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

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

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

8:00 AM-2:00 PM

Registration and Information Desk
American Society of Church History

8:30 AM-10:30 AM

James M. McPherson: A Life in American History
AHA Session 198

Popular Protests in Global Perspective
AHA Session 199

A Winner's Guide to Graduate and Postdoctoral Grant and Fellowship Competitions
AHA Session 200

The Digital History Seminar
AHA Session 201

A Conversation about Text Mining as a Research Method
AHA Session 202

The Meanings of Correspondence in Modern Latin American History
AHA Session 203

Life and Death on New Spain’s Northern Frontier
AHA Session 204

Refugees and Refugee Camps: A Comparative Perspective since World War II
AHA Session 205

Fluid Worlds, Shifting Selves: Gender, Difference, and the Making of Transnational Maritime Communities
AHA Session 206

Building Transatlantic Women's Communities and Networks, 1880s–1940s
AHA Session 207

The 1970s Are History: Opportunities and Limitations of Democratic Openings in Mexico
AHA Session 208

Crafting Communities in Cold War Latin America: U.S Modernization Efforts through Education, the Peace Corps, and the Alliance for Progress
AHA Session 209

Dreams of Development: Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Work, and Violence
AHA Session 210

Sailing Ships, Silver Buckles, and Solemn Bonds: Powerful Threads of Community Webs
AHA Session 211

The Terms of Engagement and Belonging in Colombia’s Long 1930s and 1940s
AHA Session 212

Black Militias in the Spanish Atlantic World during the Age of Revolution
AHA Session 213

The Transformation of Christian and Muslim Communities from Spiritual to Territorial after the Wars of Twelfth-Century Iberia
AHA Session 214

Inter-American Networks and Racial Constructs in the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 215

Jewish and Latin American: Negotiating Ethnicity, Nation(s), and Continent in Argentina and Brazil, 1950–70
AHA Session 216

Environmental History of Colonial Mexico City
AHA Session 217

Boundaries and Border Crossers in North America and Beyond
AHA Session 218

Before “Social Media”: Communication, Community, and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States
AHA Session 219

In Search of a New Balance: Meat in Twentieth-Century American History
AHA Session 220

From City to Suburb: Associations, Ethnic Enclaves, and Public Spaces in Early Twentieth-Century America
AHA Session 221

Lost in Translation: The Strange Transpacific Careers of Mahjong, the SS Nemesis, and the Chinese Typewriter
AHA Session 222

Between Europe and the Mediterranean: Knowledge, Religion, and Politics in Four Early Modern Italian Cities
AHA Session 223

World Wide Webs? Networks and Intellectual Communities in the British Empire
AHA Session 224

Global Radicalism and the "One Big Union": Transnational Histories of the Industrial Workers of the World
AHA Session 225

Elite Political and Economic Networks in Mexican History
AHA Session 226

Ethnography, Ethnology, and Science, 1500-1800, Part 2: Traditions and Genres for Observation, Analysis, and Synthesis
AHA Session 227

Looking for the Tracks: The Quest for African Sources on Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 1: Looking for the Tracks: The Quest for African Sources on Slavery and the Slave Trade
AHA Session 228

Sexing Up the "Long" 1950s, Part 1: New Narratives in U.S. Gender and Sexuality Studies
AHA Session 229

The Mughal Empire: New Debates, Part 1: The Mughal Imperial Imaginary between Soldiers and Scribes
AHA Session 230

Franciscan Pioneers and Prophets in the United States
American Catholic Historical Association 24

Catholic Response to Modernity
American Catholic Historical Association 25

Martin Luther in His Catholic Context: Some New Research
American Catholic Historical Association 26

Looking at the Face of Europe from North American Eyes
American Catholic Historical Association 27

Rethinking Contemporary Evangelicalism
American Society of Church History 30

Authorizing Women: The Construction, Promotion, and Reclamation of Women’s Authority and Authorship in Late Antique and Medieval Texts
American Society of Church History 31

Healing, Ethnic Identity, and the Globalization of Pentecostalism
American Society of Church History 32

