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AHA Sessions
Friday, January 2, 2009
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Catastrophe and Transformation
AHA Session 1
From Dissertation to Book: The Process as an Intellectual Dilemma (and Some Practical Advice Too)
AHA Session 2
Teaching and Learning through a Teaching American History Grant
AHA Session 3
Biography and History: The Debate over Olaudah Equiano's
Interesting Narrative
AHA Session 4
The End of Empire? Resistance and Continuity in Modern Asian History and Historiography
AHA Session 5
American Food Abroad: State Administration, Voluntary Relief, and the Politics of Food Aid in the Great War
AHA Session 6
Warrior Faith: Religion and the Military in the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 7
Global History in the Early Twentieth Century
AHA Session 8
Domesticating the Exotic: Selling Exotic Nature in Europe and the United States, 1700–1930 (This session is dedicated to the memory of Philip J. Pauly, Rutgers University)
AHA Session 9
Crossing Borders, Imagining Identities: Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Global Contexts
AHA Session 10
Eradicating the Myth of the Eternal Sea: Historicizing Marine Environments as a Necessary Step for Regional and Global Histories
AHA Session 11
Missions to the World: Transnational Perspectives on Modern American Religions
AHA Session 12
Images of the Indian in Spanish America
AHA Session 13
Modern Women/Modern Anxieties: Female Bodies and the Spectacle of Modernity in France, Cuba, and the United States
AHA Session 14
Cultivating Capitalism: The Moralities of Markets in the Nineteenth-Century United States
AHA Session 15
Transitions in Twentieth-Century Spanish History
AHA Session 16
The Problem of Bodily Difference in Transnational Colonial Contexts
AHA Session 17
Between National Modernism and Internal Colonialism: Indigenous Intellectuals and Alternative Public Spheres in Latin America, 1920–73
AHA Session 18
Globalizing Historiography: Reciprocal Integration and Future Directions
AHA Session 19
Philanthropic Globalism: The Rockefellers and Post-Conflict Reconstructions
AHA Session 20
Racial Perception and Representative Government: Politics and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
AHA Session 21
From Content to Craft: Teaching Historiography to Undergraduate History Majors
AHA Session 22
Loyalty, Identity, and the Uses of History: British and American Nationalism in Colonial British North America and the Early National United States
AHA Session 23
Religion, Loyalty, and Nature in the Construction of Identity and Belonging in Early Modern Spanish America
AHA Session 24
New Directions in Chicana/o Movement Era Historical Scholarship and the Implications for Understanding Civil Rights in America
AHA Session 25
3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation
, by William H. Sewell Jr.
AHA Session 26
Across the Pedagogical Divide: Bridging Secondary School and Undergraduate Classrooms
AHA Session 27
Interpreting Empires in Time and Space: Ottoman, Qing, Safavid, and Russian Empires in World History
AHA Session 29
The Transnational History of Food in Twentieth-Century East Asia
AHA Session 30
Between the Umma, the Nation, and the World: The Global in Muslim Thought and Practice
AHA Session 31
Colonialism Returns to Metropolitan France: Francophone Debates over Colonialism in Africa and the Challenge of Postcolonialism
AHA Session 32
Globalizing the American History Classroom: Teaching U.S. History Abroad
AHA Session 33
Identities: Forms and Functions in the Middle Ages
AHA Session 34
Race, Caste, and Nation in India and the United States since World War II
AHA Session 35
1989 in a Global Perspective
AHA Session 36
Commodities in Global History
AHA Session 37
International Histories of the Country of the Future: Brazil and the Twentieth-Century World
AHA Session 38
States, Societies, and the Practice of Atlantic History: Opportunities and Obstacles
AHA Session 39
The Promise and Pitfalls of Writing for Readers beyond the Academy
AHA Session 40
Medieval History: Old and New Classics III
AHA Session 41
Nomads and Merchants on the Silk Roads
AHA Session 42
The Frontier of Paper in a Global Context
(Cancelled)
AHA Session 43
A Historical Conundrum: The Work of Historians Versus the Expectations of Secondary Education
AHA Session 44
Globalizing the Historiography of Twentieth-Century Christianity (
Cancelled)
AHA Session 45
Raising Sufficient Concern: Refugees and Relief, 1899–1960
AHA Session 46
Unionism, Disloyalty, and Disaffection in the Confederacy: Papers Commemorating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Georgia Lee Tatum’s
Disloyalty in the Confederacy
AHA Session 47
Getting Down to Earth: The Spatial Turn in the Writing of Postcontact Native North American History
