132nd Annual Meeting (January 4-7, 2018)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Friday, January 5, 2018

7:00 AM-8:30 AM


Journal Editor's Breakfast (invitation only)

7:00 AM-11:00 AM


Tour 5: National Museum of African American History and Culture

7:30 AM-9:00 AM


SHE National Advisory Board Meeting
Society for History Education

8:00 AM-8:30 AM


NEH Information Table
National Endowment for the Humanities

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


SHAFR Council Meeting
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

AHA Meeting Registration

Nursing Mother's Room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


United to Combat Racism: UNESCO and the Concept of Race, 1945–65
AHA Session 53

Tackling the Issue of Enrollments in History Courses, Part 1: Strategies and Ideas from the Frontlines
AHA Session 54

Free Speech on Campus
AHA Session 55

Facilitating Global Historical Research on the Semantic Web: MEDEA (Modeling Semantically Enhanced Digital Edition of Accounts)
AHA Session 56

The Modern Legacy of Premodern Racial and Ethnic Concepts, Part 1: Ethnicity in Imperial and Nationalist Discourses, Then and Now
AHA Session 57

Teaching History in Independent Schools: A Career for PhDs in History
AHA Session 58

The Workings of Race and Nationhood in African American, Arab, Chaldean, Chinese, and Jewish Cemeteries in 19th-Century America
AHA Session 59

Sex, Gender, Intimacy, and Race and Lingering Questions of Justice in World War II’s Southwest Pacific Theater
AHA Session 60

Cuba in a Revolutionary World, 1940s–60s
AHA Session 61

Renegadism and Transimperial Alliances in the Early Modern Mediterranean
AHA Session 62

Family, Household, Community, and the Court: Extending and Defying Domestic Male Authority in Colonial Latin America
AHA Session 63

SESSION CANCELLED Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World
AHA Session 64

The Politics of Domestic Service in Asia and the Americas, 1870–2015
AHA Session 65

Mining Unexpected Sources: A Roundtable on External Funding for Historians
AHA Session 66

Placing the American Community: Lessons from the Digital Harrisburg Project
AHA Session 67

Postslavery Lives around the Caribbean: Social Control, Representation, and the Possibilities of Narration
AHA Session 68

Historical Thinking and the Survey Course: Sources, Strategies, Assessments, and Best Practices in the United States, Latin America, and World Surveys
AHA Session 69

Translating Global Ideas through Confucian Paradigms: Intellectual Exchange across Religious Paradigms and State Boundaries in China
AHA Session 70

Rethinking the State in Ancien Régime France, Then and Now
AHA Session 71

From South to North: Latin America’s Impact on the 19th-Century United States
AHA Session 72

Ideologies of Industrialization in the Early American Republic
AHA Session 73

Queer Contortions: New Directions in the History of Race, Sexuality, and the Body
AHA Session 74

Spain, Latin America, and the Transatlantic Cold War
AHA Session 75

Nations of the Commonwealth: State Formation and Ethnic Identity in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania
AHA Session 76

What It Means to Be a Citizen: Student Veterans in History Classrooms
AHA Session 77

Projects of Economic Development and Statehood between Empire and Nation: Africa and South Asia, 1945–79
AHA Session 78

Catholicism in the 20th-Century American West
American Catholic Historical Association 1

American Catholics in 19th-Century Politics
American Catholic Historical Association 2

Beyond the Convent School: New Perspectives on Education for Girls in Colonial and 19th-Century Mexico and Guatemala
American Catholic Historical Association 3

Rethinking the Legal Profession in the Colonial Andes
Conference on Latin American History 16

Remembering the Eastern Andean Imperial Frontier: Exploration, Consolidation, and Identity in Colonial Spanish Charcas
Conference on Latin American History 17

The End of the Palestine Mandate
National History Center of the American Historical Association 3

Americans on Poland
Polish American Historical Association 2

Out of the Shadows: Industry and Its Social Ramifications in Northern Italy, 16th–18th Centuries
Society for Italian Historical Studies 3

Periodicals and the Shaping of National Identity
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing 1

Techno-Fixes Past and Present: Promise and Performance
Society for the History of Technology 1

9:00 AM-11:00 AM


Federal Agency and Funder Display

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


K-16 Teaching Workshop: Assignments Charrette

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Coat Check (unattended)

Exhibit Hall

Job Center

Quiet Room

10:00 AM-12:00 PM


Tour 6: Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I

10:15 AM-1:00 PM


Tour 7: Seeing Ancient Mesoamerica: Behind the Scenes of the Kislak Collection of the Archaeology of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Science and Difference in History: Biology, Genetics, and the Politics of Race
AHA Session 79

