PROGRAM

8:30 am           Continental Breakfast

9:00 am         Opening Session:  121 David Lawrence Hall

• Welcome:  Dr. Lawrence Feick
  Professor & Director – University Center for International Studies
  
  
• Prologue: Dr. Donald M. Goldstein
  Professor – Graduate School of Public & International Affairs
  Interim Director – Ridgway Center for International Security Studies

10:00 am         Panel #1: 121 David Lawrence Hall

•  “Remembering the Forgotten War – An Oral History & Recollections of the War.” 
  Pittsburgh Korean War Veterans - with Mr. Ed Vogel, Korean War veterans’ president/Ridgway Chapter #74 & three colleagues; Mr. Donald McIlrath, Mr. Thomas M. Miller and Mr. Harrison (Skip) Niedergal
  
  
• "A Cluster of Consequences of the Korean War" 
  Dr. Peter Karsten – Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh

11:00 am         Panel #2:  121 David Lawrence Hall

• “‘Around and Back’: The Other Ridgway”
  Mr. Greg Edwards – Center for the Study of the Korean War, Graceland University, Independence, MO
  
  
• “Mixed Messages:  The Armistice Negotiations at Kaesong”
  Dr. James I. Matray – Professor of History, California State University - Chico, CA
  

12:00 noon      Lunch – On your own 

1:00 pm         Panel #3: 121 David Lawrence Hall

• “`It’s Not Worth Helping Those North Korean Loafers’:
  A Reassessment of Ordinary Chinese Reactions to the Korean War”
  Dr. Neil J. Diamant, Professor of Asian Law & Society/Political Science Department, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
  
  
• "The Korean War POW and the Code of Conduct: Myth and Reality"
  Dr. Lori L. Bogle – Associate Professor of History, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

2:00 pm           Panel #4: 121 David Lawrence Hall

• “Forgotten or Ignored: Ridgway and the Legacy of the Korean War”
  Dr. Paul Edwards - Founder and Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of the Korean War, Graceland University, Independence, MO
  
  
•  "Korean War Legacies:  21st Century Residues and Evocations" 
  Dr. Davis Bobrow – Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh

  3:00 pm         Break

  3:30 pm         Plenary Session:  121 Lawrence Hall

Moderator:  Dr. Patrick Manning, Director – World History Center, University of Pittsburgh

  5:00 pm         Conference concludes

Sponsors: United States Department of Education, University of Pittsburgh School of Arts & Sciences, Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, Korean War Veterans Association – Matthew B. Ridgway Chapter, the Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh World History Center, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University Center for International Studies (UCIS)

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