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

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Saturday, January 6, 2024

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


Gender Equity Breakfast

8:00 AM-11:00 AM


AHR Associate Review Editors' Meeting (invitation only)

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-4:00 PM


AHA Meeting Registration

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

LAC Office

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


K–16 Educators’ Workshop, Part 1: Insight, Inspiration, and Motivation—Collaboration Revealed through Primary Sources

Translation History in Global Perspective, 1200–1800, Part 1: Agents of Translation
AHA Session 165

Gateway History Courses in Cross-Disciplinary and Institutional Contexts
AHA Session 166

History for the 21st Century: Centering Student Learning Experiences in World History
AHA Session 167

LGBTQ+ History Research Lightning Session
AHA Session 168

Meet Perspectives on History
AHA Session 169

100 Years after Lenin’s Death: Revisiting Lenin’s Global Legacy
AHA Session 170

“Alt-Ac” at the Crossroads: Advice and Guidance for the New History Majority
AHA Session 172

Beauty and Power: Aesthetics of Indigenous and Immigrant Womanhood in Postwar North America
AHA Session 173

Beyond the Second Amendment: Rethinking US Gun History
AHA Session 174

Centering Women in Mexican History
AHA Session 175

Centuries of Intimacy: Homosociality in South Asia
AHA Session 176

Daily Life in 20th-Century China
AHA Session 177

Fugitivity in US South Landscapes: Histories of Movement, Histories of Place
AHA Session 178

Mobilities, Advertising, and Smog: Planning and Consuming Andean Capital Cities
AHA Session 179

Lessons on Decoloniality from the Histories of Black, Native, and Latina Liberation Seekers in 19th- and 20th-Century US Schools
AHA Session 180

Plant Histories of Early Modern and Late Ottoman Worlds
AHA Session 181

Race and Ethnicity in the Deindustrializing US and France
AHA Session 182

Rethinking the Mercenary in European History
AHA Session 183

Setting the Record Straight: Reworking Narratives of 20th-Century Black Life and Culture
AHA Session 184

Teaching “Western Civilization” in the 21st Century
AHA Session 185

The Issue of Marriage and Family in the Colonial Iberian World: Representation, Consumerism, and Survival
AHA Session 186

The Johnson–Reed Act 100 Years Later
AHA Session 187

The Selfish, the Individualistic, and the Self-Reliant: The Promises and the Pitfalls of Self-Interest in Anglo-American Traditions
AHA Session 188

Capitalism, Emancipation, and Slavery: Lessons from an Old(er) School, Part 3: Class and Labor
AHA Session 189

Imagining Catholics in the 18th-Century British World
American Catholic Historical Association 20

Varieties of Catholic–Protestant Urban (Inter) Action in the United States, 1798–1895
American Catholic Historical Association 21

Three Stories of Theopolitical Conflict on the World Stage
American Catholic Historical Association 22

Food, Leisure, and Education: Metabolizing Global Change in Austria and the Habsburg Successor States, 1900–55
Central European History Society 9

The People’s Republic of China and Its Working Class Masters: Shifting Bonds between Industrial Labor and the Socialist State, 1949–2000
Chinese Historians in the United States 6

Free Breakfast Reception
Conference on Faith and History

The Roots and Routes of 20th-Century Black Internationalism
Conference on Latin American History 42

Creating and Fighting Enemies during Latin America’s Cold War
Conference on Latin American History 43

African Women Fighting for and in Parliament: Historical Insights
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 5

Evolutions of Migrant and Ethnic Identities
Polish American Historical Association 6

America’s Cold Wars: Past and Present
Radical History Review 11

Intersections of American Religious Studies and Book History
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


Poster Session #1
AHA Session 190

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Exhibit Hall

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


K–16 Educators’ Workshop, Part 2: Insight, Inspiration, and Motivation—Collaboration Revealed through Primary Sources

Translation History in Global Perspective, 1200–1800, Part 2: Sites of Translation
AHA Session 191

