Program of the 122nd Annual Meeting

January 3—6, 2008
Washington, D.C.

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Thursday, January 3, 9:00 A.M.– 4:00 P.M.

AHA Council meeting
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Marriott, Coolidge Room

Thursday, January 3, 9:00 A.M.–5:15 P.M.

Intersection between Teaching and Research in the New Media
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Marriott, Wilson Suite B&C

Thursday, January 3, 12:00–7:00 P.M.

AHA Meeting Registration
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 3

Thursday, January 3, 12:00– 8:00 P.M.

Internet and Messaging Center open
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Marriott, Exhibit Hall C

Thursday, January 3, 12:00–6:00 P.M.

AHA Headquarters Office open
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Marriott, Convention Registration desk, Lobby Level

Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open
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Marriott, Room 8228

Thursday, January 3, 12:30–6:00 P.M.

Job Register open
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Marriott, Exhibit Hall C

Thursday, January 3, 3:00–7:00 P.M.

Exhibit Hall open
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Hilton, Exhibit Hall A

Thursday, January 3, 3:00–5:00 P.M.

AHA Session 1.  Marshall Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 1

AHA Session 2.  Rethinking "Race" in U.S. Relations with Asia, 1945–80
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite A

AHA Session 3.  The Great War in Africa: World War I’s Forgotten Theater
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Marriott, Maryland Suite A

AHA Session 4.  Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, Part 1: Forgotten Histories and Living Memories of Slavery in the Luso-Atlantic World
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony C

AHA Session 5.  Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, Part 2: Slavery, Memory, and African American Religious Traditioning
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony B

AHA Session 6.  Colonial Modernity and the Modern Girl in East Asia
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Omni, Executive Room

AHA Session 7.  Continuity, Rupture, and the Politics of Translation in the Making of the Modern: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Punjab
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Omni, Congressional Room A

AHA Session 8.  Brokering Empire: Negotiating the Dutch Atlantic, c. 1650–1800
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Marriott, Maryland Suite B

AHA Session 9.  Displacement and the Family in Twentieth-Century Europe
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Marriott, Delaware Suite B

AHA Session 10.  The Body at the Crossroads of Medicine and History: Disease, Disability, and the Law in Medieval Europe
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Marriott, Washington Room 1

AHA Session 11.  The Intellectual Origins of German Colonial Studies: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Dimensions of an Emerging Research Agenda
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Marriott, Washington Room 2

AHA Session 12.  Truth, Power, and Diplomacy: Renaissance Humanists and the Politics of Change
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Omni, Congressional Room B

AHA Session 13.  Women and Finance in Early Modern Europe: Managers, Traders, and Investors
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Marriott, Virginia Suite A

AHA Session 14.  Dangerous Political Allies: The Campaign for Suffrage in Mexico and Guatemala
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Marriott, Washington Room 3

AHA Session 15.  Free People of African Descent in the Americas: Explorations of Racial Identity
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Marriott, Virginia Suite B

AHA Session 16.  Historical Readings of the State in the Global South during the Twentieth Century
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Marriott, Washington Room 5

AHA Session 17.  Afro-Brazilian Political Mobilization since Independence: New Paths and New Questions
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Marriott, Washington Room 6

AHA Session 18.  Telling Truths in the Middle Ages: Approaches to the Medieval Historian’s Craft in the Postmodern World
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Marriott, Virginia Suite C

AHA Session 19.  Teaching Urban History
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Marriott, Maryland Suite C

AHA Session 20.  Challenging Narratives: Asian Americans in Public Culture
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony D

AHA Session 21.  Citizenship, Race, and Mental Illness in the Twentieth-Century United States
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Omni, Hampton Ballroom

AHA Session 22.  Mexicanas/os, Pachucas/os, Pochas/os, and Chicanas/os: Mexican American Cultural, Political, and Residential Developments in California, 1930–90
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Harding Room

AHA Session 23.  New Narratives of Native American Christianities and the Mission Encounter
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Omni, Capitol Room

AHA Session 24.  Comparing Visions of Race: Comic Strips, Cartoons, and Racial Stereotypes in Latin America and the United States
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Marriott, Hoover Room

AHA Session 25.  The Environment, Gender, and Cultural Hierarchy: Analytic Approaches to Uneven Development in World History
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Marriott, Washington Room 4

AHA Session 26.  Identity, Ideals, and Politics in the Civil War Era
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Marriott, McKinley Room

Historians, Advocacy, and Public Policy
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Marriott, Wilson Suite A

Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
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Omni, Governor’s Boardroom

Thursday, January 3, 4:00–5:00 P.M.

