The key objective is to address the manner in which wars the United States has participated in since the 1930s has been represented, communicated and narrated within and beyond US culture and to analyse these contributions to US identity formation.  The short conference is a part of a wider project on the topic supported by the Department of History and the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Conference Fund and the Clinton Institute for American Studies (UCD).

The conference, co-ordinated by Dr David Ryan of UCC's History Department, takes place in the Council Room, North Wing, UCC.

Programme:
2.10-3.40pm - Panel 1
Professor Marilyn B. Young, New York University,
'Limited War Unlimited: The U.S. in Korea and Vietnam'
Professor Robert K. Brigham, Vassar College
'Reading America in Saigon'

4.00-5.45pm - Panel 2
Professor Scott Reynolds Nelson, College of William and Mary  
 'Civil War Provisioning, Branded Foods, and the Agricultural Origins of American Empire'            
Professor Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, University of Iowa
'The Other Religion: Nationalism and US Foreign Policy from the New Deal to the Cold War'
Professor Charles Gannon, St. Bonaventure University   
'The New American Century...Or Not?: Anticipating Tomorrow's Political Realities Through Today's Narrative Imagery'

6.00pm - Panel 3
Professor Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University
'Iraq as the "Good War"'
Professor Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham                           
'Freedom's Dilemmas: The Illusions of the American Unipolar In and Beyond Iraq'                        

Visit: http://www.ucdclinton.ie/research_warandamericanidentity.htm

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