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

Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Breakfast reception
Conference on Faith and History

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

8:30 AM-6:00 PM

Registration and Information Desk
American Society of Church History

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

AHA Committee on Women Historians Brainstorming Session

9:00 AM-11:00 AM

New Directions in Spatial History
AHA Session 101

Historians and the Obama Narrative
AHA Session 101-A

The Department Chair as Negotiator: Challenges Faced by History Department Chairs in These Perilous, Budget-Cutting Times
AHA Session 102

Lighting Up the Classroom? Then Talk to the Public! A Discussion.
AHA Session 103

Striking Connections: Mobility, Performance, and the Unexpected Development of Unwieldy Subjects
AHA Session 104

Digital Technology and the Twenty-First-Century History Classroom
AHA Session 105

Presenting Historical Research Using Digital Media
AHA Session 106

Networks of Knowledge: Circulating Science in Early Modern Europe
AHA Session 107

Historicizing Photographs
AHA Session 108

Religious Networks, Alliances, and Friendship in the Early Modern Atlantic World
AHA Session 109

Everyday Soldiers: The Limits of Militarization in Postwar American Society
AHA Session 110

Building the Liberal State: Social Workers, Lawyers, and Rights from the Progressive Era to the Great Society
AHA Session 111

Social Networks and the Quality of Expression in Renaissance Florence
AHA Session 112

Higher Education Today: The Academic Community in an Uncertain Time
AHA Session 113

Framing Minority Community Identities: Comparative Notes from India and Lebanon
AHA Session 114

Visualizing Radio Networks and Communities
AHA Session 115

Recasting Radical Politics: Oppositional Movements at Their Local Roots
AHA Session 116

Racial Silences in the Archive and the Historiography of Race in Postcolonial Latin America
AHA Session 117

Owning the Past and Present in Nineteenth-Century America
AHA Session 118

Native Perspectives on the Transformation of Missions in Spanish and Portuguese America
AHA Session 119

Fighting for Equality: Children’s and Teenagers' Activism during the Black Freedom Struggle
AHA Session 120

Eating, Tasting, and Making Race in the United States, 1920s–960s
AHA Session 121

Transregional Media Networks and the Development of a Public Sphere in the Twentieth-Century Middle East
AHA Session 122

Alien Natives? Internal Migration and the Dilemmas of Belonging in the United States and Europe
AHA Session 123

Big History
AHA Session 124

Cultures of Commerce and Law across the Sahara
AHA Session 125

Transnational Legal Networks and the Limits of American Power, 1906–39
AHA Session 126

RICHES of Central Florida: Enriching the Community and the Curriculum with a Local History Project
AHA Session 127

Communication and Communities in Late Medieval Central Europe
AHA Session 128

Twentieth-Century Queer and Artistic Bohemias
AHA Session 129

Imperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Space: Santiago, Marseille, Libreville
AHA Session 130

Typology as Historical Method: The Forgotten Historiography
AHA Session 131

Accidental Access: Serendipity in Presidential Archives
AHA Session 132

Moving Communities and Networks in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Part 4: West African Historical Actors during the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
AHA Session 133

The Press and Psychedelia: Image, Gender, and Behavior in the United States since 1945
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 2

Catholic Architecture and the Shaping of Urban America
American Catholic Historical Association 16

Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
American Catholic Historical Association 17

Scandal, Resistance, and Practice: A Roundtable on John Seitz’s No Closure
American Catholic Historical Association 18

Issues and Outcomes Surrounding the Second Vatican Council
American Catholic Historical Association 19

Scientists as Activists since 1945
American Society for Environmental History

Christianity Going Native? Missionary Encounters in Guatemala, Mexico, Central America, and Nigeria in the Twentieth Century
American Society of Church History 16

Conflict and Compromise: Reappraising the History of Gender in Southern Baptist Battles
American Society of Church History 17

American Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
American Society of Church History 18

Considering Esther Chung-Kim’s Inventing Authority: The Use of the Church Fathers in Reformation Debates over the Eucharist
American Society of Church History 19