Should Ethics Training Be Part of Historical Pedagogy?
AHA Session 80

Tackling the Issue of Enrollments in History Courses, Part 2: Strategies and Ideas from the Frontlines
AHA Session 81

The Modern Legacy of Premodern Racial and Ethnic Concepts, Part 2: Deciphering Racial Markers, Medieval to Modern
AHA Session 82

New Perspectives on Women in the 20th-Century Caribbean World, Part 1: Migrations
AHA Session 83

Archiving Taste: A Roundtable on Food History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
AHA Session 84

Reconceptualizing the African Experience with the Socialist Bloc
AHA Session 85

Collaboration for Career Diversity: Locating Expertise at the Institutional and National Levels
AHA Session 86

Colonial Archives and Publications: Digital Native American History Is/as Transformative Use
AHA Session 87

Digital Humanities and Pedagogy: Three History Projects in the Classroom
AHA Session 88

Edgy Urban Environmental History: The Ideological Built Environment
AHA Session 89

Early Modern Prisoners of War as Laborers
AHA Session 90

Race and Empire in Global Music History, 1500–1800
AHA Session 91

Banditry, Ethnicity, and Violence in Modern China
AHA Session 92

Women and the Construction of Racial Identity in Global Dutch Communities of the 17th and 18th Centuries
AHA Session 93

Beyond Grants: Strategies for Becoming Involved in NEH-Funded Projects
AHA Session 94

The National Reach of Reconstruction and “Lost Cause” Mythology in the Civil War Era
AHA Session 95

Reimagining Philadelphia’s Labor History: How Including Trolleymen, Black Wobblies, Flappers, and Trashmen Turned the Historiography on Its Head
AHA Session 96

The Distinctly Human? Rethinking Actor, Agency, and Individual Consciousness in History
AHA Session 97

Optics: Race, Religion, and Technology in East Asian Photography, 1868–1949
AHA Session 98

Trans-imperial Habsburg Dynamics in the Long 18th Century
AHA Session 99

New Histories of State Surveillance
AHA Session 100

Texas Art as American History: Regional Paradigm or National Archetype?
AHA Session 101

Race and Membership in Germany
AHA Session 102

The National Park Service’s LGBTQ America Theme Study: A Roundtable
AHA Session 103

Commentary, Not Punditry: Historians, Politics, and the Media
AHA Session 104

Transgressive Marijuana: Cultivating, Performing, and Regulating the Cannabis Culture in the 20th Century
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 1

The Suffering Body: Transhistorical Explorations of Redemptive and Communicative Suffering
American Catholic Historical Association 4

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal: Origins and Transmission of a Transnational Movement
American Catholic Historical Association 5

Negotiating Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in the 19th-Century United States
American Catholic Historical Association 6

Rewriting 19th-Century Central European History, Part 1: A Discussion of Karen Hagemann's Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon
Central European History Society 4

Legal Reforms, Philosophy, and Women in the Media in China during the Late Qing and Early Republican Period
Chinese Historians in the United States 1

The Abolitionist Movement in Brazil: New Approaches
Conference on Latin American History 18

The Cacicas of Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 19

Public Health and Education in the Andes and Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 20

Dismantling Boundaries: Women’s Historians and the Transformation of History
Coordinating Council for Women in History 4

Teaching the Cold War
Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching 1

Deliberative Decision Making in the History Classroom: The Place of Civics
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History 2

What Does Brexit Mean for British History?
National History Center of the American Historical Association 4

National and Ethnic Identity Construction in Transatlantic Context
Polish American Historical Association 3

John F. Richards Prize Roundtable Discussion of Nayanjot Lahiri’s Ashoka in Ancient India (2016 Richards Prize Winner)
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia 3

Religion, State and Cultural Practices, and the Racialization of the Nation in Italy from Fascism to the Republic
Society for Italian Historical Studies 4

The History of AI and Its Discontents I
Society for the History of Technology 2

11:30 AM-2:30 PM


Affiliated Societies Display

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Working Luncheon for Directors of Graduate Studies

Thinking Like a Historian at a Think Tank
AHA Session

CAH/SAHSA Luncheon
Conference on Asian History

CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

SAHSA/CAH Luncheon
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia

12:15 PM-2:15 PM


NCH Board Meeting
National Coalition for History

12:30 PM-1:30 PM


American Historical Review: Meet the Editors Reception

CLGBTH Members’ Meeting
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


John O'Connor Film Award Winner, Documentary: I Am Not Your Negro

Tour 8: Archiving Taste: A Tour of the Food History Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

1:00 PM-5:00 PM


NEH Information Table
National Endowment for the Humanities

1:30 PM-2:30 PM


Historians Writing Historical Fiction: A Discussion

Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum: Finding Funding in an Era of Uncertainty

