Affiliated Society Sessions

Thursday, January 8, 2026

11:00 AM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


ACHA Executive Committee Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


European Catholicism Across the Modern Period
American Catholic Historical Association 4

Women, Bodies, and Social Control
Conference on Latin American History 4

Publishing Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities
Coordinating Council for Women in History 4

Evaluating the Impact of the Obama Presidency
Historians for Peace and Democracy 1

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Mexican American Catholics in Texas Before and After Vatican II
American Catholic Historical Association 6

Catholicism and Human Rights
American Catholic Historical Association 7

Structures of Power in Black Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 8

Nuns on Film
American Catholic Historical Association 9

Childbirth and Childcare in Nigeria and the US
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 5

The Military, Politics, and Policy in 20th-Century Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 8

Transgressive Mobilities: Sex, Crime, and Mobility
Coordinating Council for Women in History 6

Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice—Appreciation for the Work of RH Helmholz
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 1

Remembering Thaddeus Gromada
Polish American Historical Association 1

SIHS Business Meeting
Society for Italian Historical Studies

5:00 PM-7:00 PM


PAHA Board Meeting
Polish American Historical Association

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


SIHS Reception
Society for Italian Historical Studies

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 9, 2026

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Catholic Negotiations in the 16th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 11

Law, the State, Nationality, and Well-Being
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 9

Navigating the Uncertainties of Publishing History Monographs
Chinese Historians in the United States 1

Responses to the US National Security State After Vietnam
Historians for Peace and Democracy 4

Contributing to American Polonia: Yesterday and Today
Polish American Historical Association 2

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Midwest Is Best: American Catholicism in Regional Studies
American Catholic Historical Association 13

Priests Abroad: Clerics and Culture Across Time and Space
American Catholic Historical Association 14

Sex, Secret Societies, and Patriarchy: A Catholic History
American Catholic Historical Association 15

Cultivating a New Generation of Women Historians
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 10

Abortion: Histories of Care, Resistance, and Reproductive Justice
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 11

Gender and Agency in Wartime China
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 12

Relationships and Well-Being: Women and Power in American History
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 13

Brazil and Mexico in the 1980s
Conference on Latin American History 15

CLAH Presidential Panel
Conference on Latin American History 17

Polish Marks on the Land
Polish American Historical Association 3

New Directions in Modern Italian History
Society for Italian Historical Studies 1

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

12:00 PM-1:45 PM


ACHA Presidential Luncheon
American Catholic Historical Association

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Teaching How to Form and Be in Community
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 14

Critical Trans Histories
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 15

Latin America in the 1980s, Part 1
Conference on Latin American History 21

Gendered Journeys
Polish American Historical Association 4

New Directions in Medieval and Early Modern Italian History
Society for Italian Historical Studies 2

1:45 PM-3:15 PM

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Catholic Sisters and the State
American Catholic Historical Association 19

Beyond “I Do”: Marriage in the 20th-Century United States
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 17

Communities of Care
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 18

Xi’s China and Its Neighbors
Chinese Historians in the United States 5

Latin America in the 1980s, Part 2
Conference on Latin American History 24

Coordinating Council for Women in History Plenary
Coordinating Council for Women in History 20

China and the US: Where Are We? Where Do We Go from Here?
Historians for Peace and Democracy 9

World War I and the Shaping of Polish Diasporic Identity
Polish American Historical Association 5

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

5:00 PM-7:00 PM


Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

The Americas Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


CEHS Executive Board Meeting
Central European History Society

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


CHUS Business Meeting
Chinese Historians in the United States

Saturday, January 10, 2026

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Catholics and Their Nations During the World Wars
American Catholic Historical Association 21

Medieval Catholicism from Europe to Asia
American Catholic Historical Association 22

Conceptualizing Mental and Physical (Ill) Health
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 20

Trade Wars and Global Order Since 1800
Business History Conference

Environment, Infrastructure, and Contestation
Conference on Latin American History 31

Organizing Against the Attacks on Higher Education
Historians for Peace and Democracy 13

Witness to War
Polish American Historical Association 6

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Catholics at Prayer: Global Devotion in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 24

Making and Debating the Catholic New Deal Order, 1930s–70s
American Catholic Historical Association 25

Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History
Conference on Faith and History

Histories of Utopias in 20th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 34

Centennial Panel: CLAH’s Institutional Past
Conference on Latin American History 35

Royalists, Revolutionaries, and Reactionaries
Conference on Latin American History 36

Projects of State Control in 20th-Century Mexico
Historians for Peace and Democracy 14

Chicago Is a Polish Town
Polish American Historical Association 7

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Catholics and Politics in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 28

Catholicism and American Empire
American Catholic Historical Association 30

Writing for the Popular Press: A Ms. Workshop for Feminist Historians
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 25

Centennial Panel: CLAH’s Institutional Future
Conference on Latin American History 42

Gender and Right-Wing Politics: Historical Perspectives
Historians for Peace and Democracy 16

Dividing Lines, Common Ground
Polish American Historical Association 8

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Shaping Catholic Identity in the American West
American Catholic Historical Association 32

Catholics in the Second City
American Catholic Historical Association 34

Catholic Identity Through the Arts
American Catholic Historical Association 35

Gendered Violence: Learning from the Past to Change the Future
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 26

Histories of Reproductive Justice for Fascist Times
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 27

Political, Cultural, and Diplomatic Networks in China and Beyond
Chinese Historians in the United States 11

How to Get Published in Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 45

Being Polish: Representations Across Space, Time, and Language
Polish American Historical Association 9

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


CEHS Business Meeting
Central European History Society

6:30 PM-9:30 PM


Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Dance with DJ Tess
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


CLAH Awards Ceremony and Reception
Conference on Latin American History

7:30 PM-9:00 PM


CEHS Bierabend—Reception
Central European History Society

Sunday, January 11, 2026

8:00 AM-9:00 AM


Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Business Meeting
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Geospatial Analysis and the Politics of Exile and Expulsion
Conference on Latin American History 51

Constitutional History in Eurocentria: A Review over Four Centuries
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 2

11:00 AM-12:30 PM