Guatemala, 1952-1954
Thursday, May 15, 2003
Presentation of the Retrospective Foreign Relations of the United States Volume
Panel #1 Susan Holly Gerald Haines Piero Gleijeses
May 15-16, 2003
Guatemala, 1952-1954
Speaker TBD
9:00am?9:15am
Retrospective FRUS Volume, Guatemala, 1952-1954
9:15am?10:30am
Temple University
Chair/Discussant
Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
?Amending the Record: New Documentary Evidence and Its Impact on Historical Perceptions, Guatemala 1952-1954?
University of Virginia
?Assassination Planning in Guatemala?
School of Advanced International Studies
The Johns Hopkins University
?Guatemala 1954?Looking Back?
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?
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
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 Hern?ndez
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?
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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