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 of Advanced Military Studies.  “The Rooseveltian Tradition: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and George W. Bush”       

Stephen A. Wertheim, Columbia University.  “The Wilsonian Chimera: Why Debating 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 and Museum 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 Federal Reserve” 

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 or  Tour 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 Selective Peace 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 Presidential Library                
           
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.