UPDATED Highlights of the 2019 AHA Annual Meeting
Dear #Twitterstorians; my kid in attendance at #AHA19 announced she wants to be a historian and activist. I think my work here is done.
— Naomi Rendina (@NaomiRendina) January 6, 2019
Key Links
- AHA Annual Meeting (homepage)
- Twitter: AHA Annual Convention 2019 (Use #AHA19. If you want to live tweet a session use the session number. Example: #AHA19 #s25.)
- Program Guide
- AHA on Facebook
- Twitter: Main AHA Account
Interesting choice Macmillan... not sure I’d have brought those to the #AHA19 but sure... pic.twitter.com/FBqbGRAqv6
— Adam Domby (@AdamHDomby) January 5, 2019
PSA: Women with PhDs in history are not "little girls." #AHA19 #twitterstorians #womenalsoknowhistory https://t.co/xIcbjjIYpX
— Coordinating Council for Women in History (@TheCCWH) January 6, 2019
News
- What Can Historians Teach The Media In The Era of Trump? 4 Historians Weigh In By Kyla Sommers (See also this post from John Fea's blog.)
- History in Crisis: 5 Challenges to Organizing Graduate Student Workers and 3 Ways to Still Succeed By Kyla Sommers
- Historians discuss efforts to evaluate student learning far beyond a grade.
.@JLWeisenfeld opens her paper by noting that she presented her first scholarly paper as a grad student at ASCH 29 yrs ago. At that conference, she was 1 of 2 scholars of color on the program + the only one presenting on AfAmerican religion. #ASCH19 pic.twitter.com/n0v2bS8xm2
— Christopher Jones (@ccjones13) January 4, 2019
What Historians Are Tweeting (most recent entries at top)
- Statistical analysis of #AHA19's social media footprint
- Silent Sam controversy: What's at stake
- The issues facing historians who use social media -- Live tweeted here
- What historians of race and gender think of Elizabeth Warren's DNA disclosures
- On academic blogging
- On Sam Wineburg's critique of history education
- A high school teacher reflects on her day at the AHA By Megan Jones, history teacher
- On politics and race in the 1990s
- AHA leaders should make a commitment to bar job interviews that don't pay candidates to attend the annual meeting
- Mid-career malaise
- Loyalists in the Revolution
- Linda Kerber on the women's movement and gendered history
- Pedagogical Skills to Promote Historical Thinking
- Women’s Global Activism in the Twentieth Century
- Historians are still assigning Time on the Cross?
- Beware sexual harassment at conferences
- Collective list of men historians who are known sexual harassers & predators
- Claire Potter's advice for job candidates
- Problems candidates for jobs face
- Polarization and Partisanship in Contemporary America (John Fea's blog)
- Taking Stock of Gender History at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting 2019
- Re-imagining the way historians do the whole conference thing
- It is Time for a President of the AHA Who Does Not Work at a Research University By John Fea
- The Relevance of the Enlightenment By Megan Jones, history teacher
- "The AHA, like all of our professional organizations, is shaped by the people who populate its paid, elected, & volunteer leadership."
- New Narratives of Revolutionary and (Post) Revolutionary Haiti
Q from audience on the progress of women’s history: LKK says that women’s progress in historical profession is linked symbiotically to the existence of women’s history—there is no either/or. #AHA
— Dr. Ann M. Little (@Historiann) January 5, 2019
Linda Kerber speaking RN at the #AHA19 Cmmee on Gender Equity breakfast talking ‘bout her generation of scholars graduating in 1969. pic.twitter.com/IC0Mr0VFaB
— Dr. Ann M. Little (@Historiann) January 5, 2019
Sessions Relevant to Topics in the News (Links to tweets may not be active until after sessions have begun)
Thursday, January 3, 2019
- Divided Loyalties in the United States: Polarization and Partisanship in Contemporary America 3:30 PM-5:00 PM (Click here for tweets: #AHA19 #s25) Here's a summary.
- A Church in Crisis: Catholic Sex Abuse in Historical Context 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
- Displaced Persons: The Present Crisis and Its Histories (Plenary) 8:00 PM-9:30 PM
Friday, January 4, 2019
- Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The Debate over Free Speech on Campus 8:30 AM-10:00 AM (Click here for tweets: #AHA #s68)
- "Nunca Mais?": Reflections on the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Election 8:30 AM-10:00 AM (Click here for tweets: #AHA19 #s71a)
- Two More Years of Trump: What Is to Be Done? (Historians for Peace and Democracy Roundtable) 10:30 am to 12:00
- New Perspectives on Black Women's Internationalism 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
- Archives Burning: The Fire at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro and Beyond 1:30 PM-3:00 PM (Click here for tweets: #AHA19 #s119a)
Saturday, January 5, 2019
- Federal Agency Records: Who Decides What Is Kept? 10:30 AM-12:00 PM (Click here for tweets: #AHA19 #s190a)
- Rapid Response History: Native American Identities, Racial Slurs, and Elizabeth Warren 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
- Genealogy, Genetics, and History (Plenary) 8:30 PM-9:30 PM
Sunday, January 6, 2019
- Removing Silent Sam: History, Memory, and Activism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9:00 AM-10:30 AM (Click here for tweets: #AHA19 #s262a)
- Social Media for Historians 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
“I was told there would be no math.” -@KevinMKruse
— Thomas Harvell-DeGolier (@DeGolierThomas) January 3, 2019
this quote is how you know you are at a conference of Historians#aha19 #s25
Do historians miss the ideals of assessment, as some have suggested? https://t.co/VXkK9PnLGb
— History News Network (@myHNN) January 4, 2019