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

Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday

Sunday, January 4, 2015

8:00 AM-9:00 AM


CFH Breakfast Reception
Conference on Faith and History

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Women Historians

9:00 AM-11:00 AM


Reassessing the Influence of Classic Theory on Historical Practice: Marx
AHA Session 153

From Problems to Solutions: Recruiting, Training, and Placing History PhDs in Non-Faculty Careers, Part 1: Building on Institutional Strengths: Career Services, Career Advising, and Career Placement
AHA Session 154

History in the Federal Government: Careers Serving Policy Makers and the Public
AHA Session 155

Enhancing Undergraduate Student Success: An Initiative to Improve Student Learning in Introductory U.S. History and Other Disciplines
AHA Session 156

Connection and Community: Teaching Family History in the Classroom
AHA Session 157

Authoring Digital Scholarship for History: Challenges and Opportunities
AHA Session 158

Can DH Answer Our Questions? Using Digital Humanities to Address the Concerns of Feminist Historians
AHA Session 159

Contentions of Sovereignty and Empire: The Ottoman Empire and International Law, 1400s to 1900s
AHA Session 160

Environmental History and Outer Space: Linking Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Natures across Time
AHA Session 161

From Source to Subject: Historical Writing and the “Archival Turn”
AHA Session 162

Ghosts of Modernity: Spiritism and History in Catalonia, Puerto Rico, and Cuba
AHA Session 163

Human-Animal Histories: Animal Studies and Posthumanism in Comparative Contexts
AHA Session 164

Interdisciplinary Institutes and Humanities Research: Europe and the United States
AHA Session 165

Mass Death in World War I: Interdisciplinary Explanations
AHA Session 166

Mexico in the Global 1960s
AHA Session 167

Negotiating Immigration Reform in an Age of Restriction
AHA Session 168

Of Borderlands and Frontiers: Crosscurrents and Divergences within Borderlands History and Settler Colonial Studies
AHA Session 169

Perspectives on Gavin Wright’s Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South: A Roundtable
AHA Session 170

Pirates, Collaborators, Students, and Martyrs: Nationalism and the Memory of War in Modern China
AHA Session 171

Politics Big and Small: African Americans, Law, and the Negotiation of Slavery and Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century American South
AHA Session 172

Rethinking Territoriality: Indigenous Power in North and South American Borderlands, 1700–1900
AHA Session 173

Struggles for Institutionalized People’s Rights in Mental Health and Corrections
AHA Session 174

The Future of the Book Review
AHA Session 175

The National Endowment for the Humanities at Fifty
AHA Session 176

The Transnational Landscapes of Civil Rights and Antiracist Activism
AHA Session 177

Too Soon? (Too Sad? Too Sensitive? Too Sacred?): The National September 11 Memorial and Museum
AHA Session 178

Transnational History: Middle Eastern and North African Perspectives
AHA Session 179

Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Part 1: In Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz: Authority in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
AHA Session 180

Lessons Learned from the AHA's Bridging Cultures Program, Part 2: Transnational Voyages and Voyagers in Nineteenth-Century Oceania and Southeast Asia
AHA Session 181

New Research on Central European Cities and Towns, Part 4: Minorities and Migrants: Studies in Central European Urban Dynamics
AHA Session 182

Caribbean Catholicism: A Transatlantic Odyssey, 1955–75
American Catholic Historical Association 16

Archives, Libraries, and Community Collaboration
American Catholic Historical Association 17

The Seventeenth Century in England, Italy, and Hispanic America
American Catholic Historical Association 18

Medieval Exemplarity and Its Afterlife
American Society of Church History 16

American Religion Online: How Digital Projects Can Change How We Teach, Research, and Interpret Religious History
American Society of Church History 17

Contemporary Orthodox Christianity and Human Rights
American Society of Church History 18

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Century of Protest Art
Business History Conference 2

From Threat to Opportunity: U.S. Perception of China, 1950s–70s
Chinese Historians in the United States 5

Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 9: Queer Tourism and Gentrification: Heritage, Neoliberalism, and African American Urbanity
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 10

Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel—Roundtable with Kate Bowler
Conference on Faith and History

Education in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Conference on Latin American History 36

Local Struggles, Translational Alliances: Labor Movements and International Alliances in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 37

CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

Little Diplomats: Organizing Youth and Foreign Relations in the Twentieth Century
German Historical Institute 2

Regions and Geographies of Decolonization
National History Center of the American Historical Association 7

9:15 AM-1:15 PM


Tour 17: Revolutionary Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan

9:30 AM-11:00 AM


AHA Committee on Women Historians Brainstorming and Mentoring Session

11:15 AM-2:15 PM


Tour 18: Museum of Jewish Heritage

11:30 AM-1:30 PM


Tour 19: The “New” New-York Historical Society

Reassessing the Influence of Classic Theory on Historical Practice: Foucault
AHA Session 183

From Problems to Solutions: Recruiting, Training, and Placing History PhDs in Non-Faculty Careers, Part 2: Faculty and Student Culture and Meeting Immediate Needs of Students
AHA Session 184