"To Make the Most of the Meeting": Orientation to the Annual Meeting
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Marriott, Nathan Hale Room, Wardman Towers

Thursday, January 3, 7:30 P.M.

Presentation of the Fifth Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom 2

Searching for the Sounds of the Nation: Music, Race, and National Identities in the United States and Brazil
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2

Friday, January 4, 8:00 A.M.– 6:00 P.M.

AHA Headquarters Office open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Convention Registration desk, Lobby Level

Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 8228

Friday, January 4, 8:00 A.M.– 8:00 P.M.

Internet and Messaging Center open
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Marriott, Exhibit Hall C

Friday, January 4, 8:00 A.M.– 6:00 P.M.

AHA Meeting Registration open
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 3

Friday, January 4, 9:00A.M.– 6:00 P.M.

Job Register open
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Marriott, Exhibit Hall C

Friday, January 4, 9:00A.M.–6:00 P.M.

Exhibit Hall open
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Marriott, Exhibit Hall A

Friday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 A.M.

AHA Session 27.  Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century
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Omni, Blue Room

AHA Session 28.  Historicism and Its Limits
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2

AHA Session 29.  Where Is the Haitian Revolution?
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 1

AHA Session 30.  Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Part 1: Social Developments in Early Modern Castile
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Hoover Room

AHA Session 31.  Tech Tools for Historians
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Marriott, North Cotillion

AHA Session 32.  Best-Selling Historical Fiction and Younger Audiences
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Marriott, Delaware Suite A

AHA Session 33.  Love in Twentieth-Century Africa: Affective Economies and Transnational Connections
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Omni, Capitol Room

AHA Session 34.  Foreign Intervention and Historical Memory in the Horn of Africa
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Hilton, Georgetown East

AHA Session 35.  Configuring Hearth and Home in Comparative Perspective, Part 1: Defining the Household
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Omni, Calvert Room

AHA Session 36.  Fishwives, Heretics, Tavernkeepers, and Traders: Women’s Agency in Early Modern Atlantic Port Cities
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Marriott, Wilson Suite A

AHA Session 37.  Gender and Socialism in Postwar Europe: Discourses, Debates, and Dilemmas
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Marriott, Harding Room

AHA Session 38.  Ireland in Imperial and Transatlantic Contexts
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Marriott, Virginia Suite B

AHA Session 39.  Slaves, Writers, Prostitutes, and Mathematicians: Finding History in People
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Marriott, South Cotillion

AHA Session 40.  Migration and Culture in Latin America
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Marriott, Coolidge Room

AHA Session 41.  Situating Brazil in the Atlantic World: Colonial, Imperial, National, and Transnational Perspectives
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Hilton, Georgetown West

AHA Session 42.  Forced Marches: Militaries, Cacicazgos, and the Uneven Development of Mexican Politics
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Omni, Embassy Room

AHA Session 43.  Conversion in the Contact Zones: Navigating Religious Practice and Identity among America’s First Peoples
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Marriott, Virginia Suite C

AHA Session 44.  De Facto Segregation: Regional Fallacies, Racial Myths, Historical Practices
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Marriott, Washington Room 3

AHA Session 45.  "The People’s House": Roundtable on Robert V. Remini’s The House: The History of the House of Representatives
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Omni, Palladium Ballroom

AHA Session 46.  African Americans and France: Exploring Intersections of War, Race, Gender, and Nation
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Marriott, Washington Room 4

AHA Session 47.  Diplomatically Speaking: How Historians of American Foreign Relations Communicate with the American Public
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Marriott, Washington Room 1

