of U.S. reach into the Pacific
The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders will hold its fifth annual symposium, "When East Became West: The Changing Borders of America and the Pacific World," on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 23 and 24.
John S. Whitehead, professor emeritus of history at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, will deliver the keynote address at 5:15 p.m. on Friday in Rm. 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 63 High St. Whitehead '67 B.A., '71 Ph.D. is the author of "Completing the Union: Alaska, Hawai'i, and the Battle for Statehood." His many articles and books on the American West include a study of hydroelectric power in 20th-century Alaska.
While some Americans think their nation has a relatively new connection with the Pacific, Whitehead contends that the relationship is as old as the republic, although the precise border on which America meets the Pacific has changed several times in the last 200 years.
A panel of scholars will pursue that theme when the symposium resumes on Saturday at 10 a.m. in Rm. 101 of LC. Exploring the "coastlines" of a Pacific World studies approach, the panelists will discuss the challenges of combining such a model with the traditional frontier orientation.
The panelists will include:
* Professor David Igler of the University of California, author of a recent article in The American Historical Review titled "Diseased Goods: Global Exchanges in the Eastern Pacific Basin, 1770-1850" and of the book "Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920";
* Professor Madeline Y. Hsu '96 Ph.D. of San Francisco State University, author of "Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943";
* Professor Elizabeth Mancke of the University of Akron, co-editor (with Carole Shammas) of "The Creation of the British Atlantic World" and author of "The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760-1830";
* Gretchen Heefner, a Yale doctoral student, author of a forthcoming article on Hawaiian statehood and the politics of race that will appear in the Pacific Historical Review; and
* Kariann Yokota, assistant professor of American studies and history at Yale, the panel's moderator and author of the forthcoming book "A Culture of Insecurity: The Early American Republic as a Post-Colonial Nation."
Following the keynote address on Friday, the Yale Collection of Western Americana and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will host a public reception at the library, 121 Wall St.
All events are free and open to the public. Registration is not required. For further information, call Edith Rotkopf at (203) 432-2328 or visit the Lamar Center website: www.yale.edu/lamarcenter.
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