Thursday, May 15, 2003
Presentation of the Retrospective Foreign Relations of the United States Volume Guatemala, 1952-1954 Speaker TBD 9:00am—9:15am
Panel #1 Retrospective FRUS Volume, Guatemala, 1952-1954 9:15am—10:30am
Richard Immerman Temple University Chair/Discussant
Susan Holly Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State “Amending the Record: New Documentary Evidence and Its Impact on Historical Perceptions, Guatemala 1952-1954”
Gerald Haines University of Virginia “Assassination Planning in Guatemala”
Piero Gleijeses School of Advanced International Studies The Johns Hopkins University “Guatemala 1954—Looking Back”
Break 10:30am—10:45am
Panel #2 Guatemala, Latin America, and the World 10:45am—12:00pm
Michael Krenn Appalachian State University Chair/Discussant
James Knarr Southern Illinois University “Responding to Latin American Nationalism: The United States and Guatemala, 1954”
Bradley Zakarin Harvard University “Interpretations of Intervention: The Monroe Doctrine in 1954”
David Ryan De Montfort University, England “U.S. Foreign Policy and the Guatemalan Revolution in World History”
Break for Lunch 12:00pm—1:30pm
Panel #3 Government Actors and the 1954 Coup 1:30pm—2:45pm
Brian Latell Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Chair/Discussant
Christian Lefebvre Government of Canada, Department of the Solicitor General “John Peurifoy and the CIA in Guatemala, 1953-1954: Different Means to a Same Goal”
David Barrett Villanova University “The U.S., Congress, CIA, and the 1954 Guatemalan Coup”
Michael Krenn Appalachian State University “The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number: U.S. Policy Toward Guatemala, 1945-1958"
Break 2:45pm—3:00pm
Panel #4 Non-Government Actors and the 1954 coup 3:00pm—4:15pm
James Siekmeier Office of the Historian, Department of State Chair/Discussant
Charles D. Brockett University of the South “U.S. Labor and Management Fight It Out in Post-1954 Guatemala”
Bonar Ludwig Hernández University of Texas at Austin “Contending National Projects: The Guatemalan Catholic Church and the State during the October Revolution, 1944-1954”
Max Holland Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia “Private Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy: William D. Pawley and the 1954 Guatemala coup d’etat”
Friday, May 16, 2003
Panel #5 Long-Term Consequences of the Coup: The Military, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights 9:00am—10:15am
Thomas Pearcy Slippery Rock University Chair/Discussant
Andrew Schlewitz Wabash College “Imperial Incompetence: U.S. and the Guatemalan Military, 1931-1966”
Douglas W. Trefzger Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State “Military Interventionism: The Unexpected Legacy of Guatemala’s Revolutionary Constitution”
Kate Doyle National Security Archive “The United States and Guatemala: Counterinsurgency and Genocide, 1954- 1999”
Break 10:15am—10:30am
Panel #6 Long-Term Consequences of the Coup: The Social, Political and Economic Impact 10:30am—12:00pm
Douglas W. Trefzger Office of the Historian, Department of State Chair
Oscar Guillermo Pelaez Almengor Centro de Estudios Urbanos y Regionales Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala “Guatemala 1954: The Long-Term Consequences of an Intervention”
David L. Jickling Program Officer, USAID (ret.) “Witness to the Ever-Changing Guatemalan Scene”
Richard N. Adams University of Texas at Austin, Emeritus “Anthropology in U.S. Relations with Guatemala: A Personal Perspective”
Isaac Cohen President, Inverway LLC Formerly with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean “The Long-Term Economic Consequences of 1954”
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