Thursday, November 12th, 2009

5:00pm-6:00pm: Keynote Lecture, ASU
Life Sciences Tower, E-Wing Room 104

Rick Perlstein, “The Emerging Republican Minority ”

This lecture is open to the public.

Friday, November 13th, 2009

8:15am-8:45am: Coffee and Registration, University Club, Room TBA

8:45am-9:00am: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Susan Irwin, Arizona Historical Foundation

Linda Whitaker, Arizona Historical Foundation 

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Claremont McKenna College

9:00am-9:30am: Keynote

Robert Alan Goldberg, University of Utah

9:45am-11:45am: Goldwater's Arizona & Arizona's Goldwater

Micaela Anne Larkin, Yale University
Southwestern Strategy: Mexican Americans and Republican Politics in the Arizona Borderlands

Andrew Needham, New York University
The Conscience of a Conservationist?: Barry Goldwater and Environmental Change in Postwar Arizona

Jason LaBau, University of Southern California
Mr. Arizona: The Impact of Barry Goldwater on the Arizona Republican Party

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Claremont McKenna College
From Boardrooms, to the Senate, to the High Court: Phoenix Republicans in and their Impact on National Politics

Chair: Jeff Roche, College of Wooster


12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch, University Club


1:00pm-3:00pm: The Goldwater Moment

Mike Bowen, University of Florida
Getting to Goldwater: Robert Taft, William F. Knowland, and the Rightward Drift of the Republican Party

Laura Jane Gifford, George Fox University
Taking this Party Back: Barry Goldwater and the Draft Goldwater Campaigns of 1960

Niki Hemmer, Columbia University
The Dealers and the Darling: Conservative Media and the Candidacy of Barry Goldwater

Michelle Nickerson, University of Texas at Dallas
Barry Goldwater and the Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes: Conservative Female Activists in the 1964 Republican Presidential Campaign

Chair: Robert Alan Goldberg, University of Utah

3:15pm-5:15pm: Beyond 1964 and Goldwater Conservatism

William A. Link, University of Florida
Jesse Helms, Barry Goldwater, and the Dynamic of Modern Conservatism

Drew T. Meyers, University of Michigan
Barry Goldwater, Conservative Politics, and Senior Rights, 1969-1978

Joseph Crespino, Emory University
Goldwater in Dixie: Rhetoric and Reality in the Growth of the Postwar Republican South

Brian Allen Drake, University of Georgia
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Barry Goldwater and Federal Environmentalism

Chair: Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara