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"Exploring War and Conflict Through Oral History"Spring 2009 Oral History ConferenceThursday, April 30, 2009 & Friday, May 1,
Sponsored by Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region & the Veterans History Project,
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| Thursday, April 30, 2009 | |
| 2:30pm - 4:30pm | Tour of the new |
OHMAR conference participants interested in taking a tour of the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) Exhibition Hall should plan on arriving at the CVC on Thursday, April 30, by 2:15. Please go to the main entrance of the CVC on the East Front Plaza, First Street SE. After going through security, please check coats, umbrellas, bags, etc., and proceed downstairs to the plaster model of the statue of Freedom that is in front of the Exhibition Hall; this is where the tour will begin. |
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| 2:30pm - 4:30pm | Tour of the Veterans History Project |
The overview of the Veterans History Project (VHP) will begin in the library's Madison Building at 2:30. Enter the Madison Building through the Independence Avenue Entrance, pass through security, then, take an immediate right.
The VHP office is at the end of the corridor in Room LM 109. Look for the large VHP sign. For more information on entry procedures, please visit the Library of Congress' visitors website: http://www.loc.gov/visit/arrive.html |
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| 5:00pm - 7:00pm | OHMAR Reception Bullfeathers of Capitol Hill 4 |
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| 8:30am - 9:15am | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| Room: LJ 119 | |
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| 9:15am - 9:30am | Opening Remarks |
| Room: LJ 119 | |
| 9:30am - 11:15am | First Conference Session |
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| Panel 1 |
Issues of Collective Memory & Identity in the Second World War |
| Room Location: LJ 119 | |
| "Oral History and Legend: Veterans' Memories of Axis Sally and |
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"From Horseback to Helicopter during World War II: Memories from Troopers of the 112th Cavalry, Texas National Guard." - Glenn Johnston, Public History Faculty, Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD. |
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| Moderator: Kathleen Johnson, Office of History and Preservation, House of Representative | |
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| Panel 2 | Patriot Games: Issues of Equality and Race in Wartime Service |
| Room Location: LJ 113 |
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| "Breaking the Silence and Healing the Soul: Oral Histories of |
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| "Race, Labor, Military Service, and Individuality in the Midst of Global Conflict: Oral Histories with the World War II Generation in South Carolina" - Courtney Tollison, Assistant Professor of History, |
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| "Lessons Learned about Gender and Race from Oral Interviews and Special Projects" - Regina T. Akers, Naval History and Heritage Command | |
| Moderator: Dave Winkler, Naval Historical Foundation | |
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| Panel 3 | Perspectives on War and the Holocaust: American and European Experiences |
| Room Location: Whittall Pavilion | |
| "Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War" - Jason Steinhauer, Independent Curator and Archivist. | |
| "War, Genocide, and Oral History: Survivors, Witnesses and Perpetrators Speak About the Holocaust" - Ina Navazelskis, Program Coordinator, Department of Oral History, |
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| "The Added Value of Oral History Sources: Experiences from the Dutch Veterans Oral History Project" - Stef Scagliola, Coordinator, Oral History Project, Dutch Veterans Institute. |
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| Moderator: Harriet Lynn, Heritage Theater Artists' Consortium | |
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| 11:30am - 1:00pm | Lunch and Pogue Award |
| Room Location: LJ 119 | |
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| 1:00pm - 2:30pm | Second Conference Session |
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| Panel 4 | A History of Conflict: The Use of Oral History in Documenting Warfare in Europe and the Middle East |
| Room Location: LJ 113 |
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| "Honorable Soldiers or Common Criminals? The Oral Accounts of German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS Soldiers from 1995-2007" - Dirk Wendtorf, Professor of Humanities and German, |
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| "Not So Pink Behind the Shadows, Reviewing the Womanly Side of Iran-Iraq War in Oral History Preservation" - Abraham Pournazaree, Research Fellow, |
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| "The 1948 Palestinian Refugees in Their Own Words" - Rosemarie Esber, Independent researcher, writer, and international development consultant. |
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| Moderator: Renee Braden, National Geographic Society | |
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| Panel 5 | The Atomic Age and After: WWII, the Cold War, and the War on Terror |
| Room Location: Whittall Pavilion |
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| "Thank God for the Atomic Bomb": Catchphrase for the Crossroads - James Deutsch, Program curator, |
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| "The Atomic Veterans of the Cold War Nuclear Testing Program" - Mary Palevsky, BMI-Kluge Fellow in Partnership with the Library of Congress. |
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| "Lost and Found Selves and Worlds in Popular Oral Histories of September 11" - Christine Muller, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the |
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| Moderator: John Lonnquest , U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | |
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| Panel 6 | Exploring Perception: Using Oral History to Reexamine Military Service During the Vietnam War |
| Room Location: LJ 119 | |
| "Proximity and Perception: Reassessing the ARVN through Oral History" - Jason Stewart, Oral Historian at the |
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| "Draftees and the Vietnam War: Perceptions of Soldiers Who 'Did Not Want to Fight'" - Katrina Jackson, Assistant Archivist, Center for War & Diplomacy in the Post-Vietnam War Era, |
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| "How Marines Perceived the Corps Before and After Their Service: As Seen Through Oral Histories at the |
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| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | Third Conference Session |
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| Panel 7 | Echoes of War: The Army Oral History program from |
| Room Location: LJ 119 | |
| "Army Oral History in Three Wars and One "Other": |
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| "From Transformation to 9-11: Oral History in the U.S. Army, 1993 - 2003" - Stephen J. Lofgren, Branch Chief, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington, D.C. | |
| "Fifteen Months in the Mountains: An Airborne Infantry Battalion in |
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| Moderator: Stephen Lofgren, Center of Military History | |
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| Panel 8 | Involving Undergraduates in Interviewing Subjects Impacted by War and Conflict |
| Room Location: LJ 113 | |
| "From Refugees to Soldiers: Studying Holocaust Survivors Who Served in the US Armed Forces" - Matthew Doherty, Class of 1956 Scholar, Rutgers Oral History Archives |
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| "Remembering the Forgotten War: The Crandon Clark Scholars Program and the Study of the Korean War Experience" - Gregory Flynn & Daniel Ruggiero, Crandon Clark Scholars, Rutgers Oral History Archives |
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| "The Influence of Personal Perspectives on War on Undergraduate and Graduate Studies" - Nicholas Molnar, Rutgers University Department of History |
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| Moderator: Shaun Illingworth, Rutgers Oral History Archives, Rutgers University | |
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| Panel 9 | Distant Voices: A Round Table Discussion on the Challenges of Recording and Transcribing the Oral Histories of WWII and Korean War Veterans |
| Room Location: Whittall Pavilion |
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| Sara Bartlett - Oral history transcriber, Christiansburg, VA. | |
| Jan Herman - Bureau of Naval Medicine Historian | |
| Monica Mohindra - Senior Program officer, The Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. | |
| Rob Taglianetti - USMC Oral Historian |
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| Moderator: Tom Wiener, Historian, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. |
PRESENTERS |
Regina T. Akers |
| Sara Bartlett Sara Bartlett is an actor/writer originally from the Midwest. Her day jobs have largely been in medical and legal transcription, and now she transcribes oral histories for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and various memoir projects. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains with her husband, Terry. |
| James Deutsch James Deutsch is a program curator at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, where he has developed public programs on NASA, U.S. Forest Service, Mekong River, Silk Road, White House workers, and World War II veterans. In addition, he serves as an adjunct professor-teaching courses on American film-in the American Studies Department at George Washington University, and has taught American Studies classes at universities in Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Poland, and Turkey. His dissertation was entitled "Coming Home from the 'Good War': World War II Veterans as Depicted in American Film and Fiction." |
| Matthew Doherty |
| Rosemarie M. Esber Rosemarie M. Esber is an independent researcher, writer, and international development consultant specializing in human and community development, gender, and cultural heritage. Dr. Esber is a graduate of the University of London and The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Under the Cover of War: The Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians. |
| Gregory Flynn |
| Jan Herman Jan Herman has been Historian of the Navy Medical Department, curator of the old U.S. Naval Observatory, and, until 2009, Editor-in-Chief of Navy Medicine, the journal of the Navy Medical Department. In 2009, he became Special Assistant to the Navy Surgeon General. In the early 1980s, he founded the Navy Medical Department's oral history program and since has conducted oral histories with Navy physicians, dentists, nurses, hospital corpsmen and many of their patients. He is currently producing a video series, "Navy Medicine at War" based on the World War II oral histories. His latest book is Navy Medicine in Vietnam: From Dien Bien Phu to the Fall of Saigon. |
| Katrina Jackson Katrina received her education at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. She possesses a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and also one in Anthropology, and a Master of Arts degree in Information Resources and Library Science. Currently Katrina is employed at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas at the Center for War & Diplomacy in the Post-Vietnam War Era where she is in the process of developing an archive for materials related to all events that the U.S. has been involved in since 1975. |
| Glenn Johnston Glenn Johnston has been a professor of public history at Stevenson University in Maryland since 2007. Between 2003 - 2006 he worked for the University of North Texas Oral History Program, and prior to that taught high school Social Studies in New York. Uniting his experience in the classroom with that of oral history, Glenn earned his Ph.D. in 2008 for research involving teenagers engaged in original historical research in an out-of-school setting. He also served in Army between 1978 and 1983. Glenn holds a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Saint Lawrence University, an M.A. in Geographic Information Systems from SUNY Buffalo, an M.S. in Secondary Education from Niagara University, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of North Texas. |
| Christopher N. Koontz Christopher N. Koontz, received his bachelor's degree in history from Southern Methodist University in 1992. He then earned a master's degree and doctorate of philosophy in history from the University of North Texas while working at UNT's Oral History Program. In 2004 he joined the U.S. Army Center of Military History as an oral historian, and he recently edited Enduring Voices: Oral Histories of the U.S. Army Experience in Afghanistan, 2003-2005. |
| Stephen J. Lofgren Stephen J. Lofgren is the chief of the U.S. Army Center of Military History's Historical Support Branch, which specializes in carrying out quick-response studies for senior Army leaders as well as conducting oral histories with Army officials in the Pentagon. He wrote the U.S. Army Guide to Oral History (2006) and organized the Army oral history project to document events at the Pentagon in September 2001. |
| Ty Lovelady Ty Lovelady is a currently an associate archivist in charge of collections at the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University where he began employment as an archival specialist while working on his thesis in August 2001. He received a B.S. in Entomology in 1996 and an M.A. in History in 2002 from Texas Tech. |
| Monica Mohindra Monica Mohindra is a senior program officer for The Veterans History Project. She serves as the primary liaison for national partnerships, such as the effort with PBS and Ken Burns' THE WAR, and works closely with the academic community. She has conducted dozens of workshops around the country on interviewing veterans for the project. |
| Nicholas Molnar Nicholas Molnar is a doctoral student in history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and a staff member of the Rutgers Oral History Archives. He was graduated from Rutgers College in 2005 with a Bachelor's Degree, Magna cum Laude, and Highest Honors in History and received the sole Bevier Award Fellowship granted by Rutgers University that year. He currently teaches at the College of New Jersey. |
| Christine Muller Christine Muller Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Maryland. Her primary interests in life writing, popular culture and literature explore how people generate meaning from everyday life through narrative. Specifically, she is interested in the cultural implications of experiencing and witnessing traumatic events such as Sept. 11, which her dissertation explores in terms of subjectivity, agency, and responsibility under conditions of precarious and vulnerable knowledge and power. She is a 2008-2009 Graduate Fellow with START, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism based at the University of Maryland. |
| Ina Navazelskis Ina Navazelskis is responsible for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust survivor interview program. She has also administered the Department of Oral History's Europe-wide Witnesses, Collaborators and Perpetrators Project as well as organized an online catalog of Holocaust-related oral history holdings worldwide. From 1990-2000 Ms. Navazelskis worked in Europe as a journalist and educator. She has written extensively about Eastern Europe, World War II, the Holocaust and its aftermath. Her work, including biographies of Leonid Brezhnev and Alexander Dubcek, has been published in the US and Europe. |
| Mary Palevsky Mary Palevsky directed the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at UNLV from 2003-2008. The project collected 335+ hours of interviews of persons affiliated with and affected by the U.S. nuclear testing program. She is currently the BMI-Kluge Fellow in Partnership with the Library of Congress, working on a book about Cold War nuclear testing in Nevada and the Pacific. The daughter of Manhattan Project scientists, she is the author of Atomic Fragments: A Daughter's Questions, which explores the moral legacy of the bomb in the lives of its creators, based on interviews with 30 scientific leaders including 4 Nobel laureates. |