AHA Session 48
Safety, Security, Prosperity, and Order in the Transnational City
AHA Session 49
Cross-Cultural Communism: Spanish, British, and Chinese Socialists inside Russia’s International Revolution
AHA Session 50
Discussing History and Representation: Remembering and Reconstructing the Experiences of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 1: Challenging “Traditional” Visions of Slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean
AHA Session 28
8:30 PM-10:30 PM
The Pleasures of the Imagination
AHA Session
Saturday, January 3, 2009
9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century
AHA Session 51
The Deferred Violence of Decolonization (Presidential)
AHA Session 52
The Post-Postmodern Middle Ages (Presidential)
AHA Session 53
Hamilton and Hamiltonianism: Fresh Reflections from the Globalized Twenty-First Century
AHA Session 55
Anna Coreth's
Pietas Austriaca
Fifty Years After: At Home and Abroad
AHA Session 56
Comparing Images of Atomic Power and Atomic Warfare in European and American Popular Media, 1945–63
AHA Session 57
Celebrity in Motion: The Spatial Experience of Fame in the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 58
National Textbook Controversies in a Globalizing World
AHA Session 59
A Critical Theory of Subalternity: Reflections on the Global Impact of Ranajit Guha's
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India
AHA Session 60
Global Exchange and Seaborne Empires
AHA Session 61
Mr. South Goes to Washington: A Region and Its Representatives Shape U.S. Federal Policy in the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 62
Problematic Passions: Case Studies in the History of Emotion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
AHA Session 63
Situating Brazil in the Atlantic World: Colonial, Imperial, National, and Transnational Perspectives
AHA Session 64
Cities, Suburbs, and Hinterlands: New Directions in the History of the Urban Environment
AHA Session 65
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
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
Sunday, January 4, 2009
9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Return to Reality? Some Contexts in Current Historiography (Presidential)
AHA Session 100
From the Atlantic Slave Trade to the Harlem Renaissance: Stretching and Expanding Cultural Boundaries
AHA Session 101
Students As Historians: Historical Thinking and Primary Sources in the American History Classroom
AHA Session 102
Preparing for the Research Trip: What to Know Before You Go
AHA Session 103
Purchaseable Commodity or Right? Historicizing Health in Global Context
AHA Session 105
Rethinking North American Dissent in a Global Framework
AHA Session 106
Oral Histories: Food and Trans/National Political Economies and Cultures in Europe, Asia, and the United States, 1880s–1980s
AHA Session 107
A Global History of Mass Dictatorships as Self-Mobilization Regimes
AHA Session 108
Culture, Military History, and Global Historiography
AHA Session 109
Globalizing the Historiography of State Formation—Comparing Trajectories of State Formation: The Role of Values, Sociopolitical Institutions, and Demographic-Ecological Conditions
AHA Session 110
Globalizing Japanese Historiography: Japan in Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 111
Oil, Coal, and Conservative Religion in the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 112
The Future of Memory Studies
AHA Session 113
Locating Jews in Medieval Iberia
AHA Session 115
Sexuality and Psychiatric Liberalism in Twentieth-Century Britain, Canada, and the United States
AHA Session 116
Dreams, Trances, and Ghostly Apparitions in the Anglo-Atlantic: The Seventeenth Century
AHA Session 117
Cold War Celebrities and Myths: Jack Benny, Yuri Gagarin, and Samantha Smith
AHA Session 118
Colonial Fantasies and Nationalist Conquest on the Eastern (European) Frontier, 1848–1914
AHA Session 119
Connecting Religiosity and Sexuality in Colonial Mexico: Tension, Ambiguity, and Convergence in Archival Texts
AHA Session 120
Innovations in Collaboration: Building University-School Partnerships
AHA Session 121
Aurality and the Experience of Slavery
AHA Session 122
Nation, Race, and Gender: Colonial Challenges to Early Modern European Historiography
AHA Session 123
Spaceflight, Place, and Memory in a Global Setting
AHA Session 124
Re-evaluating Africa and World War II, Part 1: Africa and World War II: Mobilizing Men and Materials
AHA Session 104
The Historian As Activist, Part 1: The Historian As Activist I
AHA Session 114
11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Global Humanity (Presidential)
AHA Session 125
Sites of Encounter: Teaching the Muslim World and World War I
AHA Session 126
Russia and the USSR on the Map of International Law: From the Hague Conventions, 1899–1907, to the Nuremberg Trial, 1945–46