AHA Session 48.  Emancipation, Civil War, and Civil Rights: The Struggle for African American Rights
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Omni, Hampton Ballroom

AHA Session 49.  Reconstructing the Body: Gender, Medicine, and the Challenges of Race in the Age of Emancipation
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Marriott, Delaware Suite B

AHA Session 50.  The AIDS Pandemic in Global/Historical Perspective
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Marriott, Washington Room 2

AHA Session 51.  Managing Everyday Risks in the Twentieth Century: Pedestrians, the Automobile, and the Enclosure Movement
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Hilton, Monroe East

AHA Session 52.  Rivers of History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America
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Marriott, Maryland Suite A

AHA Session 53.  The New International Histories of Labor during the Cold War: The AFL-CIO Confronts the "Third World"
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Hilton, Monroe West

AHA Session 54.  Toward a Transnational History of Disability
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Marriott, Virginia Suite A

AHA Session 55.  Transnationalizing Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality: The View from the Journals
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Omni, Diplomat Ballroom

AHA Session 56.  Uneven Developments: Public History in the Federal and State Legislative Bodies
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Marriott, Wilson Suite B

AHA Session 57.  The Silk Road in World History and in World Art History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 5

AHA Session 58.  Memories of African Slavery, Part I
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Marriott, Wilson Suite C

Friday, January 4, 11:00 A.M.–1:00 P.M.

The Vagina Monologues: Stories from China
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Omni, Executive Room

Friday, January 4, 11:30 A.M.– 2:30 P.M.

Affiliated Societies Display
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Marriott, Convention Registration area, Lobby Level

Friday, January 4, 1:00–2:00 P.M.

Meet the Editors and Staff of the American Historical Review
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Marriott, Wilson Suite B

Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 P.M.

AHA Session 59.  Inequality and Globalization
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2

AHA Session 60.  Diasporas of Saint-Domingue: Atlantic Itineraries of Slavery and Freedom
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 1

AHA Session 61.  Closing the "Passion Gap" in Graduate Education: Strategies for Building Graduate Community and Sustaining the Joy of Doing History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, North Cotillion

AHA Session 62.  Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Part 2: The World of Politics
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Hoover Room

AHA Session 63.  Globalization: The State of the Field in Asian Histories
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Blue Room

AHA Session 64.  Configuring Hearth and Home in Comparative Perspective, Part 2: Putting the Household into Practice
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Calvert Room

AHA Session 65.  New Approaches to Cold War Broadcasting: Institutions, Imagery, and Insurrections, 1948–89
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite B

AHA Session 66.  Sexual Deviation and Social Control in Late Imperial Eastern Europe
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Harding Room

AHA Session 67.  Critical Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America
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Marriott, Coolidge Room

AHA Session 68.  Disparate Landscapes: Environmental Histories of Mexican Politics, Society, and Intellectual Production
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Marriott, Virginia Suite C

AHA Session 69.  The Americas: Religion and Political Exchange, 1880–1980
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Marriott, Washington Room 4

AHA Session 70.  Conquest of the City–Patterns of Monarchic Ceremonial Employment of Urban Space
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Marriott, Washington Room 5

AHA Session 71.  Memories of African Slavery, Part 2
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Marriott, Washington Room 2

AHA Session 72.  Legacies of Slavery and Problems with Freedom during the Age of Emancipation in Brazil and the United States
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Hilton, Monroe East

AHA Session 73.  Learning Digitally: New Resources for History Teachers and Researchers
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite A

AHA Session 74.  Uneven Developments: Interdisciplinarity and History
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Marriott, Wilson Suite C

AHA Session 75.  A Postwar Consensus? Rethinking the Culture of Mid-Twentieth-Century American Social Science
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Omni, Diplomat Ballroom

AHA Session 76.  Are the 1980s Already History? First Thoughts on the History of the Reagan Years
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Palladium Ballroom

AHA Session 77.  Southerners on the Road: Race, Space, and Motion from Slavery to Reconstruction
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 1

AHA Session 78.  The United States in Asia, the United States in Iraq: Historical Lessons Not Learned
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Marriott, Virginia Suite A