Disciplinary Advantage: Historians as Administrators
AHA Session 192

Challenging White Supremacy in North Carolina and Louisiana in the Early to Mid-20th Century: Louis Austin, Bernette Joshua Johnson, John B. McLendon, and Alexander Rivera Jr.
AHA Session 193

American Lesson Plan: A Progress Report from the American Historical Association's Mapping the Landscape of Secondary US History Education
AHA Session 194

1924–2024: A Roundtable Discussion on the Indian Citizenship Act
AHA Session 195

Robert W. Cherny Talks with Nelson Lichtenstein about Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend
AHA Session 196

Afro-Diasporic Intersections on the Island of Hispaniola in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
AHA Session 197

Beyond the Research Paper: Innovative K–16 Lessons through Experiential Learning
AHA Session 198

Bumps Ahead? New and Old Paths to Queer History Education
AHA Session 199

Contagion and Containment: Structures of Disease Outbreaks and Methods to Control Epidemics in the Early Atlantic World
AHA Session 200

Exploring the Complexities of Colonial Sexual Surveillance: Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Power Dynamics in 19th- and 20th-Century South Asia
AHA Session 201

Forces of National and Global Change: The Role of Chinese Labor in 20th-Century War, Revolution, and Nation Building
AHA Session 202

Is the United States Turning toward Fascism?
AHA Session 203

Mystics, Miracles, and Mimesis: Female Piety and the Burden of Proof in the Spanish American Archive
AHA Session 204

Out of the Shadows: New Approaches to Intelligence History
AHA Session 205

Racialized State Violence and Black Resistance
AHA Session 206

Rethinking Social Movements and Political Struggles in Latin America’s Late Cold War
AHA Session 207

Slaveries in the Eastern Islamic World, 1580–1904: Authority, Forced Conversion, and Sexual Exploitation
AHA Session 208

Spreading Wings: US Aviation and the Expansion of Global Airborne Infrastructure in the 20th Century
AHA Session 209

Teaching History in Prisons
AHA Session 210

The Historian and the Photograph: Seeing the Archive
AHA Session 211

The Opposite of Extinction: Unwilding in the Anthropocene
AHA Session 212

“Under the Same Flag”? Transnational Feminist Activism in the Interwar Era, 1919−39
AHA Session 213

Undergraduate Lightning Round: Research across the Fields
AHA Session 214

World War II’s Global Turn
AHA Session 215

Histories of Archaeology and Collecting in Latin America, Part 1: Land, Labor, and Law in Latin American Archaeology
AHA Session 216

Reacting to the Past: Innovation, Challenge, and Opportunity, Part 2: Rethinking the History Survey with Immersive Role Play
AHA Session 217

Girlhood Studies and US Catholic Histories: A Roundtable Conversation
American Catholic Historical Association 23

Catholic Environments and Environmentalism
American Catholic Historical Association 24

Global Church, Global Council: Centering Vatican II in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 25

Early Modern Mysticism
American Catholic Historical Association 26

Business History in an Era of Uncertainty
Business History Conference 2

Like Cattle and Horses: Japanese Informal Empire, Communist Revolution, and the Industrial Labor Movement in Republican China
Chinese Historians in the United States 7

Roundtable: Writing Religious Biography
Conference on Faith and History 2

Mexican Women, Children, and Families: The Long Arc of Slavery, Displacement, and Family Separation, 1539–1920
Conference on Latin American History 48

Memory, Performance, and Activism in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 49

Presidential Panel: Latinx Diasporas, the Job Market, and the Need to Talk Fields—A Conversation on Research, Teaching, and Training across Latin American and Latino Histories
Conference on Latin American History 50

Histories of the “Other” Midwest: Considering Race and Space in the 19th- and 20th-Century Midwest
Midwestern Historical Association

Biographies and Life Stories as Historical Sources
Polish American Historical Association 7

10:30 AM-12:30 PM


Poster Session #2
AHA Session 218

10:30 AM-3:00 PM


Tour 4: Mission District Murals and the Castro

11:00 AM-1:30 PM


AHR Board of Editors Luncheon and Meeting (invitation only)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Department Chairs' Luncheon

