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

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Friday, January 6, 2023

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

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Defund the Police? Historical Perspectives
AHA Session 44

Historians for Mental Health: An Open Discussion
AHA Session 45

Curating Community: Remaking History in Philadelphia
AHA Session 46

Perceiving and Writing Agency in the Early Modern World: Interpretative Challenges
AHA Session 47

Intersectional Perspectives on Military History: Sexual, Gendered, and Racialized Labor in US Militarism and Empire
AHA Session 48

The South Got Somethin’ to Say: Black Women’s Experiences and Activism in Mississippi and North Carolina
AHA Session 49

Playing the Past: Historical Engagement with Video Games
AHA Session 50

Captivity, Law, and Sovereignty in the Suppression of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans
AHA Session 51

Fraud in the Colonial Archive: Methodological Approaches to Social History in French North Africa
AHA Session 52

Witness, Memory, and Recovery: Transnational Approaches to Critical Disaster Studies
AHA Session 53

Decolonizing the International Order: UNESCO’s Radical 1970s in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 54

Gender and the Occult in Modern China, Japan, and India
AHA Session 55

Monsters
AHA Session 56

Changing Paradigms: Global Taiwan as a Historical Method
AHA Session 57

Indigenous Knowledge and Colonial Entanglements in the Americas
AHA Session 58

Community Colleges and the History Gateways Experience
AHA Session 59

Teaching Digital History: 10 Design Principles
AHA Session 60

On the Edge: Public Dimensions of History in Mexico and the United States
AHA Session 61

Spatializing States: Authoritarianism and Urbanization in Latin America
AHA Session 62

Brazil and Cars in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 63

Toward an Energy History for a Planetary Age
AHA Session 64

Church and Politics in the 14th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 9

Catholics and the Enemy
American Catholic Historical Association 10

Growing Up, Graduating, and Going Beyond: Global Perspectives on the Disaffiliation of 20th-Century Catholic Women
American Catholic Historical Association 11

Telling US Catholic History: Archives and Narratives
American Catholic Historical Association 12

Engaging the Studies of Blackness in China: Scholarship and Curriculum Development
Chinese Historians in the United States 1

Conflict and Change in European History since the Renaissance
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 1

Bloc Shots: Roundtable on Experiences of Americans Playing Professional Basketball in Poland
Polish American Historical Association 3

Roundtable: Fighting the Culture War Attack on History—Strategies and Experiences
Radical History Review 2

8:30 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Grading Writing Charrette
AHA Session

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

10:00 AM-11:30 AM


Tour 2: LGBTQ+ History in Philadelphia

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Twenty-five Years of Exchanging Our Country Marks: A Roundtable
AHA Session 65

How Do You Teach What Is Controversial?
AHA Session 67

Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum:
AHA Session 68

Difficult Decisions: New Perspectives on Citizenship, Civil Liberties, and Military Service
AHA Session 69

Urban Crisis Reconsidered: Racial Capitalism, Punishment, and Resistance in Postwar Philadelphia
AHA Session 70

Queer Exile: Sexuality, Status, and Dislocation between Global North and South
AHA Session 71

Unlikely Imperialists? Expatriates and the Expansion of American Empire in the 19th Century
AHA Session 72

Methodologies from the Cracks of History: New Horizons Documenting Early African Histories and Identifying Atlantic World Legacies
AHA Session 73

Material Religion on Catholic eBay: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 74

Closing the Global Inequality Gulf: UNCTAD and the World
AHA Session 75

Male Intimacy and Friendships in South Asia
AHA Session 76

From the First to the Second International: Socialists in America, from the Civil War to World War I
AHA Session 77

#DisabilityHistorySoWhite: Race and Disability in American History
AHA Session 78

Reframing Christianity in Mexico from Francis to Facebook
AHA Session 79

Getting Argentina out of the Atlantic: Rethinking the Spaces of Historical Narrative Construction in the Southern Cone
AHA Session 80

The History Lab: A New Approach to Pedagogy and Collaborative Research
AHA Session 81

Doing Accessible Digital History
AHA Session 82

Finding Common Ground: Identifying Friction Points in Researcher and Archivist Workflows and Exploring Possible Solutions
AHA Session 83

Flipped, Flexible, and Free (Resources): Reinvigorating the Big US History Survey at Texas A&M University
AHA Session 84

Intersecting Identities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
AHA Session 85

Resisting Reforms in Spanish America: Royal Administrators and Colonial Subjects Negotiate Hapsburg and Bourbon Rule
AHA Session 86

