International Conference on War and Imprisonment
CUNY Graduate Center
New York, New York
Friday, May 11, 2018
Welcome:8:00-8:15
Dr. Sarah Danielsson
Associate Professor, Department of History, Queensborough Community College / CUNY
Dr. Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr.
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Queensborough Community College / CUNY
Panel I:Places, Spaces, and Wartime Imprisonment: 8:15-9:45
Moderator: Dr. Mark D. Van Ells
Professor, Department of History, Queensborough Community College / CUNY
Olof Blomqvist
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Captives and Community: Prisoners of War in Torgau and Uppsala during the Great Northern War, 1700-1721
Anne Lessy
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
‘Prison Labor for Defense’: Unfree Labor in the New Deal Warfare State
Dr. Sharon Delmendo
Professor, Department of English, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York
The ‘Manilaners’: From Nazi Victims to Unexpected Participants in the Pacific Theater
Dr. Franziska Seraphim
Associate Professor, Department of History, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts
Sugamo and Landsberg: Allied Prisons for Axis War Criminals after World War II
Dr. Richard Nisa
Assistant Professor of Geography, Department of Social Science & History, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham, New Jersey
Take No Prisoners: Disappearance and the Twenty-First Century American War Prison
Break:9:45-10:00
Panel II:Texts of Wartime Imprisonment: 10:00-11:30
Moderator: Dr. Frank Jacob
Professor of History, Department of Social Science, Nord University, Bodo, Norway
Stefan Lueder
Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Exploring the ‘Gurkha Records’: Himalayan Prisoners of War in World War I Germany
Dr. Anne Schwan
Associate Professor, Department of English, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
German Internees Writing the First World War: Identities, Irony, and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade
Tessa Hite
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Promoting Surrender: Photographs of German POWs in American Propaganda Leaflets during World War II
Dr. Jeehyun Lim
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Carl Mydans’s Photographs of Tule Lake
Dr. R. Shareah Taleghani
Assistant Professor and Director of Middle East Studies, Queens College / CUNY, Flushing, New York
Visibility, Counter-Surveillance, and Surrealism in Tadmur Military Prison
Lunch: 11:30-12:30
Keynote Address:12:30-1:30
Dr. Victoria Sanford
Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Study of Human Rights
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Director, Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies
Doctoral Faculty
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
Lehman College / CUNY, Bronx, New York
Paper Title: The Disappeared of Guatemala
Break: 1:30-1:45
Panel III: Politics and Imprisonment: 1:45-3:15
Moderator: Dr. Ron Van Cleef
Substitute Assistant Professor, Department of History, Queensborough Community College / CUNY
Dr. Zohar Segev
Professor, Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Prisoner of War and Civilian Prisoner: The International Red Cross and the Jews during the Holocaust
Dr. Shirley Jennifer Lim
Associate Professor, Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Art for the People
James Okolie Osemene
Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Wellspring University, Benin City, Nigeria
Wartime Civilian Prisoners: Patterns and Evolution of Human Rights Violations in the Nigeria – Biafra War
Samuel Severson
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Maseru Central Prison in the 1960s and 70s: The Political and Cultural Legacies of Repression
Rallie Murray
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology and Social Change, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California
Are All Prisons Political?
Panel IV: Prisoners of War: 3:30-4:30
Moderator: Dr. Tim Keogh
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Queensborough Community College / CUNY
Leonard Dorn
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Early Modern History, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Chivalry and Fear: The Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Electorate of Hanover during the Seven Years’ War, 1756-1763
Daniel Farrell
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Highway Robbers or Prisoners of War? Sovereign Power, Bare Life, and the Problem of Confederate Guerrillas during the American Civil War
Dr. Lu Sun
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bryant University – Zhuhai, China
India, Taiwan, and ‘The Last Battle of the Korean War’: The Controversy Surrounding POW Explanations
Panel V: Negotiating Difference and Imprisonment: 4:30-6:00
Moderator: Dr. Jonathan Anzalone
Assistant Director, School of Journalism, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Matyas Mervay
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University, New York, New York
The Forgotten Soldiers of Francis Joseph: Austro-Hungarian Refugee Prisoners of War in China
Christina Matzen
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Politics, Sexuality, and Carceral Life: Disciplining Women in Nazi Penal Institutions
Vic Overdorf
Ph.D. Student, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Imprisoning Sexuality: The Abuses of the State in Homosexual Male Incarceration at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, 1934-1957
Dr. Shahla Talebi
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
The Predicament of the Human / Political / Sexual: Stories from the Iranian Political Prison
Clarence Hall Jr.