2010 Symposium
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World of Power/World of Law: Wilsonianism and Other Visions of Foreign Policy
Fifth Woodrow Wilson National Symposium
Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund
Held at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum and the Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center
Staunton, Virginia
April 15-16, 2010
Schedule
Thursday, April 15 – Registration and Luncheon
11:30 a.m.--Registration: Stonewall Jackson Hotel & Conference Center
12:00 noon--Woodrow Wilson National Symposium Luncheon (Stonewall Jackson Hotel & Conference Center, Colonnade Room. By invitation)
12:10 p.m.--Welcome: Don W. Wilson, President and CEO, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
1:00 p.m.--Introduction: Theodore DeLaney, Chair of the Department of History, Washington and Lee University; Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Education Committee
Keynote address: Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations. “Wilsonian Foreign Policy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
2:00 p.m.--Optional Tour of Presidential Birthplace and Museum, Linda MacNeil, Lead Interpreter (meet at The Dolores Lescure Center front desk)
Thursday, April 15 - Session 1 (Stonewall Jackson Hotel & Conference Center)
3:00-4:45 p.m.--Introduction: Joel Hodson, Director of Education, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Panel: Wilson and Recent American Foreign Policy
Facilitator: Anthony Eksterowicz, Professor of Political Science, James Madison University (15 minutes for intros and post-presentation comments)
Presenters : (Three 20-minute presentations)
Thomas Bruscino, U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, School ofAdvanced Military Studies. “The Rooseveltian Tradition: TheodoreRoosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and George W. Bush”
Stephen A. Wertheim, Columbia University. “The Wilsonian Chimera: WhyDebating Wilson’s Vision Can’t Save American Foreign Relations”
Michael Andrew Nelson, Presbyterian College. “Vietnam as a Legacy of Wilsonian Internationalism: The Case of Roger Hilsman”
Discussion (30 minutes for Q&A and general discussion)
5:00 p.m.--Reception (By invitation), Emily Smith Terrace, WWPL
Welcome: Don W. Wilson, President and CEO, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Dinner on own in Staunton (see list of downtown restaurants)
Friday, April 16 - Session II (Dolores Lescure Center, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library andMuseum Education Parlor)
8:45 a.m.--Coffee
9:00-10:45 a.m.--Panel: Wilsonian Internationalism at Home and Abroad
Facilitator: Paul Freedman, Associate Professor of Politics, The University of Virginia
Presenters:Brian J. Cook, Virginia Polytechnic Institute. “Wilsonianism at Home and Abroad:A Comparative Analysis”
Trygve Throntveit, Harvard University. “A Strange Fate: Quincy Wright and the Trans-War Trajectory of Wilsonian Internationalism”
Miklos Sebok, The University of Virginia. “Crisis, institutional change and the delegation of discretion: Wilson’s role in the creation of the FederalReserve”
Discussion
10:45-11:00 a.m.--Break
11:00-11:45 a.m.--Tour of Library and Archives, Peggy Dillard, Director of Library and Archives orTour of Presidential Birthplace and Museum, Linda MacNeil, Lead Interpreter
11:45 a.m.-12:50 p.m. Lunch, Emily Smith Terrace
1:00-2:00 p.m.--Introduction: Paul Freedman, Associate Professor of Politics, The University of Virginia
Plenary speaker: Glenn Hastedt, Director of the Center for Liberal and Applied Social Sciences, James Madison University. “Woodrow Wilson in the Literature and Discipline of Political Science” (45 minutes for presentation and Q&A)
2:00-2:15 p.m.--Break
Friday, April 16 - Session III
2:15-3:30 p.m.--Panel: Race and Representation in SelectivePeace Settlements
Facilitator: Jeffrey Lanigan, Assistant Professor of History, Blue Ridge Community College
Presenters:Robert Kane, Niagara University. “Race and Representation: Japan and the Limits of a Wilsonian Democratic Peace”
Nicole M. Phelps, University of Vermont. “Scientific Racism and Self-Determination: The Case of Austria-Hungary”
3:30-3:45 p.m.--Break
3:45-4:15 p.m.--Concluding discussion facilitated by Anthony Eksterowicz, Professor of Political Science,James Madison University
4:15-4:30 p.m.--Conference conclusion
The 2010 Woodrow Wilson National Symposium is made possible through the generous support of Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Jessie Ball duPont Fund.
Thanks to the members of the Symposium Advisory Committee for their planning:
Theodore DeLaney, Chair of the Department of History, Washington and Lee University; Chair of the Education Committee, Woodrow Wilson PresidentialLibrary
Anthony Eksterowicz, Professor of Political Science, James Madison University
Paul Freedman, Associate Professor of Politics, The University of Virginia
Jeffrey Lanigan, Assistant Professor of History, Blue Ridge Community College
Thanks also to Thomas Knock, Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University; Hampden Smith, III, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Washington and Lee University; and the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library for their support for this event.