Mobility and Labor in the Post-Abolition Atlantic World, Part 1: Mobility and Labor in the Postabolition Atlantic World, Part 1
AHA Session 87

Communism and Labor
American Catholic Historical Association 14

Forming US Catholic Identities
American Catholic Historical Association 15

Writing US Business History in the Neoliberal Era
Business History Conference

Xinjiang and Central Asia: China’s Strategic Shift
Chinese Historians in the United States 2

The Catholic Church, State, Labor, and Identity Struggles in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 16

Roundtable: Professional Associations in a Time of Precarity
Coordinating Council for Women in History 1

Constitution Writing and Parliamentary Organizations in the Atlantic World, 1660–1815
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 2

The Catholic Church in the Holocaust Era: First Findings from the Vatican Archives
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

Cold War Networks
Polish American Historical Association 4

Roundtable: Unions in Higher Education—Historical and Contemporary Realities
Radical History Review 3

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Working Luncheon for Directors of Graduate Studies

CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

12:00 PM-2:00 PM


ACHA Presidential Luncheon
American Catholic Historical Association

CEHS Board Meeting
Central European History Society

12:30 PM-1:30 PM


Meet the Editors and Staff of the American Historical Review

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


AHA Grants to Historical Organizations Grantees Meetup (invitation only)

Reparations Now! Perspectives on Reparative Justice in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean
AHA Session 88

#AHR Syllabus Project: How History Works
AHA Session 89

Gateway Courses in History: Case Studies in Redesign
AHA Session 90

LGBTQ+ History Research Lightning Session
AHA Session 91

Digital Drop-In Session
AHA Session 92

Reinventing the Chinese States: Territory, Sovereignty, and the Media of Power in Late Imperial and Modern China
AHA Session 93

Problems in the Global History of Feminism
AHA Session 94

Public Health and the Public
AHA Session 95

The Transmission and Circulation of Colonial Knowledge
AHA Session 96

Environmental Justice in an Age of Civil Rights
AHA Session 97

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Content and Method: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 98

When History Happens in the Library
AHA Session 99

Transnational War Volunteerism in Southern Europe, 1880s–1940s
AHA Session 100

Philadelphia and the Black Intellectual Tradition
AHA Session 101

World Historical Approach(es) to Periodizing Comics
AHA Session 102

Motherhood Is Political: Deployments of Public Motherhood in 20th-Century China, Côte d’Ivoire, and the United States
AHA Session 103

Latin America’s Consuming Issues: A Roundtable Discussion of Two Recent Books on Commodities, Marketing, and Consumer Capitalism in Brazil
AHA Session 104

Imperial Fictions and Mexico in the American Imagination
AHA Session 105

Endurance and Evolution: Ecologies, Communities, and Families on the Move in the Early Modern Americas
AHA Session 106

Do Nonstate Actors Matter? Rethinking Inter-American Affairs across the 20th Century
AHA Session 107

New Perspectives on Refugees from Nazi Europe in the Americas
AHA Session 108

Emergent Thinking: Creating Digital Stories for the Public
AHA Session 109

Mobility and Labor in the Post-Abolition Atlantic World, Part 2: Mobility and Labor in the Postabolition Atlantic World, Part 2
AHA Session 110

Transnational Gender and Women in Modern China
Chinese Historians in the United States 3

Coordinating Council for Women in History Annual Business Meeting
Coordinating Council for Women in History

Pacific Rim Parliamentary and Political History: 1868–1945
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 3

Literature as a Response to History
Polish American Historical Association 5

Roundtable: Empire of Sanctions
Radical History Review 4

The Pieces of Podcasting You Don’t Know but Should
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Expertise in Early Modern Italy
Society for Italian Historical Studies 2

2:00 PM-3:15 PM


Presidential Roundtable: Why Catholic History? Why Now?
American Catholic Historical Association 17

3:00 PM-5:00 PM


George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History
Society for Military History

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Language as Archive and Method
AHA Session 111

Planting a Seed: History for Young Readers
AHA Session 112

Building an Equity Bridge from High School to College: K–12 Teachers Respond to the AHA’s History Gateways Project
AHA Session 113

Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession Open Forum
AHA Session 114

Out on Campus: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism at Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities
AHA Session 114A

Digital Projects Showcase
AHA Session 115

Antistate Power: Anarchism, Communal Life, and Radical Politics in the Early 20th Century
AHA Session 116

