internationalized –and won– the American War"
Introduction by Lori Maguire, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

10h15-12h15_ PANEL 1 - “Unrealized power:” The Vietnam War
Moderator: Alexandra Boudet-Brugal, UVSQ
    •    Ted Hammett (author) & David Starr (CMT) – "Harvard's Vietnam: 'The Choices We Made'"
    •    Lori Maguire (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne) – “Perceiving North Vietnam: The Kennedy Administration Looks at the Democratic Republic of Vietnam”
    •    Stephen Whitfield (Brandeis University) – “John P. Roche’s Vietnam War”
    •    Luke Stewart (CY Cergy Paris Université) – "The Paranoid Style of Lyndon Johnson: The President, the National Security State and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement"

12h15-13h30_ LUNCH (room 524, Vauban building, 5th floor)

13h30-15h00_ PANEL 2 - Great power competition: America and friends
Moderator: Sandrine Ferré-Rode (UVSQ)
    •    Adrien Rodd (UVSQ) – “New Zealand's interests and priorities as a US ally in the 1960s”
    •    Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh)– "Bipolarity and the International Political System: Theoretical Influences and the Direction and Exercise of Canadian Foreign Policy in the 1960s."
    •    Davide Sili (Università Roma Tre) – "Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and Green Diplomacy during the Kennedy Presidency"

15h00-15h15_  Coffee break

15h15-16h45_  PANEL 3 - Public & Cultural diplomacy
Moderator: Darius Wainwright (University of Bristol)
    •    Manuel Dorion-Soulié (Ecole Polytechnique IP Paris): – "Car Culture and American Soft Power in 1960s France"
    •    Laura MacDonald (Michigan State University) – “Unlikely ambassadors: American student USO musical theatre tours in Asia in the 1960s”
    •    Vincent Chenille (UVSQ) – “1965-1966: the wave of the American audiovisual spy series”
 
9h00-9h15_     Welcoming of participants

9h15-10h00_   KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Pierre MELANDRI, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
Title: « Une amitié ombrageuse : la France et les Etats-Unis de 1961 à 1969 »
Introduction by Stephen Whitfield (Brandeis University)

10h00-11h30_  PANEL 4 - Expanding influence (1): The United States and Africa
Moderator: Taoufik Djebali (Université de Caen Normandie)
    •    Babere K. Chacha (Laikipia University) – “J. F. Kennedy and the Tom Mboya airlifts and the Making of Kenya-US bilateral Relations in the 1960s”
    •    Ray Arsenault (University of South Florida) – “The evolution of American foreign policy: Africa as a Cold War battleground”
    •    Rev. Fr. Dr Peterson Kabugi (Laikipia University) – “Diplomatic Dissonance: Jomo Kenyatta, the Congo crisis, and US-Kenya relations in the Cold War Era”

11h30-13h00_  LUNCH (Room 524 – Vauban building, 5th floor)

13h00-14h30_  PANEL 5 - Expanding influence (2): The United States and the Middle East
Moderator: Christopher Kirkey (SUNY)
    •    David Painter (Georgetown University) – “Oil and the Six-Day War: An International History”
    •    Taoufik Djebali (Université de Caen Normandie) – “An Unexpected Ally: John F. Kennedy and the Independence of Algeria and Tunisia”
    •    Darius Wainwright (University of Bristol) – “Taking the American Cultural Cold War to the Middle East: New York City and the 1964-1965 World’s Fair”

14h30-14h45_  Closing remarks

15h00_             Departure for Versailles by public transit bus

16h00-18h00_   Guided tour of Ancien Hôtel de la Marine et des Affaires Etrangères, Bibliothèque Municipale, rue de l’Indépendance américaine, 78000 Versailles
 

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