140th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2027)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Friday, January 8, 2027

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


AHA Sheraton Information Desk

ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Registration, Information, and Headquarters

LAC Office

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


The Archives of Ancient History
AHA Session 51

Public History and Public Memory: Curating the Past in the Age of Prestige Television
AHA Session 52

Comprehensive Exams in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
AHA Session 53

Teaching Indigenous History in Spicy Times
AHA Session 54

Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration
AHA Session 55

Engaging and Avoiding AI: Diverse Approaches to AI in the Small Liberal Arts Classroom
AHA Session 56

Big Field, Small Histories: Archives, Microhistory, and the Future of Atlantic Historiography
AHA Session 57

Mediating Bodies Through Space: Toilets, Pools, and Dressing Rooms in 20th-Century Urban Life
AHA Session 58

Palestine, Jewish Migration, and a World of Empires,  1850–1920
AHA Session 59

Conservative Claims on the Digital Future: 1990s High Technology and the American Political Right
AHA Session 60

Improving Teacher Preparation Through K–12 and Higher Education Dialogue
AHA Session 61

Breaking the Globe: Rethinking “Global” Histories of Health and Medicine
AHA Session 62

Power, Constraint, and Local Response in the 20th-Century Midwest
AHA Session 63

Entangled Sovereignties: Migration and Nationality Across the Japanese and American Empires
AHA Session 64

Intersectional Feminist Print Culture as Community-Engaged Activism: Exploring Collections of Newsletters, Zines, and Magazines, 1980–2010
AHA Session 65

Mississippi Learning: Commemorating Racial Violence in Public Spaces
AHA Session 66

What the AHA Is Doing to Protect Historical Integrity
AHA Session 67

CEHS Presidential Session: Central Europe in the Local and the Global—Thinking About Patterns and Habits of Consumption
AHA Session 68

Objects of Empire: Status, Marginalization, and Materiality in the Spanish Imperial World
AHA Session 69

Working Class Communities and Extractive Landscapes in the Americas
AHA Session 70

Coups d’État in Latin America: Continuities and Ruptures from the Cold War to Yesterday
AHA Session 71

Delineating the Diversity of Sexual Knowledge Production in 19th- and 20th-Century South Asia
AHA Session 72

Teaching On and About 9/11, 25 Years Later
AHA Session 73

Making Gay History: A Roundtable
AHA Session 74

New Directions in Medieval Economic History, Part 1: Land and Labor
AHA Session 75

Fifty Years of Death History, Part 1: North America and the Caribbean
AHA Session 76

A Century of Leadership, Art, and Catholic Formation and Culture at Xavier University of Louisiana
American Catholic Historical Association 9

Food and Festivity in the Catholic Church
American Catholic Historical Association 10

US Catholic Feminisms: A Roundtable Discussion
American Catholic Historical Association 11

Global Catholic Architecture Beyond Churches
American Catholic Historical Association 12

Building a Career Off the Tenure-Track: A Roundtable Discussion
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 2

Colonial Studies Section: Behind Closed Doors and Across Oceans—Households and Dependency
Conference on Latin American History 17

Diplomacy in the Wake of Revolutions
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 3

The Invention of Catholicism: A Roundtable
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 4

Petition, Protest, and Prosecution: Women and the United States Legal System
Coordinating Council for Women in History 3

Empire from the Ground Up: Agricultural Histories in Colonial Context
Historians for Peace and Democracy 6

Global Legacies of the War on Terror: Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and Anti-Palestinian Racism
Historians for Peace and Democracy 7

Constitutional Geometry in US Political History: Now, What About 8πG/C^4?
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 2

Classrooms as Commons: Public Education, Peacebuilding, and Civic Repair in New Orleans
Peace History Society 1

American Engagements with Poland: Investment, Relief, and Cultural Perceptions
Polish American Historical Association 3

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


How Trade Books Really Work: Practical Strategies for Historians
AHA Session

9:00 AM-5:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Coworking Space

Meetup and Coworking Space

Podcasters' Room

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Are We Still Ancient?
AHA Session 77

