125th Annual Meeting (January 6-9, 2011)

Affiliated Society Sessions

AHA Committee on Minority Historians

AHA Session 117: Rites and Rights of Passage: Enslaved Girls and Women in the United States South and Barbados

AHA Session 229: John Hope Franklin: Life and Legacy

AHA Session 264: Remapping the Historical Terrain: Approaches to the Research and Writing of History

AHA Committee on Women Historians

AHA Session 40: Part 1

AHA Session 78: Part 2

AHA Session 154: The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Women's History

AHA Session 192: Generations: The Past, Present, and Future of Histories of Women and Gender

AHA Graduate and Early Career Committee

AHA Session 3: Careers in History: The Variety of the Profession

AHA Session 37: Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century

AHA Session 41: Strategies for Effectively Mentoring Students at All Levels

AHA Session 42: Getting a Job at a Community College

AHA LGBTQ Historians Task Force

AHA Session 190: LGBTQ Historians Task Force Open Forum

AHA Professional Division

AHA Session 3: Careers in History: The Variety of the Profession

AHA Session 37: Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century

AHA Session 115: The Academic Job Market: Finding Solutions in a Time of Crisis

AHA Session 152: Making Equitable Tenure Decisions for Public History Faculty

AHA Research Division

AHA Session 77: The Battle over Assessment and Ranking of History Departments

AHA Session 115: The Academic Job Market: Finding Solutions in a Time of Crisis

AHA Session 116: Nourishing Ideas: Food History in the Archives and the Classroom

AHA Session 191: What's Next? Patterns and Practices in History in Print and Online

AHA Session 228: Encounters and Transmissions between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Iberia

AHA Session 263: Dislocations between Muslims and Christians in the Early Modern Iberian World

AHA Teaching Division

AHA Session 4: Wise Use of the Methods Course: Teaching Historical Thinking while Preparing Future Teachers to Do the Same

AHA Session 79: Teaching the Survey

AHA Session 116: Nourishing Ideas: Food History in the Archives and the Classroom

AHA Session 153: America on the World Stage: A Global Perspective to the Teaching American History Program

AHA Two-Year College Faculty Task Force

AHA Session 42: Getting a Job at a Community College

AHA Session 79: Teaching the Survey

Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Alcohol among Soldiers, Seamen, and Whalers in the Nineteenth Century United States

Regulation and Repression of Drugs and Alcohol: An International Perspective

Individual Biography in Alcohol and Drug History

American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain

Perspectives on Medieval León-Castile I

Perspectives on Medieval León-Castile II

American Association for History and Computing

Critical Issues in Bibliography and Libraries in the Digital Age

AHA Session 191: What's Next? Patterns and Practices in History in Print and Online

American Catholic Historical Association

AHA Session 8: Women of Independent Means? The Construction of Spiritual Life Stories in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Society

ACHA Executive Board Meeting

Registration Desk

Registration Desk

Roman Catholic Modernism and the Role of Leonce de Grandmaison

The Changing Tides of Twentieth-Century Shanghai Catholicism

American Catholic History: The State of the Conversation

German Catholics Negotiate National Socialism: Three Case Studies

ACHA Business Meeting

AHA Session 123: Words and Deeds: New Perspectives on Catholic Laywomen in Twentieth-Century America

Cultural Conflicts, Cultural Change: Catholic Higher Education in Twentieth-Century America

Registration Desk

ACHA Awards Lunch

AHA Session 214: French Catholicism and the Crises of the Twentieth Century

The Franciscan Movement in the United States since 1840: A Roundtable

Graduate Student Networking

AHA Session 247: Locating the Origins of the Second Vatican Council: Global Transformations, Spatial Shifts, and Refashioning the Sacred in Twentieth-Century Catholicism

Twentieth-Century American Catholicism Addresses the Social Question: Three Vignettes

Getting Published: An Introduction

Reimagining Christianity in the Early Middle Ages: Communities and Contexts

AHA Session 280: Therese Neumann: Modern Stigmatic, International Cult Figure, and Anti-Nazi Symbol

American Catholics and Print Culture

American Italian Historical Association

Transnational Perspectives on Italian American Identity

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Religion, War, and Nation: Philadelphian Quakers in the Revolutionary Atlantic

