The New Faces Of War
A Conference for Historians and Activists
Baltimore, Maryland
5-7 April 2013
Historians Against The War
National Conference
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Available Talks from the “New Faces of War” Conference, April 5-7, 2013
1. Video Recordings Posted on the Indypendent Reader Website
FROM THE KEYNOTE SESSION:
- Col. Ann Wright, Putting New War Paint on the Old Faces of War
- Alfred McCoy, Rocket’s Red Glare: Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power (includes text of talk as well as video recording)
FROM OTHER PLENARY SESSIONS:
- Rashid Khalidi, The US as a Dishonest Broker over Palestine
- Nick Turse (with John Prados and Carolyn Eisenberg), Kill Anything That Moves
FROM THE WORKSHOP “UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO THE ASIA-PACIFIC PIVOT”:
FROM THE PANEL “LAW AND THE NEW FACES OF WAR”:
- David Swanson: War, Illegal for 85 Years, Now Illegal in New Ways
- Max Obuszewski, Going to Court as a Civil Resister to Uphold the Law
- Matthias Maass: Targeted Killings, Drones, and International Law
FROM THE PANEL “U.S. SOLDIERS AND THE VIETNAM WAR EXPERIENCE”:
- Jerry Lembcke: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Historical Antecedents and Social Construction
- Jim Baldridge: A Baltimore Veteran Talks about His Experience in Vietnam
- Harry Haines: Aboveground and The Ally: Soldier Opposition to the Vietnam War
- Tim Bagwell: And Old Face of the War Talks Softly to the Choir
FROM THE PANEL “INDEFINITE DETENTION AND WAR AGAINST IRAN: HOW ARE THESE STRANDS OF US FOREIGN POLICY CONNECTED?”:
- Thomas Drake: Perversion of Power: Perfect Storm
- H. Candace Gorman: Like Sisyphus: Defending Men in Guantanamo
- Ray McGovern: Attack Iran: Who Dares Quibble?
2. Audio Recordings of Panels
“The New Conscientious Objectors: Solders Who Refuse to Commit War Crimes in a Particular War” (Carl Mirra, Luke Stewart, Staughton Lynd, Bill Galvin, Marc Becker)
“Varieties of Intervention” (Roger Peace, Nathan Christensen, Michael Sullivan)
“How War Creates Political Prisoners: Criminalizing Dissent” (Steven Downs, Hany Massoud)
“Plus Ca Change: Old Habits concerning Torture, Sex, and Imperialism in the Global War on Terror” (Melissa Ptacek, Alice Bullard, Elizabeth Thompson)
3. Power Point Presentation
“Beyond the Front: Militarism and America’s Economy” (Ian Proctor, Nils Kruse, Caroline Larsson, Nicole Longobardo, Maggie Mergen)
4. Individual Papers
Alfred McCoy, “Rocket’s Red Glare: Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power”
Laura Browder: Syllabus for an American Studies class on “Documenting the Iraq War”
Ed Kinane: “Think Global, Act Local: Grassroots Opposition to Weaponized Drones”
Jeremy Kuzmarov: “Police Training and the Mercenarization of US Warfare in the War on Terror”
Al Carroll: “Survivors: Family Histories of Surviving War, Colonialism, and Genocide”
Roger Peace: “The U.S. as World Policeman: The Roosevelt Corollary Era, the Cold War, and the War on Terrorism”
Fran Shor: “Grieving U.S. Mothers and the Political Representations of Protest during the Iraq War”
Historians Against the War is a network of history teachers, scholars, and activists seeking to bring historical analysis to bear on U.S. foreign policy and its social/political impact. To find out more, visit the HAW website at www.historiansagainstwar.org.
The first HAW conference "Empire, Resistance, and the War in Iraq: A Conference for Historians and Activists" was held at the University of Texas, Austin, February 17-19, 2006.
The second HAW conference "War And Its Discontents: Understanding Iraq And The U.S. Empire" was co-sponsored with the Peace History Society and held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 11-13, 2008.