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

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Friday, January 6, 2012

7:30 AM-9:00 AM

Committee on Minority Historians Mentoring Breakfast

Women in Theology and Church History Breakfast
American Society of Church History

7:30 AM-5:30 PM

Registration and Information Desk
American Society of Church History

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

SHAFR Council Meeting
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

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-4:30 PM

ACHA Registration Desk
American Catholic Historical Association

9:00 AM-6:00 PM

Exhibit Hall open

Internet and Messaging Center open

Job Center open

Quiet Room open

9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century
AHA Session 34

Did We Go Wrong? The Past and Prospects of the History Profession
AHA Session 35

Digital Humanities: A Hands-On Workshop
AHA Session 36

The Texas Social Studies Standards Experience: What Can We Learn?
AHA Session 37

Fukushima: An International Perspective on Nuclear Accidents
AHA Session 38

Hardtack and Software: Digital Approaches to the American Civil War
AHA Session 39

Labor Rights as Human Rights: Emerging Global Paradigms in the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 40

New Perspectives on British Abolition: Antecedents, Affections, and Activism
AHA Session 41

Medicine and Public Health in the Atlantic World
AHA Session 42

Tradition and Innovation: Native American Identity and Community in the Old Northwest Territory
AHA Session 43

Forging and Fracturing a Transnational Community: Human Rights Networks in the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 44

CLAH Presidential Session: Transnational Migrations, Labor Networks, and Flights to Freedom
AHA Session 45

From Archive to Interdisciplinary Tool: Transforming Our Image of the FSA-OWI Photograph Collection
AHA Session 46

From Venice to Madras: Early Modern Armenian Print Culture
AHA Session 47

Teaching, Playing, and Praying: Evangelical Networking and Community Building in Modern America
AHA Session 48

Doing Queer History in the Twenty-First Century
AHA Session 49

Power, Knowledge, and Culture: The Centrality of Kinship Networks in the Early Republic South
AHA Session 50

Seeing the Archive as an Artifact of Community: Fresh Approaches to Women’s History
AHA Session 51

The Promise of Nationalism: Women and Jews in European Nationalist Movements in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 52

Physical Networks and Imagined Communities In Post-revolutionary Mexico
AHA Session 53

Genocide, Displacement, Refugees, 1931–71
AHA Session 54

Writing Regional Histories in a Global World: Converging and Diverging Historiographical Networks
AHA Session 55

Black Ivy: African American Intellectuals at Harvard during the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 56

Transnational Activism in the 1960s: A Global Perspective
AHA Session 57

Networking against Workplace Discrimination: U.S. Professional Organizations, 1939–90
AHA Session 58

(Inter)National Mothers: Women's Changing Roles in the Two Germanys, 1945–60
AHA Session 59

War Trauma across the Modern Era
AHA Session 60

Human Nature in American Social Thought, 1950–70
AHA Session 61

Communities, Networks, and the Cairo Geniza
AHA Session 62

Chicago ‘68: Rethinking Local Black Activism and the Battle for Urban America
AHA Session 63

Communities and Networks Lost and Recovered in Latin American Archives and Libraries, Part 2: Lost Histories: The Destruction of Archives and Libraries in Latin America
AHA Session 64

Moving Communities and Networks in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Part 2: Enslaved Rebels and Maroons: Comparing Slave Resistance in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
AHA Session 65

Pirates, State Actors, and Hegemonic Systems in the Pre-modern Mediterranean, Part 1: Hegemony and Legitimacy
AHA Session 66

Rival Notions of Respectability: Moral Injunction and Commercial Regulation in the Matter of Alcoholic Drinks
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 1

Building a Catholic Archival Network
American Catholic Historical Association 6

Reconsidering Episcopal Leadership and Trusteeism in the U.S. Catholic Church
American Catholic Historical Association 7

Constructing Catholic Identity in Modern America
American Catholic Historical Association 8

The Papacy between Traditionalism and Modernity: From Pius XI to Benedict XVI
American Catholic Historical Association 9

Missiology and Missionary Strategies in Colombia, Mexico, and the Marshall Islands, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries
American Society of Church History 5

Perspectives on Race, Antisemitism, and Religion in Europe from the Second World War to Its Aftermath
American Society of Church History 6

Pietism and Slavery
American Society of Church History 7

Domestic Metaphors for the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
American Society of Church History 8

Harry Stout’s The New England Soul after 25 Years
American Society of Church History 9

Communities of Spain: Empire, Diplomacy, and Religion
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 2

Trade and Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean
Association of Ancient Historians

Knowledge, Social Change, and the Network of Soft Power: China Encounters the World, 1600–2010
Chinese Historians in the United States 3

