137th Annual Meeting (January 4-7, 2024)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Friday, January 5, 2024

7:00 AM-8:30 AM


Journal Editors' Breakfast (invitation only)

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

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


Feedback Session: Survey of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

Histories of Resilience: The American Historical Review Special Issue
AHA Session 54

Introductory Graduate Courses in the Age of Career Diversity
AHA Session 55

Research in Practice: Developing High School Students’ Historiographic Thinking
AHA Session 56

California’s 19th- and 20th-Century African American Civil Rights Movements: Complicating the National Narrative
AHA Session 57

Disability in Labor, Law, and Ideology during the Long 18th Century: Perspectives on Enslavement and Manumission
AHA Session 58

Conservationist Conflicts in the Americas
AHA Session 59

Degrees of Enslaved Precarity: Escape, Freedom, and Disease in the Colonial Caribbean and Pacific
AHA Session 60

Denial's End and the Future of History: How Unintended Presentism Changed Portugal’s Imperial Narrative
AHA Session 61

Global Intellectual History: Ten Years On
AHA Session 62

Hidden No More: Uncovering Black Women’s History through National Parks
AHA Session 63

Historians among the Machines: From Reproducible Computational Experiments to Persuasive Historical Arguments
AHA Session 64

Historical Inquiry in History Classrooms: Investigating and Reframing an Essential Relationship
AHA Session 65

Immigration, Transnationalism, and Global Economy
AHA Session 66

Investigation, Prosecution, Torture, and Judgment in Early Modern Germany
AHA Session 67

Sectarianism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism: Postpartition India and Pakistan
AHA Session 68

Making the Way: The Chicago Area Friends of SNCC
AHA Session 69

New Battlegrounds in Central America’s Cold War
AHA Session 70

Periodization in European History
AHA Session 71

Reproductive Rights in the (Former) Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: How the Past Informs the Present
AHA Session 72

Rethinking the “Medieval” in South Asian History
AHA Session 73

Shared History: Food, Sports, and Theater as Cultural Conduits in Sino–American Relations
AHA Session 74

Southern Queer Oral History
AHA Session 75

Teaching and Researching University Histories in the Age of Reconciliation
AHA Session 76

The Challenge of Feminist Biography Revisited: Transformative Approaches to Feminist Biography Three Decades Later
AHA Session 77

The History and Legacy of the All-Volunteer Force Military, 50 Years Later
AHA Session 78

Seminar Session on the Post-Ottoman World, Part 2: The Arab World and the Balkans
AHA Session 79

More Than Calamity: Retelling Catholic Mission History through Fire
American Catholic Historical Association 8

Catholic Studies and Community-Engaged Learning
American Catholic Historical Association 9

The Confrontation between Catholicism and Capitalism
American Catholic Historical Association 10

Children, Conscripts, and Cannibals: Gender and Citizenship-Making in Liberal Argentina, 1880–1910
Conference on Latin American History 14

Community and Identity in the Circum-Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 15

Modern Endangered Archive Program and Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 16

Crisis and Commonplace in European Political Culture: Recent Perspectives on Methodology
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 3

Changing Landscapes of Polish American Communities
Polish American Historical Association 2

Reparations for US Colonialism in Puerto Rico: A Conversation on a Decolonizing Pathway
Radical History Review 3

8:30 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-11:30 AM


Op-Ed Workshop

8:30 AM-12:30 PM


Tour 1: Shaping San Francisco’s Unexpected and Unusual Labor History

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Effective Mentorship and Advising in History Graduate Programs
AHA Session 80

American Historical Review Drop-In Session
AHA Session 81

Future of History in the Liberal Arts: Difficult Conversations in the Liberal Arts Classroom Roundtable
AHA Session 82

Teaching History in Polarized Times
AHA Session 83

Graduate and Early Career Committee Guided Conversation
AHA Session 84

Roundtable: The Role of Historians in Community Controversies over Public Monuments and Art—The Case of San Francisco's George Washington High School Murals
AHA Session 85

A Water’s History of the United States
AHA Session 86

Across the Oceans: Transnational Connections during the Long 19th Century
AHA Session 87

As Above, So Below? Political Sousveillance and Data Sharing across the 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 88

Audiovisual Archives, Research, and Teaching in the Digital World: Challenges and Opportunities
AHA Session 89

Brewing Cultural Differences: Chinese Food and Drinks in Transnational and Local Perspectives
AHA Session 90

Defending the Health of the People: The Chicago Defender as National Health Information Outlet in the Long 20th Century
AHA Session 91

How I Work: Four Historians on Process
AHA Session 92

How to Queer Public History: A Guided Discussion
AHA Session 93

Infanticide in the US and Canada: Race, Class, and State Control of Reproduction, 1870–1910
AHA Session 94

Land Acknowledgments: Permanent, Performance, or Pro Forma?
AHA Session 95

Navigating the Stages of a Community College Career in Teaching History
AHA Session 96

New Histories of Health in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 97

New Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution
AHA Session 98

Ottoman–Persian Interactions: Methods and Approaches over the Longue Durée
AHA Session 99