Writing History at the Wall Street Journal
Business History Conference 2

Constructing Chinese Communities in Urban America
Chinese Historians in the United States 6

Building Community, Combating Phobia, Part 1: The Media’s Narratives on “Patient Zero” and Gay Sex during the AIDS Epidemic
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 5

Historians, Historiography, and the Confessional Divide
Conference on Faith and History

Transnational Anthropology in the Americas
Conference on Latin American History 33

Popular Culture and Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 34

Current Events in Historical Perspective, Part III: Urban Affairs
Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching 3

Fulbright Scholar Program Information Session
Institute of International Education - CIES

Historians, Journalists, and the Challenges of Getting It Right, Part 2: Publishing and the American Century
National History Center 4

Scottish Engagement with the British Empire in the Twentieth Century: From Celebration to Critique?
National History Center 5

Book Forum: Brian McCook, "The Borders of Integration"
Polish American Historical Association 5

Polish and Polish American Literary Themes
Polish American Historical Association 6

Church and Society in Medieval Italy
Society for Italian Historical Studies 2

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-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

10:00 AM-1:00 PM

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

11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Radical Enlightenment: A Session in Honor of Margaret Jacob
AHA Session 134

Historians and Principles of Access to Archives
AHA Session 135

Digital History Workshop, Part 1: The Future of History Journals in the Digital Age
AHA Session 136

Talk Data to Me: A Conversation with Historians about Using Large-Scale Digital Data in Research and Teaching
AHA Session 137

Crowdsourcing History: Collaborative Online Transcription and Archives
AHA Session 138

Musical Communities and Youth behind the Iron Curtain: The Socialist Beat in the Soviet Bloc
AHA Session 139

Does Quixote Drink Coca-Cola? Americanism, Anti-Americanism, and Americanization in Twentieth-Century Spain
AHA Session 140

Local Christianities: Franciscan Conflicts and Accommodations in Asia and Latin America
AHA Session 141

Global Connections among Struggles for Racial Justice: Britain, Germany, South Africa, and the United States
AHA Session 142

New Directions in Early Islamic Historiography
AHA Session 143

Creating a Blueprint for History and Social Science Education: Advancing Instruction, Assessment, Student Learning, and Engagement
AHA Session 144

Written Law and Empire in the Ancient World: A Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 145

Communities of Women in Medieval Economic Networks
AHA Session 146

The Social Worlds of Devotional and Moral Discourses in Colonial Mexico and Guatemala
AHA Session 147

CLAH Presidential Session: Hemispheric Approaches to Diasporic Networks and Migrations in the Age of Empire
AHA Session 148

Environmental History from the Peripheries: Case studies from Eastern Spain, Central Asia, and the American Southwest
AHA Session 149

Rethinking National Imaginaries in South Asia: The Case of the Borderlands of Kashmir, Pashtunistan, and Assam
AHA Session 150

Connecting Radical Protestant Communities in the Early Atlantic World
AHA Session 151

Disability, Community, and the State
AHA Session 152

Scandal, Drama, and Intrigue: The Politics of Latin American Telenovelas in the Late Twentieth Century
AHA Session 153

Governing Communities: The Latin American Municipality in the Long Nineteenth Century
AHA Session 154

Bold Mamas and Audacious Entrepreneurs: Early African Gender Dynamics and the African Diaspora
AHA Session 155

Christian Fellowship and the Perils of Building Faith Communities: Evangelical Frontiers, Religious Print Culture, and Political Conflict in the Early Republic, 1800–60
AHA Session 156

Shaping the South Atlantic Complex: Networks and Exchanges, 1500–1822
AHA Session 157

Outsiders to Second-Wave Feminism in the United States: Expanding a Traditional Narrative
AHA Session 158

Retelling Church-State History in America
AHA Session 159

Law, Sexuality, and Community: Legal and Popular Understandings of "Illicit" Sex in Nineteenth-Century America
AHA Session 160

The Illegal City: Drugs, Radical Islam, and Informal Settlements in Africa, the Middle East, and the Postwar United States
AHA Session 161

The Global Occult: The “Hidden” Counter-Currents of Cultural Connectivity
AHA Session 162

