134th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2020)

Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday

Friday, January 3, 2020

8:30 AM-3:00 PM


AHA Council Meeting (invitation only)

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Introducing History: Syllabus Design with the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History 1

9:00 AM-1:00 PM


Getting Started in Digital History Workshop

10:00 AM-11:00 AM


CEHS Executive Board Meeting
Central European History Society

10:15 AM-1:15 PM


Tour 1: Brooklyn Historical Society: Taking Care of Brooklyn: Stories of Sickness and Heath

Tour 2: Brooklyn Historical Society: Waterfront

11:00 AM-7:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

AHA Meeting Registration

LAC Office

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

12:00 PM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

12:00 PM-6:00 PM


Quiet Room

12:15 PM-3:15 PM


Tour 3: Tour of LGBTQ Materials at the Schomburg Center

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Humanities PhDs beyond the Academy: The Employer Perspective
AHA Session 1

Historically Informed Present-Day Activism in the City
AHA Session 2

What Does It Mean to "Teach w/#Dighist"?
AHA Session 3

Reimagining Interracial Cooperation in Religious Communities after the Civil War
AHA Session 4

The Nazi Legacy in the Trump Era: Research, Pedagogy, and Public Engagement
AHA Session 5

African Americans and Chinese Activists in World War II and the Cold War
AHA Session 6

Liberty, Legitimacy, and Forced Migrations across Empires: Refugees in the Ottoman, Russian, and Hapsburg Empires, 1848–1920
AHA Session 7

Landscape Modifications and Colonial Control: Contestations over Nature, Extraction, Development, and Nonhuman Species in the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia
AHA Session 8

Female Killers in the 20th Century: Gender, Modernity, and Punishment in Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 9

Women against War: 1950s Anti-imperialist Organizing from the Korean War to the Cuban Revolution
AHA Session 10

Rethinking Materiality with Medieval Britain
AHA Session 11

Mountains as Sites of History in the Ottoman Empire
AHA Session 12

The Benefits and Challenges of Teaching History Online
AHA Session 13

Gendered Mobilities and Colonial Intimacies: Histories of Migration and Settlement in the Age of Empire
AHA Session 14

Digital Collaborations in African History: New Methods and Sources
AHA Session 15

Discourses of Reform and Remaking: Progressive Education and US Hegemony in the Pacific, 1887–1960
AHA Session 16

Reconceptualizing the Soviet Age of Development in Postcolonial Asia and Africa
AHA Session 17

Commemorating the Stonewall Uprising: Transnational and National Retrospectives on Movements and Monuments
AHA Session 18

Liberal-Left Coalitions and the Remaking of the Democratic Party, 1960s–80s
AHA Session 19

Catholic Poles, Polish Jews: A Complexity of Responses to Persecution and Terror under the German Occupation during World War II
AHA Session 20

CANCELLED Material Culture and the Cairo Geniza
AHA Session 21

Forging Citizenship after Empire: Reflections from Asia and the Middle East in the 20th Century
AHA Session 22

Inca Girls and Women: Interdisciplinary Approaches
AHA Session 23

Historical Memory and Nostalgia in the Early Republic
AHA Session 24

Late Breaking: The Border Crisis in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 24A

Catholic Mass Media and New York Modernity
American Catholic Historical Association 1

Catholicism and the Question of Racism
American Catholic Historical Association 2

The Significance of States on the European Periphery: 20th-Century Spanish and Finnish History in Conversation
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 1

Teaching and Pedagogical Reform in Ancient History at the Community College
Association of Ancient Historians 1

Remapping the Political and Cultural Landscape of (Early) Modern Asia
Chinese Historians in the United States 1

Imperial Interventions in 19th- and 20th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 2

Activism, Academics, and the Academy
Conference on Latin American History 3

The Gods of Revolution and Counterrevolution in Central America
Conference on Latin American History 4

CCWH Annual Business Meeting
Coordinating Council for Women in History

Intellectual Disability, Human Rights, and Institutions of Confinement, 1960s–2000s
Disability History Association 1

The Other Illegals: Unauthorized European Immigration to the US in the 20th Century
Immigration and Ethnic History Society 1

A Blueprint for Departmental Change: The History Teaching and Learning Project at the University of Colorado Boulder
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History 2

Roundtable: Brexit and Embers of Empire
National History Center of the American Historical Association 1

Book Panel: American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago by Dominic A. Pacyga
Polish American Historical Association 1

A Right to Bear Arms? The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the Second Amendment
Radical History Review 1

Migration, Identity, and Cultural Transfer in East-Central Europe
Society for Austrian and Habsburg History 1

Throwing Out the Blackshirts: Envisioning and Implementing Defascistization in Italy, 1943–45
Society for Italian Historical Studies 1