Reimagining the Origins of the Slave Trade in the Spanish Empire
AHA Session 100

Rethinking Im/migration History in a Troubled Time: New Approaches, New Chronologies, New Paradigms
AHA Session 101

Sinews of Power: Foreign Finance, Imperial States, and Early Modern Capitalism
AHA Session 102

Solidarity sin Fronteras: From Cold War to the Present Day
AHA Session 103

Teaching against Modern Myths: Premodern Japan in the Classroom
AHA Session 104

Understanding Ukrainian History
AHA Session 105

What Can the History of Consumption Tell Us about the History of Capitalism? Perspectives from Latin America
AHA Session 106

Who Will Tell Our Stories? Writing History through Black Puerto Rican Lenses
AHA Session 107

History of San Francisco Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 11

New Directions in Catholic Intellectual History
American Catholic Historical Association 12

Pope Pius XII and World War II: Roundtable on David Kertzer’s The Pope at War
American Catholic Historical Association 13

Mascots at Catholic, Jesuit Universities in the American West
American Catholic Historical Association 14

Histories from Latin American Frontier Zones and Borderlands
Conference on Latin American History 21

Tourism Histories of the Caribbean and Latin America, Part 1: Visualizing Race and Heritage—Travelers and Tourism in the Caribbean and Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 22

Coordinating Council of Women in History Plenary Session
Coordinating Council for Women in History 7

Public Health Issues in Political Society: Past and Current Perspectives
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 4

Migrations and Material Culture
Polish American Historical Association 3

The United States and China: A Discussion
Radical History Review 5

Communal Identity, Violence, and the Law in Premodern Italy
Society for Italian Historical Studies 3

10:30 AM-12:30 PM


Teaching Writing Workshop: Teaching Writing in the Age of AI

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


Queer Break Room

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

12:30 PM-4:30 PM


Tour 2: Chinese Historical Society of America Museum Tour

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Film Screening: John O'Connor Film Award Winner, Documentary—The Soldier's Opinion

Historians and the “Culture Wars” in Higher Education
AHA Session 108

Challenging Racial and Imperial Structures: Digital History and Collaborative Community-Based Projects
AHA Session 109

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Pacific Rim History
AHA Session 110

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and the Future of History
AHA Session 110A

Digital Projects Showcase
AHA Session 111

Hayward Is Home: Understanding and Belonging in the Heart of the Bay
AHA Session 112

New Directions in Central European History: Early Modern to Modern
AHA Session 113

Communicating History to Young Audiences: Historians Reflect on Writing Children’s Books
AHA Session 114

Domestic Regimes of Gender and Labor in Latin America
AHA Session 115

Ecologies of Coercion: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Conservation beyond Colonization
AHA Session 116

Embracing Messy Numbers: A Roundtable on Finding, Making, and Using Historical Data
AHA Session 117

Engaging Data in the History Classroom
AHA Session 118

Gender, Feminism, and the Global Circulation of Knowledge
AHA Session 119

Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Politics of Provision
AHA Session 120

Intimacy, Kinship, and Racialization in the Early 18th-Century Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean Worlds
AHA Session 121

New Histories on the 1980s Sanctuary Movement: Latinx Leadership and Perceptions of the Movement
AHA Session 122

Open Access Publishing: Challenges and Opportunities for American Historians
AHA Session 123

Parallel States, Infrastructural Heritage: Comparative Nation Building in 20th-Century China and Taiwan
AHA Session 124

Queer History from “South” to “North”: Transnational Mobilities in the 20th Century
AHA Session 125

Rethinking the Abolition of Slavery in Africa’s Legal Histories
AHA Session 126

Student Movements and Youth Activism: A Global Perspective
AHA Session 127

Teaching History in the Digital Age
AHA Session 128

The Medium Is the (Free Market) Message: Technology and Media in 20th-Century Libertarianism
AHA Session 129

Under Duress: Indigenous Coercive Labor and Enslavement in Colonial Yucatán, Mexico
AHA Session 130

Unit, Scale, and Paradigms in Historical Analysis: Chineseness as a Contested Category in Global Circulations
AHA Session 131

Unwinding Empires: Crisis Management and Fantasies of Power in the Late Colonial Middle East
AHA Session 132

Urban History and Public Scholarship: Fostering Campus–Community Collaboration
AHA Session 133

Writing History of and through Children in Modern East Asia
AHA Session 134

Capitalism, Emancipation, and Slavery: Lessons from an Old(er) School, Part 1: Materialism
AHA Session 135

Seminar Session on the Post-Ottoman World, Part 3: The Post-Ottoman World
AHA Session 136

Debating “Globalization” and “Deglobalization”
Chinese Historians in the United States 3

The Second Time Around: Sustaining Writing and Publications beyond the First Book
Coordinating Council for Women in History 8

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

Tourism and History: From Soviets to Space to Antitourism
Institute for Historical Study

Exploring Ethnicity and Gender
Polish American Historical Association 4

Race, Capitalism, and Geopolitics
Radical History Review 6

Abortion, Repression, Justice, and Freedom
Radical History Review 7

“Did Women Have a Renaissance?” Joan Kelly’s Question Almost 50 Years Later
Society for Italian Historical Studies 4