Teaching Modern Asian History: Themes and Sources
Chinese Historians in the United States 4

Social Network Analysis and Digitalizing History from Imperial to Modern Times
Chinese Historians in the United States 5

Nazi Local: Placing the Production of Power in the Third Reich
Conference Group for Central European History 3

Mexico in the 1920s: New Historical and Historiographical Perspectives
Conference on Latin American History 12

National Consolidation and the Promotion of "Progress": Chile, Argentina, and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century
Conference on Latin American History 13

Crime in Modern Latin America: New Narratives on Deviance and Social Control
Conference on Latin American History 14

Half the Sky: Teaching Women and Gender in World History
Coordinating Council for Women in History 6

The Other Hull House Women: Female Community Building and Feminist Networking in Twentieth-Century America
Coordinating Council for Women in History 7

A Discussion of "Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe" by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and R. Bin Wong
Economic History Association

Current Events in Historical Perspective, Part I: Global Strategy and Politics
Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching 1

Scholars and Scholarship on the Margins: Independent Scholars and “Otherness” in History
National Coalition of Independent Scholars

The Subversive Power of Environmental History
National History Center 1

Historians, Journalists, and the Challenges of Getting It Right, Part 1: American Biography and the Cold War
National History Center 2

Issues in the History of Polish American Organizations
Polish American Historical Association 1

Polonia in the Northeastern United States
Polish American Historical Association 2

Urban History Association Board Meeting
Urban History Association

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-1:45 PM

CAH Luncheon
Conference on Asian History

12:00 PM-2:00 PM

A Film Unfinished

Policy Board meeting
National Coalition for History

12:15 PM-1:45 PM

ASCH Luncheon: Edwin S. Gaustad (1923–2011): Reflections on His Influence
American Society of Church History

CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

Organization of History Teachers Luncheon
Organization of History Teachers

12:45 PM-1:45 PM

Business Meeting
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Meet the Editors and Staff of the American Historical Review

SSRC Fellowships Information Session
Social Science Research Council

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
AHA Session

1:00 PM-4:00 PM

Walking Tour of Historic Chicago Religious Sites
American Society of Church History 10

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-4:30 PM

The Future Is Here: Pioneers Discuss the Future of Digital Humanities
AHA Session 67

Successfully Teaching History in the Online Environment: Experiences, Tips, and Thoughts
AHA Session 68

Professional Development: Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
AHA Session 69

Disability, the Family, and the Domestic Sphere
AHA Session 70

Cold War Policing and the American Empire
AHA Session 71

The Promise of De-centering National Histories: America, Germany, and Spain
AHA Session 72

Cultures and Corpses: Death in Three World Cities—New York, Alexandria, and Beijing
AHA Session 73

Expanding the Boundaries: Putting American Reconstruction in National and Transnational Terms
AHA Session 74

Multi-racial, Multi-ethnic Chicago: Social Relations in the Twentieth-Century City
AHA Session 75

Working Women's Encounters with Feminism in Post-World War II America
AHA Session 76

Monument and Memory
AHA Session 77

Communities and Networks in the Americas, Africa, and the Indian Ocean
AHA Session 78

Historiography and Empire in the Early Modern Atlantic World
AHA Session 79

A Fluid Frontier: African Canadian and African American Transnationalism in the Detroit River Borderlands
AHA Session 80

Liverpool’s Maritime Communities and Networks, 1750–1815
AHA Session 81

Contested Identities among Americans Abroad
AHA Session 82

The Fluidity of Nationality in the Era of Global Migration
AHA Session 83

Everyday Nationalism in the Rio de la Plata and Brazil, 1850–1910: From Military and State Consolidation to Popular Expression
AHA Session 84

Toxic Networks: Science, Eugenics, and the Politics of Race in Latin America
AHA Session 85

Indigenous Intermediaries: Networks of Multilingualism and Community in Colonial Latin America
AHA Session 86

Creating Creativity: A Roundtable Discussion of Moving beyond Lecture in Today’s College Classroom
AHA Session 87

A “Land Without History”? Renewing the Social History of the Amazon
AHA Session 88

Leprosy in a Global Community, 1866–1951
AHA Session 89

Constructive Aspects of Mass Violence
AHA Session 90

Anti-urban City Planning in Twentieth-Century Europe: Creating (National) Community and Reconstituting Social Networks
AHA Session 91

Normalizing Difference in a Colonial Regime: Indians and Imperial Uses of Ethnographic Knowledge in Latin America
AHA Session 92

Internal Colonialism, Violence, and Gender in U.S./Indigenous Relations
AHA Session 93

French Revolutionary Violence, Democracy, and the Self
AHA Session 94

The Business of Media History: Technology, Journalism, Advertising
AHA Session 95