American Society for Environmental History

AHA Session 119: A Temple without Walls: Environmentalism as "Secular Religion"

American Society of Church History

Registration Desk

Pope Pius XII (1939–58) between History and Polemic

The Material Imagination in Late Antique Christianity

Echoes of the Crusades in the West

Women’s Ritual and Religious Authority in Early Mormonism

Executive Committee Meeting

Editorial Board Meeting

Council Meeting

Breakfast for Women in Theology and Church History

Registration/Information Desk

AHA Session 66: Sacred Politics: Rethinking the Rise of the Religious Right

Transmuting Christianity: Alchemical Speculation and Christian Doctrine in the Late Middle Ages

Protestants and the Sacrality of Marriage in the Early Modern World

Religion and the Reforming Spirit in America

The Philokalia: Reconsidering a Christian Spiritual Classic

Considering Carlos Eire’s A Very Brief History of Eternity

Tour of Religious Sites

Registration/Information Desk

Center and Periphery in the Late Antique Religious Landscape of Italy

America’s First Bible Commentary: A Roundtable on the Edition of Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana

Rethinking American Slavery and the History of Christianity

Medieval Legacies: Female Sanctity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Narratives of Contemporary Christian Expansion

Graduate students' reception

Registration/Information Desk

AHA Session 126: Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History

The Invention of Early Christian Monasticism

Rethinking the "Savage" in French Catholicism

Christian Hebraists, Biblical Archaeologists, and Hebrew Christians: American Protestants’ Encounters with Jews and the Holy Land in the Twentieth Century

Religion in the Great Depression: Global Collapse, Local Crises

Retelling the History of American Christianities

AHA Session 165: A Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard L. Bushman

The Reception of Early Church Traditions through History

The Sermon as a (New) Tool for the Study of the History of Christianity

Methodist Media: Comparing Means of Communicating the Message

Christianity and Global Sociopolitical Action

Registration/Information Desk

Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard Bushman Reception

Are You Alone Wise? The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era

Faith in the City: Urban Religions and the Narratives of Modernity

Things True and Useful: Writing History in the Mormon Tradition

Religious Intolerance in American History

Business meeting

President's address

Presidential reception

Registration/Information Desk

Religious Experiences of Women in the Carolingian World

Huguenots in Seventeenth-Century France

Religious History’s Digital Future

Alternative Social Gospels: Unconventional Sources of Protestant Reform in a Transatlantic Context, 1877–1930

The Formation of Protestant Identities through Book Selling (and Burning)

Strangers in an Ever-Stranger Land: Evangelicals Confront New England, 1834–1937

Authors Meet Critics: Christian Nonviolence in the Twentieth Century

Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

Making the State Sacred: Catholicism's Role in Spanish Politics, 1759–1937

Reception for the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

Association for the Bibliography of History

Critical Issues in Bibliography and Libraries in the Digital Age

Business and Planning meeting

Center for the Study of Film and History

Challenging the Sacred: Exploring the Nature of Humanity in Film and History

Charles Homer Haskins Society

AHA Session 88: New Perspectives on the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century

Chinese Historians in the United States

The Sacred and the Secular: Religion and Its Encounter with the World

The Reconstruction of Modern Nationhood in China during the Second World War

Building China on the Sacred: Nationalism, Feminism, and Maoism in Twentieth-Century China

Using Diplomatic Tactics to Expand China's Influence: Changes in China's Foreign Policy, 1954–55

Ritual, Law, and Religion: Filial Piety in History

Membership meeting

Shaping Man, Woman, and God for the Chinese State

Advanced Placement History Luncheon

Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History

Fantasies of Desire: Sex, Race, and the Politics of Performance

AHA Session 61: Same-Sex Marriage in Historical and Transnational Perspective

Business Meeting

AHA Session 96: Lesbian and Feminist Activisms in the Americas: Contested Notions of Solidarity and Citizenship in the Neo-liberal Reagan Era

Trans Formations: New Directions in Historical Research

AHA Session 122: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on the History of Gay and Lesbian Organizing

Homosexuality and Radicalism in International and Comparative Perspectives

AHA Session 174: Del Otro Lado: Critical Analyses of Mexican (Homo)sexualities as History, from the Colonial Period to the Present

Black Queer Politics: Intersectional Approaches to Postwar African American Urban History

