All events are free and open to the public (with on-site registration) and will be held at the OSU Memorial Union.
The schedule for the conference is still being finalized, but will roughly look like this (please check back often for updates):
Thursday May 12Scholars arrive at Oregon State University. Check-in and an informal dinner for those in town.
Friday May 139:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Coffee and Opening Remarks Christopher Nichols, Andrew Preston, Elizabeth Borgwardt
Session I. 9:30 a.m - 12:00 p.m. - Panel Discussions Moderated by Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University "Extending the Sphere: A Federalist Grand Strategy” - Charles Edel, U.S. Naval War College “Grand Master Strategies: From Antebellum through Civil War” - Matt Karp, Princeton University 10:30 a.m. – Coffee Break (10-15 minutes) “More Fox, Better Hedgehog: Grand Strategy and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1865-1918” - Katherine Epstein, Rutgers University-Camden “Grand Strategies (or Ascendant Ideas) since 1919” - David Milne, University of East Anglia 12:00 p.m - 1:00 p.m. - Lunch Break
Session II. 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Panel Discussions Moderated by Andrew Preston, Cambridge University “Foreign Missions and Strategy, Foreign Missions as Strategy: Christian Internationalism and China” - Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University “The Meaning of WWII: The View from the Ground” - Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, University of Iowa 2:45 p.m. - Coffee Break (10-15 minutes) “How War Became a Policy Option” - Mary Dudziak, Emory University “Grand Strategy and the Problem of Race” - Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University “Rival Visions of Nationhood: Immigration Policy, Grand Strategy, and Contentious Politics” - Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Dinner Break "American Grand Strategy: How Grand Has It Been? How Much Does It Matter?" Presented by Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University Memorial Union, Horizon Room Book signing to follow the keynote talk
Saturday May 14
Session IV. 9:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m. - Panel Discussions Moderated by Andrew Preston, Cambridge University “American Internationalists and the Crucible of WWI” - Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University “Human Rights and the Roosevelts” - Elizabeth Borgwardt, Washington University at St. Louis 10:30 a.m. – Coffee Break (10-15 minutes) “Strategy and Bigotry: Realism, Containment, and the Undemocratic Soul of George Frost Kennan” - David Greenberg, Rutgers University-New Brunswick “Implementing Grand Strategy: The Nixon-Kissinger Revolution at the National Security Council”- William Inboden, University of Texas-Austin "George H.W. Bush: Strategy and the Stream of History” - Jeffrey Engel, Southern Methodist University 12:00 p.m - 1:00 p.m. - Lunch Break
Session V. 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Panel Discussions Moderated by Elizabeth Borgwardt, Washington University at St. Louis “Turning the Tide: The Application of Grand Strategy to Global Health” - Elizabeth H. Bradley, Yale University, with Lauren A. Taylor, Harvard Business School “Disastrous Grand Strategy: Foreign Assistance and Catastrophic Humanitarianism” - Julia F. Irwin, University of South Florida 2:45 p.m. - Coffee Break (10-15 minutes) “Denizens of a Center: Law as American Grand Strategy” - Ryan Irwin, SUNY-Albany “Getting Grand Strategy Right: Clearing Away Common Fallacies in the Grand Strategy Debate” - Hal Brands, Duke University “Grand Strategy: An American Power Politics” - Stephen Wertheim, Princeton University and Cambridge University 4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Concluding Thoughts, Overall Themes 6:00 p.m. - Private Dinner & Reception (Invited Conference Participants only) Sunday May 15Conference participants disperse 9:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m. - Breakfast, Post-Conference Debriefing (Invited Conference Participants only) Monday May 16
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Panel Discussion Oregon Historical Society (1200 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR), co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council |
The Horizon Room
The Council Room
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