AHA Session 78
Friday, January 9, 2026: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Continental B (Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level)
Chair:
Mezna Qato, University of Cambridge
Panel:
Bedross Der Matossian, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Rice University
Barry Carl Trachtenberg, Wake Forest University
Gabriel Winant, University of Chicago
Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Rice University
Barry Carl Trachtenberg, Wake Forest University
Gabriel Winant, University of Chicago
Session Abstract
Participants in this roundtable conversation will discuss perspectives on how historians as public intellectuals have responded to cases of genocide and ethnic cleansing during the last century, and how this response has been entangled with American domestic politics, cold war, and the US foreign policy agenda. Participants will discuss how their work deals with the weaponization of history in international and domestic politics, and how they envision the relationship between the historical profession and public advocacy.
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