AHA Session 250: Marriage Must Be Defended

Community College Humanities Association

Defining America: Plymouth and Concord—Landmarks in American History

Conference Group for Central European History

AHA Session 45: The Occult and Court Politics in Russia and Central Europe, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

AHA Session 71: From Weimar to the Cold War

Christianity During the Era of Total War

Questioning Sacred Narratives: New Perspectives on the Teaching of History

AHA Session 83: Investigating “Frontier Orientalism” in the Habsburg-Ottoman Borderlands

AHA Session 221: War and Peace on the Air: Radio and the Shaping of National Belonging in Polish-German Borderlands during the Twentieth Century

Business meeting

CGCEH Bierabend

AHA Session 236: Refugee Politics: New Research on European Jewish Refugees in the 1930s and 1940s

Conference of Historical Journals

Annual meeting and program

Conference on Asian History

Conference on Faith and History

Breakfast reception

Bracketing Faith and Historical Practice: A Roundtable

Conference on Latin American History

CLAH Information Table

AHA Session 5: Photography in Latin America: An Art of Oblivion Creating an Aesthetic of the Future

AHA Session 12: Spy Reports: Content, Method, and Post-1940 Historiography in Mexico’s Intelligence Archives

AHA Session 19: Beyond the Battlefield: Labor and Military Service in Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean

AHA Session 23: The Production of Maps in New Spain

AHA Session 30: Diagnosing Society: Medicine and the State in Modern Latin America

AHA Session 32: Knowing Animals and Insects in the Spanish Atlantic, 1500–1800

AHA Session 35: Marginality in Colonial Latin America and the Pacific World

The Home as a “Sacred Domain” in Latin American History

Creating Haiti: Colonial Times to the Present

La patria sagrada: Exile, Homeland, and Identity

CLAH General Committee Meeting

CLAH Information Table

AHA Session 43: Transnationalism and the Citizen: Solidarity and Human Rights in Cold War Latin America

AHA Session 46: Racial Silences and Twentieth-Century Transitions: Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, the Caribbean, and the International Remaking of Race

AHA Session 69: On the Fringes of Freedom: Reconsidering Slavery and Forced Servitude in the Greater Caribbean and Mexico

Black Experiences and the Sacred in Latin American Cities: A Rio de la Plata-Brazilian Counterpoint, 1770–1930

Mexico after 1968: Youth, Culture, and Politics during the Aperatura Democrática

CLAH Presidential Session: Variations in Family Formation in Early Latin America

AHA Session 105: Indians and Blacks in the Political History of Latin America

Latin American Airwaves: National Radio and Transnational Audiences in the Twentieth Century

Sacred Spaces in Colonial Mexico: Legacies, Rivalries, and Adaptations

Gendered Politics of Progress and Domesticity in Twentieth-Century Argentina, the Caribbean, and New York

Colonial Studies Committee Part I: Festschrift for Karen Spalding

Chile-Rio de la Plata Studies Committee: State and Nation Building in the Nineteenth Century

Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Committee: David J. Weber and the Borderlands: Past, Present, and Future

The Americas Editorial Board meeting

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee: Teaching Abroad

Central American Studies Committee: Historicizing Revolution: A Workshop on Central American History

Caribbean Studies Committee

Colonial Studies Committee Part II: Festschrift for Karen Spalding

AHA Session 128: Trends in Colonial Latin American Studies: A "Spatial Turn"?

AHA Session 138: Creating Cuban: Reexamining Constructions of Race in the Cuban Imagination

AHA Session 145: The Alliance for Progress, Fifty Years On

Sport, Culture, and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean

Shaping Future Citizens: State Interventions in Maternal and Child Health, Culture, and Society across Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean

Crafting and Contesting Modern Brazilian National Identity in the Twentieth Century

CLAH Information Table

AHA Session 174: Del Otro Lado: Critical Analyses of Mexican (Homo)sexualities as History, from the Colonial Period to the Present

AHA Session 178: Modernizing the Secular City: Urban Planning and Social Identity in the Americas, 1850–1950

AHA Session 183: Spain's Imperial Margins and the Native Arts of Flight, Resistance, and Negotiation, 1500–1800

Forms and Manifestations of Political Community in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Creating Urban Order: Crime in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City and Buenos Aires

