AHA Events

Thursday, January 3, 2019

8:30 AM-3:00 PM


AHA Council Meeting (invitation only)

9:00 AM-1:00 PM


Getting Started in Digital History Workshop

10:00 AM-2:00 PM


Tour 1: Tour of Polish American Churches and Neighborhoods in Chicago

11:00 AM-7:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

AHA Meeting Registration

LAC Office

Nursing Mother's Room

Nursing Mothers' Room

12:00 PM-6:00 PM


Job Center

Quiet Room

1:00 PM-4:30 PM


Tour 2: Contested Loyalties in Pullman, Illinois

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting

Undergraduate Orientation to the Meeting

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


Reception for Graduate Students

Undergraduate Reception

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


Reception for History Bloggers and Twitterstorians

5:30 PM-8:00 PM


Film Screening: A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


Opening Reception

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


American Historical Association Awards Ceremony

8:00 PM-9:30 PM


Plenary Session: Displaced Persons: The Present Crisis and Its Histories

Friday, January 4, 2019

7:00 AM-8:30 AM


Journal Editor's Breakfast (invitation only)

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

AHA Meeting Registration

LAC Office

Nursing Mother's Room

Nursing Mothers' Room

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


K-16 Teaching Workshop: Assignments Charrette

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

Job Center

Quiet Room

10:00 AM-11:00 AM


Meetup: Introducing the Institute of Historical Research, London

10:00 AM-12:00 PM


Graduate and Early Career Meetup

MapStory Office Hours

10:00 AM-2:00 PM


Tour 3: The Art of Mexican Chicago: Mexican Pilsen

11:30 AM-2:30 PM


Affiliated Societies Display

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Working Luncheon for Directors of Graduate Studies

12:00 PM-4:30 PM


Tour 4: The Future of Memory and Story: A Tour of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

12:30 PM-1:30 PM


American Historical Review Meet the Editors

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Film Screening: The Rape of Recy Taylor

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Automation and the Humanities: A Historic Perspective

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Film Screening: '63 Boycott

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


HBCU Networking Event

Meetup: Graduate Career Consortium

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Address

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


Reception hosted by the American Historical Association for 2018 president Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University

University of Chicago Reception

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


LGBTQ Historians' Reception

7:00 PM-9:30 PM


John O'Connor Film Award Winner, Documentary: Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart

7:30 PM-8:30 PM


Public Historians' Reception

Reception for Two-Year Faculty

Saturday, January 5, 2019

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Gender Equity

8:00 AM-4:00 PM


AHA Meeting Registration

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

LAC Office

Nursing Mother's Room

Nursing Mothers' Room

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


K-12 Educators' Workshop: History in Your Backyard: Remembrance and Commemoration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

Job Center

Quiet Room

9:30 AM-10:30 AM


Librarians and Archivists Meetup

10:00 AM-12:00 PM


Urban History Meetup

11:30 AM-2:00 PM


AHR Board of Editors Luncheon and Meeting (invitation only)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


AHA Modern European History Section Luncheon

Department Chairs' Luncheon

Film Screening: 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green

1:00 PM-4:00 PM


Career Fair

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Annual Meeting of Affiliated Society Representatives

3:00 PM-4:30 PM


Affiliated Societies Workshop: Hotel Contracts

3:30 PM-4:30 PM


Meetup with Members of the 2020 Program Committee

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Film Screening: Birth of a Movement

3:45 PM-4:45 PM


Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity

5:15 PM-6:30 PM


AHA Business Meeting (AHA Members Only)

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


Committee on Minority Historians' Reception

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


K-12 Reception

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Reception

8:30 PM-9:30 PM


Plenary: Genealogy, Genetics, and History

Sunday, January 6, 2019

8:00 AM-2:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

LAC Office

Nursing Mother's Room

Nursing Mothers' Room

8:30 AM-12:00 PM


AHA Council Meeting (invitation only)

9:00 AM-11:00 AM


Tour 6: Schools as Urban History: Exploring Chicago's Educational Landscape

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

Job Center

Quiet Room