Fighting Attacks on Gender and LGBTQ+ Studies on Campus
AHA Session 79

Captive Freedoms: Black Placemaking in the 19th-Century British Caribbean
AHA Session 80

Sex Under Slavery: Situating Intimate Violence in a Comparative Context from the 17th to 19th Centuries
AHA Session 81

Theory in Praxis: Decolonizing Frameworks and Social Justice Methodologies in the Public Humanities
AHA Session 82

250 Years of the American Revolution in Brazilian Historiography
AHA Session 83

The Double Lives of Patriots and Traitors: Informer Motivations and Secrecy in Informer Work
AHA Session 84

Gendering Revolution in Palestine, Zimbabwe, El Salvador, and Bolivia
AHA Session 85

Alternative Approaches to “Area”: New Histories of Place-Based Studies
AHA Session 86

Governing Bodies: Public Health, Race, Disability, and Labor in the Modern United States
AHA Session 87

The Emergence of Underground Music Archives: Historical Precedent and Recent Trends
AHA Session 88

Teaching AP, Dual Enrollment, and Early College: A Discussion About Best Practices, Challenges, and What to Expect from Students
AHA Session 89

Conservatism in Public Housing Resident Management Corporations
AHA Session 90

Undergraduate Lightning Round: Research Across the Fields
AHA Session 91

Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting: A Keynote Conversation with Nichole Hill of Our Ancestors Were Messy
AHA Session 92

History of Holocaust Denialism
AHA Session 93

Knowledge Without Borders, Power Without Intention: Science, Environment, and Ethnography in Modern China
AHA Session 94

Beyond Exports: Commodities, Society, and Environmental Change in Latin America
AHA Session 95

Unpacking Narratives of Conquest in the Colonial Americas
AHA Session 96

Rethinking Capitalism from Below: Mexico’s Long 19th Century
AHA Session 97

Domesticating Topographies: Mountains, Materiality, and the Metis of Andean Development
AHA Session 98

History for the 21st Century: Teaching US History in Global Context
AHA Session 99

New Directions in Medieval Economic History, Part 2: Trade
AHA Session 100

Fifty Years of Death History, Part 2: Europe
AHA Session 101

1527: The Quincentennial of a Turbulent Year, Part 1: Making Sense of the Sack: From Rome to Provence
AHA Session 102

New Approaches to the History of Catholic Writers
American Catholic Historical Association 13

Studies in Medieval Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 14

Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
American Catholic Historical Association 15

Catholic Women’s Encounter with Suffering: Conversion, Nursing, and Care Work in the 19th and 20th Centuries
American Catholic Historical Association 16

Hitler and Historiography: New Approaches to Nazi Ideology and Policy
Central European History Society 2

The Chinese Historians in the United States at 40: Retrospect and Prospect
Chinese Historians in the United States 2

From Cold War to Today: Patterns of US Intervention in Latin American Politics
Conference on Latin American History 24

CLAH Presidential Panel: What's the Next Turn?
Conference on Latin American History 25

Lessons Learned: Aspects of Empire Building, Occupation, and Accommodation in Italy, 1804–66
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 5

Coordinating Council for Women in History Graduate Student Research Lightning Round 1
Coordinating Council for Women in History 4

Constructing and Contesting Carceral Power: Histories of the Imprisoned from the Middle East and North America
Historians for Peace and Democracy 8

Trans Life, Palestinian Liberation, and the History of Panic
Historians for Peace and Democracy 9

Christianity, Race, and the Making of the Other: A Decolonial Approach to Racialist Discourses
Historical Society of the Episcopal Church

How to Restrain War: Lessons from 20th-Century US History
Peace History Society 2

Polish American Women Between Traditional Roles and Fundamental Challenges
Polish American Historical Association 4

11:00 AM-1:00 PM


Tour 1: Free People of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans—The Historic New Orleans Collection

