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From the Supplement to the 123rd Annual Meeting |
Highlighted Program Themes
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In addition to sessions that reflect the meeting theme, “Globalizing Historiography,” the program for the 2009 annual meeting includes a number of sessions reflecting on the anniversary of significant events, as well as a surprisingly large block of sessions devoted to the history of food.
Most of the anniversary sessions commemorate major events in the history of politics and international relations (listed here in chronological order; session numbers in parentheses):
- 1989 in a Global Perspective (36)
- Spaceflight, Place, and Memory in a Global Setting (124)
- A Look Back as the Tet Offensive Turns Forty (167)
- The Cuban Revolution Fifty Years Later: A Roundtable Discussion (183)
- Still “The Peace to End All Peace”? The Historiography of the Paris Peace Settlement after Ninety Years (193)
- The Cuban Revolution at Fifty: Is the Latin American Historiographical Revolution Catalyzed by Cuba Dead? or Alive and Well? (209)
Two of the anniversary panels explore the legacy of important historical works by women historians, and serve as fitting companions to a session commemorating the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the Coordinating Council for Women in History. The relevant sessions are:
- Unionism, Disloyalty, and Disaffection in the Confederacy: Papers Commemorating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Georgia Lee Tatum’s Disloyalty in the Confederacy (47)
- Anna Coreth’s Pietas Austriaca Fifty Years After: At Home and Abroad (56)
- Forty Years in the Academy: The Coordinating Council for Women in History, Women Historians, and Women’s History (150)
Five of the sessions at the 2009 meeting focus on the history of food, which thus appears to be establishing itself as a major new subfield of historiography. The relevant sessions are:
- American Food Abroad: State Administration, Voluntary Relief, and the Politics of Food Aid in the Great War (6)
- The Transnational History of Food in Twentieth-Century East Asia (30)
- American Progressives, Ethnicity, and Taste: At Home and Abroad, 1875–1925 (75)
- Cultures of Food History: Food Historiography from Early Modern France to Contemporary Japan (82)
- Food and Empire (180)
—Felice Lifshitz, Florida International University, is chair of the 2009 Program Committee.
Last Updated: December 15, 2008 3:30 PM