AHA Session 128
Disrupting Boundaries and Globalizing Historiographies: Consumption, Consumer Cultures, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
AHA Session 129
Sovereignty and Citizenship at War
AHA Session 130
Caste, Power, and History
AHA Session 131
Pacific Colonial Links: Migration and Trade between New Spain and the Philippine Islands in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
AHA Session 132
The History Job Market: Opportunities, Problems, and Fixes
AHA Session 133
International Fairs and Tourism: Cultural Diplomacy in the Post war Period
AHA Session 135
Queer Tourism and Globalization: Charting Local and Global Effects
AHA Session 136
Genocide and Modernity: Beyond the West
AHA Session 137
Empire, Political Economy, and Economic Diplomacy in the British Empire, 1776–1914
AHA Session 138
Reclaiming Family History: Global Perspectives
AHA Session 139
Franciscans and Nahuas in Colonial Mexico
AHA Session 140
Masking, Fraud, and Imposture in Early Modern Europe
AHA Session 141
Teaching the American Civil War outside the United States
AHA Session 142
The History of Adolescence in Global Perspective
AHA Session 143
Blood as Metaphor and Substance in the Transatlantic World
AHA Session 144
The Public Sphere in Twentieth-Century Latin American Politics
AHA Session 145
Problematizing Transatlantic History: German-American Perspectives
AHA Session 146
The Press of Empire: Imperial Expansion and Decolonization in British Reporting on India, 1840–1947
AHA Session 147
Nationbuilding and Historiography in Meiji Japan
AHA Session 148
The "National Declassification Initiative": A Forum on Secrecy and the Historical Record
AHA Session 149
Forty Years in the Academy: The Coordinating Council for Women in History, Women Historians, and Women's History
AHA Session 150
Re-evaluating Africa and World War II, Part 2: Africa and World War II: Social and Economic Impact of the War
AHA Session 127
The Historian As Activist, Part 2: The Historian As Activist II
AHA Session 134
2:30 PM-4:30 PM
National History in an Age of Globalization: The Case of Medieval France (Presidential)
AHA Session 151
History, Museums, and the Politics of Memory: The Congo in Belgium after
King Leopold's Ghost
(Presidential)
AHA Session 152
Sites of Encounter: Thinking Historically about Early Human History
AHA Session 153
Integrating Global Perspectives and World History into Teaching American History Grant Projects
AHA Session 154
Putting Historical Skills to Work: Careers beyond Academe
AHA Session 155
A Learning Process: Revisiting the Role of Graduate Coursework in the Making of a Historian
AHA Session 156
Jewish Migrants in Uncharted Terrain: From Europe to Small-Town and Rural America
AHA Session 157
Understanding Globalization through the History of Multinational Enterprise
AHA Session 159
Bound Feet, Corseted Waists, and Veiled Heads: Chastity Belts and the Tropes of Contained Femininity
AHA Session 160
European Religion/American Religion: Why the Difference?
AHA Session 161
Globalizing the Historiography of Sexuality: Critical Reflections on Issues of Epistemology, Genealogy, and Methodology
AHA Session 162
Connecting Histories Globally
AHA Session 163
Critical Feminist Biography: Writing Race, Writing Gender, (Re)Writing Women of Color
AHA Session 164
Globalizing Reconstruction: Examining the Legacies of Reconstruction in a Transnational Perspective
AHA Session 165
The Politics of Violence: Silence and Voice
AHA Session 166
A Look Back as the Tet Offensive Turns Forty
AHA Session 167
Globalization-Localization: Writing the History of Historiography from Global Perspectives
AHA Session 168
Reform and Religion in the U.S. History Survey: A Global Perspective
AHA Session 169
Who Were the Protestors in the “Student Protests”? The United States, West Germany, and Poland in the 1960s and 1970s
AHA Session 170
“In a New York State of Mind": Planners and Politicians Get Down to Business
AHA Session 171
Gender and Knowledge at the Crossroads: Creating Medical Authority in Early Modern England
AHA Session 172
Men at War: Evolving Perceptions of Masculinity and Military Service during the Korean and Vietnam Wars
AHA Session 173
Tourists without Borders: The Emergence of a Pan-European Discourse in the History of Mass Tourism and Travel
AHA Session 174
Controversy Unresolved: Theodore Draper's
American Communism and Soviet Russia
after Fifty Years
AHA Session 175
Process and Personality: Latin American History and the New Biography
AHA Session 176
The Subprime Mortgage Meltdown in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 177
Poster Session
AHA Session 178
Re-evaluating Africa and World War II, Part 3: Africa and World War II: Catalyst for Anti-Colonialism
AHA Session 158
8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Election 2008: How "Historic" Was It?
