131st Annual Meeting (January 5-8, 2017)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Thursday, January 5, 2017

8:30 AM-12:00 PM


Focus on Teaching Preconference Workshop

8:30 AM-3:00 PM


AHA Council meeting (invitation only)

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Getting Started in Digital History Workshop

9:30 AM-11:30 AM


Tour 1: Exploring Early Jewish Denver History

9:30 AM-12:30 PM


Tour 2: Highlights of the American Museum of Western Art

11:00 AM-7:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

AHA Meeting Registration

12:00 PM-6:00 PM


Internet Center

Job Center

Quiet Room

12:30 PM-2:30 PM


Tour 3: Highlights of the Denver Art Museum

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

12:30 PM-5:30 PM


ASCH Information Table
American Society of Church History

12:30 PM-6:00 PM


Coat Check (unattended)

12:30 PM-7:30 PM


Tour 4: Underground Roundtable on Colorado Mining History

1:00 PM-5:30 PM


NEH Information Table
National Endowment for the Humanities

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Scale in History
AHA Session 1

Roundtable on Transitioning to the Professoriate
AHA Session 2

Authors and Their Work in the Brave New Worlds of Scholarly Publishing
AHA Session 3

Incorporating Queer History into Latin American Survey Courses: A Roundtable
AHA Session 4

A Vicious Turn in Global History: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and “Immorality,” c. 1850–1950
AHA Session 5

Global Expectations, Localized Experience: Nascent Approaches to the Modern Pacific World
AHA Session 6

Family/Business: The Private Sides of Business and Empire in Antebellum America
AHA Session 7

Revolutionary Women, Revolutionary Worlds: Black Women and New Directions in Black Power History
AHA Session 8

Spatial Visions: Training Emotions through Urban Architecture, 1860s–1960s
AHA Session 9

Spain, Latin America, and the Trans-Atlantic Cold War
AHA Session 10

Afro-Indigenous Relations across the Americas, 1492 to the Present
AHA Session 11

Scales in Digital Mapping: New Approaches to Linking Cultural Experiences in American History
AHA Session 12

Place and the (Re)Formulation of Cultural Experience in 19th-Century Japan
AHA Session 13

Revisiting Historic House Museums: Research Agendas and Teaching Strategies
AHA Session 14

The 1820s in Hemispheric Perspective: Small-Scale Intimate Dynamics of Large-Scale Geopolitical Transformations
AHA Session 15

The Law of Nations and the Making of the American Republic
AHA Session 16

Human Rights Go Global: The International Committee for Political Prisoners, 1924–42
AHA Session 17

Cornerstones of Civil Society: A Roundtable Discussion on the Civic Value of Hospitals
AHA Session 18

Epidemics, Public Health, and Modernity in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Latin America: Regional Perspectives and Global Comparisons
AHA Session 19

Feminist Visibilty in the Long 1970s
AHA Session 20

Popular Ritual and Festivity in Reformation and Post-Reformation Britain
AHA Session 21

Historical Sources as Data: Opportunities and Challenges
AHA Session 22

The Early African Atlantic: 16th and 17th Centuries
AHA Session 23

Lived Decolonizations: Local Experiences of Colonial Transition
AHA Session 24

Laid Waste: Historicizing Toxic Waste
AHA Session 25

Social and Spatial Networks in Asia, 1100–1800: Computational Analysis Approaches
AHA Session 26

Writing History , Part 1: Writing for Readers in the 21st Century—For Love, Money, and Applause
AHA Session 27

A Question of Intent: Alcoholic Insanity, Violence, and the Law in 19th-Century America
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 1

Polemical Uses of Scripture and History across the Centuries
American Society of Church History 2

New Roots and Routes of Pacifism in 20th-Century America
American Society of Church History 3

Negotiating Christian Identity: A Perennial Theme in Global Church History
American Society of Church History 4

Transnationalism and Mexican Childhood and Youth in the 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 6

Scales of Conflict: Debating US Expansion in the Post-emancipation Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 7

What’s New in Federal Humanities Funding: NEH Special Initiatives, Programs, and Grant Opportunities for Historians
National Endowment for the Humanities

Linking Scales of History Making: From Living History to the Academic Scholarship of the American West
Western History Association

