American Historical Association

Precirculated Paper Sessions

2009 Annual Meeting

Precirculated paper sessions are one of the ways the AHA attempts to increase audience participation and discussion at the Annual Meeting. These sessions are organized around presentations (papers, PowerPoint, text from online) and made available online for audience members to access and read before the Annual Meeting. Follow the links below to the diverse range of precirculated paper sessions at the 123rd Annual Meeting in New York.

Precirculated Paper Sessions

• Session 19 - Globalizing Historiography
• Session 66 - Diasporas and (Dis)Placements
• Session 90 - Globalizing Geographies of Empire: Imagining and Contesting Space
• Session 110 - Globalizing the Historiography of State Formation
• Session 128 - Russia and the USSR on the Map of International Law
• Session 130 - Sovereignty and Citizenship at War 
• Session 133 - The History Job Market
• Session 135 - International Fairs and Tourism
• Session 163 - Connecting Histories Globally

 

Globalizing Historiography: Reciprocal Integration and Future Directions
AHA Session 19
Friday, January 2, 2009: 1:00-3:00 PM
Gramercy Suite A (Hilton New York)

Chair: Maria Alejandra Irigoin, The College of New Jersey

Papers:

• Geosphere, Biosphere, and Humanosphere in Global Economic and Environmental History
  Kaoru Sugihara, Kyoto University

• Atlantic Perspectives on European Economic History, 1650–1850
  Joseph E. Inikori, University of Rochester

• Debunking the Straw Man: Bringing Spain and Its New World Empire Back into Global History
  Regina Grafe, Northwestern University

• African and Global Historiography: Toward Reciprocal Integration?
  Gareth Austin, London School of Economics and Political Science

Commentator: Patrick Karl O'Brien, London School of Economics and Political Science

 

Diasporas and (Dis)Placements
AHA Session 66
Saturday, January 3, 2009: 9:30-11:30 AM
Empire Ballroom West (Sheraton New York)

Chair: Elizabeth Cooper, University of Nottingham

Papers:

• Where is Race in Race-Blind France? Racial Categorization in Cultural Programs for Immigrants in France
  Angéline Escafré-Dublet, Sciences Po

• Kidnapping the Consul: The Local Nature of the Diasporic Construction of Race in Japan and Brazil
  Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University

• Race, Racism, and the Academe: Black French-Speaking Scholars in the American and French Academe
  Veronique Helenon, Florida International University

 

Globalizing Geographies of Empire: Imagining and Contesting Space
AHA Session 90
World History Association Session 3
Saturday, January 3, 2009: 2:30-4:30 PM
Madison Suite (Hilton New York)

Chair: Louise McReynolds, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Papers:

• Reconnoitering Central Eurasia: Russian Geographic Research Expeditions, 1850–90
  Scott C. Matsushita Bailey, University of California at Berkeley
  Powerpoint Presentation

• Contesting Spatial Order: Merchant Geography in Late-Ming China
  Yongtao Du, Washburn University

• The British Imperial Imagination in the Maps of Herman Moll, 1700–30
  Alexander M. Zukas, National University

 

Globalizing the Historiography of State Formation—Comparing Trajectories of State Formation: The Role of Values, Sociopolitical Institutions, and Demographic-Ecological Conditions
AHA Session 110
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 9:00-11:00 AM
Beekman Parlor (Hilton New York)

Chair: Kaoru Sugihara

Papers:

• Trajectories of State Transformation in China and Europe: The Significance of Empire, Its Presence or Absence to Explaining the Fiscal Choices of Small States and Empire
  R. Bin Wong, University of California

• Was There a West-European Trajectory of State Formation? A Comparison with the Ottoman Empire from a Dutch Perspective
  Wantje (J.M.F.) Fritschy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  Model

• Fiscal and Financial Preconditions for the Formation of States in the East and the West
  Patrick Karl O'Brien, London School of Economics and Political Science

 

Russia and the USSR on the Map of International Law: From the Hague Conventions, 1899–1907, to the Nuremberg Trial, 1945–46
AHA Session 128
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Central Park East (Sheraton New York)

Chair: Richard Wortman, Columbia University

• The Origins of “Crimes against Humanity”: The Russian Empire, International Law, and the 1915 Note on the Armenian Genocide
  Peter I. Holquist, University of Pennsylvania

• The Soviets at Nuremberg: Soviet Legal Experts and the Framing of Postwar International Law
  Francine Hirsch, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Western Perceptions of Russian and Soviet Designs of International Law at the Hague Conferences and the Nuremberg Trial
  Martin E. Aust, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Commentator: William E. Butler, Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University

 

Sovereignty and Citizenship at War
AHA Session 130
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM Regent Parlor (Hilton New York)

Chair: Jane Dailey, University of Chicago

• The Rise and Rise of the United Nations' 1948 "Nuremberg Principles": Consolidating and Destabilizing Wartime Reconfigurations of Sovereignty
  Elizabeth Borgwardt, Washington University in St. Louis

• State at War: The Domestic Consequences of Foreign Entanglements in the Early Cold War
  James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago

• Does the Constitution Follow the Soldier? Sovereignty, Citizenship, and U.S. Military Bases in Asia, 1945–65
  Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Commentator: Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa

 

The History Job Market: Opportunities, Problems, and Fixes
AHA Session 133
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
New York Ballroom East (Sheraton New York)

Chair: David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University and vice president, AHA Professional Division

• Career Paths of History PhDs Five to Ten Years after the Degree
  Elizabeth Rudd, Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education; Maresi Nerad, Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education

• The Changing Job Market in History
  Job Market Report 2008 (draft)
  Robert B. Townsend, American Historical Association

• Reconsidering the Job Market from the Entry Level
  Sterling Fluharty, University of Oklahoma

 

For additional background for this session, see the discussions at http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/01/14/bowen and http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,45747.60.html

 

International Fairs and Tourism: Cultural Diplomacy in the Post war Period
AHA Session 135
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Nassau Suite B (Hilton New York)

Chair: Dorothy Noyes, Ohio State University

• Creating International Understanding: UNESCO's Folk Festivals
  Corinne A. Pernet, University of Zurich

• Performing on the International Stage: Soviet Tourism to the Capitalist West in the Cold War
  Anne Gorsuch, University of British Columbia at Vancouver

• From Fascist Spain to Sunny Spain: Dancing at World's Fairs during the Franco Regime
  Sandie E. Holguín, University of Oklahoma

Commentator: Frank Ninkovich, St. John's University

 

Connecting Histories Globally
AHA Session 163
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Gramercy Suite A (Hilton New York)

Chair: Roger B. Beck, Eastern Illinois University

• Success, Failure, and Networks: How and Why Historians Write about the Sephardim
  Jessica Vance Roitman, Universiteit Leiden

• Explaining How "Strangers Become Fast Friends": The Role of Networks in Migration Historiography, 1900–2008
  Tiffany Trimmer, Bowling Green State University

• Places Connected: Denmark and Japan as Temporarily Experienced by Fellows, 1954–2008
  Annette S. Hansen, Aarhus University

Commentator: Adam McKeown, Columbia University

 

 

 

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