Florida Conference of Historians
2006 Annual Program
Hosted by
Joseph F. Patrouch
Florida International University
Miami, Florida
Thursday, May 4
6:00-8:00 P.M.
Registration and Cash-Bar Reception
Blue Moon Hotel
Friday, May 5
8:30: Registration
9:00-10:15: Morning Panels I
Session I-A: Are We There Yet? Temporality, Identity and Tourism in Florida
Classroom
“The Once and Future Past: Constructions of History at Silver Springs”
Wendy Adams King, USF, Chair and Presenter
“Touring NASA: Communicating Triumph and Tragedy”
Linda Levitt, USF
“Independence and Dependence: Diving in Key Largo, Florida”
Cara Mackie, USF
Session I-B: Themes and Sources Concerning the Histories of Miami and Miami Beach
Sponsored by the Miami Beach Historical Association
Conference Room
"Miami Beach in 1930: A View from the Census"
Abraham Lavender, FIU, Chair and Presenter
“On the Care and Feeding of a Miami Memorabilia Collection"
Seth Bramson, FIU
“Camp Miami Beach WW2”
Judith Berson-Levinson, Independent Scholar
“The City of Miami Beach Historical Records Archives Project”
Liliam Hatfield, City of Miami Beach
Session I-C: The World of Dreams and Fairs
Library
Rebecca Friedman, FIU, Chair and Commentator
“Romania at pre-World War II World Fairs”
Nicolae Harsanyi, Wolfsonian-FIU
“The Dream Merchants’ Florida Dreams: Irony and the Circus Come to Florida”
Allen S. Miller, USF
10:30: Coffee Break
10:45-12:00: Morning Panels II
Session II-A: Conflict and Consensus in Modern Florida
Conference Room
Sherry Johnson, FIU, Chair
Sean MacMahon, Lake City Community College, Commentator
“Before Walt Arrived: Florida’s Ill-Fated Attempt to Build INTERAMA Theme Park”
Michael Hoover, Seminole Community College
“”’Catastrophe' seen if sewer suit wins”: Dade County's Regional Sewage Solution v. Municipal Resistance, 1971-1974”
Marlin Kann, FIU
“Camp Biscayne, 1914-1924: The Sporting Set Sets Sail”
Susannah Worth, Barnacle Historic State Park
Session II-B: In Pursuit of Pleasure: Schultze & Weaver and the American Hotel
Sponsored by the Wolfsonian-FIU (includes a tour of the exhibition)
Gallery
Jon Mogul Wolfsonian-FIU; Marianne Lamonaca, Wolfsonian-FIU; Robin Bachin, University of Miami; Kenneth Lipartito, FIU; Keith Revell, FIU
12:15: Lunch on your own. FCH annual business meeting in the Dynamo Café, Wolfsonian-FIU.
1:30-2:45: Afternoon Panels III
Session III-A: Community Planning and Progress in the (Post) Modern US
Classroom
Michael Epple, FGCU, Chair and Commentator
“The Contention between Community and Society: Reflected in New York City, Miami, and Historic Preservation”
Anthony Atwood, FIU
“Progressive Ideas and City Planning Realities: J. Horace McFarland, the American Civic Association, and the Pursuit of Beautification”
Julian C. Chambliss, Rollins College
Session III-B: Performance and Rule in the Early Modern World
Auditorium
Joseph F. Patrouch, FIU, Chair and Commentator
“Maria de’ Medici: a Muse or a Strategist? How Opera, Painting, and Chronicle Investigate the Theme of Agency”
Antonietta DiPietro, FIU
“A Fallen Favorite in the Court of Phillip III of Spain (1598-1621): The Role of Fortuna in the Textual Representation of Rodrigo Calderón’s privanza and Death”
Silvia Mitchell, FIU
"Diverse Affiliations in the City of Angeles: Promoting Urban Identity in Eighteenth -Century Puebla, Mexico"
Frances L. Ramos, Western Michigan University
3:00: Coffee Break
3:15-4:30: Afternoon Panels IV
Session IV-A: The Middle East, Then & Now
Auditorium
Blaine Browne, Broward Community College, Chair and Commentator
“Hamas 2006 and Likud 1977: Terrorists Win at the Polls”
John J. McTague, Saint Leo University
“Geo-Strategic Lessons Learned After the II Gulf War against Iraq: US & International Interests in the Middle East/Gulf”
Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University
Session IV-B: Pre-Modern Archeology and FIU History
Sponsored by the Working Group for Pre-Modern Histories and Cultures, FIU
Classroom
“Yotvata: a Roman Beau Geste?"