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


PAHA Board Meeting
Polish American Historical Association

2:30 PM-4:00 PM


ASCH Executive Committee Meeting
American Society of Church History

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


UNESCO: Researching Its Coordination of Scholarly Collaboration
AHA Session 28

Deciphering the Academic Job Search
AHA Session 29

History Engagement: Four Career Diversity Models for Developing History Doctoral Internships
AHA Session 30

A Retrospective on Tuning: Where Have We Been and Where Should We Go?
AHA Session 31

Writing Freedom and Citizenship: American Children's Print Culture and Politics from Slavery to the Cold War
AHA Session 32

Urbanization and Modernity in Latin America’s Secondary Capital Cities: Guatemala City, Caracas, Asunción, and San Juan
AHA Session 33

San Francisco in 1967: The Summer of Love Reconsidered
AHA Session 34

American Freedom in Caribbean Contexts: Transnational and Comparative Challenges to the Legacies of US Slavery
AHA Session 35

Living Together, Living Apart: Confessional Cohabitation in Early Modern Germany
AHA Session 36

The Slave Trade, the Spanish Empire, and Foreign Powers in the Atlantic World
AHA Session 37

Blogging on Borders: A Roundtable on Digital Humanities as a Tool for Dialogue at the US-Mexico Line
AHA Session 38

Women, Identity, and War in the 20th Century
AHA Session 39

Developing Education/Education as Development in the United States
AHA Session 40

Is Collaboration Worth It? A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 41

Zoos and Global History
AHA Session 42

Sex, Violence, and Honor in Modern Italy
AHA Session 43

Writing and Teaching at the Intersection of Chinese History and Literature
AHA Session 44

Moral Economies of Food: Ingredients, Identity, and the State in the Process of Cultural Creation
AHA Session 45

Technologies of Writing, Archive, and Knowledge Production
AHA Session 46

Interpreting the Origins of the Cold War: A Preponderance of Power Revisited
AHA Session 47

Political Culture, the Legality of War, and Spatial Imaginaries: Multifaceted Views of Nation Building in 19th-Century Colombia
AHA Session 48

Israelis, Americans, Palestinians, Arabs, and the Historical Peace Process in the Middle East
AHA Session 49

Materiality after Culture: New Approaches to State Formation in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 50

Creative and Critical Rights Claims in Marginalized Americans’ Freedom Suits, Habeas Corpus Petitions, and Disability Claims
AHA Session 51

Reading Hayden White's Metahistory Today: An AHA Book Forum Sponsored by History and Theory
AHA Session 52

Introspection and Inner Life as Scale
AHA Session 53

Ghana, India, and the Bandung Conference: A Retrospective on the Anniversary of the Independence of Ghana and India and the Bandung Conference of 1955
AHA Session 54

New Directions in Environmental History, Part 1: The Environmental History of Early Modern Empires
AHA Session 55

Writing History , Part 2: Genre-Busting History
AHA Session 56

In the Footsteps of Bainton: Luther Biographies from 1983 to 2017: A Roundtable
American Society of Church History 6

Reforms and Reformers before Luther
American Society of Church History 7

Sources of Authority and Influence in Early Christianity
American Society of Church History 8

Queer Scholars and Scholarship on the Job Market: A Roundtable
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 2

Bridging the Local and the Global: New Approaches to the Study of the Catholic Church in Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 12

Disrupting Popular Periodizations of US Immigration Policy: Shifting Ideas of Mexican Immigrants' Early 20th-Century Exclusion and Reception
Conference on Latin American History 13

CCWH Annual Business Meeting
Coordinating Council for Women in History

History Communication in the Classroom: Disrupting the History Undergrad and Grad Curricula
National History Center of the American Historical Association 2

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting

4:30 PM-7:00 PM


2016 John O'Connor Film Award Winner, Feature Film: Son of Saul

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-7:00 PM


ASCH Finance Committee Meeting
American Society of Church History

Women's History Organizations: Regional and National Collaboration
Coordinating Council for Women in History 2

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


AHA Welcome Reception

SAHSA Business Meeting
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


American Historical Association Awards Ceremony

7:30 PM-9:00 PM


ASCH Council Meeting
American Society of Church History

8:00 PM-9:30 PM


Plenary: The First Hundred Days: Priorities for a New US President