126th Annual Meeting (January 5-8, 2012): AHA Events

AHA Events

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

1:00 PM-4:30 PM

Preconference Tour: Tour 1: Public Housing in Chicago: Past and Present

2:30 PM-5:00 PM

Preconference Tour: Tour 2: The Chicago History Museum: Facing Freedom Exhibit

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Teaching Workshop: Recognizing Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

8:55 AM-9:00 AM

Introduction to Recognizing Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Teaching Undergraduates with Technology

10:45 AM-12:15 PM

What Works and What Does Not Work in the Survey and Assessment

8:30 AM-5:00 PM

AHA Council meeting

12:00 PM-6:00 PM

AHA Headquarters Office open

AHA Information Booth

Local Arrangements & Press Office open

THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) AHA

12:00 PM-7:00 PM

AHA Meeting Registration open

12:30 PM-6:00 PM

Internet and Messaging Center open

Job Center open

Quiet Room open

Quiet Room open

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

Tour 3: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Polish and Ukrainian Experiences

2:30 PM-5:00 PM

Tour 4: Chicago History Museum: Out in Chicago

3:00 PM-7:00 PM

Exhibit Hall open

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Graduate Student Reception

Opening of the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Plenary Session: How to Write a History of Information: A Session in Honor of Peter Burke

Friday, January 6, 2012

7:30 AM-9:00 AM

Committee on Minority Historians Mentoring Breakfast

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

AHA Headquarters Office open

AHA Information Booth

AHA Meeting Registration open

Local Arrangements & Press Office open

9:00 AM-6:00 PM

Exhibit Hall open

Internet and Messaging Center open

Job Center open

Quiet Room open

Quiet Room open

9:30 AM-12:00 PM

Tour 5: Hull-House Museum: Jane Addams and Chicago’s Near West Side

Tour 6: The Newberry Library: Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Collections

11:30 AM-2:30 PM

Affiliated Societies display

12:00 PM-2:00 PM

A Film Unfinished

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Meet the Editors and Staff of the American Historical Review

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

Tour 7: Black Metropolis: A Tour of African American History on Chicago’s South Side

Tour 8: The National Museum of Mexican Art: Mexican Culture and Chicago’s Pilsen Community

2:30 PM-5:00 PM

Tour 9: The Newberry Library: Indigenous and Settler Worlds in the Americas

4:30 PM-6:30 PM

4:45 PM-5:45 PM

LGBTQ Historians Task Force Open Forum

4:45 PM-6:15 PM

Annual meeting of affiliated society representatives

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Reception for Two-Year Faculty

7:00 PM-8:20 PM

Reception for recipients of 2011 AHA awards and prizes and for members of 2011 award and prize committees

8:30 PM-10:30 PM

American Historical Association General Meeting

10:30 PM-11:55 PM

Reception hosted by the American Historical Association for 2011 President Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

Opening of the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association

8:30 PM-10:30 PM

The Eighth Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award will be Presented on Friday at 8:30 p.m. in the Sheraton's Chicago Ballroom VI

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Teachinghistory.org Workshop: Teaching the Past in a Digital World: New Perspectives for History Education

9:00 AM-9:15 AM

Introduction to Teaching the Past in a Digital World: New Perspectives for History Education

9:15 AM-9:45 AM

Introduction to Teachinghistory.org

9:45 AM-10:45 AM

Teaching “The Labor Question” in US History: Exploring Rights, Obligations, and Relationships at the American Workplace

11:00 AM-11:45 AM

Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning American History

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

The Old and the New: Teaching Historical Skills at the High School Level

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Luncheon Lecture: Facing Down Fear: Innovation, Experimentation, and Adrenaline in the Teaching of History

7:30 AM-9:00 AM

Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Women Historians

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

AHA Headquarters Office open

AHA Information Booth

Local Arrangements & Press Office open

8:30 AM-4:00 PM

AHA Meeting Registration open

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

AHA Committee on Women Historians Brainstorming Session

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Tour 10: Chicago Explored: Legacy of Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett’s 1909 Plan of Chicago

9:00 AM-6:00 PM

Exhibit Hall open

Internet and Messaging Center open

Job Center open

Quiet Room open

Quiet Room open

10:00 AM-1:00 PM

Tour 11: Cambodian American Heritage Museum: Remembering the Killing Fields

11:30 AM-2:00 PM

AHR Board of Editors luncheon and meeting

12:00 PM-2:00 PM

2011 John O’Connor Film Award Winner: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History

12:15 PM-1:45 PM

AHA Modern European History Section

Department Chairs’ Luncheon

2:00 PM-5:30 PM

Tour 12: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Lithuanian Experience

Tour 13: Frances Willard House Museum and Archives: Behind and Beyond the Scenes of the Temperance Movement

4:45 PM-6:00 PM

AHA Business Meeting

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

On These Shoulders We Stand

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

Committee on Minority Historians’ Reception

Public Historians’ Reception

Sunday, January 8, 2012

8:30 AM-2:00 PM

AHA Headquarters Office open

AHA Information Booth

Local Arrangements & Press Office open

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Exhibit Hall open

Internet and Messaging Center open

Job Center open

Quiet Room open

Quiet Room open

9:00 AM-1:00 PM

AHA Council meeting