AHA Session
Monday, January 5, 2009
8:30 AM-10:30 AM
The Other Middle Ages: New Developments in Byzantine Studies (Presidential)
AHA Session 179
Food and Empire
AHA Session 180
The Environment and the Underrepresented: Perspectives on the Early Modern to Modern Transition in World History
AHA Session 181
American Anti-Communism before McCarthy: The Role of Labor
AHA Session 182
The Cuban Revolution Fifty Years Later: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 183
What Is Sound to a Historian? Critical Perspectives on the Use of Recordings as Historical Sources
AHA Session 184
Foreigners and Rural Society in Republican China
AHA Session 185
Learning the Hard Way: A Century of National Park Planning
AHA Session 186
The Marriage of Theory and Praxis: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Medieval Grand Narrative
AHA Session 187
The Political Imagination in African History
AHA Session 188
African Religions in the Diaspora
AHA Session 189
Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower
: A Roundtable on the Book
AHA Session 190
History and Belief: Reconciling the Historian’s Craft and Religious Commitment
AHA Session 191
Globalizing Historical Reference Volumes: Treats and Caveats
AHA Session 192
Still "The Peace to End All Peace"? The Historiography of the Paris Peace Settlement after Ninety Years
AHA Session 193
Queer Historiography
AHA Session 194
A Retail Revolution: Reshaping the American Consumer, 1920–60
AHA Session 195
Alternative Stories of Entrepreneurship
AHA Session 196
Globalizing Masculinity in the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 197
Reproducing the Modern Nation: Population Politics in Bohemia, Latvia, Chile, and Peru
AHA Session 198
Transforming National Demarcations in Twentieth-Century Germany and North America
AHA Session 199
Minerva's Historiography: Women and War
AHA Session 200
Writing the History of International Humanitarianism
AHA Session 201
Crossing Borders: Technology and Globalization in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 202
Reconceptualizing Irish Politics: Ireland and the British Empire
AHA Session 203
Women, War, and the Politics of Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
AHA Session 204
11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Political Theologies (Presidential)
AHA Session 205
African Americans, Native Americans, and Narratives of Citizenship
AHA Session 206
Governing the Home: Rethinking Labor and Colonial Relations in the History of Domestic Service
AHA Session 207
Historicizing Jihadi Islam
AHA Session 208
The Cuban Revolution at Fifty: Is the Latin American Historiographical Revolution Catalyzed by Cuba Dead or Alive and Well?
AHA Session 209
From Warfare to Welfare: A Transnational History of Disability in the World War II Era
AHA Session 210
Politics, Empire, and Nation-Building in Central Europe: From the Habsburg Monarchy to the Austrofascist State, 1861–1938
AHA Session 211
"Corporeal Colonialism”: Colonized Women’s Bodies, Sexuality, and Disease in Spanish America, Japanese Korea, and French West Africa
AHA Session 212
Creating the “Human Rights Revolution” of the 1970s
AHA Session 213
Third Wave Precedents: Race and Sexuality in the Second Wave
AHA Session 214
Identities in Flight: Aviation's Impact on Nation, Gender, and Sexuality
AHA Session 215
Reconsidering Power in Social Practice: Manners, Etiquette, and Acts of Hospitality
AHA Session 216
Global Perspectives and Local Understandings in Historical Narratives about the Conquest of Mexico
AHA Session 217
The New Religions and the Old: Europe, c. 1900
AHA Session 218
The Future of North American Slavery: Industrialization, Railroads, and Finance in the Nineteenth Century
AHA Session 219
Constructions of Reconstruction: Culture and Memory on the U.S.'s "Dark and Bloody Ground"
AHA Session 220
Cosmopolitical Visions in the Context of National Historiography
AHA Session 221
How Global Forces Shaped Urban Development in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
AHA Session 222
Slavery to Sin and the Sin of Slavery: Spiritual and Social Divisions Caused by American Antislavery, 1830–60
AHA Session 223
The Problem of Nationalism in a Global Frame
AHA Session 224
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Historical Inquiry into the Early Modern Atlantic World
AHA Session 225
Paper Jihadis: Colonialism and the Construction of "Terror" in South Asia, 1869–1947
AHA Session 226
Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
AHA Session 227
Destination: War: Political Tourism in Post war Germany, the Israeli-Occupied Territories, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
AHA Session 228
“Facing the Challenge of a New Religious History”: Post-1945 American Religion as a Site of Historical Inquiry in Germany
AHA Session 229
Finding Cultural History in Business Archives
AHA Session 230