AHA Session 79.  Uneven Developments in the Memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite B

AHA Session 80.  Europe Meets Asia–Experience and Knowledge between Two Worlds
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Hampton Ballroom

AHA Session 81.  Girls and Girlhood in Global History
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Hilton, Georgetown East

AHA Session 82.  The Global AIDS Pandemic: Eyewitnesses to History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Empire Ballroom

AHA Session 83.  The Historical Roots of Modern Retirement: Britain, France, and the United States in Comparative Perspective
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Georgetown West

AHA Session 84.  Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in American Popular Culture
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite A

AHA Session 85.  Transnational Perspectives on Women and Gender in Chinese History: Knowledge Exchange and Interactions of Scholarship between the United States and Chinese Societies
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 3

Friday, January 4, 4:30–6:00 P.M.

Memorias do Cativeriro (Memories of Captivity)
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Executive Room

Friday, January 4, 4:45 P.M.

International Scholars and National Borders: A Conversation about Visas and Academic Freedom
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Wilson Suite A

Friday, January 4, 4:45–6:00 P.M.

Open Forum on Disability
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, McKinley Room

Friday, January 4, 4:45–6:15 P.M.

Annual meeting of affiliated society representatives
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Truman Room

Friday, January 4, 5:30 P.M.

Reception for Two-Year Faculty
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite A

Friday, January 4, 5:30–6:30 P.M.

Committee for Graduate Students Open Forum
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Marriott, Virginia Suite A

Friday, January 4, 6:30 P.M.

Reception for Graduate Students
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Marriott, Delaware Suite B

Friday, January 4, 7:00–8:20 P.M.

Reception for recipients of 2007 AHA awards and prizes and for members of 2007 award and prize committees
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite B

Friday, January 4, 8:30 P.M.

American Historical Association General Meeting
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom 2

Friday, January 4, 10:00 P.M.–12:00 A.M.

Reception hosted by the American Historical Association for 2007 President Barbara Weinstein, New York University
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriot Ballroom Salon 1

Saturday, January 5, 7:30–8:45 A.M.

Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Women Historians
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom 1

Saturday, January 5, 8:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M.

AHA Meeting Registration open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 3

AHA Headquarters Office open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Convention Registration desk, Lobby Level

Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 8228

Saturday, January 5, 8:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M.

Internet and Messaging Center open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Exhibit Hall C

Saturday, January 5, 9:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M.

Job Register open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Exhibit Hall C

Exhibit Hall open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Exhibit Hall A

Saturday, January 5, 9:00–11:00 A.M.

AHA Session 86.  Beyond the Rainforest: Latin American Environmental History: A Roundtable in Honor of Warren Dean
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Palladium Ballroom

AHA Session 87.  Narratives of Difference and Domination, Part 1: World Histories and Studies of Masculinity
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2

AHA Session 88.  Lives in History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Blue Room

AHA Session 89.  Public History, Tenure, and Review: Continuing the Conversation about Redefining Historical Scholarship
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite A

AHA Session 90.  European Women’s History: Past, Present, and Future
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, North Cotillion

AHA Session 91.  Sites for Encounter and Cultural Production: Teaching and Researching World History in K–16
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 1

AHA Session 92.  Teaching by Having Students Think Historically, Part 1
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 2

AHA Session 93.  An Insider’s Guide to the Academic Job Market
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Diplomat Ballroom

AHA Session 94.  Re-Directing Research on China’s May Fourth Movement: Cross-Cultural Philosophizing and Transnational Networking of Cai Yuanpei, Chen Duxiu, and Mei Guangdi
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Hoover Room

AHA Session 95.  The Practice of Nation: Negotiating Imperium, Sovereignty, and Past in Modern Japan
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 5

AHA Session 96.  Medieval Studies and Issues of Social Justice, Part I
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite A

AHA Session 97.  One Size Fits All? Comparative Perspectives on the Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar Europe
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite B

AHA Session 98.  Space and Social Interaction in Modern Russia
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Marriott, Maryland Suite C

AHA Session 99.  What Is Psychological History?
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Marriott, Washington Room 6