Italy and the Military: New Perspectives
Society for Italian Historical Studies 2

Global Memory
Toynbee Prize Foundation

2:00 PM-4:00 PM


Tour 4: Museum of the City of New York: City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York

2:00 PM-5:00 PM


Site Visit: Tour of the Archives of the Archdiocese of New York and Saint Joseph's Seminary
American Catholic Historical Association 3

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


The Environmental History of New York City
AHA Session 25

AHR Conversation: Museums and the Organization of Global Knowledge
AHA Session 26

Virtual Reality for Historical Research and Pedagogy
AHA Session 27

Deans, Provosts, and Historians: A Roundtable on the State of the History Department in the Higher Education Landscape
AHA Session 28

Practicing Pedagogy: A Discussion on Graduate and Early Career Teaching
AHA Session 29

Revisiting Trafficking Narratives and Sexual Danger in 20th-Century Europe and the Americas
AHA Session 30

Historical Consulting: Pursuing a Career beyond Academia
AHA Session 31

Central European History Society Presidential Panel: The Saliency of Central Europe: Questions and New Approaches
AHA Session 32

In the Hands of the People: Negotiating US Immigration Policy from Below
AHA Session 33

Living, Teaching, and Writing the American Military History of the 21st Century
AHA Session 34

Expanding Frontiers of Knowledge, Settlement, and Identity: Indian Ocean Diasporas and the British Empire
AHA Session 35

Nationalism and Transnationalism in the Caribbean Basin
AHA Session 36

African American Religious History: The State and Future of the Field
AHA Session 37

Native Peoples, Settler Colonialism, and the Early Republic
AHA Session 38

Forensic History: New Material Sources and Methods for Historians of the Anthropocene
AHA Session 39

Constructivism, Historicism, and History in the Post-truth Age: Global Reflections from South Asia
AHA Session 40

Weaponized Words: The Power of Racist Rhetoric in American History
AHA Session 41

Transcultural Traverses: Placemaking Practices at the Makli Necropolis in Sindh, Pakistan
AHA Session 42

Valuing the Humanities: Challenging Narratives of Career Diversity for Historians
AHA Session 43

Moments and Legacies: Death, Grief, Mourning, and Burial Histories
AHA Session 44

Sesame Street in the Seventies: Politics, Funding, and Educational Media in National and International Context
AHA Session 45

Parallels and Comparisons: Black and Native Involvement in Systems of Captivity and Enslavement
AHA Session 46

Digital Approaches to Communications, Mobility, and Geography in Medieval Europe
AHA Session 47

A History of Authenticity
AHA Session 48

On the Margins of Islam: Toward a Social and Intellectual History of the Commentary
AHA Session 49

Wiki Scholars: Historians and the National Archives Team Up for a Course to Improve Wikipedia’s Articles about Women’s Suffrage
AHA Session 50

Marijuana: From Banned Substance to Commodity: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Marijuana Legalization
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 1

Catholicism between Nationalism and Ultramontanism: Changing Conceptions of the Papacy, the State, and the Role of the Laity
American Catholic Historical Association 4

French Influences on American Institutions, Debates, and Women's Religious Communities in the Antebellum Catholic Church
American Catholic Historical Association 5

Transnational Ties of Jesuits in the United States
American Catholic Historical Association 6

ACHA Executive Council Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

Tolerating Totalitarianism: Why Did the Franco Dictatorship Survive?
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 2

Queering the Global City in Canada, Mexico, and the United States
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 3

Lament as a Historical Practice
Conference on Faith and History 2

Between the Political and the Sacred in Rural Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 6

Celebrating the Nation at the Turn of the 20th Century: Local Centennial Celebrations in Mexico, Colombia, and Bolivia
Conference on Latin American History 7

Roundtable: Between Humanitarianism and Closure: International Refugee Policies since the Late 1970s
National History Center of the American Historical Association 2

Organizing K–12 Teachers, Academics, Students, and Activists
Radical History Review 2

3:30 PM-6:30 PM


PAHA Board Meeting
Polish American Historical Association

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting

Undergraduate Orientation to the Meeting

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


SHAFR Ways and Means Committee Meeting
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


Reception for Graduate Students

Undergraduate Reception

5:00 PM-7:00 PM


CEHS Executive Board Meeting
Central European History Society

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


Reception for History Bloggers and Twitterstorians

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


ASPHS Reception
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


Opening Reception

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

CCWH Reception and Book Raffle
Coordinating Council for Women in History

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


American Historical Association Awards Ceremony

8:00 PM-9:30 PM


Plenary: The Anthropocene

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


A Clarification of Thought: Scholars Reflect on the Catholic Worker Movement
American Catholic Historical Association 7