Comparative Home Fronts Conference
Hotel Duval
415 N. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, Florida 32301
January 14 – 16, 2016
Thursday, January 14, 2016
The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience invites you and a guest to the Public Lecture inaugurating the Comparative Home Fronts Conference.
LOCATION Hotel Duval – Opal room (Lower level)
6:15 P.M. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
“On the Transnational Destruction of HOME FRONTS: What Japan and the U.S. Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany”
(FREE Lecture and Reception to follow- Open to the public.)
Friday, January 15, 2016 - Level 8 Lounge
8:00 – 9:00 REGISTRATION and CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:15 WELCOME – Horizon Ballroom, Level 8
9:30 – 11:30 MORNING SESSION)
THE WAR IN KENYA, INDIA-BURMA, AND TURKEY
Chair: Judy Barrett Litoff, Bryant University
Andrew Stewart, King’s College London
“War Came to Kenya: Fighting the Axis in East Africa”
Aditya Kiran Kakati, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
“Guns, Gifts, Guerillas and a Groveling Imperial Order – Spatio-Temporal Experiences of the Second World War on the India-Burma Borderlands”
Hakan Gungor, Florida State University
“A Wartime Economy in a Neutral Turkey?”
Commentator: Claudia Liebeskind, Florida State University
11:30 – 12:45 LUNCHEON (advance registration required)
1:00 – 3:00 AFTERNOON SESSION
HOME FRONTS AND BATTLE FRONTS IN THE PHILIPPINES, JAPAN AND NEW MEXICO
Chair: Michael Creswell
Nicholas Trajano Molnar, Community College of Philadelphia
“The Impact of World War II and the Japanese Occupation on Filipino Society”
Annika Culver, Florida State University
“Battlefield Comforts of Home: Gendered Commercialization of the Military Care Package Phenomenon in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945”
Elena Friot, University of New Mexico
“New Mexico’s War: Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, 1941-1946"
Commentator: Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:30 MID AFTERNOON SESSION
PROPAGANDA AND WAR
Chair: Jonathan Grant, Florida State University
Stefanie Wichhart, Niagara University
“Youth Must Be Served: Teachers, Textbooks and Youth Movements in Iraq During World War II”
Sarah Panzer, College of William and Mary
“A Nation of Heroes: Japanese Home Front Mobilization in German Propaganda”
Michele Curran Cornell, Kent State University
“Stationed in Seventh Heaven: Patriotic Romance in the Ladies’ Home Journal during World War II”
Commentator: Suzanne Sinke, Florida State University
Saturday, January 16, 2016
8:30 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:30 – 11:30 MORNING SESSION
GENDER, COOPERATION, RESILIENCE AND DEFENSE: THE BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Chair: Charles Upchurch, Florida State University
Mark James Crowley, Wuhan University, China
“Women, bombing, and the Social Experience on the British Home Front, 1939-1945”
Sandra Trudgen Dawson, Northern Illinois University
“Babies and the Blitz: Mothers and Midwives at War, 1939-1945”
Graham Broad, University of Western Ontario
“Rosie Reconsidered: Canadian Women and Volunteerism in the Second World War”
Commentator: Jennifer Koslow, Florida State University
11:30 – 12:45 LUNCHEON (advance registration required)
1:00 – 3:00 AFTERNOON SESSION
THE WAR IN ITALY AND AUSTRIA
Chair: James Palmer, Florida State University
Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre, A Volta
“A Moral and Corporeal Mobilization: Italian Disabled Ex-Servicemen and World War II: From War to Resistance”
Federico Ciavattone, Italian Society for Military History
“Italy, 8 September 1943: The Death of the Homeland and the Fascist Choices”
Jan Ruth Mills, Florida State University
“Luftangriff oder Luftkreig?: The Allied Bombing of Vienna ”
Commentator: Sean Klimek, Air University
3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:30 MID AFTERNOON SESSION
HOME FRONTS AND BATTLE FRONTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES
Chair: Kurt Piehler, Florida State University
Kathryn R. Terkanian, Bournemouth University, UK
“Maintaining Authority: The BBC, the Home Front, and Women Power”
Richard Cranford, Colonel, U.S. Army
“African-American War Correspondents during World War II: Observers or Activists”
William A. Taylor, Angelo State University
“A Sound and Democratic Principle: The Campaign for Universal Military Training and the American Home Front”
Commentator: Judy Barrett Litoff, Bryant University