AHA Session 100.  Crossing Borders with South Asian Historiography: A Roundtable Discussion
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite C

AHA Session 101.  Raising the Wiphala: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Andean Nationalism
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Georgetown East

AHA Session 102.  Uneven Transitions to Neoliberal Democracy: Social Movements in Transitions from Dictatorship and War in Latin America
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, McKinley Room

AHA Session 103.  Public Historians, Secret Histories: A Roundtable Discussion of the Issues Surrounding and Contributions of Classified History Programs
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite C

AHA Session 104.  Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, Part 3: Memory, Commemorations, and Reparations: Slave Heritage in the Atlantic World
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite B

AHA Session 105.  Atlantic Biographies, Part 1: Slaves, Flight, Freedom
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite B

AHA Session 106.  Teaching 9/11
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 4

AHA Session 107.  Teaching Social and Economic Reform in U.S. History Survey Courses: High School and College Perspectives
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite A

AHA Session 108.  Academic Freedom, Disciplinary Development, and the Organization of Scholarship, 1900–95
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Hampton Ballroom

AHA Session 109.  Matrimony Matters: Labor, Land, and Law in the Construction of Marriage in the American West
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Georgetown West

AHA Session 110.  Hurricane Katrina and the History of Disaster
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite A

AHA Session 111.  The Cartoon Medicine Show: Rare Animated Cartoons from the Collection of the National Library of Medicine
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Monroe East

AHA Session 112.  Boxing’s Big Bang: The International Expansion of the Pugilistic Universe, 1910–40
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Embassy Room

AHA Session 113.  Global Perspectives on Women’s Domestic Employment
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Monroe West

AHA Session 114.  Managing Religious Diversity in Three Early Modern Empires: Ottoman, Habsburg, and British Perspectives
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Calvert Room

AHA Session 115.  Out of Bounds: Sport, Empire, and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony A

AHA Session 116.  Tobacco in the Twentieth Century: Global Perspectives
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony B

AHA Session 117.  Voices of Military Resistance: Continuities and Discontinuities among Dissenters in Chile, Vietnam, and Iraq
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Capitol Room

AHA Session 118.  New Directions in Middle East Historiography
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, South Cotillion

Saturday, January 5, 11:00 A.M.—1:00 P.M.

The 2007 John O'Connor Film Award Winner
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Executive Room

The 2007 John O’Connor Film Award Winner
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Executive Room

Saturday, January 5, 11:30 A.M.–2:00 P.M.

AHR Board of Editors luncheon and meeting
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Congressional Boardroom

AHA Session 119.  Narratives of Difference and Domination, Part 2: World Histories and Studies of Masculinity
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2

AHA Session 120.  Recent Trends–and Challenges–in Brazilian Historiography
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Palladium Ballroom

AHA Session 121.  Open Forum on Public History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite C

AHA Session 122.  Counting History among the Humanities: The Indicators Project and the Profession
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 5

AHA Session 123.  From Notes to Narrative: The Art of Crafting a Dissertation or Monograph
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Omni, Diplomat Ballroom

AHA Session 124.  Connections: Collaborative Efforts between K–12 History Teachers and Post-Secondary History Teachers
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite B

AHA Session 125.  Learning to Teach: History Education for the Twenty-First Century
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Marriott, Washington Room 4

AHA Session 126.  Elite Networking in Late Qing and Republican China, 1900–40
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Marriott, Virginia Suite C

AHA Session 127.  Liberalism, Empire, and the Formation of the Political Subject
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Marriott, McKinley Room

AHA Session 128.  Earthquakes in the Early Modern Atlantic World
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Marriott, Hoover Room

AHA Session 129.  Medieval Studies and Issues of Social Justice, Part 2
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite A

AHA Session 130.  What Was the Socialist City? A Comparative Analysis
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Marriott, Washington Room 2

AHA Session 131.  Women and the State: Victims or Agents?
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Georgetown East

AHA Session 132.  Journalists as Historical Actors and Historians
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Omni, Blue Room

AHA Session 133.  Soldiering and Citizenship in Modern Latin America
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Capitol Room

