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From the Supplement to the 127th Annual Meeting |
Sessions on Featured Themes
For the 2013 Annual Meeting, the Program Committee has organized the following series of themed sessions:
The Malleable PhD
The AHA Professional Division sponsors a series of workshops to promote broader thinking about careers for history PhDs.
Thursday, January 3, 3:30–5:30 p.m. Session 27. The Entrepreneurial Historian
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 111. Front Lines: Early-Career Scholars Doing Digital History
Saturday, January 5, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Session 139. Exploring a Range of Careers outside the Academy
Saturday, January 5, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Session 166. Academic Administration as a Career Path for History PhD's
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–3:30 p.m. Workshop: From CV to Resume
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 195. Transforming History Graduate Education to Make the PhD "Malleable"
Saturday, January 5, 3:30–4:30 p.m. Workshop: Finding and Loving a Government Job
Sunday, January 6, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Session 247. Public History in the Federal Government: Continuing Trends and New Innovations
New Orleans and the Wider World
The AHA Program Committee solicited sessions on the rich history of New Orleans in the context of colonization and empire; slavery and the African diaspora; music and food; empire and trade; city and country; natural and human disasters.
Thursday, January 3, 1:00–3:00 p.m. Session 3. Henry Morton Stanley, New Orleans, and the Contested Origins of an African Explorer: Public History and Teaching Perspectives
Thursday, January 3, 1:00–3:00 p.m. Session 4. Writing and Rewriting a Past: Lost Histories of Free People of Color in New Orleans
Thursday, January 3, 1:00–3:00 p.m. Session 5. Claiming New Orleans for the Early American Republic
Thursday, January 3, 3:30–5:30 p.m. Session 28. Ethnic Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Friday, January 4, 8:30–10:00 a.m. Session 57. Public History Meets Digital History in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Friday, January 4, 8:30–10:00 a.m. Session 58. Queer Souths, Part 1: Queer Southern Destinations: Tourism, Community, Policing, and Belonging
Friday, January 4, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Session 85. Self Defense, Civil Rights, and Scholarship: Panels in Honor of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Part 1: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's Africans in Colonial Louisiana Twenty Years Later
Friday, January 4, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Session 86. New Orleans and the Slave Trade
Friday, January 4, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Session 87. Immigrants and Food Culture in New York and New Orleans
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 114. To Swim in Strange Waters: Memory, Ecology, and Landscape in the United Houma Nation of Southeastern Louisiana
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 115. Self Defense, Civil Rights, and Scholarship: Panels in Honor of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall , Part 2: Armed Self Defense during the 1950s and 1960s: The Other Side of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Saturday, January 5, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Session 167. Possessing Indigenous Places: American Indian Land, Law, and Identity in Louisiana
Saturday, January 5, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Session 168. Queer Souths, Part 5: Tales from the Queer South: Desire, Identity, and Community
Saturday, January 5, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Session 169. Stories from a Caribbean World: New Orleans in the Age of Revolutions, 1769–1819
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 198. Before Katrina: The Decline of New Orleans from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
Saturday, January 5, 2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Session 199. Lives, Places, and Stories of Oil in Water
Sunday, January 6, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Session 223. New Orleans in the World: Race, Culture and Transnational Identity
Sunday, January 6, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Session 248. Integrated World History in a Humanities Program at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts: A Four-Year Study of Humanity
Sunday, January 6, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Session 249. Beyond Bordellos: Race, Sex, and Jazz in Turn-of-the-Century New Orleans
Sunday, January 6, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Session 250. Being and Building Wealth: Gendered Paths of Connection for Africans and Afro-Creoles in Early New Orleans
The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age
Following up the sessions on digital history at the 2012 Annual Meeting, the 2013 Program Committee solicited sessions that not only address digital history, but also examine how the practices of all historians are being altered by digital technologies and the habits they instill.
Thursday, January 3, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) AHA
Thursday, January 3, 3:30–5:30 p.m. Session 29. Spatial Narratives of the Holocaust: GIS, Geo-Visualization, and the Possibilities for Digital Humanities
Thursday, January 3, 8:00–10:00 p.m. Plenary Session: The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age
Friday, January 4, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Session 57. Public History Meets Digital History in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Friday, January 4, 8:30–10:00 a.m. Session 59. "To See": Visualizing Humanistic Data and Discovering Historical Patterns in a Digital Age
Friday, January 4, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Session 85. Self Defense, Civil Rights, and Scholarship: Panels in Honor of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall , Part 1: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's Africans in Colonial Louisiana Twenty Years Later
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 111. Front Lines: Early-Career Scholars Doing Digital History
Saturday, January 5, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Session 142. Research Support Services for History Scholars: A Study of Evolving Research Methods in History
Saturday, January 5, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Session 143. The Power of Cartography: Remapping the Black Death in the Age of Genomics and GIS
Saturday, January 5, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Session 170. Beyond "Plan B" for Renaissance Studies: A Roundtable
Saturday, January 5, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Session 171. Mapping the Past: Historical Geographic Information Science (GIS)
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 200. The Deep History of Africa: New Narrative Approaches
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 201. Space, Place, and Time: GIS Technology in Ancient and Medieval European History
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 p.m. Session 202. Factionalism and Violence across Time and Space: An Exploration of Digital Sources and Methodologies
Sunday, January 6, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Session 224. Building a Swiss Army Knife: A Panel on DocTracker, a Multi-Tool for Digital Documentary Editions
Sunday, January 6, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Session 251. Teaching Digital Methods for History Graduate Students
Last Updated: December 23, 2012 10:20 PM