| Ann Elizabeth Pfau Ann Elizabeth Pfau holds a Ph.D. in United States history from Rutgers University and is a research associate at the New York State Museum. Her book Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II was published by Columbia University Press in 2008 and is available online at http://www.gutenberg-e.org/pfau |
| Joshua Pollarine Joshua has focused both his graduate and undergraduate studies on the field of military history, particularly American military history. He has conducted over 60 oral history interviews on subjects ranging from World War II to the Global War on Terror. He graduated with an M.A. History from the University of Montana in June 2008, and currently works for Historical Research Associates, Inc., a historical consulting firm headquartered in Missoula, Montana. |
| Abraham Pournazaree Abraham Pournazaree, a Persian architect and cultural analyst, graduated from the faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, in 2005. In January 2006, he permanently moved to Finland and began his postgraduate studies as Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä. Upon receiving his M.Phil. qualification in Art and Culture education, he was appointed to a two-year research position in his home university. He currently lectures and conducts research on various subjects in cultural studies. |
| Sharon D. Raynor Sharon D. Raynor is currently the Interim Director of the Honors College and an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and received her Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2003. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled, "Shattered Silence and Restored Souls: Bearing Witness and Testifying to Trauma and 'Truth' in the Narratives of Black Vietnam Veterans." Since 1999, she has written and directed two oral history projects sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council entitled "Breaking the Silence: The Unspoken Brotherhood of Vietnam Veterans," and "Soldier-to-Soldier: Men and Women Share Their Legacy of War." |
| Daniel Ruggiero Daniel Ruggiero is a senior at the School of Arts & Sciences, Rutgers University, and is pursuing a degree in History. Dan has been involved with the Oral History Archive for two semesters, both as an intern and a Crandon Clark Scholar. Dan received a A.S. in Construction Technology from Raritan Valley Community College in 2003. |
| Stef Scagliola Stef Scagliola is a military historian and the coordinator of an Oral History project at the Netherlands Institute for Veterans which involves 1,000 interviews from among a representative sample of Dutch war and military mission veterans. Stef Scagliola holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her dissertation: 'Burden of War, Coming to term with Dutch War Crimes in Indonesia ' was published in 2002 and shortlisted for the ICODO Award. For an earlier study she received the Jan Romein Award. Her work has, inter alia, been published in 'The European Review of History', 'De Nieuwste Tijd', and 'Icodo-info; tijdschrift over gevolgen van oorlog en geweld'. She has lectured in several countries and speaks three languages. |
| Jason Steinhauer Jason Steinhauer is an independent curator and archivist in New York City. Clients include the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, Center for Jewish History, Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, Museum of Chinese in the Americas and the Archbishop John C. Favalora Museum. Among his many exhibition credits is the award-winning Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War. Jason holds a B.A. in American Studies from The George Washington University and a M.A. in History and an Archivist's Certificate from New York University. |
| Jason Stewart Jason Stewart is an oral historian at the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University. He is currently working on his dissertation for his Ph.D. in history from the University of Southern Mississippi. His research focuses on the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and the Easter Offensive in 1972. He is the co-author of the recently released book, Timeline of the Vietnam War. |
Rob Taglianetti |
| Courtney Tollison Courtney Tollison is Museum Historian at the Upcountry History Museum and Assistant Professor of History at Furman University in Greenville, SC. She earned undergraduate degrees in history and women's studies from Furman University and a graduate certificate in women's studies and a master's degree and Ph.D. in History from the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include the civil rights movement, upcountry South Carolina history, oral history, women's history, and the history of Furman University. Her current research involves upcountry residents' contributions to the World War II and the impact of the war on upcountry South Carolina. |
Dirk Wendtorf |
Tom Wiener |
| Robert K. Wright, Jr. Robert K. Wright, Jr., holds degrees in history from the College of the Holy Cross and the College of William and Mary, from where he earned his Ph.D. He served with the Army on active duty from 1968 to 1970, and as a member of a Military History Detachment (MHD), he recorded combat operations in Vietnam. From 1974 to 2002, he was an Army historian, commanded a MHD in the Virginian National Guard, and covered operations in Panama, Kuwait, and Somalia. In retirement he founded Continental Army, Inc., a historical and genealogical consulting firm. His book, Airborne Forces at War was published by the Naval Institute Press in 2007. |
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