Panel 1: Boosters and Consumers

Chair: Ernest May (Harvard University)

Volker Barth (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich)

The Twilight of Americanization: The United States at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867.

Commentary: Patrice Higonnet (Harvard University)

Aki Kalliomaki (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Utopia Envisioned: United States in the Imagination of the United Irishmen.

Commentary: Bernard Bailyn (Harvard University)

Scott Kleeb (Yale University)

'And such fortunes!' European Interests in the Nineteenth-Century American Cattle Trade.

Commentary: Fred Leventhal (Boston University)

Panel 2:

Chair: Frank Ninkovich (St. John's University)

Todd Cleveland (University of Minnesota)

An Inversing Current: The African-American Impact in Angola, 1880-1910.

Commentary: Jeanne Marie Penvenne (Tufts University)

Brendan Goff (University of Michigan)

The Heartland Abroad: The Civic Internationalism of Main Street in Havana, Cuba: 1914-1940.

Commentary: Jorge Dominguez (Harvard University)

Michael Kimmage (Harvard University)

Wolfgang Koeppen's Journey to America: The Marvel and the Melancholy of the American Example.

Commentary: Frank Ninkovich (St. John's University)

Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner

Keynote Address: Charles Maier (Harvard University)

Saturday, March 8

Panel 3: Backlash and Blowback

Chair: Akira Iriye (Harvard University)

Halbert Jones (Harvard University)

Mexican Views of the United States during World War II and Their Effect on National Policy.

Commentary: Seth Fein (Yale University)

Yuji Tosaka (The Ohio State University)

Resistance to Americanization? Hollywood and Film Import Controls in Japan, 1937-1941.

Commentary: Bruce Cummings (University of Chicago)

Kimberley Sims (Harvard University)

The Petrosino Affair: Immigration, the Black Hand, and International Crime-Fighting before World War I.

Commentary: Daniel Rodgers (Princeton University)

Panel 4: An Empire for Liberty?

Chair: Charles Maier (Harvard University)

Meghan Nealis (Cambridge University)

America in Indochina through British Eyes, 1957-1963: Perceptions and Reactions.

Commentary: Niall Ferguson (New York University)

Rosa Magnusdottir (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

'Long Live Free America!' The USA in the Mass-Consciousness of Ordinary Soviet Citizens after World War II.

Commentary: Terry Martin (Harvard University)

Martin Klimke (University of Heidelberg, Rutgers University)

'The Other Alliance': Transatlantic Relations of the German Student Movement of the 1960s.

Commentary: Charles Maier (Harvard University)

Plenary Session

Quo Vadis America?

Chair: Ernest May (Harvard University)

Sugata Bose
Harvard University

Niall Ferguson
New York University

Daniel Rodgers
Princeton University