123rd Annual Meeting (January 2

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Saturday, January 3, 2009

7:30 AM-9:00 AM

Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Women Historians

Women in Theology and Church History
American Society of Church History

Board meeting
National History Center

National Advisory Board meeting
Society for History Education

7:30 AM-9:30 AM

Committee on Minority Historians Mentoring Breakfast

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Conference on Faith and History Reception
Conference on Faith and History

Board meeting
Urban History Association

8:00 AM-11:00 AM

Information table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

AHA Headquarters Office open

AHA Meeting Registration open

Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open

8:30 AM-9:00 AM

Coffee

8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Registration desk
American Society of Church History

8:30 AM-5:30 PM

Registration desk
American Catholic Historical Association

9:00 AM-9:15 AM

Introduction

9:00 AM-9:30 AM

Registration
Polish American Historical Association

Diasporas and (Dis)Placements
AHA Session 66

Minority Debates in Twentieth-Century Europe, East and West
AHA Session 67

The Multiple Registers of Violence in the Ottoman Empire: When Imperial Rivalries and Domestic Grievances Converge, c. Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries
AHA Session 68

Greek History and Its Islamic Fate, 630–930 CE
AHA Session 69

Remembering Race and Rethinking the American Midwest in Global Perspective
AHA Session 70

African and Andean Nationalists Encounter the U.S. State Department: Cold War Interpersonal Diplomacy from a Transnational Perspective, 1958–75
AHA Session 71

Strangers in the Windy City: Race, Ethnicity, and Global Influence on Immigrant Communities in Chicago between the 1900s and 1940s
AHA Session 72

The Dutch in the World: The World in the Republic
AHA Session 73

Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Routes on the Colonial Periphery
AHA Session 74

American Progressives, Ethnicity, and Taste: At Home and Abroad, 1875–1925
AHA Session 75

Discussing History and Representation: Remembering and Reconstructing the Experiences of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 2: Reconstructing Memories and Representations of Slavery in Brazil and the Bight of Benin
AHA Session 54

American Alcohol Studies Matures: The Class of 1979, Thirty Years of Reflection
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 2

Women and Community in the Middle Ages
American Catholic Historical Association 5

From the Delta to the City: Holiness and Pentecostal Religion in the Great Migration
American Society of Church History 7

America's Wars and American Religion
American Society of Church History 8

Christianity, the Religious Other, and Demonic Language in Medieval and Early Modern France
American Society of Church History 9

Private Records, Public Records: Using Biographical Materials to Study Imperial Chinese History
Chinese Historians in the United States 2

Languages: Sine Qua Non for Globalizing Historiographies
Conference Group for Central European History 3

"What It Is to Believe": Charles Taylor's A Secular Age
Conference on Faith and History

Narratives of Nation, Family, Privilege, and Society in Nueva Granada
Conference on Latin American History 14

Suffragettes, Mujeres Nuevas, and Beauty Contests: Political Women in Argentina, Peru, and Jamaica in the Early Twentieth Century
Conference on Latin American History 15

(Re)inventing Cuba: The Intersection of Race and Gender during the Twilight of the Colony and Advent of the Republic, 1870–1940
Conference on Latin American History 16

Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History
Historians Film Committee

Don�t Send These to Me: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the United States
Immigration and Ethnic History Society 1

New Perspectives on Exploration
National History Center 2

Polish American Women
Polish American Historical Association 3

Culture and the Ad
Popular Culture Association

Reforming the American Empire: Women and Social Reform in the Philippines during the Progressive Era
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2

Weapons, Battles, and Violence in Early Modern Italy: Can They Inform Social and Cultural History?
Society for Italian Historical Studies 2

Suturing Modern Technologies to a Postmodern World
Society for the History of Technology

Membership meeting
Urban History Association

11:15 AM-11:30 AM

Break

11:30 AM-12:00 PM

Teaching with Textbooks

11:30 AM-2:30 PM

Affiliated societies display

Polish American Historical Association Board meeting and luncheon
Polish American Historical Association

12:00 PM-1:15 PM

Luncheon Address: Inverting Bloom's Taxonomy: What's Basic When Reading History?

