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Program of the 122nd Annual Meeting
January 3—6, 2008
Washington, D.C.
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American Historical Association Sessions
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Marriott, Convention Registration desk, Lobby Level
Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open
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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
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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
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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
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Marriott, North Cotillion
AHA Session 62. Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Part 2: The World of Politics
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Marriott, Hoover Room
AHA Session 63. Globalization: The State of the Field in Asian Histories
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Omni, Blue Room
AHA Session 64. Configuring Hearth and Home in Comparative Perspective, Part 2: Putting the Household into Practice
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Omni, Calvert Room
AHA Session 65. New Approaches to Cold War Broadcasting: Institutions, Imagery, and Insurrections, 1948–89
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Marriott, Virginia Suite B
AHA Session 66. Sexual Deviation and Social Control in Late Imperial Eastern Europe
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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
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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
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Omni, Palladium Ballroom
AHA Session 77. Southerners on the Road: Race, Space, and Motion from Slavery to Reconstruction
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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.
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Marriott, Delaware Suite B
AHA Session 80. Europe Meets Asia–Experience and Knowledge between Two Worlds
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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
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Omni, Empire Ballroom
AHA Session 83. The Historical Roots of Modern Retirement: Britain, France, and the United States in Comparative Perspective
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Hilton, Georgetown West
AHA Session 84. Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in American Popular Culture
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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
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Marriott, Washington Room 3
Friday, January 4, 4:30–6:00 P.M.
Memorias do Cativeriro (Memories of Captivity)
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Omni, Executive Room
Friday, January 4, 4:45 P.M.
International Scholars and National Borders: A Conversation about Visas and Academic Freedom
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Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Wilson Suite A
Friday, January 4, 4:45–6:00 P.M.
Open Forum on Disability
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Marriott, McKinley Room
Friday, January 4, 4:45–6:15 P.M.
Annual meeting of affiliated society representatives
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Marriott, Truman Room
Friday, January 4, 5:30 P.M.
Reception for Two-Year Faculty
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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
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Marriott, Virginia Suite B
Friday, January 4, 8:30 P.M.
American Historical Association General Meeting
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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
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Marriott, Marriot Ballroom Salon 1
Saturday, January 5, 7:30–8:45 A.M.
Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Women Historians
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom 1
Saturday, January 5, 8:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M.
AHA Meeting Registration open
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 3
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
Saturday, January 5, 8:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M.
Internet and Messaging Center open
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Marriott, Exhibit Hall C
Saturday, January 5, 9:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M.
Job Register open
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Marriott, Exhibit Hall C
Exhibit Hall open
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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
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Omni, Palladium Ballroom
AHA Session 87. Narratives of Difference and Domination, Part 1: World Histories and Studies of Masculinity
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
AHA Session 88. Lives in History
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Omni, Blue Room
AHA Session 89. Public History, Tenure, and Review: Continuing the Conversation about Redefining Historical Scholarship
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Marriott, Maryland Suite A
AHA Session 90. European Women’s History: Past, Present, and Future
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Marriott, North Cotillion
AHA Session 91. Sites for Encounter and Cultural Production: Teaching and Researching World History in K–16
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Marriott, Washington Room 1
AHA Session 92. Teaching by Having Students Think Historically, Part 1
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Marriott, Washington Room 2
AHA Session 93. An Insider’s Guide to the Academic Job Market
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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
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Marriott, Hoover Room
AHA Session 95. The Practice of Nation: Negotiating Imperium, Sovereignty, and Past in Modern Japan
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Marriott, Washington Room 5
AHA Session 96. Medieval Studies and Issues of Social Justice, Part I
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Marriott, Virginia Suite A
AHA Session 97. One Size Fits All? Comparative Perspectives on the Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar Europe
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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
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Marriott, Virginia Suite C
AHA Session 101. Raising the Wiphala: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Andean Nationalism
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Hilton, Georgetown East
AHA Session 102. Uneven Transitions to Neoliberal Democracy: Social Movements in Transitions from Dictatorship and War in Latin America
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Marriott, McKinley Room
AHA Session 103. Public Historians, Secret Histories: A Roundtable Discussion of the Issues Surrounding and Contributions of Classified History Programs