AHA Session 134.  Reflections on Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Embassy Room

AHA Session 135.  Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, Part 4: The Re-Emergence of the Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony A

AHA Session 136.  Atlantic Biographies, Part 2: Odysseys through Time
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Monroe East

AHA Session 137.  Before and after Kinsey: Sexual Science and Sexual Medicine in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Monroe West

AHA Session 138.  Colonial Urbanism in the Americas: Exports and Adaptations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite B

AHA Session 139.  Reconsidering the Origins of the American Revolution
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, North Cotillion

AHA Session 140.  Beyond the "New Military History": New Histories of the Military, Warfare, and Society
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, South Cotillion

AHA Session 141.  Illegal Immigration in Comparative Perspective
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 1

AHA Session 142.  Plagues in World History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Hampton Ballroom

AHA Session 143.  Sex, Surgery, and History: Perspectives on Intersex from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Georgetown West

AHA Session 144.  New Directions in Early American Environmental History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite A

AHA Session 145.  Female Orators and Race Relations in the Nineteenth-Century World
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Calvert Room

AHA Session 146.  Mujeres Trabajadoras: Rethinking Women’s Role in the Workplace in Revolutionary Mexico, 1910–50
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Forum Room

Saturday, January 5, 12:15–1:45 P.M.

AHA Modern European History Section
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Coolidge Room

Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 P.M.

Polish American Historical Association Session 7
Writing Polonia History: The Stressed and the Missed

Sponsored by: Polish American Historical Association
Marriott, Taft Room

The Camden 28
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Executive Room

Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 P.M.

AHA Session 147.  The Uneven Development of Nations and Nationalism
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2

AHA Session 148.  Equity for Minority Historians in the Academic History Workplace: A Guide to Best Practices
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite A

AHA Session 149.  From Teaching Assistant to Tenure: The Transition from Graduate Student to Professional
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Palladium Ballroom

AHA Session 150.  Medieval History: Old and New Classics II
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, North Cotillion

AHA Session 151.  Borderlands and Encounters: The Problem Revisited
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 1

AHA Session 152.  Three Public Historians Discuss Their Work
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 5

AHA Session 153.  Women’s and Gender History in a Global Perspective
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite B

AHA Session 154.  Teaching by Having Students Think Historically, Part 2
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite B

AHA Session 155.  Religion, Caste, and Rule: Histories from Western India, 1500–1900 C.E.
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Hampton Ballroom

AHA Session 156.  Climate Change and Natural Disaster in Early Modern Europe: Recent Discoveries and Avenues for Future Research
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Embassy Room

AHA Session 157.  Eastern Europe: Myths of Uneven Development
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Georgetown West

AHA Session 158.  Italy’s Mediterranean: New Approaches to Italy and the Sea
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Capitol Room

AHA Session 159.  Practices of the Self in Early Modern Catholicism
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, McKinley Room

AHA Session 160.  Soviet Armenia and the Armenian Question: Homeland-Diaspora Relations, Repatriation, and Irredentism
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Calvert Room

AHA Session 161.  "Indios Ladinos": Carving Public Spaces in Colonial and Post-Colonial Andean Societies
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Georgetown East

AHA Session 162.  Knowledge and Belief in the Spanish Atlantic
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Marriott, Wilson Suite A

AHA Session 163.  "High Culture" on the Periphery: Music, Theater, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Forum Room

AHA Session 164.  The Haves and the Have Nots: A Historical Overview of Disability in the Middle East
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Monroe East

AHA Session 165.  From Colonial India to Contemporary America: Modernity, Feminism, and Immigration in Islam
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Hoover Room

AHA Session 166.  This Historian’s Life: Careers for Historians in the Twenty-First Century
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Diplomat Ballroom

AHA Session 167.  Archaeology for Historians: Using Material Culture to Understand the Past
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Monroe West

AHA Session 168.  Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, Part 5: Reparations and Affirmative Actions: Africa and Brazil
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony A

AHA Session 169.  From Troy to the Cold War: Teaching History With the Aid of NEH-Sponsored Digital Resources
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony B

AHA Session 170.  African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth Century
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite B

