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

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Sunday, January 8, 2017

7:30 AM-9:00 AM


ASCH Membership Committee Meeting
American Society of Church History

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


Farewell Coffee Reception

8:00 AM-1:00 PM


NEH Information Table
National Endowment for the Humanities

8:00 AM-2:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

8:30 AM-12:00 PM


AHA Council meeting (invitation only)

8:30 AM-12:30 PM


Learning to Play and Playing to Learn: How Reacting to the Past Games Can Transform Teaching and Learning
AHA Session

8:30 AM-1:00 PM


ASCH Information Table
American Society of Church History

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Candid Conversations: Mentorship in the Humanities
AHA Session 283

California Rewrites Its K–12 History
AHA Session 284

Downwind from the “Most Dangerous Building in America”: Reflections, Representations, and Lessons from Rocky Flats, Denver’s Nuclear Weapons Plant
AHA Session 285

Incorporating the Beast: Traditional Historical Narratives and the Animal Turn
AHA Session 286

A Military Made by War: Power, Politics, and Personality in the Making of the United States Military
AHA Session 287

New Perspectives on Marriage and Courtship in Mexico
AHA Session 288

Combating Empire: Americans, Their Institutions, and Colonial Subjects Stand Up to Imperialism in Haiti (1915), India (1919–20), and Syria (1925–27)
AHA Session 289

Crossing Companies: Mobility and Cooperation between Early Modern National Monopoly Trading Companies
AHA Session 290

Mexico on the World Economic Stage
AHA Session 291

Region and Nation in a Changing World: The Americas in the 19th Century
AHA Session 292

Sports and Race in 20th-Century America
AHA Session 293

Politics and Time in Indian Intellectual History
AHA Session 294

Escalation: Micro-global Histories of Political Violence 
AHA Session 295

Historical Thinking and the History Survey Course: K–16 Perspectives
AHA Session 296

Early American History and the New Digital Archive: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 297

From Grassroots Activism to Power Politics: Human Rights Ideas and 20th-Century International Relations
AHA Session 298

Transnational Black Political Thought and Praxis since 1930
AHA Session 299

Identity, Faith, and the Nation in the Mediterranean World
AHA Session 301

Eroding California: Water, Environment, and Health in the Historical Imagination
AHA Session 302

The Pen and the “Scalar” Cold War: Solicitation and Petitionary Correspondence across and beyond the Nation in Latin America, 1943–83
AHA Session 303

Race, Space, and the Law in Metropolitan Context
AHA Session 304

Indigenous Slavery in a Hemispheric Perspective
AHA Session 305

New Directions in the Histories of Credit, Debt, and Financial Intermediaries
AHA Session 306

The Grass Is Greener Where You Water It: Recruitment and Retention in the Undergraduate History Major
AHA Session 307

State Formation, Part 2: States, Empires, and Citizenship, 1860s–1960s
AHA Session 308

Deferred or Failed Reformations? Peace, Race, and Gender in 19th- and 20th-Century America
American Society of Church History 44

Reformed Identities in 20th- and 21st-Century America
American Society of Church History 45

Clerical and Popular Catholicism from the 16th to the 21st Centuries
American Society of Church History 46

Banking, Consumption, and Natural Resources in South America
Conference on Latin American History 74

Founding Women Digital Documentary Editing Project
National History Center of the American Historical Association 10

9:00 AM-11:00 AM


Tour 15: A Confluence of Cultures: A Walking Tour of the Historic Auraria Neighborhood

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Coat Check (unattended)

Exhibit Hall

Internet Center

Job Center

Quiet Room

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Are We Teaching Political History?
AHA Session 309

Giving Students a Chance: How High School Students Can Conduct Historical Research through the AP Capstone Program
AHA Session 310

Incorporating LGBT History into the US Survey: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 311

Digitizing War for the Classroom: Engaging with Digital Resources to Teach Military History
AHA Session 312

Home-Grown Historians: Colorado and the Calling of Noted Historians
AHA Session 313

State, Capital, and the Corporation: Ideological and Social Transformations of the Last Half Century
AHA Session 314

Ex-slaves and Their Government: Rethinking Black Politics and the Law in Emancipated America
AHA Session 315

The Race of Color: African Americans’ Participation in US Empire
AHA Session 316

Who Won Suffrage? An Interdisciplinary, Transnational Debate
AHA Session 318

The Emotions as an Approach to the History of Foreign/International Relations
AHA Session 319

Decolonization and the US Occupation: Japan and Korea in the Aftermath of World War II
AHA Session 320

Perspectives on the New History of Capitalism
AHA Session 321

Colonial Justice in the French Indian Ocean, 1700–1800
AHA Session 322

Bridging the Gap between Past and Future? On Historical Parallels, Analogies, and Pre-figurations
AHA Session 323

Show and Tell: Creating Videos with Animation and Images to Make Abstract Ideas Stick
AHA Session 324

Rooting Democracy in Religion: The Mid-20th-Century Protestant Revival in American Philosophy
AHA Session 325

Beyond the Public Sphere: Political, Geographic, and Temporal Scales in the Modern Mexican Press
AHA Session 326

From Determinism to Synergy: Technologies and Institutions in the 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 327

Redrawing Imperial Maps of Knowledge: UNESCO, Decolonization, and International Collaboration in Science and Arts Expertise, 1945–65
AHA Session 328

Rhetoric, Rights, and Resistance: Disability Advocacy in 19th- and 20th-Century North America
AHA Session 329

Scales of Diplomacy: Austria-Hungary, the United States, and Statecraft in Unlikely Places
AHA Session 330

Confining Women: Labor, Motherhood, and Resistance in the 19th-Century Penitentiary
AHA Session 331

Universal Histories between Erudition and Enlightenment
AHA Session 332

What Historians Wish People Knew about the History of Licit and Illicit Drugs
AHA Session 334

Embracing Luther in Europe from the 16th to the 20th Centuries
American Society of Church History 47

Racial and Scientific Visions of Progress among 19th-Century US Reformers
American Society of Church History 48

Immigration, Nationalism, and Public Health
Conference on Latin American History 77