Moving Communities and Networks in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Part 5: Family Networks: Enslaved and Slave Traders in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
AHA Session 163

Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Late Antique and Medieval Worlds
American Society of Church History 21

America and the Myth of the Judeo-Christian Culture: Acculturation Reconsidered
American Society of Church History 22

Authorizing Interpretations: The Bible and the Fathers in the Reformation
American Society of Church History 23

Korean Christians and Transnational Relations
American Society of Church History 24

Building Communities, Combating Phobia, Part II: LGBT Identity, Medicine, and Health
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 6

Radical Politics, Ambiguous Practices: Everyday Life and "the Political" in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 40

Latin American Education in a Global Context: International Networks and Local Communities
Conference on Latin American History 41

Historians, Journalists, and the Challenges of Getting It Right, Part 3: Interpreting the Arab Spring
National History Center 6

Chicago, the Capital of Polish America
Polish American Historical Association 7

SHAFR Luncheon
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Perspectives on Early Modern Naples
Society for Italian Historical Studies 3

Early Modern Habsburg Women, European Diplomacy, and Religious Patronage
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

Global History and Intellectual Networks
Toynbee Prize Foundation

11:30 AM-2:00 PM

AHR Board of Editors luncheon and meeting

Poster Session, Part 1
AHA Session 164

12:00 PM-2:00 PM

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

ACHA Presidential Luncheon
American Catholic Historical Association

12:15 PM-1:45 PM

AHA Modern European History Section

Department Chairs’ Luncheon

College Board Advanced Placement History Luncheon: Approaches to Teaching the Revised AP World History Curriculum
College Board

Awards Luncheon of the Coordinating Council for Women in History
Coordinating Council for Women in History

12:30 PM-2:00 PM

World History Association Affiliates' Meeting
World History Association

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

2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Thinking the Twentieth Century: In Memory of Tony Judt
AHA Session 165

Digital History Workshop, Part 2: State of the Field
AHA Session 166

Archivists, Historians, and the Future of Authority in the Archives
AHA Session 167

Teaching History in a Digital Age
AHA Session 168

Practicum: Teaching and Learning U.S. Social History with HERB
AHA Session 169

Digital Research Learning Curve: Practical Lessons from a Seven-Year Historical Census Database Project
AHA Session 170

Power within Diaspora: The Politics of Maroon Communities in Angola, Peru, Colombia, and the United States, 1600s–1800s
AHA Session 171

Building the Model Community in Central and Eastern Europe.
AHA Session 172

Beyond Gender and Genre: Familiar Networks in the Early Modern World
AHA Session 173

The Historian and Television History: Rethinking the Television Age
AHA Session 174

Religion, War, and the Formation of an American Identity
AHA Session 175

Communities and Society : The History of Emotions in the Middle Ages
AHA Session 176

What’s the Big Idea? Challenges and Prospects for Long-Range Intellectual History
AHA Session 177

Policy, Power, and Prisons: The Paradox of Twentieth-Century Justice
AHA Session 178

Abortion Debates in the United States and Europe, 1960–90: Problematizing the Standard Narrative
AHA Session 179

Rethinking American Education in the Progressive Era
AHA Session 180

Secret State Information in Early Modern Europe
AHA Session 181

A Social Turn in Latin American Environmental History?
AHA Session 182

Creating Communities through Coercion in Seventeenth-Century France
AHA Session 183

The Evangelical Century? Reappraising the Significance of Religion in the Modern United States
AHA Session 184

Judge-Made Law in Mexico, 1850–1910: Toward the Redefinition and Establishment of Networks and Communities
AHA Session 185

Communities Made of Money: Coin, Notes, and Credit in the European Eighteenth Century
AHA Session 186

Policing Germany: Between Authoritarian Rule and Civil Society, 1871–1918
AHA Session 187

Whose Racial Democracy? Changing Representations of Race in Brazil, 1950–2000
AHA Session 188

Everyday Calculations: Varieties of Commercial Numeracy in Early America
AHA Session 189