AHA Session 222: Variations in Family Formation, 1850–1960

Atlantic Discourses: Politics, Science, and Identities in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America

War and the Nation-State in Modern Latin America

Mexican Studies Committee: Espejos Dobles: Reflections on Mexico's 2010 Centennial Commemorations

Andean Studies Committee: New Shining Path Studies at the Intersection of Anthropology and History

Brazilian Studies Committee

Gran Colombia Studies Committee: Law and Rebellion in Gran Colombia

HAHR Editorial Board meeting

CLAH cocktail reception

AHA Session 238: Boundaries of Bondage, Frontiers of Freedom: Mobility and Slavery, Race, Nation, and Religiosity in the Atlantic World

AHA Session 248: The Many Conquests of America

AHA Session 253: Not As European As Believed: The Construction of the Mestizo Poor in Argentine Media, Folk Music, and Youth Culture: 1930–70

AHA Session 254: New Perspectives on United States-Latin American Relations during the Cold War

AHA Session 259: Families Inside and Outside the Law, 1910–2010

Rethinking the State in Post-independence Brazil

Scoundrels, Politicos, and Prostitutes: Mythmaking in Latin American History

AHA Session 274: Indian "Problems," Indian Solutions: New Sources for Understanding the Nation-Building Process

AHA Session 284: On the Air and in the Kitchen: Women, Technology, and the State in Twentieth-Century Argentina

AHA Session 294: Migration, Labor, and Nation in the Americas: A Roundtable on Teaching and Community Engagement

Franciscans, Indigenous Peoples, and the Battle for the Sacred in Colonial New Spain

Youth, Intergenerational Conflict, and Transnational Processes in the 1960s: Chile, Argentina, and México

Negotiating Authority: Bureaucratic and Cultural Logics in the Early Modern Spanish Empire

Science, Nature, Society, and the State: Técnicos and Social Reform in Modern Latin America

Coordinating Council for Women in History

Coordinating Council for Women in History Board and General Business Meeting

AHA Session 37: Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century

AHA Session 50: Popular and Profane: Race, Gender, and Regionalism in Peyton Place

Documenting Social History: The Stories of Three Archives

AHA Session 148: Part 1

AHA Session 186: Part 2

Coordinating Council for Women in History Annual Luncheon

History and Technology In and Out of the Classroom

Economic History Association

Wealth, Poverty, and Empire in Global History: Reflections on Kenneth Pomeranz’s The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction

Race, Labor, and Interactions in Atlantic Urban Spaces

H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online

Questioning Sacred Narratives: New Perspectives on the Teaching of History

Piloting Lesson Study: The Intersection between History and Pedagogy in a Teaching American History Project

Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China

Civilians Regroup in Wartime China, 1937–45

Hungarian Studies Association

Hungarian Fiscal Crises after World War I and World War II

Immigration and Ethnic History Society

AHA Session 6: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s: Activist Protestants or Intolerant Americans?

AHA Session 15: Crossing Borders, Transcending Boundaries: How Migrants Overcome Obstacles to Reach Their Destinations

AHA Session 99: Museums as Sacred Spaces: Constructions of National Identity

AHA Session 167: Understanding the Transatlantic Migration Experience: Diverse and Similar Migration Patterns of People from Austria-Hungary

Institute of International Education - CIES

Fulbright Scholar Program Information Session

Medieval Academy of America

AHA Session 26: Medieval and Modern Perceptions of Transgression

AHA Session 58: Creating a Sacred History for Aragon in the Medieval and Early Modern Period

AHA Session 146: Thinking about the City

AHA Session 223: Part II: Thinking about the End

AHA Session 276: Does 1500 Matter?: Society and the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Mormon History Association

AHA Session 165: A Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard L. Bushman

National Coalition for History

Policy Board meeting

National Coalition of Independent Scholars

National Endowment for the Humanities

EDSITEment Info Session

National History Center

AHA Session 29: Ireland, India, and Palestine: Connections across the Decolonizing British Empire

Reappraising the 1960s: The United States and the Dawn of the Post-Cold War World

National History Center Forum and reception

North American Conference on British Studies

AHA Session 29: Ireland, India, and Palestine: Connections across the Decolonizing British Empire