12:00 PM-2:00 PM

The 2008 John O�Connor Film Award Winner, Revolution '67

CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

12:15 PM-1:45 PM

Advanced Placement History Luncheon
College Board

CLGH Business meeting
Committee on Lesbian and Gay History

Annual luncheon
Conference on Asian History

Organization of History Teachers Luncheon
Organization of History Teachers

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Luncheon
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Meet the Editors and Staff of the American Historical Review

1:00 PM-4:30 PM

A Tour of New York City Houses of Worship
American Society of Church History 11

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Registration desk
American Society of Church History

1:15 PM-1:45 PM

National History Education Clearinghouse Introduction

1:45 PM-2:00 PM

Break

2:00 PM-2:30 PM

Registration
Polish American Historical Association

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

FDR and ER: Using Documents to Tell Their Story

2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Historians, Missionaries, and Expanded Horizons (Presidential)
AHA Session 76

History as Recrimination (Presidential)
AHA Session 77

Editing and Publishing of History
AHA Session 78

Discrimination/Harassment on the Job
AHA Session 79

Doing Transnational History
AHA Session 81

Cultures of Food History: Food Historiography from Early Modern Europe to Contemporary Japan
AHA Session 82

Cultural and Intellectual Responses to the Crusades: Western and Near Eastern Perspectives in the Twelfth Century
AHA Session 83

The Politics of Love: Male Friendship in the Mediterranean, Britain, and America, 1550–1800
AHA Session 84

Globalizing Beauty: Body Conflicts in the Modern World
AHA Session 85

Mexico in the Cold War
AHA Session 86

Naming War: Conflict, Remembrance, and Nostalgia in the Making and Unmaking of U.S. Hegemony
AHA Session 87

Perspectives on Public History: What Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences are Essential for the Public History Professional?
AHA Session 88

Teaching Historiography: Approaches, Resources, and Issues
AHA Session 89

Globalizing Geographies of Empire: Imagining and Contesting Space
AHA Session 90

Oral History, Memory, and Identity: Making the Connections
AHA Session 91

The Socio-histoire du Politique and the History of Post war Socialism in Eastern Europe
AHA Session 92

The World of Goods: Commerce, Commodities, and Cultures in the Balkans and Habsburg Central Europe
AHA Session 93

Black Women and the Post-Emancipation State in North America and the British Caribbean
AHA Session 94

Indian Trade and the Emergence of a Plantation South
AHA Session 95

Social Divisions and Cultural Transformations in Early Islamic History
AHA Session 96

At the Show: Changes in Twentieth-Century Fan Communities, Audiences, Gendered Spectatorship, and Media in a Global Context
AHA Session 97

National and International Women�s Organizations during the Cold War
AHA Session 98

Politics and Power: Writing the Social History of the American Elite
AHA Session 99

Discussing History and Representation: Remembering and Reconstructing the Experiences of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 3: Forgotten Histories and New Representations of Enslaved Africans
AHA Session 80

New Trends in Medieval Spanish History
American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain

Old Stuff, New Tricks: How Archivists Are Making Special Collections Even More Special Using Web 2.0 Technologies
American Association for History and Computing 1

Isaac Hecker and the American Church: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Paulists
American Catholic Historical Association 6

New Approaches to Enlightenment Research: The Catholic Enlightenment and Its Aftermath
American Catholic Historical Association 7

Christian Narrative and African American Racial Identity
American Society of Church History 12

Re-thinking Religion, Politics, and the Second Great Awakening
American Society of Church History 13

Exploring the Boundaries of Sacred and Secular in German Europe
American Society of Church History 14

The Research Habits of Historians: Practice and Teaching
Association for the Bibliography of History

