CONNECTIONS:
AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
IN AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
April 1996
Electronic Edition
PART 1:
CONVERSATIONS/COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
TRAVELLING SCHOLARS
HOUSING
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ALL INQUIRIES AND POSTINGS should be sent to: David Fisher,
Organization of American Historians, 112 North Bryan Street,
Bloomington, Indiana 47408; tel 812-855-8726; fax: 812-855-0696;
Email: fisher@oah.indiana.edu OR Deborah L. Owen, American
Studies Association, 1120 19th Street, NW, Suite 301,
Washington, DC 20036; tel: 202-467-4783 fax: 202-467-4786;
Email: yamstud@aol.com Previous issues are available upon
request. Quarterly issues are available at the ASA website:
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asanews/connects.html
CONVERSATIONS/COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
WORLD WAR I RESEARCH: I am researching the social and cultural
ways in which Great War experience has been remembered and
commemorated in memorials and other `sites of memory' (both
public and private). I would like to exchange ideas and
information on the comparative dimensions of 1914-18 remembrance
(USA, Canada, and white settler Dominions in the British Empire)
with any scholars who have an interest in this field. Contact
Bill Nasson, Department of History, University of Cape Town,
South Africa. Fax: 021 650 4038. Email: BILLN@BEATTIE.UCT.AC.ZA
LABOR CULTURE in RUSSIA and the UNITED STATES: I am conducting
post-doctoral research on comparative Russian and American labor
culture, work related values, business ethics and would like to
exchange ideas, information, and resource materials with scholars
who share an interest in this field. My research objectives are
to clarify the impact of history, politics, class, ethnicity,
race, gender and other factors on labor activity. Specifically,
I am interested in the labor history of Russian immigrants to the
US and their social and professional incorporation into American
society. Contact: Prof. Vera Gouchtchina. Dept. of Cultural
Studies, Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya pl. 1,
Voronezh, 394693, Russia. Email: hc@vucnit.voronezh.su
FRENCH-AMERICAN DIALOG: I am a Parisian high school history and
geography teacher. I would be interested in an internet exchange
during 1996-97 with French speaking American students on themes
of geography or history. A few possible themes include: family
history, ethnic diversity, suburbs, urban problems. I am open to
suggestions. French and American students have common problems
and dreams. Using the net for an exchange can help them to
understand better the country where they live and to build a
place for themselves. Contact: Francois Jarraud, Lycee Le
Rebours, 44-46 Bd. Blanqui, 75013 Paris, France. Email:
fjarraud@geonet.fdn.fr
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD: I am working on a paper to be
presented at the 1996 SMH Conference on the Psychological
Strategy Board. I would be interested in talking to anyone who is
familiar with this group and its role in American Cold War Policy
during the years 1951 through 1953. I am also looking for clar-
ification on what became known as the 10/5 Panel. Specifically,
did the 10/5 Panel replace the 10/2 Panel, did its membership
remain the same, and what relationship did this panel have to the
PSB? Contact: Sarah-Jane Corke, University of New Brunswick, 46
William Street, Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada, E3A 4V6.
Email: i93h@unb.ca
1970s BACK TO THE LAND MOVEMENT: I am currently doing research
on the 1970s back to the land movement and am interested in
sources on the migration of professionals from eastern cities to
rural New England. I would also like to contact other scholars
interested in this topic. Contact: Tsuyoshi Ishida, Visiting
Scholar at Bowdoin College until July 1996 Email:
<tishida@polar.bowdoin.edu>. I will return to my home university
in August 1996: Hiroshima Shudo University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Email: ishida@shudo-u.ac.jp
NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE ZONE: I am looking for any information,
bibliography, articles, research papers, seminar papers etc. on
Nuclear Weapons Free Zone. I would also love to exchange
opinions with experts of this subject all over the world.
Contact: Yone Sugita, Osaka University of Foreign Studies.