AHA Session 63: Approaching the Americas: Britain and Spain in the New World

AHA Session 134: Law and Violence on the British Indian Frontier: Colonialism and Exceptional Jurisdiction

AHA Session 199: Social Bonds and Sacred Bodies: Negotiating Marriage, Manhood, and Religious Identity in Reformation and Post-Reformation England, 1530–1640

AHA Session 215: Society and the Sacred in a Transnational Mission World: Rethinking the Place of British Protestant Missions, National Identity, and Concepts of Well-Being during the End of Empire

NACBS Reception

AHA Session 251: Vestiges of Empire: Preserving Imperial Bodies, Cities, and Lands in Britain’s Colonies

Organization of History Teachers

Polish American Historical Association

PAHA Annual Board meeting

New Directions in Polish and Polish Transnational History

American Polonia in New England

Book Forum: New Works in Polish and Polish American Studies

Catholicism, Schism, Urban Politics, and the Law: Recent Research in Polish American History

Poland and Polonia Across Generations

Polish American Writing: Growing Up Polish American and Living to Write About It

PAHA Awards Ceremony and Reception: Advance registration/fee required

Renaissance Society of America

AHA Session 196: Italian Identities in the Renaissance: Theory and Practice

Social Science Research Council

SSRC Fellowships Information Session

Society for Armenian Studies

The Circulation of Silver and Print: Some Reflections on Early Modern Armenian History

Society for Austrian and Habsburg History

Lingua Scientia: The Politics of Translation in Modern Science

AHA Session 83: Investigating “Frontier Orientalism” in the Habsburg-Ottoman Borderlands

AHA Session 108: Convents and Canonries in the Counter-Reformation: Three Central European Examples

AHA Session 129: Heroes and Victims, Bodies and Burials: Remembering the Dead in Poland, Hungary, and Romania

AHA Session 282: Modern Rites: Politics and Antisemitism in Europe, 1880–1918

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Council Meeting

AHA Session 55: U.S. Global Power and Transnational Perceptions of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, from the 1967 War to the Camp David Accord

AHA Session 82: The American Century: Assessing the Crucial Decade, 1965–74

SHAFR Reception

AHA Session 279: Open Secrets: The Foreign Relations of the United States Series, Democracy’s “Need to Know," and National Security

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Becoming "Real" Americans: Returning to the Past in the Progressive Era

AHA Session 89: Performing across Borders: Representations of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, 1880–1925

AHA Session 102: Cosmopolitanism and Religion in the Turn of the Twentieth Century U.S. Left

Society for History Education

National Advisory Board meeting

Society for Italian Historical Studies

Dal Libro Alla Spada: Academic Violence in Early Modern Italian Universities

AHA Session 170: Crime and Punishment in Liberal and Fascist Italy

Religious Difference in Medieval Italy

Reconsidering Futurism

Business meeting

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

Women's Experience, Imaginary Women, and Male Authority

Persuasive Texts and Holy Contexts: Women, Writing, and Community in the Middle Ages

Women, Reform, and Monastic Culture

Death and the Maiden: Inflicting and Experiencing Violence in the Accounts of Female Saints

AHA Session 233: Women's Religious Patronage in Early Medieval Europe: Medieval and Modern Connections

AHA Session 273: Finding Common Ground? Comparing the Practice of Clerical Concubinage in Northern Europe and the Western Mediterranean during the Middle Ages

Society for Military History

George C. Marshall Lecture on Military History

George C. Marshall Lecture on Military History Reception

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

History Books and Book History

Society for the History of Technology

Envisioning Technology: Past, Future, and Present

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

AHA Session 199: Social Bonds and Sacred Bodies: Negotiating Marriage, Manhood, and Religious Identity in Reformation and Post-Reformation England, 1530–1640

Toynbee Prize Foundation

The Toynbee Prize Lecture

United States Commission on Military History

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: Theory and Experience

Urban History Association

Annual board meeting

Annual business meeting

World History Association

WHA Executive Council meeting

AHA Session 130: Fathers and Daughters in Islam: Spiritual Inheritance and Succession Politics, Thirteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

AHA Session 160: Integrating Religion into World History: Conversion, Power-Knowledge, and the State

AHA Session 204: African World Histories: Reversing the Gaze

WHA Business meeting

WHA reception. WHA members: free, non-members: $10, no host bar.