11:30 AM-12:30 PM


Meetup: Fiber Arts Circle

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Working Luncheon for Directors of Graduate Studies

12:00 PM-3:00 PM


Presidential Luncheon
American Catholic Historical Association

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Meetup: Submitting to the American Historical Review

The New Global Antiquity
AHA Session 103

Information Revolutions:  A Roundtable on AI in Historical Context
AHA Session 104

Publishing in the American Historical Review
AHA Session 105

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: US Foreign Relations
AHA Session 106

Articulating Shared Language About History Methods, Part 2: Methods of Analysis
AHA Session 107

Digital Projects Showcase
AHA Session 108

Behind the Scenes: Don’t Stand Alone: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans
AHA Session 109

Reckoning with the Second Slavery
AHA Session 110

Fostering a Collaborative Relationship: Help Your Students Get the Most out of Libraries and Archival Research
AHA Session 111

Local and Transnational Soundscapes from the Eastern Mediterranean to East Asia in the 20th Century
AHA Session 112

Fueling China: Resources, Scarcity, and Innovation from Coal to Renewables
AHA Session 113

The Future of the History PhD Program: Evidence, Experience, Action
AHA Session 114

Unequal Outcomes: Establishing and Contesting Medical Racism in the 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 115

Growing Archives of Trauma: Lessons from Uvalde, Highland Park, and Las Vegas
AHA Session 116

Masculinities in African History: Regimes of Proof, Emotion, and Legitimacy in 20th-Century Africa
AHA Session 117

Undergraduate Lightning Round: Research Focus
AHA Session 118

Everyday Empire: Labor, Gender, and Social Movements in Colonial India, 1800–1951
AHA Session 119

Cracking the Code: Migrants’ Legal Claims for Inclusion in 20th-Century Central Europe
AHA Session 120

Histories of Social Welfare, Gender, and Spatial Politics in Mexico
AHA Session 121

Latin America in the World War II Era: Transnational Perspectives
AHA Session 122

Imagining Indigenous Pasts in Latin American History
AHA Session 123

When Movement Reshapes Authority: Migration, Race, and State Formation in the 20th-Century Greater Caribbean
AHA Session 124

Marriage of Inconvenience: Allied Leadership During the War of the Sixth Coalition
AHA Session 125

New Directions in Medieval Economic History, Part 3: Finance
AHA Session 126

1527: The Quincentennial of a Turbulent Year, Part 2: Making Sense of the Sack: Italian Perspectives
AHA Session 127

Teaching the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities in Hostile Climates
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 4

The Periphery of Revolutions: 1918, 1968, and 1979 in Germany and Beyond
Central European History Society 4

The New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America, Part 1: Labor History and the New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 30

War in the Age of Revolutions
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 7

Historians Working “Outside” of Academia: Perspectives from Practice
Coordinating Council for Women in History 5

The Edge of Loyalty: Bermuda, the Contradictions of Atlantic Empire, and the Evolution of Piracy as a Societal Tool
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions 2

Critical History of the Zionist Present: The Anti-Defamation League and Neoconservative Knowledge Production
Historians for Peace and Democracy 10

Teachers Against Fascism: Building Solidarity Across the Education Sector
Historians for Peace and Democracy 12

How to Disarm Again: The History and Future of Nuclear Disarmament
Peace History Society 3

Between Propaganda and Perception: Poles in US Public Diplomacy, Media, and Diaspora Politics
Polish American Historical Association 5

The Legal Intimacies of Welfare in 20th-Century Italy and Its Colonies
Society for Italian Historical Studies 4

2:30 PM-5:30 PM


Tour 2: 50 Years of Music History with Frenchmen Notes

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Historians, Journalists, and the Problem of Objectivity Today
AHA Session 128

Historical Scholarship and Immersive Technology: How We Learn by Experiencing the Past
AHA Session 129

Reflections on the “Traveling Histories of Abortion” AHR Forum
AHA Session 130

The Teachers’ Lounge: Conversations About Teaching with the American Historical Review
AHA Session 131

