Friday, Sept. 17

Robert Penn Warren Center of the Humanities

6:00 -7.30 p.m.

Opening Reception

hosted by the Robert Penn Warren Center of the Humanities, Vanderbilt University

Mona Fredericks, Executive Director

Joel Harrington, Director of the Center for European Studies

Saturday, Sept. 18    

Nashville University Club

9:00 a.m.

Introduction

Welcome

Address

Greetings

Richard McCarty

Dean, Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science

Bernd Schäfer

German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

9:30 a.m.

Session I: Détente, Ostpolitik and the Helsinki Process

U.S. Détente and German Ostpolitik: Parallelisms and Frictions

Gottfried Niedhart, Universität Mannheim

Avoiding Disadvantage to the West: NATO’s Response to the Soviet Call for a European Security Conference

Sarah B. Snyder, Georgetown University

Odd Man Out: The CDU/CSU Between Atlanticism and Neo-Nationalism in the 1970s

Ronald J. Granieri, University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University

11:00 a.m.

Session II: Transatlantic Relations from Vietnam to the ‘Year of Europe’

Still in the Shadow: Richard Nixon, Western Europe, and the Vietnam War, 1969-1972

David Geyer, U.S. Department of State, D.C.

"With Friends Like This": Henry Kissinger and The Year of Europe

Robert Wampler, National Security Archive, D.C.

Redefining Atlantic Relations at a Time of Detente: Kissinger’s „Year of Europe“ Initiative, Seen from Europe

Daniel Moeckli, ETH Zuerich

Chair: Bernd Schäfer, German Historical Institute, D.C.

12:30 p.m.

LUNCH

1:30 p.m.

Session II Continued: Transatlantic Relations from Vietnam to the ‘Year of Europe’

Kissinger’s ‘Year of Europe’, Britain’s Year of Choice

Alastair Noble, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

Germany and the ‘Year of Europe’

Fabian Hilfrich, IfZ Berlin/München

2:30 p.m.

Session III: Trade, Technology, and Money

The Politics of Planes and Engines:  Anglo-American relations during the Rolls Royce-Lockheed crisis 1970/1

Raj Roy, London

The Gas-Pipeline Deal and Transatlantic Relations

Werner Lippert, Vanderbilt University, Nashville

Toward a “Community of Stability”? The Deutsche Mark between European and Atlantic Priorities,

1968-1973

William Gray, Purdue University, Purdue

Challenging the Dollar: Monetary Crises and European Integration, 1968-1978

Hubert Zimmermann, Cornell University, Ithaca

Chair: Rowena Olegario, Vanderbilt University

4:30 p.m.

COFFEE BREAK

5:00 – 6:30 p.m.                     

Wilson Hall 126 (auditorium)

Keynote Lecture

German-American Relations in Historical Perspective

Lt. General William Odom

Director, Center on National Security Studies, Hudson Institute, Washington D.C.

Introduction: Gordon Gee, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University

Moderation: Daniel Usner, Chairman of the Department of History

7:00 p.m.

Dinner

Sunday, Sept. 19

Nashville University Club

9:00 a.m.

Session IV: From Dwarf to Political Actor? The European Communities

The Hague Summit of the EC, Britain’s entry and the ‘New’ Atlantic partnership (1969/70)

Claudia Hiepel, Universität Essen

Between Pacifism, Europeanism and Atlanticism: Helmut Schmidt, the EC and Transatlantic Relations

Matthias Schulz, Vanderbilt University

Terrorism in the Seventies: U.S. and European Responses

Mary N. Hampton, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell, Alabama

Birds of a Different Feather? Europe, U.S., and Interpreting Islam

Imtiaz Hussain, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

Chair: Donald Hancock, Vanderbilt University

10:45 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.

Session IV: The Missile Crisis and the Peace Movement

The US, Europe, and the NATO-Double-Decision

Joachim Scholtyseck, Universität Bonn

To ‘Sail Before the Wind of Time’: Scientists and the Transnational Disarmament Movement, 1963-1983

Paul Rubinson, University of Texas, Austin

Canada’s Peacenik Prime Minister: Pierre Trudeau’s Search for Peace, 1983-84

Greg Donaghy, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa

Chair: Michael Bess, Vanderbilt University

12:15 p.m.

Conclusion

Matthias Schulz, Vanderbilt University

12:30 p.m.

Lunch