Many Lessons for Many Students
AHA Session 185

Whither the History Major?
AHA Session 186

Interpreting and Representing Women’s History to the Public: A Roundtable
AHA Session 187

Africa and Cuba: Links and Legacies
AHA Session 188

America and the Left: Past and Present
AHA Session 189

Capitalist Crisis, Surplus Labor, and Migration in East Asia
AHA Session 190

Choosing Your Own History: Scholars as Game Designers
AHA Session 191

Contesting the Meaning of “International” Governance: Minorities and the League of Nations
AHA Session 192

Dissenting Daughters: Early Modern Women’s Political and Civic Engagement
AHA Session 193

Food and History: Setting the Table for an Interdisciplinary Discussion
AHA Session 194

Digital Scholarship, Academic Careers, and Tenure
AHA Session 195

Historians and the New Sound Studies
AHA Session 196

History and Biology: Doing History With Biology
AHA Session 197

Hustle and Show: Labor, Power, and Space on the Streets
AHA Session 198

Islam in Modern South Asia, South Asian Islam in the Modern World: Trends and Transitions
AHA Session 199

Memory Studies and the Historian: Cases from Chile under Augusto Pinochet to the Present
AHA Session 200

Mexican Artists at the Disciplinary Crossroads
AHA Session 201

New Directions in Unfree American Indian Labor Histories
AHA Session 202

On the Discourses of Secularism and Pluralism
AHA Session 203

The Age of Extreme(s): Age, Public Health, and the Postwar U.S. Welfare State, 1945–80
AHA Session 204

The Authority of Science at the Edges of Empire
AHA Session 205

The Democratization of Higher Education in the United States since World War II
AHA Session 206

The Ground Below and Above: New Directions in the Study of Mining in the Colonial Americas
AHA Session 207

The Problem of Slavery
AHA Session 208

War Material: Perspectives on the Study of the Material Culture of Conflict in the United States and Europe
AHA Session 209

Women and the Gendered Contours of Black Internationalism in the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 210

Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Part 2: In Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz: Spectacle in Medieval Iberia and Beyond
AHA Session 211

Lessons Learned from the AHA's Bridging Cultures Program, Part 3: Incorporating the Atlantic and the Pacific into the U.S. and the Comparative Americas Survey Courses: Methodologies for the Classroom
AHA Session 212

An Aggiornamento of Twentieth-Century Italian American Catholic History
American Catholic Historical Association 19

The Challenge of the Margins: American Women Religious on the Frontier in the United States and Canada
American Catholic Historical Association 20

The Church in Revolutionary Times
American Catholic Historical Association 21

Catholicism, Knowledge, and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Germany
American Society of Church History 21

Religion in Public Schools: Church History, Law, Education, and Ethics
American Society of Church History 22

Psalms Across the Empire: The Reform and Revival of Psalmody in the British Imperial Age
American Society of Church History 23

Reevaluating 1914: The Experience of World War I and Its Legacy for Weimar Germany’s Unaffiliated Left
Central European History Society 11

Evangelicalism and Economy: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Anglo-American and Central European Theology, Economic Theory, and Social Activism from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
Central European History Society 12

Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 10: Racialized Queer Pasts in Literature and Letters
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 11

Connections and Disconnections between the Americas in the Long Nineteenth Century
Conference on Latin American History 41

Indigenous Citizens before the Indigenous Movements in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 42

When the Guns Stop Roaring: Remembering Conflict in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 43

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Rural Greece
Modern Greek Studies Association 3

Passing the Voting Rights Act, 1965
National History Center of the American Historical Association 8

Themes in the History of Polish Music
Polish American Historical Association 6

Polish American History from the Seventeenth Century through the Mid-Twentieth Century
Polish American Historical Association 7

SHAFR Luncheon
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

11:30 AM-2:00 PM


AHR Board of Editors luncheon and meeting

Poster Session #1
AHA Session 213

12:00 PM-1:45 PM


CCWH Annual Awards Luncheon
Coordinating Council for Women in History

12:00 PM-2:00 PM


The Gulabi Gang

12:15 PM-1:45 PM


BHC Luncheon: Capitalism, Global Business, and Inequality: A Roundtable Discussion
Business History Conference

12:30 PM-3:30 PM


Tour 20: National 9/11 Memorial Museum

1:00 PM-5:00 PM


Career Fair

1:15 PM-5:45 PM


Tour 21: Big Onion: Historic Brooklyn Heights, with the Brooklyn Historical Society

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Annual Meeting of Affiliated Society Representatives

1:45 PM-5:15 PM


Tour 22: Big Onion: A Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour of the Lower East Side

2:30 PM-3:45 PM


Bridging Cultures and Tuning Project Discussion Meeting (Invitation Only)

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


Digital Drop-in Room

Reassessing the Influence of Classic Theory on Historical Practice: Freud
AHA Session 214

From Surviving to Thriving: The Challenges and Rewards of Practicing History as an Independent Scholar
AHA Session 215

How Can I Be a Historian in this Job?
AHA Session 216

Why Caribbean History Matters
AHA Session 217

How Teaching Became a Mission of the American Historical Association from the 1960s
AHA Session 218