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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
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Marriott, Wilson Suite B
AHA Session 105. Atlantic Biographies, Part 1: Slaves, Flight, Freedom
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Marriott, Delaware Suite B
AHA Session 106. Teaching 9/11
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Marriott, Washington Room 4
AHA Session 107. Teaching Social and Economic Reform in U.S. History Survey Courses: High School and College Perspectives
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Marriott, Delaware Suite A
AHA Session 108. Academic Freedom, Disciplinary Development, and the Organization of Scholarship, 1900–95
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Omni, Hampton Ballroom
AHA Session 109. Matrimony Matters: Labor, Land, and Law in the Construction of Marriage in the American West
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Hilton, Georgetown West
AHA Session 110. Hurricane Katrina and the History of Disaster
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Marriott, Wilson Suite A
AHA Session 111. The Cartoon Medicine Show: Rare Animated Cartoons from the Collection of the National Library of Medicine
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Hilton, Monroe East
AHA Session 112. Boxing’s Big Bang: The International Expansion of the Pugilistic Universe, 1910–40
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Omni, Embassy Room
AHA Session 113. Global Perspectives on Women’s Domestic Employment
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Hilton, Monroe West
AHA Session 114. Managing Religious Diversity in Three Early Modern Empires: Ottoman, Habsburg, and British Perspectives
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Omni, Calvert Room
AHA Session 115. Out of Bounds: Sport, Empire, and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony A
AHA Session 116. Tobacco in the Twentieth Century: Global Perspectives
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony B
AHA Session 117. Voices of Military Resistance: Continuities and Discontinuities among Dissenters in Chile, Vietnam, and Iraq
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Omni, Capitol Room
AHA Session 118. New Directions in Middle East Historiography
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Marriott, South Cotillion
Saturday, January 5, 11:00 A.M.—1:00 P.M.
The 2007 John O'Connor Film Award Winner
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Omni, Executive Room
The 2007 John O’Connor Film Award Winner
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Omni, Executive Room
Saturday, January 5, 11:30 A.M.–2:00 P.M.
AHR Board of Editors luncheon and meeting
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Marriott, Congressional Boardroom
AHA Session 119. Narratives of Difference and Domination, Part 2: World Histories and Studies of Masculinity
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
AHA Session 120. Recent Trends–and Challenges–in Brazilian Historiography
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Omni, Palladium Ballroom
AHA Session 121. Open Forum on Public History
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Marriott, Wilson Suite C
AHA Session 122. Counting History among the Humanities: The Indicators Project and the Profession
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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Omni, Capitol Room
AHA Session 134. Reflections on Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
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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
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony A
AHA Session 136. Atlantic Biographies, Part 2: Odysseys through Time
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Hilton, Monroe East
AHA Session 137. Before and after Kinsey: Sexual Science and Sexual Medicine in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States
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Hilton, Monroe West
AHA Session 138. Colonial Urbanism in the Americas: Exports and Adaptations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Marriott, Wilson Suite B
AHA Session 139. Reconsidering the Origins of the American Revolution
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Marriott, North Cotillion
AHA Session 140. Beyond the "New Military History": New Histories of the Military, Warfare, and Society
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Marriott, South Cotillion
AHA Session 141. Illegal Immigration in Comparative Perspective
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Marriott, Washington Room 1
AHA Session 142. Plagues in World History
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Omni, Hampton Ballroom
AHA Session 143. Sex, Surgery, and History: Perspectives on Intersex from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century
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Hilton, Georgetown West
AHA Session 144. New Directions in Early American Environmental History
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Marriott, Wilson Suite A
AHA Session 145. Female Orators and Race Relations in the Nineteenth-Century World
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Omni, Calvert Room
AHA Session 146. Mujeres Trabajadoras: Rethinking Women’s Role in the Workplace in Revolutionary Mexico, 1910–50
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Omni, Forum Room
Saturday, January 5, 12:15–1:45 P.M.
AHA Modern European History Section
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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
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Marriott, Taft Room
The Camden 28
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Omni, Executive Room
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 P.M.
AHA Session 147. The Uneven Development of Nations and Nationalism
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
AHA Session 148. Equity for Minority Historians in the Academic History Workplace: A Guide to Best Practices
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Marriott, Delaware Suite A
AHA Session 149. From Teaching Assistant to Tenure: The Transition from Graduate Student to Professional
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Omni, Palladium Ballroom
AHA Session 150. Medieval History: Old and New Classics II
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Marriott, North Cotillion
AHA Session 151. Borderlands and Encounters: The Problem Revisited
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Marriott, Washington Room 1
AHA Session 152. Three Public Historians Discuss Their Work
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Marriott, Washington Room 5
AHA Session 153. Women’s and Gender History in a Global Perspective
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Marriott, Delaware Suite B
AHA Session 154. Teaching by Having Students Think Historically, Part 2
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Marriott, Maryland Suite B
AHA Session 155. Religion, Caste, and Rule: Histories from Western India, 1500–1900 C.E.