AHA Session 171.  Secure ... for Whom? Campus Violence in Historical Perspective, from the Bell Tower to Blacksburg
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite C

AHA Session 172.  Social Politics and State Formation after the Great Society
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite C

AHA Session 173.  Transnational Approaches to U.S. Immigration History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite C

AHA Session 174.  Global Histories of the Present
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, South Cotillion

AHA Session 175.  The United States, Great Britain, and the Middle East: Recent Developments in Historical Perspective
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 2

AHA Session 176.  The Politics of Sexual Scandals across Time and Space
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 6

AHA Session 177.  Poster Session
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Regency Ballroom

Saturday, January 5, 4:45 P.M.

American Historical Association Business Meeting
Sponsored by: merican Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom 1

Saturday, January 5, 6:00 P.M.

Committee on Minority Historians’ Reception
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Marriott, Maryland Suite A

Public History Reception
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Coolidge Room

Saturday, January 5, 6:30 P.M.

Reception for Life Members of the American Historical Association
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Hoover Room

Saturday, January 5, 7:30 P.M.

AHA-OAH Joint Committee on Part-time and Adjunct Employment Reception
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Marriott, Maryland Suite B

Sunday, January 6, 8:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M.

Internet and Messaging Center open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Exhibit Hall C

Sunday, January 6, 8:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M.

AHA Council meeting
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Marriott, Coolidge Room

Sunday, January 6, 8:30 A.M.–2:00 P.M.

AHA Headquarters Office open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Convention Registration desk, Lobby Level

Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 8228

Sunday, January 6, 8:30–10:30 A.M.

AHA Session 178.  Material Conditions and Transnational Citizenship in Postwar Europe
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 1

AHA Session 179.  New World of Publishing: Intellectual Property, Journals, and the Web
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 1

AHA Session 180.  Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, Part 6: Political Uses of the Memory of Slavery in West Africa
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite A

AHA Session 181.  Before, Between, and Beyond the States: Eurasian Border Dynamics and Communities in Tibet, Manchuria, and Mongolia
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite B

AHA Session 182.  Refugees, Violence, and Urban Culture in Wartime China, 1937–45
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite A

AHA Session 183.  Contested Sites of Modernism in Twentieth-Century Germany: The Political and Social Impact of Music Festivals
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite A

AHA Session 184.  Humanizing Warfare: International Efforts to Protect Civilians in Europe, 1870–1919
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Monroe East

AHA Session 185.  Negotiating Responsibility: English Philanthropy, Local Authority, and the Public Good
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Monroe West

AHA Session 186.  Populations, Politics, Violence: East-Central European Cities, 1914–19
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Congressional Room A

AHA Session 187.  Spanish Projections in Modern Europe
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Omni, Congressional Room B

AHA Session 188.  The Burden of Late Medieval History
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Marriott, Washington Room 2

AHA Session 189.  Cartographic Cultures: Mapping Local, National, and Transnational Collectives in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin America
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite C

AHA Session 190.  Law, Paternity, and Naming in Post-Emancipation Brazil and the Caribbean
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite A

AHA Session 191.  The Construction of Indigenous Identity in Mexico: The Longue Duree
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite B

AHA Session 192.  Youth, Culture, and Politics in Latin America, 1960s–70s
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Wilson Suite C

AHA Session 193.  Discontinuities in the Discourse of Empire: Ottoman Historical Writing in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Harding Room

AHA Session 194.  Slaves without Borders: Recaptivities, Forced Migrations, and Transnational Slave Labor in Mexico and the Caribbean, 1600–1800
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Embassy Room

AHA Session 195.  Region, Race, and Nation: The Northeast in Modern Brazil
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Hoover Room

AHA Session 196.  From Dusty to Digital: New Historical Archives of the Twenty-First Century
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 3

AHA Session 197.  Forum on the History of Science and Technology in Modern Historical Narratives
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 5

AHA Session 198.  Southern White Christianity and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–80
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, McKinley Room

AHA Session 199.  The New Politics of Education: Gender, Race, and Conservative School Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Hampton Ballroom