Mothers and Infants of a Modern India: Who Should Provide for Their Health?
AHA Session 96

World History and Its Public
AHA Session 97

Communities and Networks Lost and Recovered in Latin American Archives and Libraries, Part 3: Lost Histories: The Destruction of Archives and Libraries in Latin America
AHA Session 98

Moving Communities and Networks in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Part 3: Slave Rebellions and the Building of African Identities in the Caribbean
AHA Session 99

Pirates, State Actors, and Hegemonic Systems in the Pre-modern Mediterranean, Part 2: Transgressors and Opportunists
AHA Session 100

The Popular Culture of Trans-Atlantic Catholicism in the Twentieth Century
American Catholic Historical Association 10

Mining Religious Sources: Profits and Pitfalls—Graduate Student Roundtable
American Catholic Historical Association 11

Counciliar Catholicism in Comparison: Public Activism in the United States and Germany, 1965–85
American Catholic Historical Association 12

Rome and American Culture from Leo XIII to John Paul II
American Catholic Historical Association 13

Habermas, the Public Sphere, and American Religious History
American Society of Church History 11

Ecclesiology and Christian Institutions
American Society of Church History 12

A Place for Grace: Religion and Contests of Identity in the Mississippi River Valley, 1812–45
American Society of Church History 13

Religion in Imperial Britain, 1800–1970
American Society of Church History 14

Nation-States and Missions in Paraguay, Colombia, and Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
American Society of Church History 15

Religious Networks, 1500–1914: Ideas/Knowledge
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 3

The Last American Century in Film and History
Center for the Study of Film and History

Conflict, Violence, and the Construction of Clerical Masculinity in Medieval Europe
Charles Homer Haskins Society

The Queer Politics of Managing Youth and Sex in the 1920s United States
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 3

Imagining America: From Plymouth to Concord
Community College Humanities Association

Media and the State: News, Control, and Publicity in Three Germanies, 1848–1933
Conference Group for Central European History 4

Mobility as Subject: Histories of Non-places
Conference on Asian History 1

Disasters and Their Aftermaths in Modern Mexico: Political, Scientific, and Social Responses to Unforeseen Destruction, 1860s–1930s
Conference on Latin American History 21

Legislating the Subaltern in the Andes and Beyond
Conference on Latin American History 22

Communities of Consumers? Social-Democratic Spaces in the Age of Postwar Mass Consumption
German Historical Institute 1

Current Events in Historical Perspective, Part II: Social History
Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching 2

The History Major in Liberal Education: Practical Application of the National History Center's Report to the Teagle Foundation
National History Center 3

Topics in Polish American History through the Centuries
Polish American Historical Association 3

Anticommunism in Transnational Perspective
Polish American Historical Association 4

Playing the Past: Learning through Digital History Games
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media 2

Pius XII, Religion, and Politics in Italy
Society for Italian Historical Studies 1

2:30 PM-5:00 PM

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

In the Shadow of Hull House: Catholic Church Architecture on Chicago’s Near West Side
American Catholic Historical Association 14

3:00 PM-6:00 PM

World History Association Executive Council Meeting
World History Association

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Reception for the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

4:30 PM-6:30 PM

My Perestroika

4:45 PM-5:45 PM

LGBTQ Historians Task Force Open Forum

4:45 PM-6:00 PM

EDSITEment Info Session
National Endowment for the Humanities

4:45 PM-6:15 PM

Annual meeting of affiliated society representatives

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

ACHA General Business Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Brazilian Studies Committee: Historiographical Updates from Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 24

Colonial Studies Committee: On a Mission: Ecclesiastics, Natives, and Religion in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 25

Gran Colombia Studies Committee: New Approaches to Economic History
Conference on Latin American History 26

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee
Conference on Latin American History 27

The Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

National History Center Open Forum and Reception
National History Center

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Reception for Two-Year Faculty

5:30 PM-7:30 PM

SHAFR Reception
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

Reception Hosted by the National Coalition of Independent Scholars
National Coalition of Independent Scholars

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Saint James Chapel Tour
American Catholic Historical Association 15

CHUS Membership Meeting
Chinese Historians in the United States

6:30 PM-7:30 PM

Graduate Students' Reception
American Society of Church History

7:00 PM-8:20 PM

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

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

Andean Studies Committee: How Can I Explain What Is Happening Today? Historicizing the Contemporary Andes
Conference on Latin American History 28

Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Committee: Interethnic Relations in Borderlands Settings of the Americas
Conference on Latin American History 29

Chile/Rio de la Plata Studies Committee
Conference on Latin American History 30

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

Reception for the Coordinating Council for Women in History
Coordinating Council for Women in History