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Omni, Hampton Ballroom
AHA Session 156. Climate Change and Natural Disaster in Early Modern Europe: Recent Discoveries and Avenues for Future Research
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Omni, Embassy Room
AHA Session 157. Eastern Europe: Myths of Uneven Development
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Hilton, Georgetown West
AHA Session 158. Italy’s Mediterranean: New Approaches to Italy and the Sea
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Omni, Capitol Room
AHA Session 159. Practices of the Self in Early Modern Catholicism
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Marriott, McKinley Room
AHA Session 160. Soviet Armenia and the Armenian Question: Homeland-Diaspora Relations, Repatriation, and Irredentism
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Omni, Calvert Room
AHA Session 161. "Indios Ladinos": Carving Public Spaces in Colonial and Post-Colonial Andean Societies
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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
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Omni, Forum Room
AHA Session 164. The Haves and the Have Nots: A Historical Overview of Disability in the Middle East
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Hilton, Monroe East
AHA Session 165. From Colonial India to Contemporary America: Modernity, Feminism, and Immigration in Islam
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Marriott, Hoover Room
AHA Session 166. This Historian’s Life: Careers for Historians in the Twenty-First Century
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Omni, Diplomat Ballroom
AHA Session 167. Archaeology for Historians: Using Material Culture to Understand the Past
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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
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony A
AHA Session 169. From Troy to the Cold War: Teaching History With the Aid of NEH-Sponsored Digital Resources
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony B
AHA Session 170. African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth Century
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Marriott, Wilson Suite B
AHA Session 171. Secure ... for Whom? Campus Violence in Historical Perspective, from the Bell Tower to Blacksburg
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Marriott, Maryland Suite C
AHA Session 172. Social Politics and State Formation after the Great Society
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Marriott, Wilson Suite C
AHA Session 173. Transnational Approaches to U.S. Immigration History
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Marriott, Virginia Suite C
AHA Session 174. Global Histories of the Present
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Marriott, South Cotillion
AHA Session 175. The United States, Great Britain, and the Middle East: Recent Developments in Historical Perspective
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Marriott, Washington Room 2
AHA Session 176. The Politics of Sexual Scandals across Time and Space
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Marriott, Washington Room 6
AHA Session 177. Poster Session
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Omni, Regency Ballroom
Saturday, January 5, 4:45 P.M.
American Historical Association Business Meeting
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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
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Marriott, Coolidge Room
Saturday, January 5, 6:30 P.M.
Reception for Life Members of the American Historical Association
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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
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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
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Marriott, Convention Registration desk, Lobby Level
Local Arrangements Committee and Press Office open
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Marriott, Room 8228
Sunday, January 6, 8:30–10:30 A.M.
AHA Session 178. Material Conditions and Transnational Citizenship in Postwar Europe
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon 1
AHA Session 179. New World of Publishing: Intellectual Property, Journals, and the Web
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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
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Marriott, Virginia Suite A
AHA Session 181. Before, Between, and Beyond the States: Eurasian Border Dynamics and Communities in Tibet, Manchuria, and Mongolia
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Marriott, Virginia Suite B
AHA Session 182. Refugees, Violence, and Urban Culture in Wartime China, 1937–45
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Marriott, Wilson Suite A
AHA Session 183. Contested Sites of Modernism in Twentieth-Century Germany: The Political and Social Impact of Music Festivals
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Marriott, Delaware Suite A
AHA Session 184. Humanizing Warfare: International Efforts to Protect Civilians in Europe, 1870–1919
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Hilton, Monroe East
AHA Session 185. Negotiating Responsibility: English Philanthropy, Local Authority, and the Public Good
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Hilton, Monroe West
AHA Session 186. Populations, Politics, Violence: East-Central European Cities, 1914–19
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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
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Marriott, Virginia Suite C
AHA Session 190. Law, Paternity, and Naming in Post-Emancipation Brazil and the Caribbean
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Marriott, Maryland Suite A
AHA Session 191. The Construction of Indigenous Identity in Mexico: The Longue Duree
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Marriott, Wilson Suite B
AHA Session 192. Youth, Culture, and Politics in Latin America, 1960s–70s
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Marriott, Wilson Suite C
AHA Session 193. Discontinuities in the Discourse of Empire: Ottoman Historical Writing in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
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Marriott, Harding Room
AHA Session 194. Slaves without Borders: Recaptivities, Forced Migrations, and Transnational Slave Labor in Mexico and the Caribbean, 1600–1800
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Omni, Embassy Room
AHA Session 195. Region, Race, and Nation: The Northeast in Modern Brazil