“Asian Diasporas”: The Past, Present, and Future
AHA Session 117

The Black Silent Majority? Reimagining Black Conservatism, 1960s–80s
AHA Session 118

Public-Facing History Today: Memory, Policy, Problem-Solving
AHA Session 119

Museum Decolonization, Anti-Black Racism, and the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage
AHA Session 120

What Makes a War “Total”?
AHA Session 121

New Directions in Nigerian Popular Culture
AHA Session 122

Combating Crime, Poverty, and Ignorance: The Education and Rehabilitation of Youth and the Urban Community in the 20th Century
AHA Session 123

Toward a History of Care Work
AHA Session 124

Support and Survival: Reconsidering Irish Women’s Networks and Activism in the 20th Century
AHA Session 125

Global Circulations, Connections, and Blind Spots in the Historiography of the “West” and Beyond
AHA Session 126

Provisions, Partnerships, and Plantations: A Roundtable on Northeastern North America and Caribbean Slavery, 1630–1815
AHA Session 127

Infrastructure, Knowledge, and US Imperialism in the Americas, c. 1890–1970
AHA Session 128

World History and the Curriculum: A Conversation
AHA Session 129

Martyrs, Narratives, and Social Change in 20th-Century Mexico and Latin America
AHA Session 130

Social and Political Identity in the Spanish Empire, 1765–1830
AHA Session 131

Which Side Are You on? Advocacy Journalism and the Myth of Objectivity
AHA Session 132

Before, Below, Beyond: Mind–Body Therapies in Postwar Times
AHA Session 133

Historicizing the Parish
American Catholic Historical Association 18

In Transit: Catholic Mobilities into and out of Greater New York, 1850–80
American Catholic Historical Association 19

Lay Catholic Women Reinterpreting Transatlantic Catholicism in 19th- and 20th-Century Latin America
American Catholic Historical Association 20

Recruiting and Retaining Women and Students of Color: The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians’ AHA–NEH-Funded Pilot
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 1

Transatlantic Hate
Central European History Society 4

In the Realm of Modernization and Revolution: Exploring James Gao’s World of History
Chinese Historians in the United States 4

Race, Politics, and Nationalism in Latin American Public Spheres
Conference on Latin American History 24

Plenary Session, Coordinating Council for Women in History
Coordinating Council for Women in History 2

Gender, Class, Nation(s), and Work
Polish American Historical Association 6

Roundtable: The “Ed Scare”—The Current Conservative Panic over the Academy and Its Antecedents
Radical History Review 5

2023 Toynbee Prize Lecture
Toynbee Prize Foundation

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


HBCU Networking Event

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


ACHA Business Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

5:15 PM-6:00 PM


SIHS Business Meeting
Society for Italian Historical Studies

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Address

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


Andean Studies Section: Social Movements and Governments in the Andes, Past and Present
Conference on Latin American History 25

Atlantic Studies Section: New Currents and Old Contests—Extending the Black Atlantic into the 19th Century
Conference on Latin American History 26

Caribbean Studies Section: New Approaches to Caribbean Labor and Working-Class History
Conference on Latin American History 27

Colonial Studies Section: The Global and the Local—A Colonialist’s Conundrum
Conference on Latin American History 28

Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Transatlantic Histories and World War II: Between World History and Intimate Perspectives
Polish American Historical Association 7

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Reception
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Reception: Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and Coordinating Council for Women in History
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

Reception: Coordinating Council for Women in History and Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Coordinating Council for Women in History

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


SIHS Reception
Society for Italian Historical Studies

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


Reception hosted by the American Historical Association in honor of 2022 president James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin–Madison

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


LGBTQ+ Historians’ Reception

CHUS Book Launch
Chinese Historians in the United States

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


Dry Bones: Catholic Horror
American Catholic Historical Association 21

7:15 PM-8:45 PM


Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Section: The Criminal (Un)Justice System in the US and Mexico Borderlands
Conference on Latin American History 29

Brazilian Studies Section: A Celebration of Barbara Weinstein
Conference on Latin American History 30

Central American Studies Section: Transnational Scholarship, Transnational Lives—Early Career Historians of/from Central America
Conference on Latin American History 31

Mexican Studies Section: Writing Mexican History—Issues and Solutions
Conference on Latin American History 32

7:30 PM-8:30 PM


Public Historians’ Reception

Reception for Two-Year Faculty

8:00 PM-10:00 PM


CHUS Business Meeting
Chinese Historians in the United States