129th Annual Meeting (January 2-5, 2015)

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Friday, January 2, 2015

8:30 AM-2:30 PM


Tour 1: Bus Tour of Harlem, the Bronx, and Arthur Avenue

8:30 AM-4:30 PM


AHA Council meeting (invitation only)

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Getting Started in Digital History Workshop

9:00 AM-1:00 PM


Workshop on Undergraduate Teaching

9:30 AM-12:30 PM


Tour 2: Big Onion: The Upper West Side

11:30 AM-2:30 PM


Tour 3: Twentieth-Century Queens

12:30 PM-6:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Are We Losing History? Capturing Archival Records for a New Era of Research
AHA Session 1

Teaching and Learning the Great War in the Digital Age
AHA Session 2

Teaching Students Chronology: Strategies to Help Students Develop a Chronological Framework
AHA Session 3

Teaching the Common Core: Writing Arguments
AHA Session 4

A Radical Promise? Building Institutional Contexts in this Interdisciplinary Moment
AHA Session 5

Before Neoliberalism: Mexico’s Corporations Enter the Global Stage, 1970–93
AHA Session 6

Connected and Comparative History: South Asia in New American, Asian, and Borderlands Histories
AHA Session 7

Crises of the 1970s
AHA Session 8

Disasters Fast and Slow: Crafting a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda for Risk Reduction
AHA Session 9

Drug Policy and the Battle for Order in Post-Civil Rights New York
AHA Session 10

Exile and Expulsion in Medieval Europe
AHA Session 11

History and Historians in the Ukraine Crisis
AHA Session 12

History of the Human Sciences
AHA Session 13

History, Other Disciplines, and Global Encounters, 1400–1800
AHA Session 14

Human Rights, Forced Migrations, Genocides: Making Links, Broadening the Conversation
AHA Session 15

Indigenous Revolutions, 1700–1850
AHA Session 16

Internationalizing the Maghrib: The (De)Colonization of Morocco as a Global History
AHA Session 17

New Histories of Capitalism in and beyond the Atlantic
AHA Session 18

“Of Numbers’ Use, the Endless Might”: Research at the Intersection of History and Mathematics
AHA Session 19

Race, Sex, and the Law in Louisiana’s Long Nineteenth Century
AHA Session 20

Scholarship beyond Text
AHA Session 21

Society and the State in Mao-Era Shanghai
AHA Session 22

The Allure of the Judicial Archives: Writing the History of Slavery through Case Files, Dockets, and Silences
AHA Session 23

The Cultures of Distance in Islamic History
AHA Session 24

The History of Emotions and the Other Disciplines
AHA Session 25

The Resurgence of Science in Historical Method
AHA Session 26

Undergraduate Experience and Current Scholarly Trajectory: A Panel Honoring Mary Beth Norton
AHA Session 27

What Should History Teachers Learn at Historic Sites? A Research Agenda
AHA Session 28

Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 1: Queer Intimacies and the Remaking of Late Twentieth-Century American Politics
AHA Session 29

Slavery as History, Slavery as Fiction , Part 1: Racial Paradise: Written and Visual Narratives of Slavery in Brazil
AHA Session 30

Franciscans on the Periphery: Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Chesapeake
American Catholic Historical Association 1

Varieties of American Catholic Masculinity, 1870–1970
American Catholic Historical Association 2

Catholic Ecclesiology after World War I: Centralization or Incipient Globalization?
American Catholic Historical Association 3

Border Crossings: World Christianities and the West from the Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
American Society of Church History 1

Raising a Righteous Generation: Educating Christians in the Transatlantic World
American Society of Church History 2

Reinterpreting the American Religious Narrative through the Lens of the Primitive and the Pragmatic
American Society of Church History 3

Facing Francoist Traumas: Negotiating a New Spain
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 1

Preserving China's Human Resources: War, Everyday Resistance, and National Survival, 1937–45
Chinese Historians in the United States 1

Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 2: Beyond the Binary: Early America and the Writing of Trans* History
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 2

Biographies of Ambition in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 3

Regional Cinemas and Transnational Audiences: New Film Histories in Latin America, 1910–50
Conference on Latin American History 4

Americans Abroad: Rethinking Empire and Expatriation in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 5

The Adjunct Problem: Collaborating for a Solution
Coordinating Council for Women in History 1

The Changing World of Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Three Centuries of German American Experience
German Historical Institute 1

Labor and the Workplace in New York City Past and Present
National History Center of the American Historical Association 1

Technological Answers to Maritime Problems: Ship Design and Construction in the Early Modern Western World—Recent Archival and Archaeological Discoveries
North American Society for Oceanic History

Rethinking Gender and Power: How Elite Women in Turn-of-the-Century New York Leveraged Wealth to Build Domestic, Philanthropic, and Political Capital
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1

Gender and Crime in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Part 1
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship 1

Failure to Thrive: Gender, Disability, and Failed Expectations in the Civil War Era
Society of Civil War Historians 1

1:15 PM-3:30 PM


Tour 4: FDR Four Freedoms Park Tour

1:30 PM-4:30 PM


Tour 5: Big Onion: Historic Lower Manhattan/Wall Street

2:00 PM-5:00 PM


Tour 6: History on the Hoof in the Gentrifying City: Maverick Women of Greenwich Village