Public History Goes Global: A Roundtable of Issues and Themes
AHA Session 190

Cold War Kids: The Ideologies of Punk in the East and the West
AHA Session 191

Radical Networks: Constructing Mid-Nineteenth-Century Reform Communities
AHA Session 192

Historical Networks of Global Capitalism: China and Europe Compared
AHA Session 193

Writing Borderlands into U.S. History
AHA Session 194

Tech-Nation: Networks of Technology, Transportation, and Power in Twentieth-Century Japan
AHA Session 195

Ethnography, Ethnology, and Science, 1500-1800, Part 1: Ethnography, Ethnology, and Natural History in Latin America: Networks, Contexts, and Communities, 1600–1800
AHA Session 196

Protestant Catholicity: The Hidden Reformation of American Christian Communities
American Catholic Historical Association 20

Depictions of Catholic Life on the Silver Screen: From Italy to Hollywood
American Catholic Historical Association 21

Catholicism in the City of the Big Shoulders
American Catholic Historical Association 22

Presidential Policy and the Catholic Church in America from Jimmy Carter to G.H.W. Bush
American Catholic Historical Association 23

The Construction of Arian Memories
American Society of Church History 25

Teaching Mormonism in the Digital Age
American Society of Church History 26

Secularism and Protestant Identity in the Early Twentieth Century
American Society of Church History 27

Divergent Interpretations of the Reformation
American Society of Church History 28

Reassessing Missions in the Colonial Atlantic World
American Society of Church History 29

Bodies of Evidence: Queer Oral History Methods
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 7

Race-ing the Sexual Revolution
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 8

Annual meeting and program, The Ins and Outs of Publishing in Historical Journals: A Conversation with Editors
Conference of Historical Journals

Visualizing the Cuban Revolution
Conference on Latin American History 46

Cold War Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions in the Caribbean and Central America
Conference on Latin American History 47

CLAH Presidential Session: Negotiating the Challenges of Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
Conference on Latin American History 48

A Reflection of American Values: Sport in the Twentieth Century
Coordinating Council for Women in History 9

Mentoring: Wish Lists, War Stories, and Words of Wisdom
Coordinating Council for Women in History 10

Historians, Journalists, and the Challenges of Getting It Right, Part 4: American Intervention
National History Center 7

Religion in Polish America: Community, Conflict, and Cooperation
Polish American Historical Association 8

Polish American Historical Fiction: Doug Jacobson
Polish American Historical Association 9

Fascist Italy's Eastern Front: Ideology, Imagery, and Intellectuals, 1939–45
Society for Italian Historical Studies 4

The Convergence of Military and Diplomatic Histories: A Roundtable
Society for Military History

Transnational Urbanism in the Americas
Urban History Association

2:30 PM-5:00 PM

Poster Session, Part 2
AHA Session 197

4:45 PM-6:00 PM

AHA Business Meeting

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Catholic Mass
American Catholic Historical Association

Business Meeting
American Society of Church History

World History Association Business Meeting
World History Association

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

George C. Marshall Lecture on Military History
Society for Military History

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

On These Shoulders We Stand

Caribbean Studies Committee Roundtable
Conference on Latin American History 49

Central American Studies Committee: In Honor of 2012: Time and Representation in Central America
Conference on Latin American History 50

Mexican Studies Committee: Roundtable on the Use of Visual Culture as Historical Evidence
Conference on Latin American History 51

Hispanic American Historical Review Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

5:30 PM-6:00 PM

Business Meeting
Society for Italian Historical Studies

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

Business Meeting of the Conference Group for Central European History
Conference Group for Central European History

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

North American Conference on British Studies Reception
North American Conference on British Studies

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

ACHA Reception
American Catholic Historical Association

President's Address
American Society of Church History

Social Hour
Society for Italian Historical Studies

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

Committee on Minority Historians’ Reception

Public Historians’ Reception

World History Association Reception
World History Association

6:30 PM-7:30 PM

George C. Marshall Lecture on Military History Reception
Society for Military History

6:30 PM-8:30 PM

Bierabend of the Conference Group for Central European History
Conference Group for Central European History

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

President's Reception
American Society of Church History

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

CLAH Cocktail Reception
Conference on Latin American History