Ask a Digital Historian Anything
AHA Session 132

The Fate of the Peasantry over the 20th Century
AHA Session 133

Weaving Visual Histories: A Hands-On Introduction to Telar
AHA Session 134

Empires in an Indigenous World: Power and Space in the Great Lakes, 1650–1810
AHA Session 135

Archives of Suspicion: Intelligence, Solidarity, and Afro-Asian Lives in the Cold War, 1950s–80s
AHA Session 136

New Directions in Environmental Histories: Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
AHA Session 137

New Pedagogical Methodologies in Military History: Simulations, War Gaming, and the Emergent Benefits of AI
AHA Session 138

Black Women’s Work: Understanding Local Organizing Traditions Within the Civil Rights Movement
AHA Session 139

Crescent City Shadows: Sin, Power, and Plague During New Orleans’s Storyville Era, 1890s–1910s
AHA Session 140

Knowledge Production and the Invention of the Refugee
AHA Session 141

Creedal or Contested Space? A Conversation on Partiality, Transparency, and the Teaching of History in Public Institutions
AHA Session 142

Deep Roots, Shifting Ground: Extraction and Resilience in Colonial Latin America
AHA Session 144

Radio, Archives, and Memory in Latin America
AHA Session 145

From Mountain Peaks to Sugar-Factory Towns: Repurposing Landscapes for Leisure, Livelihood, and Industry in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 146

Hierarchy and Agency: Hegemonic Continuums in the Global Cold War
AHA Session 147

Freedom Seekers: New Research in 19th-Century African Diasporic Migration History
AHA Session 148

Divided by Design: Indigenous Resistance to Federal Policies of Dispossession
AHA Session 149

Revisiting the “Barred Zone” Act of 1917: A Critical Perspective on Immigration Exclusion and Racialization
AHA Session 150

An Introduction to Using Medieval Sources with Students
AHA Session 151

Come Together: The Role of Collaboration in Research, Writing, and Teaching
AHA Session 152

Imperial Afterlives: Histories of the Present from Asia, Part 2: Decolonization and the Legacies of Afro-Asianisms
AHA Session 153

1527: The Quincentennial of a Turbulent Year, Part 3: 1527 from Peru to Zurich
AHA Session 154

Career Insights
AHA Session

Catholicism, Masculinity, and Identity
American Catholic Historical Association 17

Faith Under Pressure: Black Catholic Agency, Resistance, and Institutional Negotiation from Slavery to Self-Determination
American Catholic Historical Association 18

New Approaches to the Study of Anti-Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 19

Catholicism and Media in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 20

Central American Studies Section: Black Women’s Worlds in Central America and Its Diasporas
Conference on Latin American History 35

Southern Cone Studies Section: Global Ruptures and Continuities from the Southern Cone
Conference on Latin American History 36

Women, Gender, and Violence in Haiti and France
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 8

Writing for the Popular Press: A Workshop for Feminist Historians
Coordinating Council for Women in History 8

Landscapes of Terror and Hope: Doing Urban History in Authoritarian Times
Historians for Peace and Democracy 13

The Gaza Genocide in Historical Perspective
Historians for Peace and Democracy 14

Diasporic Public History: Concept, Settings, and Configurations
Polish American Historical Association 6

Violence, Fascism, and Resistance in Modern Italy and Its Empire
Society for Italian Historical Studies 6

The George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History
Society for Military History 2

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


HBCU Networking Event

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-6:30 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Address

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


The Mid-1950s as a Transnational Turning Point: Polish and Polish Émigré Literature, American State Media, and the Global Imaginary of 1956
Polish American Historical Association 7

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


CEHS Executive Board Meeting
Central European History Society

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Reception

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


LGBTQ+ Historians’ Reception

Public Historians' Reception

Reception for Two-Year Faculty

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


Sanguis Christi, Inebria Me! Catholic Intoxications
American Catholic Historical Association 21