Neogeographies/Neohistories: Analyzing, Creating, and Publishing Maps
Center for History and New Media 2

The Great Leap Famine in New Perspective: Micro-Historical, Cross-Regional, and Socio-Ecological Interpretations
Chinese Historians in the United States 3

American Cities and Public Spaces
Community College Humanities Association

Colonial Caciques as Native Leaders and Go-Betweens in Mesoamerica and the Andes
Conference on Latin American History 18

Immigrants, Identity, and Popular Culture in Buenos Aires
Conference on Latin American History 19

Approaches to Radical Environmental History: Methodologies and Movements
MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization

Reassessing the Jacksonian Period: New Perspectives and Directions
National History Center 3

Revisiting New York City Polonia: Stories from the Old Lower East Side Neighborhood!
Polish American Historical Association 4

New Perspectives on the U.S. Role in the World during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 3

Italian Fascism and Its Legacies: The Politics of Identity
Society for Italian Historical Studies 3

The International Circulation of Popular Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

Dreams and Fantasies of Early Modern Women
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

3:00 PM-3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM-4:45 PM

Many Movements: Teaching Black Freedom Struggles from WWII to the 1960s

4:30 PM-6:30 PM

Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem

4:45 PM-5:00 PM

Closing: National History Education Clearinghouse Staff

4:45 PM-5:30 PM

Business meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

4:45 PM-5:45 PM

National History Center Open forum
National History Center

4:45 PM-6:00 PM

Open Forum on Disability

Information Session
National Endowment for the Humanities

4:45 PM-6:15 PM

Annual meeting of affiliated society representatives

Membership meeting
Chinese Historians in the United States

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

World History Association Business meeting
World History Association

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Distinguished Career Award: George M. Marsden
American Society of Church History 15

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Colonial Studies Committee: New Work in Indigenous History
Conference on Latin American History 20

Gran Colombia Studies Committee: Reclaiming Gran Colombia Studies: How Can We Integrate the Study of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Panama?
Conference on Latin American History 21

Brazilian Studies Committee: Underappreciated Books on the History of Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 22

HAHR Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Andean Studies Committee
Conference on Latin American History

5:00 PM-7:30 PM

Reception sponsored by: Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

5:15 PM-6:00 PM

Business meeting
Society for Italian Historical Studies

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum

Social hour
American Catholic Historical Association

Business meeting
Conference Group for Central European History

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Reception for Two-Year Faculty

5:30 PM-7:30 PM

CLGH Reception
Committee on Lesbian and Gay History

CCWH Reception
Coordinating Council for Women in History

Business meeting
Hungarian Studies Association

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Reception
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

5:45 PM-7:00 PM

National History Center Reception
National History Center

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

Social hour
Society for Italian Historical Studies

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Peace History Society Reception
Peace History Society

World History Association Reception
World History Association

6:00 PM-9:00 PM

PAHA Annual awards banquet
Polish American Historical Association

6:30 PM-7:30 PM

Reception in Honor of the Distinguished Career Award Recipient
American Society of Church History

Reception for the North American Conference on British Studies
North American Conference on British Studies

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

Reception for Graduate Students

6:30 PM-8:30 PM

Bierabend
Conference Group for Central European History

6:30 PM-9:30 PM

Annual dinner
Urban History Association

7:00 PM-8:20 PM

Prizewinner's Reception

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

Borderlands/Frontiers Committee: Assessing the Sacred in the Colonial Borderlands: Jesuit and Indigenous Faith at the Margins of the Spanish Empire
Conference on Latin American History 23

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee: Making the Most of Media in Teaching Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 24

Chile-Rio de la Plata Studies Committee
Conference on Latin American History

7:30 PM-8:30 PM

Reception for Graduate Students
American Society of Church History

8:30 PM-10:00 PM

American Historical Association General Meeting

10:00 PM-11:55 PM

Reception hosted by the American Historical Association for 2008 President Gabrielle M. Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University