Sessions at the American Historical Association’s annual meetings cover nearly every time period, region, and theme that historians study. The 126th annual meeting in Chicago has sessions that address topics that span the globe, from female networks in Ireland, to German immigrants in South America, to leprosy in Hawai’i, Uganda, and Swaziland.

To better illustrate the global reach of the upcoming meeting, we’ve selected just a few of the hundreds of sessions in the Program and placed them on the map below, according to the location the scholarship in the session addresses.

Some sessions are so globally focused that we pinned them in multiple places on the map. For example, session 73, Cultures and Corpses: Death in Three World Cities—New York, Alexandria, and Beijing, shows up in the U.S., China, and Egypt and session 89, Leprosy in a Global Community, 1866–1951, appears in Hawai’i, Uganda, and Swaziland.

While the map above features just a few of the hundreds of sessions at the upcoming annual meeting, we hope it illustrates how broad the scholarship will be at the 126th annual meeting.

Sessions Highlighted on the Map Above

• Amazon
  A “Land Without History”? Renewing the Social History of the Amazon (AHA Session 88)
  Friday, January 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
  Ontario Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
• Armenia
  From Venice to Madras: Early Modern Armenian Print Culture (AHA Session 47)
  Friday, January 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
  Huron Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
• Australia
  Crowdsourcing History: Collaborative Online Transcription and Archives (AHA Session 138)
  Saturday, January 7, 2012: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
  Chicago Ballroom IX (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
  *This session features two papers on Australia.
• Brazil
  In the Context of Nationalism, Race, and Religion: Three Case Studies of Deutschtum in South America, 1820 to the Present (AHA Session 15)
  Thursday, January 5, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
  Scottsdale Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
  *Also on the map in Peru
• Britain
  Avenues of Influence: Discourse Networks in Britain during the Age of Revolution (AHA Session 20)
  Thursday, January 5, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
  Kansas City Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
• Canada
  A Fluid Frontier: African Canadian and African American Transnationalism in the Detroit River Borderlands (AHA Session 80)
  Friday, January 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
  Chicago Ballroom F (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
• China
  Politics of Imperial Expansion and Rule: Strategies and Challenges of Governing the Frontiers of the Qing Empire in China, 1700–1911
  Thursday, January 5, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
  Washington Park Room (Westin Chicago River North)
• Egypt
  Cultures and Corpses: Death in Three World Cities—New York, Alexandria, and Beijing (AHA Session 73)
  Friday, January 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
  Chicago Ballroom B (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
  *Also on the map in New York and Beijing
• Germany
  (Inter)National Mothers: Women’s Changing Roles in the Two Germanys, 1945–60(AHA Session 59)
  Friday, January 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
  Superior Room B (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers
• India
  •  Mothers and Infants of a Modern India: Who Should Provide for Their Health? (AHASession 96)
    Friday, January 6, 2012: 2:30-4:30 p.m.
    Sheraton Ballroom V (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
  • Rethinking National Imaginaries in South Asia: The Case of the Borderlands of Kashmir, Pashtunistan, and Assam (AHA Session 150)
    Saturday, January 7, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
    Michigan Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
• Indonesia
  Tensions of the Colonial State: Legitimation, Citizenship, and Participation in Dutch and French Southeast Asia  (AHA Session 25)
  Thursday, January 5, 2012: 3:00-5:00 p.m.
  Sheffield Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
• Ireland
  Birth, Death, and Control of Women: Female Networks in Ireland, 1850–1950 (AHA Session 13)
  Thursday, January 5, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
  Chicago Ballroom F (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
• Japan
  Fukushima: An International Perspective on Nuclear Accidents (AHA Session 38)
  Friday, January 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
  Ontario Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
• Mexico
  Women in Mexican Visual Arts (AHA Session 7)
  Thursday, January 5, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
  Chicago Ballroom A (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
• Nigeria
  The Illegal City: Drugs, Radical Islam, and Informal Settlements in Africa, the Middle East, and the Postwar United States (AHA Session 161)
  Saturday, January 7, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
  Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
• Poland
  Cold War Kids: The Ideologies of Punk in the East and the West (Session 191)
  Saturday, January 7, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
  Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
  *Also on the map in France
• Russia
  My Perestroika
  Film Festival Session
  Friday, January 6, 2012: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
  Sheraton Ballroom I (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
• Spain
  Communities of Spain: Empire, Diplomacy, and Religion
  Friday, January 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
  Navy Pier Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
• Uganda
  Leprosy in a Global Community, 1866–1951 (Session 89)
  Friday, January 6, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
  Superior Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
  *Also shows up on the map in Hawai’i and Swaziland
• United States
  • Chicago
    Chicago ‘68: Rethinking Local Black Activism and the Battle for Urban America (AHA Session 63)
    Friday, January 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
    Sheraton Ballroom IV (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
  • Texas
    The Texas Social Studies Standards Experience: What Can We Learn? (AHA Session 37)
    Friday, January 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
    Sheraton Ballroom III (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)

Again, this is just a sample of the sessions at the upcoming 126th annual meeting. Check out the Program for a complete list of all sessions, tours, and events.

This post first appeared on AHA Today.