Email: sugita@post01.osaka-gaidai.ac.jp
CHINESE PROTESTANT HISTORY PROJECT: I will begin an oral-video
history project in the summer of 1996 which seeks to document the
voices and images of Chinese Protestants (mainline and
evangelical) in the U.S./Canada since World War II. Though I
will concentrate on the West Coast cities (Los Angeles, San
Francisco Bay Area, Seattle-Vancouver) during the summer, I plan
to conduct interviews and video-tape in the East in the fall of
1996. I would also like to interview/video-tape white Protestant
missionaries who worked in North American Chinese missions and
congregations during this period. I welcome any pointers,
suggestions, or advice about this project. Volunteers, contacts,
and/or information about personal papers or collections are also
appreciated. Contact: Timothy Tseng, Assistant Professor of
Church History, Denver Seminary, P.O. Box 10,000, Denver,
Colorado 80250-0100 USA. Tel: (303) 761-2482, ext. 228; Fax:
(303) 761-8060; Email: Tstseng@aol.com
CHINESE AMERICAN FAMILY HISTORY: I am embarking on dissertation
research that concerns the history of the Chinese American family
from the 1890s through to the 1950s or 60s. I will draw on
concepts of the family developed not only within the sub-field of
family history, but also from within immigration history, labor
history, and Chinese history. I anticipate finding the Chinese
American family, despite its strained beginnings in the U.S., to
be a source of tremendous community strength, cultural
persistence, and social and individual identity, though not
necessarily a place for political or cultural conservatism within
the ethnic community. I read and speak Chinese, and will bring
Chinese community newspapers and other Chinese language resources
into the investigation. I am interested in contacting other
scholars with similar interests and would appreciate whatever
help or advice might be offered in terms of potential primary
resources, or critical bibliography, etc. Contact: Rick
McKinney, 1321 Montclaire Ct., Appleton, WI 54915 USA. Tel:
414-830-2226. Email: mcki0023@gold.tc.umn.edu or
mcki0023@dataex.com
VERMIN EXTERMINATION: I am researching the bounty system of
vermin extermination in the Cape Colony, South Africa, 1889-1910
and am most anxious to acquire comparative historical
perspectives on policies and practices in the United States,
Canada and Australia. Conatact: L. van Sittert, Dept. of
History, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, Cape Town,
South Africa, Fax: (021) 650-4038; Email: cdude@beattie.uct.ac.za
RUSSIAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: The RAAS is a recently
formed independent and interdisciplinary organization devoted to
increasing the study and understanding of the United States. The
Board of RAAS is interested in any information concerning the
activities of like institutions in other countries. Specific
needs concern the following: acquiring periodicals and other
publications; acquiring course descriptions on America;
developing cooperative research projects; receiving visiting
scholars to give lectures; receiving information on research
grants for foreign scholars; organizing a joint summer institute
for American Studies in Russia; developing a database of primary
sources and other documents that have been converted to an
electronic format. Contact: Russian Association for American
Studies, Department of History, Moscow State University,
Vorobyovi Gori, Moscow, 119899, Russian Federation. Tel: 7
(095) 939-3288; Fax: 7 (095) 939-5201. Email:
yuri@amstud.hist.msu.su
NORTH-OSSETIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: The International Programs
Office of NOSU is actively developing new international
opportunities for staff and students. We are interested in
receiving information on programs of international cooperation:
conferences, special courses, research grant programs,
professional development, study abroad programs. Contact:
Alexander Tatrov, Vatutin Str. 46, Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia-
Alania, 362025, Russia, International Information Analysis
Department of the North Ossetian State University. Tel: 7
(867-22) 4-31-91; Fax: 7 (867-22) 4-05-79. Email:
indep@nosu.vladikavkaz.su
TRAVELLING SCHOLARS
Robert Michael, Professor of European History and co-editor of H-
Net discussion lists on anti-semitism, the Holocaust, and Western
Civilization will be traveling in Central and Eastern Europe from
about July 4-25, 1996 and would like to make contacts in Vienna,
Bratislava, Budapest, and Prague. Contact: Robert Michael
Professor of European History, University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth, N. Dartmouth, MA 02747. Email: <rmichael@umassd.edu>;
or <cyberbob@ici.net>; website:
http://www.umassd.edu/cybered/theholocaust.html
Gidon Elad will be visiting Prague in September 1996. Areas of
interest: Liberal Judaism; Passover Haggadot; Reconstructing
Jewish life in the Czech Republic (involvement of Israeli and
American Jewish). I am also interested in advice on
accommodations for myself and wife; possibly a reasonable hotel
in the middle of the town. Contact: Gidon Elad, Kibbutz
Chatzerim, Negev, Israel, 85420. Tel: 972-7-473536; Fax:
972-7-473199. Email: gelad@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Regina Lark is a doctoral student who will be in the Washington,
D.C./Maryland area during June 1996 conducting research at the
National Archives, Archives II in search of information regarding
SCAP policies on marriage between Japanese women and American men
during the period of the Allied occupation of Japan. I am
interested in meeting and talking with anyone who is doing work
on gender and war, Japanese women's culture and family during the
pre- and post- WWII years, and anyone doing research on the 1952
McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. Contact: Regina Lark. 20841
Stephanie Drive, Canoga Park, CA 91306. Email: lark@scf.usc.edu
American historian looking for contacts with scholars interested
in American history in Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore. Am
especially interested in environmental history. Please contact
Mart Stewart, Department of History/MS-9056, Western Washington
University, Bellingham, WA 98225 USA. Fax: (360)650-4837; Email:
Smar4@henson.cc.wwu.edu
HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS
FOR RENT. AVIGNON FRANCE: Sunny, 1st floor, 3 bedroom apart-
ment; kitchen, dinning room, bath, balcony. Just across from
Avignon, in Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, 5 minute bus ride. A quiet
location, view on the Ventoux and hillside; near swimming pool,
the Chartreuse, post-office, cafe. Available anytime from May to
mid-August (festival: 7 July - 7 August). 2.000 to 3.000
frcs/week, depending on duration. Contact: Ms. Delanoe, 75 rue
Quincampopix, 75003 Paris, France. Tel: (1) 42-78-73-64.
Email: nelcya.delanoe@u-paris10.fr
FOR RENT. BOLOGNA, EMILIA ROMAGNA ITALY: Two-story house, 170
sq. meters, vast living room, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, study, large
well-equipped kitchen with terrace; dishwasher, TV, phone; sleeps
6-8; available June 1 - August 30, 1996. Situated on one of the
hills of Bologna with garden, woods and superb view. One hour
to Adriatic, to Florence; two hours to Venice. Weekly or monthly
rent. Contact: Catherine Lejeune. Universite Paris 7, Institute
d'anglais Charles V, 10 rue Charles V, 75004 Paris, France. Tel:
(1) 43-21-47-16; Fax: (1) 44-78-34-73.
FOR RENT. BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: Small studio with private
entrance and private bathroom, fully furnished, located in
Berkeley Hills ten minute walk to U.C. Berkeley library. No car
needed. Fridge, and microwave, but no stove cooking. Television
and VCR. $300 a month. Minimum of two months. For visiting
scholars. Contact: Ruth Rosen, Professor of History, Department
of History, U.C. Davis, Davis, California 95616. Tel. & Fax:
(510) 841-7779. Email: rerosen@ucdavis.edu
ACCOMMODATION NEEDED IN WASHINGTON, DC: I am looking for a hotel
or B&B in Washington DC for a few days in July, probably from the
15th-20th or during the last week. No preference for any partic-
ular part of the city. Contact: Andre C. Muraire, 5 Rue des
Oliviers, 06110 Le Cannet France. Email:
muraire@hermes.unice.fr
ACCOMMODATION NEEDED IN WASHINGTON, DC: Historian who will do
research in D.C. area in July and August seeks sublet, preferably
in the district. Contact Mart Stewart, Tanner Humanities Center,
201 Carlson Hall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112;
E-mail Mart.Stewart@m.cc.utah.edu
ACCOMMODATION NEEDED IN KINGSTON, ONTARIO: I am a doctoral
student in the Dept. of History and Philosophy of Education at
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. I need to do a
significant amount of research at the Queen's University Archives
in Kingston, Ontario, this summer and I'm looking to house-
sit/petsit in exchange for accommodation. Contact: Alyson
King, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, History
and Philosophy, 8th floor, 252 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON M5S
1V6. Email: aking@oise.on.ca
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David C. Fisher, Editor
CONNECTIONS: American History and Culture
in an International Perspective
Organization of American Historians
112 North Bryan Street, Bloomington, IN 47408-4199
Tel: (812) 855-8726 Fax: (812) 855-0696 Email: fisher@oah.indiana.edu
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