“From the Great War to the Peace Settlement, 1918-1919:
A Retrospective Evaluation”
An International Conference Sponsored by the
International History Institute of Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
March 23-24, 2007

March 23: 4th floor, School of Management Building, Boston University, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, fourth floor

9:15 a.m. Welcome and Introductory Remarks
William R. Keylor, Director, International History Institute

9:30-ll:30 a.m. Long-Term Repercussions of the Peace Settlement
Chair: Andrew Bacevich (Boston University)
Margaret Macmillan (University of Toronto): Keynote Address:
“Thinking About the Paris Peace Conference in 2007”
William R. Keylor (Boston University), “Have Wilson’s Ideas at the Peace Conference Stood the Test of Time?”
Sally Marks (Independent Scholar), “Germany’s Place in the
Postwar Order”

11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Lunch Break: Lunch available on 2nd floor of School of Management Building

1:00-3:00 p.m. France, Germany, and the New International Order
Chair: David Mayers (Boston University)
Erik Goldstein (Boston University), “Versailles as a System”
Peter Jackson (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), 'Muscular
Juridical Internationalism: French Conceptions of a ‘Society of Nations’, 1917-1919”
Alan Sharp (University of Ulster), “How Executable Was the
Versailles Treaty?”

3:00-3:15 p.m. Coffee Break

3:15-5:15 p.m. Strategies of War-making and Peace-making
Chair: Cathal Nolan (Boston University)
Robert Hanks (Wilfred Laurier University), "’Je fais la guerre’: Clemenceau and the dynamics of inter-Allied leadership in 1917-1918”
Carole Fink (Ohio State University), “The Palestine Question and the Paris Peace Conference”
Robert Young (University of Winnipeg), “Dialogues des Sourds:
The Lonely Wars of Ambassador Jules Jusserand at the End of
the Great War”

March 24: 9:30-11:30 a.m. Eilts Room, Department of International Relations, 154 Bay State Road, second floor
Round Table on the Versailles Settlement in Historical
Perspective