AHA Session 200.  The Persistence of Empire: Linen, Tea, and Free and Slave Mariners in the American Economy, 1773–1815
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite B

AHA Session 201.  Explorations in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations and Consumer Culture
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite B

AHA Session 202.  Culture and Empire: U.S. Cultural Relations around the Globe: Vietnam, Latin America, and the Soviet Union
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Capitol Room

AHA Session 203.  Reading across the Atlantic: Print Culture and National Identity in the United States, Britain, and Ireland
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Calvert Room

AHA Session 204.  Global (S)Exchange: National Ideals and Transnational History
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite C

AHA Session 205.  Politics of International Public Health
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Military Room

AHA Session 206.  Public vs. Private: Female Authority in Pre-Modern Europe
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony A

AHA Session 207.  Anti-Fascism and Anti-Imperialism in the 1930s: Tensions and Interconnections
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony B

AHA Session 208.  Teaching Teaching While Teaching History: How College Faculty Can Help Their Students Become Better Secondary Social Studies Educators
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 6

Sunday, January 6, 9:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M.

Job Register open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Exhibit Hall C

Exhibit Hall open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Exhibit Hall A

Sunday, January 6, 11:00–1:00 P.M.

AHA Session 209.  Historians Going Public: Taking History to Newspapers, Radio, TV, Film, Public Libraries, Web Sites, and Blogs
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite A

AHA Session 210.  Film History and Film Studies: Sources, Methodologies, Approaches
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 4

AHA Session 211.  The Leaky Pipeline: Issues of Retention, Promotion, and Quality of Life for Women in the Historical Profession
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 1

AHA Session 212.  China Stories: Academic History, Popular History, and Their Publics
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, McKinley Room

AHA Session 213.  Contested Pasts and Constructed Presents: Memory in the Local
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Embassy Room

AHA Session 214.  Polish National Identity and the Fall of Communism
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite B

AHA Session 215.  The Study of Place in Pre-Modern Europe
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Congressional Room A

AHA Session 216.  "The Wall in the Head": Making East and West on the German-German Border, 1949–89
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Congressional Room B

AHA Session 217.  Big Histories for Early Moderns
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite A

AHA Session 218.  Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, Part 7: Re-Interpreting Slavery in Brazil and Nigeria through Endangered Texts and Images
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Virginia Suite C

AHA Session 219.  Memories and Echoes of 1968: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite A

AHA Session 220.  Subject Populations: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Knowledge in the Americas
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Monroe East

AHA Session 221.  Historical Approaches to Twentieth-Century Shi’ism
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Monroe West

AHA Session 222.  New PhDs on the Teaching Job Market: Advice from Both Sides of the Trenches
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Harding Room

AHA Session 223.  Health and U.S. Empire in Puerto Rico and Cuba during the Early Twentieth Century
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Hilton, Military Room

AHA Session 224.  Narratives in Development: Memory and Politics in Early America
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Capitol Room

AHA Session 225.  Sexuality and the Postwar Metropolis
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Hoover Room

AHA Session 226.  Writing the Political History of North America
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Delaware Suite B

AHA Session 227.  Settling Citizens, Stabilizing States: Population Movements between Voluntary Migration and Ethnic Cleansing
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony A

AHA Session 228.  Global Histories of Medicine and Public Health: Toward New Paradigms and Professional Practice
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony B

AHA Session 229.  Interwar Intellectual Exchanges between the United States and America: Persistence of the National or Creation of an Enlarged Imagined Community?
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Hampton Ballroom

AHA Session 230.  Rethinking "Imperial Feminism": Feminist Internationalism between the Wars
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Omni, Calvert Room

AHA Session 231.  Anthropology, Authorship, and Identity in the Imperial Nineteenth Century
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 2

AHA Session 232.  Travel as Translation: Global Perspectives on Mediating between Peoples, Places, and Cultures
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite B

AHA Session 233.  African Ethnic Identity and New World Racial Slavery in the Atlantic World
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Washington Room 5

AHA Session 234.  Religion in the History Survey: A Transhistorical Discussion
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Maryland Suite C

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