Modern European History Luncheon

12:15 PM-2:30 PM


Tour 5: Black San Francisco Art and History Walking Tour

12:30 PM-3:00 PM


Career Fair

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Poster Session #3
AHA Session 219

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Annual Meeting of Affiliated Society Representatives

Teaching Things Workshop

Essential Work: A Panel Discussion among Directors of Graduate Studies
AHA Session 220

New Directions in the History of Premodern Disability
AHA Session 220A

Methodologies in Indigenous History
AHA Session 221

Beyond “America First”: The Competing Global Visions of American Protestants at the End of the 20th Century
AHA Session 222

Can We Call It White Supremacy? Rethinking Racial Systems in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 223

Caste and Performance: Notes on Historical Methods between the Archive and the Repertoire
AHA Session 224

Gender and Politics in Chinese History: Diachronic Comparisons and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
AHA Session 225

Gender, Race, and Health in the 20th Century
AHA Session 226

Geographies of Slavery: Emancipation and Abolition in the 19th-Century Atlantic World
AHA Session 227

Global Mobility and New Knowledge: East–West Encounters and Cross-Cultural Production, 1500–1900
AHA Session 228

Going “Gentle into That Good Night”? Historiography and the Undergraduate Curriculum
AHA Session 229

Heritage and Hegemony: Exploring Imperialism and Cultural Diplomacy at the International Expositions of the Early 20th Century
AHA Session 230

Kin, Clans, and Connections: Vast Early America as Family History
AHA Session 231

Media Cultures at the Dawn of the Information Age
AHA Session 232

New Perspectives on 20th-Century US National Security
AHA Session 233

Open Water: Afroaquatics and History
AHA Session 234

Political and Environmental Histories of Neoliberal Conservation in East Africa
AHA Session 235

Race, Colonialism, Development: Global Intellectual Histories of Marxism and Socialism
AHA Session 236

Reading beyond the Text: Expanding Our Methodological Approaches to the Past
AHA Session 237

The Body in Latin American History
AHA Session 238

The US–Canada Border and Its Borderlands: Emerging Trends in a Developing Field
AHA Session 239

Undergraduate Lightning Round: SUBTITLE TBD
AHA Session 240

Who Taught Them That? AP History Courses and College Readiness
AHA Session 241

Histories of Archaeology and Collecting in Latin America, Part 2: Identity, Tourism, and Collecting the Past
AHA Session 242

The 60th Anniversary of the Brazilian Coup, Part 1: Histories of Gender and Sexuality
AHA Session 243

New Approaches to the State Regulation of Alcohol in Early Modern and Modern Societies
Alcohol and Drugs History Society

The Catholic Church in Croatian Transitional Society
American Catholic Historical Association 27

Body Politics
American Catholic Historical Association 28

Three Dimensions of the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina
American Catholic Historical Association 29

Activist Histories in California Catholicism, 1960s–80s
American Catholic Historical Association 30

Experiences of Aftermath and Transition in Modern European History
Central European History Society 11

China under Xi Jinping’s Presidency, 2012–22: A Historical Assessment
Chinese Historians in the United States 9

Global Queer Anarchisms
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 8

Alternative World Order–Building in the Americas
Conference on Latin American History 56

Liberalism and Nationalism in Early 20th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 57

Exile, Displacement, and Survival: Comparative Perspectives
Polish American Historical Association 8

Labor Struggles in Contemporary Higher Education
Radical History Review 13

Gardens and Spectacles: Landscaping, Architecture, and Leisure in Paris, 1760–2000
Western Society for French History 4

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Film Screening: Town Destroyer

Committee on Minority Historians' Focus Group (invitation only)

The Renaissance Reborn
AHA Session 244

History at the Crossroads: Challenges and Solutions for History Departments
AHA Session 245

Teaching How Historians Work: Introducing the #AHRSyllabus Project
AHA Session 246

Ten Years of C3: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 247

Black Queer Politics: Precarity, Policing, and the Potential for Progress
AHA Session 248

