Speakers and Panel Chairs for GLHC 2024

Listed in order of appearance on the program.

Panel 1: Grace Coolidge (Grand Valley State University) (Chair)

Jonathan S. Jones (James Madison University, Virginia)
“Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and the Legacies of Opioid Addiction in the Late-19^th and early-20^th Century U.S.”

Sarah Siff (Central State University, Ohio)
“Amok in Mexico: Soldiers and Marihuana in an Era of Revolution”

Ben Roy (University of Georgia)
“‘The Ideal Pleasures of Dreamland’: The Experience of Tobacco in the Civil War Era”

 

Panel 2: Julia B. Köhne (Humboldt-University in Berlin) (Chair)

Łukasz Kamieński (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
“Military Neuroenhancement: The Continuation of Psychopharmacology by Other Means”

Ulrich Koch (George Washington University)
“The heroin epidemic that wasn’t: Returning Vietnam veterans, controversies over methadone maintenance, and the future of rehabilitation, 1970–1974”

 

Panel 3: Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University) (Chair)

Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen)
“Traumatic Memory, Coping, and Alcohol: The Small Back Room (1949)”

Jonas Weaver (University of California, Irvine)
"‘A red mist’: Alcohol, Sexual Violence, and Postwar Memory in Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome" 

 

Panel 4: Sarah Siff (Central State University, Ohio) (Chair)

Leonard Kleiber (University of Heidelberg)
"Rethinking Pervitin: Narratives, Scope of use and military value of amphetamines in the German army in the Second World War”

Baizoumi Wambae Sylvain (University of Maroua, Cameroon)
“Alcohol, Drugs and Pastoral Criminals in Northern Cameroon”