The 2024 AHA annual meeting will include a set of late-breaking sessions, submitted shortly before the meeting, to allow historians to respond to current events or recent controversies within the discipline. Encompassing a wide range of perspectives, these panels show the relevance of history and historical thinking to public culture and policy.

Add late-breaking sessions to your meeting agenda via our Late-Breaking Sessions schedule track in the AHA24 App.

From Del Río to the Río Massacre: Haitian Self-Determination and Border “Crises” in Hispaniola and Beyond

Friday, January 5, 3:30–5:00 p.m.
Hilton Union Square, Continental Ballroom 3 (Ballroom Level)

The session considers recent confrontations between Haitian farmers, migrants, and merchants and Dominican border control agents, military officials, and provincial authorities, over the completion of the Pittobert irrigation canal that will bring much-needed water to thirsty farmlands and rural communities in Haiti.

After Roe: Historical Perspectives on the Possible Consequences of Dobbs v. Jackson

Saturday, January 6, 1:30–3:00 p.m.
Parc 55, Market Street (3rd Floor)

In this session, leading historians of constitutional law, social movements, sex equality, privacy, contraception, reproductive rights, and sexuality offer their thoughts on the Supreme Court’s recent jurisprudence on these matters. Their central focus is the Dobbs v. Jackson opinion of 2022, which overturned Roe v. Wade and appeared to refute the Court’s 50 years of jurisprudence on “substantive due process,” “liberty,” and “privacy,” as applied to intimate life and rooted in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, Section One.