Christian Nationalisms in Global Perspective
AHA Session 249

COINTELPRO: Reconsidering the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program on the 50th Anniversary of Its Public Exposure
AHA Session 250

Collaborative Public History Projects That Serve Native Communities: The Indigenous Chicago Project
AHA Session 251

Create Confident Researchers by Teaching Them to Ask Their Own Questions
AHA Session 252

Global Roadmaps to Reproductive Rights: Explaining Divergent Trends in Abortion Law
AHA Session 254

So You Want to Publish in an Academic Journal?
AHA Session 255

Harvest of Empire: A Roundtable on the Scholarly and Pedagogical Legacy of Juan González’s Survey of US Latino History
AHA Session 256

Infrastructures: Connecting the United States and the World
AHA Session 257

Overlooked Texts and Understudied Moments: The Problem of Significance in Early North America
AHA Session 258

Pedagogy and Practice in Online Higher Education History Classrooms in a Postpandemic World
AHA Session 259

Podcasting and the Art of Audio Documentaries
AHA Session 260

Publishing Digital History: A State of the Field
AHA Session 261

Rethinking Legal Pluralism: Conflicts, Concession, and Coordination during Late Imperial and Modern China, 1644–1950
AHA Session 262

Routes of Enslavement in the Americas
AHA Session 263

Teaching the Holocaust: What Scholars Know/What Teachers Teach
AHA Session 264

Translating Land Possession in Colonial Indigenous Lands
AHA Session 265

Two Decades since the Declassification of Mexico’s Secret Police Archive: Legacies and New Possibilities
AHA Session 266

Which Silences Should Historians Break and How? Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas around Sexual Abuse and Coercive Violence
AHA Session 267

Workers and Obsolescence: Histories of Technology, Labor, and Workplace Struggle
AHA Session 268

The 60th Anniversary of the Brazilian Coup, Part 2: Policy, Movements, and Memory
AHA Session 269

Catholics in Interwar Europe
American Catholic Historical Association 31

US Catholics Confront Race
American Catholic Historical Association 32

The History of the Papacy, Part 3: The Papacy, Culture, and Communication
American Catholic Historical Association 33

New Histories of the North American West
American Catholic Historical Association 34

Negotiations, Compromise, and Social Stability: A Historical Reappraisal of Xi Jinping’s First 10 Years, 2012–22
Chinese Historians in the United States 10

Tourism Histories of the Caribbean and Latin America, Part 2: Promising Developments in the History of Latin American and Caribbean Tourism
Conference on Latin American History 64

Cold War Guerrilla Movements and Social Activism in Cuba, Guatemala, and Argentina
Conference on Latin American History 65

Post–World War II Transnational Collaborations and Exchanges
Polish American Historical Association 9

Is Israel Turning Fascist?
Radical History Review 14

Teacher Educators, Teachers, and Activists Speak on Teaching Difficult Subjects in Contentious Times
Radical History Review 15

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Undergraduate Poster Session
AHA Session 270

3:45 PM-4:45 PM


Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity

5:15 PM-6:30 PM


AHA Business Meeting (AHA members only)

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


CEHS Business Meeting
Central European History Society

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


Chile and Río de la Plata Section: Rethinking the Geography of the Southern Cone
Conference on Latin American History 66

Caribbean Studies Section: Documenting 20th-Century Women’s History
Conference on Latin American History 67

Mexico Section: New Voices in Mexican Historical Studies
Conference on Latin American History 68

Gran Colombia Section: Gender, Environment, and Public and Global History in the Region
Conference on Latin American History 69

The Americas Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


Committee on Minority Historians’ Reception

K–12 Reception

ACHA Mass
American Catholic Historical Association

6:30 PM-8:30 PM


CEHS Reception
Central European History Society

7:30 PM-9:00 PM


ACHA Social
American Catholic Historical Association

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


CLAH Reception
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 PM-9:45 PM


Rethinking the Far Right in American History: Questioning Old Paradigms, Asking New Questions, and Engaging Broad Publics