Six Days Shalt Thou Labor: Class and the Transformation of American Protestantism
American Society of Church History 33

The Pleasures and Perils of LGBTQ Public History
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 10

Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Lessons Learned from Integrating Minorities and Women in the U.S. Military
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 11

Revolutionary Reverberations: Latin American Politics in the Wake of the Cuban Revolution
Conference on Latin American History 62

Gender, Labor, Welfare, and Family across Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 63

Jesuits and Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America: Individual and Familial Biographies
Conference on Latin American History 64

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

11:00 AM-1:00 PM

The Valley of the Shadow Project and Its Progeny after 20 Years
AHA Session 231

Whither the Future of the History Textbook
AHA Session 232

Women in Right-Wing Political Movements
AHA Session 233

From Digital Humanities to Cultural History: The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe
AHA Session 234

Cattle and Cane: Negotiating Community, Region, and Development in Brazilian Commodity Chains, 1880–1980
AHA Session 235

Reinventing Indians: New Perspectives on the "Indian Problem" in Modern Mexico
AHA Session 236

Reconfiguring the Local: Global Networks and Metropolitan Boundaries
AHA Session 237

New Frontiers in the Environmental History of the Renaissance
AHA Session 238

Decolonizing U.S. History: The United States and Decolonization at Home and Abroad
AHA Session 239

Marriage, Communities, Boundaries: French and Indians in the Illinois Country
AHA Session 240

Madness and Community in the United States: Four Perspectives
AHA Session 241

The State and Indigenous Languages in Twentieth-Century Latin America
AHA Session 242

Alternative Geographies of Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Belonging in Transnational History
AHA Session 243

Fractured Histories of Colonial Liberalism: Political Networks and Political Norms, India 1910–43
AHA Session 244

Improvising Communities of Print during the American Civil War
AHA Session 245

Hybrid Encounters: The Gendered Dynamics of Racial Mixing in Imperial and Post-Imperial Asia
AHA Session 246

South Andean "Altiplano" Communities and Colonial "Cacique" Networks, Mid-Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries
AHA Session 247

Revolutionary Era Cosmopolitanism(s)
AHA Session 248

To Resist or Embrace? Immigrant Perspectives on Public Schooling, 1870–1940
AHA Session 249

Citizenship and the Public Sphere: Methods of a New Political History
AHA Session 250

Toward a Pan-Iberian History: Pre-modern Networks and Communities
AHA Session 251

Art and History Education: Using Visual Arts to Spark Engagement in History and Build Interpretive Skills
AHA Session 252

The Nature of the State in Mid-century Mexico, 1934–60
AHA Session 253

Ethnography, Ethnology, and Science, 1500-1800, Part 3: Categories of Physical Difference
AHA Session 254

Looking for the Tracks: The Quest for African Sources on Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 2: Looking for the Tracks: The Quest for African Sources on Slavery and the Slave Trade
AHA Session 255

Sexing Up the "Long" 1950s, Part 2: Urban and Transnational Narratives in the Americas and Europe
AHA Session 256

The Mughal Empire: New Debates, Part 2: The Performance of Sovereignty in the Mughal Empire: New Comparisons and Contexts
AHA Session 257

The American Catholic Church and the "Problem" of Immigration in the Twentieth Century
American Catholic Historical Association 28

De-centering old stories: Where Was North American Catholicism Born?
American Catholic Historical Association 29

CANCELLED
American Catholic Historical Association 30

Tensions within the North American Church
American Catholic Historical Association 31

After Edwards: Appropriations of the New England Theology
American Society of Church History 34

Gendered Christianity in Twentieth-Century Missions and Rituals
American Society of Church History 35

Early Modern Protestant Appropriation of Catholic Thought and Practice
American Society of Church History 36

Students, Intellectuals, and Politicians, 1945–80: A New Cultural History of Political Practice in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 73

The Progressive Catholic Church and Society in Ecuador and Colombia
Conference on Latin American History 74

Political Radicalism in Cold War Latin America: Networks, Contact Zones, and Tensions from Left and Right
Conference on Latin American History 75