Gwyn Davies, FIU, Chair and Presenter
“‘Handmaidens’: History and Historical Archaeology in the Colonial Chesapeake”
John Coombs, FIU
“The Making of Oyo Empire during the Atlantic Age: Archaeological Perspectives from West Africa"
Akin Ogundiran, FIU
5:45: Reception
Sponsored by the Working Group for Pre-Modern Histories and Cultures, FIU
2nd Floor Reception Hall
Welcoming Remarks: Luis R. Garcia, Jr., City Commissioner, City of Miami Beach; Joyce Shaw Peterson, Associate Dean, FIU College of Arts and Sciences; Victor Uribe, Chair, Department of History, FIU; Gwyn Davies, Coordinator, Working Group for Pre-Modern Histories and Cultures, FIU
6:30: Banquet
2nd Floor Reception Hall
7:30: Campbell Award Announcement and Presentation of Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, Volume 13.
Joseph F. Patrouch, Chair, Campbell Award Committee and Editor, Selected Annual Proceedings
Comments and recognition of new FCH president: Sean McMahon, Immediate Past President, FCH
Keynote Address:
Ryan J. Wheeler, Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research,
“The People Who Met Ponce de Leon--the Tequesta in Florida History"
Saturday, May 6
9:00-10:15: Morning Panels V
Session V-A: Conceptualizing Otherness
Auditorium
Aurora Morcillo, FIU, Chair and Commentator
“Forging an Alliance of the “Colored Peoples” of the World: Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Heruy’s Mission to Japan, 1931”
J. Calvitt Clarke, III, Jacksonville University
“An African Tree Produces White Flowers: Black Consciousness in the Argentine Community, 19th and 20th centuries”
Erika D. Edwards, FIU
“Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s and Susan B. Anthony’s Dual Strategy of ‘Other’ and ‘Privilege’ in The Revolution”
Patrica Farless, UCF/UF
“Raising Our Own Voice: Documenting Latino/a Church History in the USA”
Raúl Fernández-Calienes, St. Thomas University
Session V-B: American Foreign Policy and the Cold War
Classroom
David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College, Chair and Commentator
“The American Nation and the Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957-1958”
Bernard Lemelin, Laval University
“Reversing the Course: The Philippine-American Trade Agreement of 1946”
Steven D. Macisaac, Jacksonville University
"Cobalt, Southern Africa, and the United States: American - Soviet Clash for Raw Materials in Zaire and Angola, 1945-1988"
Omer Subhani, FIU
10:30: Coffee Break
10:45: Morning Panels VI
Session VI-A: 20th-Century US: Best and Worst
Auditorium
Alex Lichtenstein, Rice University, Chair and Commentator
“McCarthyist Conservatism: The Johns Committee Probe into the NAACP”
Chris Day, FSU
“Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and the Great Depression in America”
Michael Epple, FGCU
“The Dilemma of a Southern Liberal: Claude D. Pepper and Civil Rights”
Ric A. Kabat, Gainesville State College
“Crusade in the Sunshine: Political Immorality in Florida, 1956-1960”
Seth A. Weitz, FSU
Session VI-B: Threatening Nature: Military Life in Florida
Classroom
Howard Rock, FIU, Chair and Commentator
"Gators, Sand Fleas, Mosquitos and Tallahassee: Life in Camp Gordon Johnston, 1942-1946."
Jon Mikolashek, FSU
12:15: Conference is Adjourned