120th Annual Meeting Program

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 9:00 A.M - 4:00 P.M.

AHA Council Meeting
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 404

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 12:00–3:00 P.M.

PAHA encyclopedia meeting
Sponsored by: Polish American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 301

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 12:00–6:00 P.M.

AHA Headquarters Office open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Registration 1 (fifth level)

Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 501

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 12:00–7:00 P.M.

AHA Meeting Registration
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Liberty Ballroom

Internet and Messaging Center open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon E

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 12:30–6:00 P.M.

Job Register open
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon H

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1:30–4:30 P.M.

AHA Workshop: Directors of Graduate Studies and Other Interested Parties
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon I

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2:30–6:00 P.M.

Conference on Latin American History Information Table
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Level Four Lobby

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 3:00–4:30 P.M.

Editorial Board meeting
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Room 101

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 3:00–5:00 P.M.

AHA Session 1.  Nationalism: Global Perspectives on the Civic/Ethnic Dichotomy—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon A

AHA Session 2.  Orientation to the AHA Annual Meeting
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon J

AHA Session 3.  New Directions in United States Public History: ExplorePAhistory.com—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon D

AHA Session 4.  Religion and Orientalism in United States Foreign Policy
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section C-1

AHA Session 5.  Global 1956—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section A

AHA Session 6.  New Histories of South Africa and the United States: From Comparative to Transnational History—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon C

AHA Session 7.  New Perspectives in United States Urban History and Politics— Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section B

AHA Session 8.  Radical Secularism in the Twentieth-Century Arab Middle East—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon K

AHA Session 9.  Revisioning the Freedom Struggle: New Interpretations of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section A

AHA Session 10.  Self-Discipline and Survival: Servicemen’s Diaries and Subjectivity in China and Japan, 1937–45
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Washington Room B

AHA Session 11.  The Other Irish Politics: Irish-American Women and American Reform Movements, 1880–1920
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon L

AHA Session 12.  The Politics of Prayer in Early Modern England
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Washington Room C

AHA Session 13.  Transnationalism, Orientalism, and German Imperialism
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Regency Ballroom Section C-2

AHA Session 14.  Anatomy of a Course: Pedagogy and Higher Education
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section D

AHA Session 15.  Old Unreconstructeds: Southern Memory and the Civil War
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Congress Room A

AHA Session 16.  Military Occupations and National Questions in World War I
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon B

AHA Session 17.  Constructing Race, Hierarchy, and Nation: Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Congress Room C

AHA Session 18.  Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and History: Aggregating Data, Connecting Places, and Analyzing Processes—Roundtable
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Washington Room A

AHA Session 19.  Indigenous Conquistadors and Ethnic Transformation in Oaxaca, Guatemala, and Nueva Galicia
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section C

AHA Session 20.  New Perspectives on Transnational Labor History—
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Commonwealth Hall Section B

American Catholic Historical Association Session 1 The Role of Catholic Philadelphia in World Affairs
Sponsored by: American Catholic Historical Association
Marriott, Room 304

American Catholic Historical Association Session 2 Catholic Education in the Twentieth Century
Sponsored by: American Catholic Historical Association
Marriott, Room 305

Conference on Latin American History Session 3 Testing the Boundaries of Femininity: Mexican Working Women Reinterpret the Nation, 1910–70
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Room 410

Society for the History of Technology Session 1
United States Commission on Military History Session 1
Social Shaping of Weaponry: The History of American Military Technology in Context: Part 1—The Formative Years
Sponsored by: Society for the History of Technology & United States Commission on Military History
Marriott, Room 409

Business meeting
Sponsored by: Hungarian Studies Association
Marriott, Room 303

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 3:00–6:00 P.M.

Executive Committee and Council meeting
Sponsored by: Polish American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 302

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 3:00–7:00 P.M.

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

Executive Council meeting
Sponsored by: World History Association
Marriott, Room 408

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 4:30–6:00 P.M.

Executive Committee meeting
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Room 101

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 , 5:00–7:00 P.M.

CCWH Board meeting
Sponsored by: Coordinating Council for Women in History
Marriott, Room 306

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 5:00–7:00 P.M.

General Committee meeting
Sponsored by: Conference on Latin American History
Marriott, Room 411

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 6:00–7:00 P.M.

Annual business meeting
Sponsored by: Polish American Historical Association
Marriott, Room 302

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 7:30 P.M.

Opening of the 120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Millennium Hall

Between Memory and History: Eyewitness Accounts as a Historical Source
Sponsored by: American Historical Association
Loews, Millennium Hall

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 7:30–9:00 P.M.

Council meeting
Sponsored by: American Society of Church History
Courtyard, Grand Ballroom Salons 1 and 2

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 8:00–10:00 P.M.

Executive Council meeting
Sponsored by: American Catholic Historical Association
Marriott, Room 301

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