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


The Legacy of Thomas C. Holt’s The Problem of Freedom: 25-Year Retrospect
AHA Session 105

Historians for Mental Health: An Open Discussion
AHA Session 106

Digital Drop-In
AHA Session 107

Tackling the Issue of Enrollments in History Courses, Part 3: Strategies and Ideas from the Frontlines
AHA Session 108

Doors of Hope: Histories and Memories of Black Transnationalism in Indian Territory, Canada, and West Africa
AHA Session 109

New Perspectives on Women in the 20th-Century Caribbean World, Part 2: Subject-Making within National Contexts
AHA Session 110

The Modern Legacy of Premodern Racial and Ethnic Concepts, Part 3: Racial Sciences, Old and New
AHA Session 111

Cutting a New Pattern, Part 1: Uniformed Women in the Great War
AHA Session 112

Drawing Boundaries of Belonging: Race, Ethnicity, National Affiliation, and Alienation in US-Mexico Borderlands in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 113

Custodial Care: Histories of Detention in the Name of the State
AHA Session 114

Everyday Technologies: Toward a History of Mass Media in the Middle East
AHA Session 115

Negotiating Power in 18th-Century South Asia
AHA Session 116

Online Media and Collaborative Learning
AHA Session 117

Selling the State: Propaganda and the Construction of Public Legitimacy in the Postcolonial World
AHA Session 118

Comics and History: New Historical Research
AHA Session 119

Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism in China’s Changing Positions during the Cold War
AHA Session 120

The Missing Piece: Catholic Faith and the Making of Working-Class Consciousness
AHA Session 121

The Emergence of Racial Modernities in the Global South
AHA Session 122

Reconsidering American Response(s) to the Holocaust
AHA Session 123

Listening to the Archives: Researching Radio History around the World
AHA Session 124

Globalizing Russia’s Imperial Turn: Perspectives from Kritika and Ab Imperio
AHA Session 125

Words That Shape the World: Historians, Teachers, and Partnerships for LGBT History
AHA Session 126

Returning the Landscape of Slavery to Presidential Plantations
AHA Session 127

What Will They Do Today? Five Ideas for Doing History with Students
AHA Session 128

The Culture Wars of the Texas K–12 Schoolbooks
AHA Session 129

Drugs in the Classroom: What Should We Tell Students about Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs, and Addictive Digital Technologies in History—and in Their Own Lives?
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 2

Martyrdom, Sanctity, and Death in Medieval Europe
American Catholic Historical Association 7

Sex, Marriage, and Family in Catholic Europe
American Catholic Historical Association 8

The Holy See, American Catholics, and the Emerging of New Global Challenges after the First World War
American Catholic Historical Association 9

Jewish Masculinities in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Central European History Society 5

Continuities in Post-Nazi Society
Central European History Society 6

Surveillance, Identity, and Homosexualities in the 20th-Century United States
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 6

Experiencing War: Refugees, Alliances, and Fighters
Coordinating Council for Women in History 5

Inside/Outside: Defining, Ascribing, and Communicating “Germanness” in Different Contexts, Spaces, and Times
German Historical Institute

Race, Gender, and Prison Labor in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Labor and Working Class History Association 5

Beyond Police: Lessons from History
MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization 1

Documenting the History of the First Federal Congress
National History Center of the American Historical Association 5

Race and Ethnicity on the Battlefields of the Civil War
Polish American Historical Association 4

Love, Sex, and Honor in the Italian South
Society for Italian Historical Studies 5

Automobility and Political Identity in a Neoliberal Age
Society of Automotive Historians

2:00 PM-5:30 PM


Tour 9: Giving in America: The Material Culture of Philanthropy at the National Museum of American History

2:30 PM-3:30 PM


Meet the Editors, Perspectives on History

2:30 PM-5:30 PM


Workshop: Preparing for the Nonacademic Job Search

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Immigration and Transnationalism in the Modern Era
AHA Session 130

Dissertation Lightning Round
AHA Session 131

How Can We Make Historical Perspective More Central to Active Citizenship?
AHA Session 132

Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession Open Forum
AHA Session 133

1968 Mexico City Olympics
AHA Session 134

Primary Sources and the Historical Profession in the Age of Text Search, Part 1: Historical Research and Analysis in the Digital Age
AHA Session 135

Cutting a New Pattern, Part 2: Uniformed Women in the Great War
AHA Session 136

A Soul as Vast as the World: African Americans, Decolonization, and Third World Radicalism
AHA Session 137

Department Chairs and Fundraising
AHA Session 138

Ways of Seeing, Shaping, and Documenting Subjects under Postcolonial Conflicts
AHA Session 139

