Excited for the 2025 AHA annual meeting? Check out the sessions that feature or are organized by the American Historical Review.
You can save sessions in the mobile app or on your desktop browser. To download the app on mobile, search for “AHA annual meeting” in your app store. Or visit guidebook.com/g/aha25 to view the schedule on your desktop browser.
AHR Public History Meetup
Friday, January 3, 2025: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Join our editorial team for an informal conversation about the role of journals in promoting the words and work of public historians. Bring your questions and ideas!
What Forms Can History Writing Take? AHR’s History Unclassified and Experimental Historical Narratives
Saturday, January 4, 2025: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
What is the relationship between historical scholarship and creative writing? What new possibilities arise when historians experiment with genre? Join AHR History Unclassified authors to explore questions of authenticity in narrative voice, the impact of shifting from the omniscient third person to the first person, and the relationship of the architecture of storytelling with the story itself.
Abandoned Histories: Work We’ve Left Behind
Saturday, January 4, 2025: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Roundtable participants will focus on projects in which they invested significant time and labor yet decided to leave behind or modify due to ethical, financial, disciplinary, linguistic, technical, political, institutional, or personal considerations. They will consider archival challenges that make abandonment or modification more likely or even desirable and how unfinished work shapes other projects and historical fields of inquiry.
More Silence Than Archive: Innovative Approaches to Early History
Sunday, January 5, 2025: 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
This roundtable focuses on strategies, methods, and techniques for historians who must work through, in, or around archival silences, with a particular focus on early periods for which little evidence survives. The discussion will lay the foundation for an AHR special issue on the challenges of studying early periods.
AHR Drop-In Session
Sunday, January 5, 2025: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Want to learn more about the journal? Stop by this informal, drop-in session to meet the AHR editorial staff and members of the Board of Editors. They will be available throughout the session to discuss ideas for journal articles or projects for the AHR History Lab and to answer questions about the process of publishing in the journal.
Native America and the Carceral State
Sunday, January 5, 2025: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Scholars working at the intersections of Indigenous, African American, and carceral histories will explore the foundational relationship between tribal dispossession and the formation of colonial-carceral states during the 19th and 20th centuries. This roundtable previews a forum in the AHR’s History Lab.
Graphic Narratives and History: A Global Approach
Sunday, January 5, 2025: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
In the AHR’s “Graphic Narratives and History” project, a comics scholar and two historians have engaged dozens of scholars working on comics and history. The roundtable will introduce the project and its preliminary findings, and invite the audience to share their own experiences with graphic histories, comics, and related media both as researchers and in the classroom.