Harlem: The Unmaking of the Ghetto
AHA Session 218-A

American Evangelicals Looking Abroad
AHA Session 219

Beyond the Musical Sonderweg: Bourgeois Habitus, Art Music, and German National Identity Revisited
AHA Session 220

Considering Genocide: Understanding the Fate of Ottoman Armenians and Its Legacy One Hundred Years Later
AHA Session 221

GIS and History: Epistemologies, Considerations, and Reflections
AHA Session 222

History and Biology: History and Evolution
AHA Session 223

History and Literature: The State of the Relationship
AHA Session 224

Humanitarianism, International Relief, and the Problem of Humanity in the Wake of the Great War
AHA Session 225

Latino Radicalisms, 1930s–70s
AHA Session 226

Law and the Humanities
AHA Session 227

New Meanings, Old Words: Muslim Reading Practices across Time and Space
AHA Session 228

New Perspectives on Dutch New York: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding New Netherland and Its Atlantic Connections
AHA Session 229

Religious Aspects of Confucian Practice in Late Imperial China
AHA Session 230

Teaching World History across Time, Space, and Place
AHA Session 231

The History of Engineering and the Engineering of History
AHA Session 232

The Northern Paiute History Project: Engaging Undergraduates in Decolonizing Research with Tribal Community Members
AHA Session 233

The Traffic in Women: Early Twentieth-Century Debates in France, Argentina, and Vietnam
AHA Session 234

Under the Star of Hirschman: The Doux Commerce Thesis and the Historians
AHA Session 235

War Work: Race, Gender, Empire, and Labor in World War I
AHA Session 236

Whispers in the Archive: Rumor and Gossip as Primary Sources
AHA Session 237

Whither Ethnohistory? Writing Indigenous History across Disciplinary and Other Boundaries
AHA Session 238

Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Part 3: In Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz: Spectacle in Early Modern Iberia and Beyond
AHA Session 239

Reexamining the Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic, Part 1: Abolition in Practice: The Implementation of the Abolition Treaties in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
AHA Session 240

Toward a Global History of Sexual Science, c. 1900-70, Part 1: Global Transfers of Sexual Knowledge: Dubbing, Appropriations, and Translations
AHA Session 241

The Refugee in Transnational Catholic Social Thought in the Twentieth Century
American Catholic Historical Association 22

Medieval Sacramental Life and Thought
American Catholic Historical Association 23

Christians, Getting Along or Not
American Catholic Historical Association 24

Studying American Religion, Politics, and Foreign Policy All at the Same Time: Where Do We Go from Here?
American Society of Church History 25

The Digital Humanities and the Study of Christianity in Late Antiquity: Reflections on a Disciplinary Intersection
American Society of Church History 26

Confessional Boundaries in the Reformation Era
American Society of Church History 27

Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 11: Narratives of Knowing: Telling Queer Lives
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 13

Open Access: U.S. Journals, U.K. Authors, and Beyond?
Conference of Historical Journals

Revisiting Development in Twentieth-Century Peru
Conference on Latin American History 49

Frontiers of Blackness in Argentina, Colombia, and the Circum-Caribbean, 1810–1930
Conference on Latin American History 50

Public Health Concerns in the Aftermath of Disaster: Perspectives from Colonial and Modern Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 51

H-Net Commons: A General Overview and Call for New Participants
H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online 2

The Aftermath of World War II
Polish American Historical Association 8

Investigating the Cold War in South Asia: Diplomacy and Security after Empire
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia 15

Multi/Interdisciplinary Investigations into Italy and World War I
Society for Italian Historical Studies 3

2:30 PM-5:00 PM


Poster Session #2
AHA Session 242

3:00 PM-4:30 PM


Affiliated Societies Workshop: Investing Your Endowment

3:45 PM-4:45 PM


Bridging Cultures Wrap-Up Meeting (Invitation Only)

Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity

4:45 PM-6:00 PM


AHA Business Meeting (AHA Members Only)

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


ASCH Business Meeting
American Society of Church History

5:00 PM-7:30 PM


1971

5:15 PM-8:45 PM


Tour 23: Museum of the City of New York Evening Reception and Exhibition Tour

5:30 PM-6:00 PM


SIHS Business Meeting
Society for Italian Historical Studies

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


The Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Andean Studies Committee
Conference on Latin American History 52

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee: Teaching Latin America in the “Global Sixties”
Conference on Latin American History 53

Caribbean Studies Committee: Gender and the Caribbean Archive
Conference on Latin American History 54

Central American Studies Committee: New Directions: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Histories of Central America
Conference on Latin American History 55

Mexican Studies Committee: New Directions in Mexican History
Conference on Latin American History 56

NACBS Reception
North American Conference on British Studies

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

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


ASCH President's Address
American Society of Church History

SIHS Social Hour
Society for Italian Historical Studies

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


Committee on Minority Historians’ Reception

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


NHC Reception
National History Center of the American Historical Association

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


ASCH Presidential Reception
American Society of Church History

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

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


CLAH Cocktail Reception
Conference on Latin American History