138th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2025)

Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday

Monday, January 6, 2025

8:00 AM-2:00 PM


AHA Registration, Information, and Headquarters

LAC Office

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

8:30 AM-11:30 AM


AHA Sheraton Information Table

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


The Digital Florentine Codex (DFC): An Illustrated, Multilingual Encyclopedia of Indigenous Knowledge from 16th-Century Mexico
AHA Session 288

Under One Roof: Teaching Black and Immigration History through the NYC Tenements
AHA Session 289

Stemming the Tide: Boosting Enrollment and Retaining History Students
AHA Session 290

Navigating Current Issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as Historians
AHA Session 291

Counter/Terrorism History: A State of the Field
AHA Session 293

Americans on the Run: Histories of Travel and State Tracking in US History
AHA Session 294

Law and Order Policing in New York City
AHA Session 295

Medicine in Motion: Seeking Health in the Modern Middle East
AHA Session 296

Beyond Slavery and Resistance: Black Lives in Brazil during the Age of Slavery and Emancipation
AHA Session 297

Ages in History
AHA Session 298

Sound, Silences, and State Power: Listening to Music and War in the Late 20th Century
AHA Session 299

New Directions in African Popular Culture: Film Screening of The Fuji Documentary and Conversation with Filmmaker Saheed Aderinto
AHA Session 300

Producing Promise and Precarity: US Militarism in East Asia and the Pacific Islands
AHA Session 301

Citizens: The Past, Present, and Future of History and Civics Education
AHA Session 302

Archives and Emotions: An International Interdisciplinary Dialogue
AHA Session 303

Trafficking People, Trading Commodities: Transimperial Commerce in the South Atlantic, c. 1500–1808
AHA Session 304

Democracy in Central America, Part 1: Historical Perspectives on Present Governance in Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica
AHA Session 305

Insurrectionists and Citizens, Politicians and Activists: Defining (and Contesting) American Democracy, 1860–2024
AHA Session 306

History Education in the Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities
AHA Session 307

Field Flux: The Past, Present, and Future of Studying Modern European History
AHA Session 308

Teaching the Once and Future Middle Ages: A Global History for a Global World
AHA Session 309

Disrupting History: Incorporating a Native Lens in Museums
AHA Session 310

South African Apartheid as a Problem for the World
AHA Session 311

Animal History and Its Futures: An Auspicious Roundtable
AHA Session 312

Colonial Ranchos of California’s Opposite Shore: A Digital Community Engagement Project
AHA Session 313

Pitch Slam
AHA Session 314

The LGBTQ+ View from the Global South, 1950s–2020, Part 1: Queer Publishing, Media Representations, and Women
AHA Session 315

New Directions in Transimperial History, Part 1: Crossing Boundaries of Space and Time: New Dimensions of Transimperial History
AHA Session 316

Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting: Panel Discussion
AHA Session

US–China Engagement: A Historical Assessment
Chinese Historians in the United States 17

New Borderlands Histories, Part 2: Latin American Borderlands
Conference on Latin American History 64

New Perspectives on Economic History in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 65

Atlantic Studies Section: Rethinking Liberty and Blackness in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 66

Transnational Visions: Development Designs in 20th-Century Mexico
Conference on Latin American History 67

Bourgeois Deviance, Bourgeois Decadence: Sexuality and the American Left
Radical History Review 17

Remembering the "Years of Lead": The Visual Politics of Commemoration among Italy’s Neofascist Community
Society for Italian Historical Studies 8

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

Meetup and Coworking Space

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

Teaching Writing Workshop: Teaching Writing in the Age of AI

9:00 AM-12:30 PM


Meetup: Monday Coworking Time

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


New Departures and Enduring Questions in Atlantic Slavery Studies: A State-of-the-Field Review of New Scholarship
AHA Session 317

Your Story, Our Story: Teaching Inclusive Immigration and Migration with the Tenement Museum
AHA Session 317A

Teaching One Text Three Ways: Gandhi’s Speech on Nonviolent Resistance for History, Civics, and Classical Learning
AHA Session 318

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: LGBTQ+ History
AHA Session 319

Sonic Histories of the 20th Century
AHA Session 321

Indigenous Borderlands across Time, Space, and Place
AHA Session 322

Labor Intimacy in Modern China
AHA Session 323

On a Knife’s Edge: Treachery, Crime of Passion, or Both? Suicide by Proxy and the History of Emotions
AHA Session 324

A History of Concepts in the Multilingual Middle East from the 19th to 21st Centuries
AHA Session 325

Archives, Fragments, and the Writing of History
AHA Session 326

Archives, Collections, and the Cold War
AHA Session 327

Paths of Enslavement, Ways of Freedom: Coercion and Mobility in the Greater Caribbean
AHA Session 328

The Built Environment of the Late Ottoman Empire: Space, Society, and Politics in Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Beersheba
AHA Session 329

Commerce and Integration across the Qing Borderlands: Capital, Networks, and Nativization
AHA Session 330

Grassroots Internationalism on the Oceanic Borderlands of Cold War Asia–Pacific
AHA Session 331

Beyond Gateways to History: Applying Course Redesign to Improve Student Learning
AHA Session 332

America and Iran: Cultural, Diplomatic, and Diasporic Perspectives
AHA Session 333

New Directions in Slavery and University Studies: New England
AHA Session 334

Rethinking the History Classroom: Strategies to Engage 21st-Century Learners
AHA Session 335

Race, Labor, and Empire: Solidarity, Migration, and Borders in United States, 1865–1970
AHA Session 336

The Developmental State as Historical Inquiry: New Approaches from East Asia to the Americas
AHA Session 337

Ayo Pause: Harlem and the Complicated Legacy of Black Masculinity from Countee Cullen to Cam’Ron
AHA Session 338

Can Capitalism Be Ethical? A Roundtable on Tehila Sasson’s the Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire
AHA Session 339

The LGBTQ+ View from the Global South, 1950s–2020, Part 2: Transnational Queer Activism and Transgender Activism
AHA Session 340

New Directions in Transimperial History, Part 2: New Directions in Transimperial History
AHA Session 341

Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting: Breakout Conversations
AHA Session

Surveying the Nation: Rediscovering the "People" in China's Republican Era, 1912–49
Chinese Historians in the United States 18

Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Boundaries: Music, Labor, and Migrations in Central American and Afro-Latinx Diaspora Communities
Conference on Latin American History 72

Understanding Major Themes and Topics in a Modern Latin American History Survey for K–16 Educators
Conference on Latin American History 73

Democracy in Central America, Part 2: Historical Perspectives on Present Governance in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama
Conference on Latin American History 74

Xi Jinping’s China as History: Roundtable Organized by the Critical China Scholars
Radical History Review 18

11:00 AM-1:00 PM


Tour 5: Behind the Scenes at Carnegie Hall

11:15 AM-1:15 PM


Tour 6: Becoming Bohemia at the New York Public Library

12:30 PM-2:00 PM


Meetup: Meet the AHA Staff