Bondage, Criminality, and the Humanitarian Impulse in the Long 18th Century
AHA Session 140

Conscripted Citizens: Hegemony, Race, and Nationalism in Latin American Armies
AHA Session 141

Resistant and Receptive, Insiders and Outsiders: Native Peoples and the Making of Early Modern Indigenous Sovereignty, Colonial Subjects, and Slaves
AHA Session 142

Queer in Public: Urban Space and Same-Sex Cultures in Europe, 1850–1930
AHA Session 143

Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Euro-American World: Connections and Comparisons between the United States, Ireland, Southern Italy, and Russia, 1815–1900
AHA Session 144

Comparing the Governance of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Global Empire, 1600–1800
AHA Session 145

In Their Own Words: Global Understandings of Modern Womanhood in the Mid-20th-Century Women’s Press
AHA Session 146

Guests and Outsiders: Nativism, Integration, and the Politics of Migration in Europe since 1945
AHA Session 147

Connections and Their Consequences: Cuba, West Africa, and Spain Resisting and Adapting to Change
AHA Session 148

Mapping Black Mobilities and Identities in the Long 19th Century
AHA Session 149

Race, Risk, and Capitalism in the 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 150

The Global South in the Modern Pacific World: Asian and Latin American Connections
AHA Session 151

Public History and Public Memory: Talking about Slavery at Presidential Plantations
AHA Session 152

Apartheid’s Legacy: Reflections 70 Years after the National Party’s Rise to Power in South Africa
AHA Session 153

Teaching the Master Narrative: American History Textbooks in the 20th Century
AHA Session 154

The Design, Development, and Implementation of Funded Transdisciplinary Digital History Projects: Illustrative Cases of K–16 Collaboration in Action 
AHA Session 155

Late Breaking: Revolt against Regulation in the Time of Trump: Historical Perspectives
AHA Session

Anti-Drug Activism in America and China during the 1950s and Beyond: Grassroots and Government Strategies 
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 3

Catholic Attitudes toward Protestantism and Judaism between the Two World Wars: American Context, Transnational Organizations, and Vatican Politics
American Catholic Historical Association 10

Encountering Modernity: Catholic Social Thought in the 20th-Century United States
American Catholic Historical Association 11

Defining El Campo: Rural Identity and the Creation of Modern Spain
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

Rewriting 19th-Century Central European History, Part 2: The National, the Transnational, and the Global in 19th-Century European History
Central European History Society 7

Roundtable Discussion: The Bible in American Cultural and Political History
Conference on Faith and History 1

Envisioning the Nation: Mexico and the World, 1900–50
Conference on Latin American History 25

Scandalous Behavior in Colonial Latin America: Agency, Crime, and Punishment in Criminal and Inquisition Files
Conference on Latin American History 26

Piracy, Imperial Expansion, and the Making of the Modern World: New Perspectives from the Atlantic and Beyond
Conference on Latin American History 27

Remembering Marilyn Young, Activist Historian: A Memorial Panel
National History Center of the American Historical Association 6

Ethnic Political Mobilization
Polish American Historical Association 5

Peddling Print in 19th-Century America: Subscription Publishing as a Business Model
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing 2

The History of AI and Its Discontents II
Society for the History of Technology 3

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Film Screening: Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Address

ACHA General Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting: Flight, Migration, and Borders in the Caribbean from Carib Expansion to 21st-Century Diasporas
Conference on Latin American History 29

Central American Studies Committee Meeting: The Problem of Modernity in Central America
Conference on Latin American History 30

Colonial Studies Committee Meeting: Beyond the Archival Divide: A Roundtable on Methods, Perspectives, and Experiences from Colonial Latin American Archives 
Conference on Latin American History 31

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting: The Changing Narrative Arc of History: Workshopping Assignments That Link History to the Present  
Conference on Latin American History 32

The Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


ASPHS Reception
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

7:00 PM-8:30 PM


Presidential Reception

SHAFR Reception (cash bar)
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


John O'Connor Film Award Winner, Feature Film: Free State of Jones

7:15 PM-8:45 PM


University of California Press Reception

Brazilian Studies Committee Meeting: Social Movements: Approaches, Debates, and Memory
Conference on Latin American History 33

Chile-Río de la Plata Studies Committee Meeting: The Crafting and Molding of Race in a “White” Nation
Conference on Latin American History 34

Gran Colombia Studies Committee Meeting: New Directions on Politics and Society in Pre- and Post-Gran Colombia: From the Public Sphere to Caribbean Tourism
Conference on Latin American History 35

7:30 PM-8:30 PM


LGBTQ Historians' Reception

8:00 PM-9:00 PM


Public Historians' Reception

Reception for Two-Year Faculty