136th Annual Meeting (January 5-8, 2023)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Thursday, January 5, 2023

10:00 AM-11:45 AM


Tour 1: Eastern State Penitentiary

11:00 AM-7:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

AHA Meeting Registration

LAC Office

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

12:00 PM-6:00 PM


Quiet Room

Quiet Room

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


AHR Associate Review Editors' Meeting (invitation only)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Turning the Page: Improving Reading Skills in the History Classroom
AHA Session 1

How to Identify and Leverage the Transferable Skills of a History PhD
AHA Session 4

Toward an Illustrated History of a Global War on Terror
AHA Session 5

The Global Animal House: Placing the Infrastructure of Laboratory Supply
AHA Session 6

Rethinking the Reagan Administration
AHA Session 7

Terrorism and the German and Italian Far Right from the 1960s to the 1980s: Between Ideology and Action
AHA Session 8

Race, Gender, and Science in US History
AHA Session 9

Histories below the Water Line: New Methods and Approaches
AHA Session 10

Transnational Solidarities: Seeing Blackness beyond Race
AHA Session 11

The Shape of Sex
AHA Session 12

Teaching European Migration History with Open Access Sources
AHA Session 13

Rethinking Imperial Institutions in Modern India and China
AHA Session 14

History, Civics, and the Constitution in the American Classroom: A Conversation
AHA Session 15

History of Violence Roundtable
AHA Session 16

Rumors, Satire, and Politics in the Spanish Empire
AHA Session 17

Where Oil and Water Meet: Land, Liquid, and Development in the 20th-Century Middle East
AHA Session 18

What’s Special about Maps? Teaching Border Regions History with Digital and Physical Materials
AHA Session 19

Latin American Antifascism(s): National and Transnational Perspectives
AHA Session 20

Subaltern Cosmopolitans in the 17th- and 18th-Century Atlantic World
AHA Session 21

Schools as Sites for Agency in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 22

Exploring and Reflecting on the Legacy of 20th-Century Catholic Laywomen: A Roundtable Discussion
American Catholic Historical Association 1

Catholic Communities of Color in the Upper Midwest, 1915–65
American Catholic Historical Association 2

Catholics, Nativists, and Historical Memory in 19th-Century America
American Catholic Historical Association 3

Marian Politics
American Catholic Historical Association 4

ACHA Executive Council Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

The International Context of the Establishment of the State of Israel
Association for Israel Studies

Opening Event: Documenting Polish American Spaces—Triumphs, Challenges, and Frustrations—Introducing and Celebrating Footprints of Polonia: Polish Historical Sites across North America
Polish American Historical Association 1

Adriatic Italy in Early Modernity
Society for Italian Historical Studies 1

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Baseball and Social Change in America
AHA Session 23

Teaching History in STEM Institutions: Finding Common Ground
AHA Session 24

Curricular Change and Career Diversity
AHA Session 27

Cooperatives, Community Development, and Capitalism: A Roundtable on the Search for Alternatives in the Global South, 1900–80
AHA Session 28

Crossing Boundaries and Spanning Difference through American Jazz Performance: Philly Style
AHA Session 29

In Global Transit: Refugees and Other Forced Migrants Coping with Contingency on the Move
AHA Session 30

Race, Space, and Citizenship in Settler Societies
AHA Session 31

The Past Is Kid Stuff: The Child in American Thought/History
AHA Session 32

Gendered Violence and Legal Standards in North America
AHA Session 33

Troubling Sexual Norms: Exploring Gay Moderate Politics and “Stealth” Trans Subjects in Late 20th-Century Queer US History
AHA Session 34

New Interpretations of Reagan Foreign Relations
AHA Session 35

American Catholics and American Jews: Facing Nazism and One Another
AHA Session 36

Anticommunism, Right-Wing Politics, and Latin America’s Cold War
AHA Session 37

Hong Kong: Periphery as Center
AHA Session 38

An Entangled Empire: The Trans-Imperial Connections of the Portuguese World
AHA Session 39

Historical Gazetteers
AHA Session 40

The Archive of the Text: New Directions in Cultural and Material Histories of South Asia
AHA Session 41

Reimagining the “End” of the Western Roman Empire
AHA Session 42

Indio Identities in the Viceroyalty of Peru: Between Impositions and Adaptations
AHA Session 43

Author Meets Critics: Brewing Resistance
Alcohol and Drugs History Society 1

The French Catholic Revival
American Catholic Historical Association 5

Interrogating Traditional Sources: Searching for the Lived Experiences of Catholic Laywomen
American Catholic Historical Association 6

Catholics and Slavery
American Catholic Historical Association 7

Disciplining the Church across Time and Space
American Catholic Historical Association 8

Tracing Various Polish Diasporas in the United States
Polish American Historical Association 2

Roundtable: “Peace with Honor”—Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords
Radical History Review 1

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-7:00 PM


PAHA Board Meeting
Polish American Historical Association

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


Opening Reception

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


American Historical Association Awards Ceremony

8:00 PM-9:00 PM


Late Breaking Plenary