2:15 PM-5:15 PM


Tour 10: Museum of the City of New York Tour: The Theater Collection

Tour 7: Museum of the City of New York Tour: Gilded New York

Tour 8: Museum of the City of New York Tour: Activist New York

Tour 9: Museum of the City of New York Tour: Mac Conner: A New York Life

2:30 PM-5:30 PM


Tour 11: American Society of Church History Tour of Harlem Religious Sites
American Society of Church History

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


The American Association of University Professors at 100: A Century of Activity in Defense of Academic Freedom
AHA Session 31

Constitutional History in the High School Classroom
AHA Session 32

New Initiatives to Improve Teaching, Learning, and Assessment: Projects and Perspectives
AHA Session 33

Teaching the Common Core: Citing Evidence Workshop
AHA Session 34

A Thematic Approach to Teaching World War I
AHA Session 35

A Southern Peace? History, Literary Studies, and the New Southern Studies
AHA Session 36

Alternative Temporal and Geographical Trajectories for the Cold War
AHA Session 37

Buying and Selling History: Some Perspectives on the Marketplace
AHA Session 38

Calculating the Future: Capitalism and Predictive Statistics
AHA Session 39

Combating Disease and Spreading Expertise: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives on the History of Women and Global Public Health
AHA Session 40

Critics of the Mainstream: The Collapse of Journalistic Authority in the United States, 1955–2000
AHA Session 41

Digital Tools: From the Archive to Publication
AHA Session 42

Experiencing Revolutions: A Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 43

Fostering Interdisciplinary Work and Expanding History’s Reach: Dual Degree Programs and Professional Schools as Opportunities
AHA Session 44

Globalization and Comestibles: History and Food Panel
AHA Session 45

History Meets Archaeology in Indigenous/Colonial North America
AHA Session 46

Intimacies and Empires
AHA Session 47

Legal Orientalism: Law, History, and the Global
AHA Session 48

Living with (and without) the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Reflections, Refractions, and Reactions in Disability History
AHA Session 49

Magna Carta in the Age of Enlightenment, Revolution, and Empire: Rethinking Constitutional History on the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta
AHA Session 50

Making History “Popular”: Challenges and Opportunities in the College Classroom
AHA Session 51

Migration History: A Dialogue among the Disciplines
AHA Session 52

Religion, Orientalism, and Decolonization
AHA Session 53

Resource Conflicts and Popular Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century Latin America
AHA Session 54

Technology and the Material Turn in Transnational History: A Roundtable
AHA Session 55

The Nation in the World: 150 Years of Critical Engagement
AHA Session 56

Tipping in American History
AHA Session 57

Where Is Central European History? Looking In and Looking Out
AHA Session 58

Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 3: Queer Movements: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Social Movement Era
AHA Session 59

Slavery as History, Slavery as Fiction , Part 2: The Slavery Archive As History and Narrative
AHA Session 60

The Lives of American Catholic Women, 1850–1920
American Catholic Historical Association 4

The Southern Part of the Western Hemisphere
American Catholic Historical Association 5

New York City’s Other Diocese: Social and Institutional Developments in the Diocese of Brooklyn
American Catholic Historical Association 6

History and the Law: Creating, Acquiring, and Preserving Legal Knowledge
American Society for Legal History

ASCH Executive Committee Meeting
American Society of Church History

Spiritual Midwifery: The Role of Religion in Midwifery Training and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
American Society of Church History 4

Doing History
American Society of Church History 5

Counsellor, Critic, Comforter, Colleague: Preaching at Court in Early Modern Europe
American Society of Church History 6

Inquisition: A Legal and Intellectual Network that Defined Religious Practice
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 2

How and Why Men Appropriate Depictions of Violent Women
Charles Homer Haskins Society

Agency, Activism, and the Making of a New Nation: Christian Women in Republican China
Chinese Historians in the United States 2

Law and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 7

“A Fragile Harmony”: Economic Tensions, Social Frictions, and Political Instability in Venezuela during the Age of Revolutions, 1780–1810
Conference on Latin American History 8

Home Is Where the “Aurika” Is: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on American, Soviet, and Corporate Modernity in Homes Overseas
Conference on Latin American History 9

CCWH Annual Business Meeting
Coordinating Council for Women in History

Greece and the First World War: Consequences in Local and Global Perspective
Modern Greek Studies Association 1

New Directions in Asian American Immigration
National History Center of the American Historical Association 2

PAHA Annual Board Meeting
Polish American Historical Association

Italy at the Start of the First World War
Society for Italian Historical Studies 1

Contested Loyalty: Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North
Society of Civil War Historians 2

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting

4:00 PM-6:00 PM


Bridging Cultures Orientation Meeting (Invitation Only)

4:00 PM-7:00 PM


LAWCHA Reception
Labor and Working Class History Association

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


Reception for Graduate Students

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


Reception for History Bloggers and Twitterstorians

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Imbabazi: The Pardon

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


AHA Welcome Reception

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


Reception in Honor of the Centennial of the American Association of University Professors

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


SAHSA Business Meeting
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


Gender and Crime in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Part 2
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship 2

6:30 PM-8:30 PM


ACHA General Business Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:30 PM-8:30 PM


American Historical Association Awards Ceremony

7:30 PM-10:00 PM


ASCH Council Meeting
American Society of Church History

8:30 PM-10:00 PM


Plenary: The New York Public Library Controversy and the Future of the American Research Library