1:30 PM-5:30 PM


Tour 3: New Deal Murals in San Francisco

2:00 PM-3:15 PM


ACHA Presidential Roundtable: Catholicism and Environmental History
American Catholic Historical Association 15

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Funding History: An Inside Look at Foundation and Government Decisionmaking
AHA Session 137

What Next for History Majors?
AHA Session 138

Advocating for History: A Workshop on Steps and Strategies to Support the Discipline
AHA Session 139

Digital Drop-In Session
AHA Session 141

Afro-Indigenous History in the Andes: Sources and Methods to Explain Mulata Cacicas, Quechua-Speaking Afro-Andean Parishioners, African–Indigenous Marriages, and Africans in Indigenous Villages in the Andean Highlands
AHA Session 142

Antifascism on the Scale of the World
AHA Session 143

Black Experiences, Material Cultures, and Antislavery in the British Atlantic World
AHA Session 144

Designing, Editing, and Implementing a New OER Textbook: Openstax World History
AHA Session 145

Digital History for Luddites: Learning How to Collaborate on Digital History Projects with STEM Colleagues
AHA Session 146

Divergent Futures: Queer and Indigenous Activism in Mexico, 1970s–90s
AHA Session 147

Human Rights and Mediterranean Slavery in the Early Modern Period
AHA Session 148

Mobility in the Transimperial/Transcolonial Landscape of Modern Asia: Negotiating the Physical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Boundaries
AHA Session 149

Myths of the “Medieval” in Modern American Historiography
AHA Session 150

Paolo Sarpi’s Legacy on the 400th Anniversary of His Death: Politics, Religion, and Controversies in Early Modern Europe
AHA Session 151

Recollections and Representations of Courtyard Culture in Historical China and Abroad
AHA Session 152

Redemptive Dreams: Critical Engagements with Kevin Starr’s California
AHA Session 153

Reproductive Labor during COVID: Personal, Scholarly, and Political Reflections
AHA Session 154

Rooting History to a Place: Place- and Water-Based Approaches to Environmental History
AHA Session 155

Secrets and Lives: A Roundtable Discussion of Biography and History in the Cold War Americas
AHA Session 156

The Business of Independence: De/Recolonizing African Political and Cultural Economies
AHA Session 157

The Material Turn in Holocaust Studies: Implications for Documenting Atrocity
AHA Session 158

Urban Informality as Historical Concept in Latin America
AHA Session 159

Vietnam’s Global Diasporas
AHA Session 160

What Is the Civic Value of a History Education?
AHA Session 161

What’s Special about Maps (2.0): Unique and Underutilized
AHA Session 162

You Are What You Eat: Food History
AHA Session 163

Capitalism, Emancipation, and Slavery: Lessons from an Old(er) School, Part 2: Ideology
AHA Session 164

Catholic Arts and Media
American Catholic Historical Association 16

Roundtable on American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 17

The History of the Papacy, Part 2: The Papacy and Church Government
American Catholic Historical Association 18

Youth, Sexuality, Gender, and Autonomy in the Archives
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 6

Weaving Together Material Frontiers in Colonial Spanish America and the Pacific
Conference on Latin American History 30

¿Qué Significó Nuestra Independencia? O Que Significou a Nossa Independência? The Politics of Memory in Latin American Centennial Celebrations of Independence
Conference on Latin American History 31

Publishing Women’s and Gender History
Coordinating Council for Women in History 10

Troubling Terms in the Sex Trades
Radical History Review 8

Infrastructures of Italian Fascism
Society for Italian Historical Studies 6

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

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Mapping the Vernacular Polonia of the North American West
Polish American Historical Association 5

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


HBCU Networking Event

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


ACHA Business Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Address

CEHS Executive Board Meeting
Central European History Society

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


Andean Studies Section: New Trends in Andean History—Indigeneity, Settlement, Environment, and Infrastructure
Conference on Latin American History 32

Brazilian Studies Section: January 8 in Historical Perspective—Past, Present, and Bolsonarismo in 2024
Conference on Latin American History 33

Borderlands/Frontiers Section: New Perspectives on Frontier and Borderland Studies
Conference on Latin American History 34

Central American Studies Section: Family, Gender, Community, and Migration
Conference on Latin American History 35

Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


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

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

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


Radical History Strategy Meeting: Supporting Progressive Change during a Reactionary Racist Upsurge
Radical History Review 10

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Reception

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


LGBTQ+ Historians' Reception

CHUS Book Launch
Chinese Historians in the United States

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


The Neon Hours: Catholic Delights after Dark
American Catholic Historical Association 19

7:15 PM-8:45 PM


Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: From Scratch—Syllabus Development in the Latin American History Classroom
Conference on Latin American History 36

Atlantic World Studies Section: Empires and Emancipation—Freedom, Community, and Mobility in the Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 37

Colonial Studies Section: Ways of Knowing—Colonial Knowledge and Digital Histories of Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 38

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