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Marriott, Hoover Room
AHA Session 196. From Dusty to Digital: New Historical Archives of the Twenty-First Century
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Marriott, Washington Room 3
AHA Session 197. Forum on the History of Science and Technology in Modern Historical Narratives
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Marriott, Washington Room 5
AHA Session 198. Southern White Christianity and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–80
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Marriott, McKinley Room
AHA Session 199. The New Politics of Education: Gender, Race, and Conservative School Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States
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Omni, Hampton Ballroom
AHA Session 200. The Persistence of Empire: Linen, Tea, and Free and Slave Mariners in the American Economy, 1773–1815
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Marriott, Maryland Suite B
AHA Session 201. Explorations in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations and Consumer Culture
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Marriott, Delaware Suite B
AHA Session 202. Culture and Empire: U.S. Cultural Relations around the Globe: Vietnam, Latin America, and the Soviet Union
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Omni, Capitol Room
AHA Session 203. Reading across the Atlantic: Print Culture and National Identity in the United States, Britain, and Ireland
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Omni, Calvert Room
AHA Session 204. Global (S)Exchange: National Ideals and Transnational History
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Marriott, Maryland Suite C
AHA Session 205. Politics of International Public Health
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Hilton, Military Room
AHA Session 206. Public vs. Private: Female Authority in Pre-Modern Europe
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony A
AHA Session 207. Anti-Fascism and Anti-Imperialism in the 1930s: Tensions and Interconnections
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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
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Marriott, Washington Room 6
Sunday, January 6, 9:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M.
Job Register open
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Marriott, Exhibit Hall C
Exhibit Hall open
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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
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Marriott, Virginia Suite A
AHA Session 210. Film History and Film Studies: Sources, Methodologies, Approaches
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Marriott, Washington Room 4
AHA Session 211. The Leaky Pipeline: Issues of Retention, Promotion, and Quality of Life for Women in the Historical Profession
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Marriott, Washington Room 1
AHA Session 212. China Stories: Academic History, Popular History, and Their Publics
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Marriott, McKinley Room
AHA Session 213. Contested Pasts and Constructed Presents: Memory in the Local
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Omni, Embassy Room
AHA Session 214. Polish National Identity and the Fall of Communism
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Marriott, Virginia Suite B
AHA Session 215. The Study of Place in Pre-Modern Europe
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Omni, Congressional Room A
AHA Session 216. "The Wall in the Head": Making East and West on the German-German Border, 1949–89
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Omni, Congressional Room B
AHA Session 217. Big Histories for Early Moderns
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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
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Marriott, Virginia Suite C
AHA Session 219. Memories and Echoes of 1968: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia
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Marriott, Maryland Suite A
AHA Session 220. Subject Populations: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Knowledge in the Americas
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Hilton, Monroe East
AHA Session 221. Historical Approaches to Twentieth-Century Shi’ism
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Hilton, Monroe West
AHA Session 222. New PhDs on the Teaching Job Market: Advice from Both Sides of the Trenches
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Marriott, Harding Room
AHA Session 223. Health and U.S. Empire in Puerto Rico and Cuba during the Early Twentieth Century
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Hilton, Military Room
AHA Session 224. Narratives in Development: Memory and Politics in Early America
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Omni, Capitol Room
AHA Session 225. Sexuality and the Postwar Metropolis
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Marriott, Hoover Room
AHA Session 226. Writing the Political History of North America
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Marriott, Delaware Suite B
AHA Session 227. Settling Citizens, Stabilizing States: Population Movements between Voluntary Migration and Ethnic Cleansing
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Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony A
AHA Session 228. Global Histories of Medicine and Public Health: Toward New Paradigms and Professional Practice
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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?
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Omni, Hampton Ballroom
AHA Session 230. Rethinking "Imperial Feminism": Feminist Internationalism between the Wars
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Omni, Calvert Room
AHA Session 231. Anthropology, Authorship, and Identity in the Imperial Nineteenth Century
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Marriott, Washington Room 2
AHA Session 232. Travel as Translation: Global Perspectives on Mediating between Peoples, Places, and Cultures
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Marriott, Maryland Suite B
AHA Session 233. African Ethnic Identity and New World Racial Slavery in the Atlantic World
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Marriott, Washington Room 5
Last Updated: October 29, 2007 11:16 AMAHA Session 234. Religion in the History Survey: A Transhistorical Discussion
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Marriott, Maryland Suite C
