Imperial & Global History Sessions at #AHA17

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Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
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I’ve just arrived in warm, sunny Denver for the 2017 American Historical Association Meeting, and now face the difficult decision concerning which sessions to attend. So I thought it might it might be helpful to compile the sessions relating to imperial and global history, to make my decision (and possibly yours) a bit easier. The list is based on titles only, so please feel free to include in the comments section any pertinent sessions that I may have missed.

Thursday January 5

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

A Vicious Turn in Global History: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and “Immorality,” c. 1850–1950
AHA Session 5
Global Expectations, Localized Experience: Nascent Approaches to the Modern Pacific World
AHA Session 6
Family/Business: The Private Sides of Business and Empire in Antebellum America
AHA Session 7
Revolutionary Women, Revolutionary Worlds: Black Women and New Directions in Black Power History
AHA Session 8
Afro-Indigenous Relations across the Americas, 1492 to the Present
AHA Session 11
Human Rights Go Global: The International Committee for Political Prisoners, 1924–42
AHA Session 17
Epidemics, Public Health, and Modernity in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Latin America: Regional Perspectives and Global Comparisons
AHA Session 19
Lived Decolonizations: Local Experiences of Colonial Transition
AHA Session 24

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

American Freedom in Caribbean Contexts: Transnational and Comparative Challenges to the Legacies of US Slavery
AHA Session 35
The Slave Trade, the Spanish Empire, and Foreign Powers in the Atlantic World
AHA Session 37
Zoos and Global History
AHA Session 42
Ghana, India, and the Bandung Conference: A Retrospective on the Anniversary of the Independence of Ghana and India and the Bandung Conference of 1955
AHA Session 54
New Directions in Environmental History, Part 1: The Environmental History of Early Modern Empires
AHA Session 55

Friday, January 6, 2017

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

The Wiriyamu Massacre in African Colonial Historiography
AHA Session 57
Colonial Connections: Comparison, Exchange, and Entanglement in the American Empire
AHA Session 64
Global France in the Revolutionary Era: Between Metropole and Colonies
AHA Session 66
Beyond the “Silk Road”: Conceptualizing Premodern Eurasian Connections in Ages of Fragmentation
AHA Session 72
Linking Levels of Experiential Scale: Empire, Nation, Individual
AHA Session 73
The Sites and Sights of Empire’s Islands: Seeing, Mapping, and Managing Imaginaries of the American Colonial Philippines
AHA Session 79
American Catholicism and Imperialism, 1898–1945
American Catholic Historical Association 1

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Unsettling Domesticities: New Global Histories of Family and Home
AHA Session 91
Women on the Move in the Early Modern World
AHA Session 93
Fetish and Fantasy in Colonial Latin America
AHA Session 96
Scaling the French Empire
AHA Session 104
Divergent Trajectories of Unification: Dominican Elites, Free Blacks, and the State in Santo Domingo under Haitian Rule, 1822–44
AHA Session 105
Indian Anti-imperialism in World History: A Two Centuries’ Overview
AHA Session 107
Global Indigenous History
AHA Session 111
Destroying History: Threats to Cultural Heritage across the Globe
AHA Session 112

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Teaching the US History Survey in a Global Context
AHA Session 121
Atlantic to Pacific: New Perspectives on American Global Empire and the African Diaspora
AHA Session 126
Confronting Colonialism: The Political Activity of Protestant Missionaries in Cameroon, Korea, and South Africa
AHA Session 131
Global Christianity in War and Peace, 1914–45
AHA Session 134
Empires of the Plains: A World Historical Perspective
AHA Session 138
Imperial Brazilian Newspapers, the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira, and Historical Research, Part 1: Context, Content, and Research in a Digital Archive
AHA Session 139

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

The “Second Slavery” Worldwide
AHA Session 143
Rethinking Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic World
AHA Session 154
Global Modernity in a Small Place: The Guyanas and the World across Four Centuries
AHA Session 163
Imperial Brazilian Newspapers, the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira, and Historical Research, Part 2: Politics, Reform, and New Research Opportunities in a Digital Archive
AHA Session 167

Saturday, January 7, 2017

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Mobility and the Transnational in Colonial Vietnam
AHA Session 177

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

World, Global, and Transnational Visions of History
AHA Session 196
Learning World History at Variable Scales in Middle and High Schools
AHA Session 208
Empires, Nations, Bodies: New Approaches to the Armenian Genocide
AHA Session 210
French Decolonization in Global Perspective
AHA Session 213
Reconstituting the Postwar US Empire: The US Military System and Global Anti-base Resistance Movements
AHA Session 217
Local Spaces, Global Ties: Urbanization in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 220

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

New Research in World History
AHA Session 227
Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Competitors
AHA Session 231
Slaves and Masters on the Margins of the Law in the Early Modern French Empire, c. 1660–1760
AHA Session 236
Ottoman History and the Scaling of Research
AHA Session 238
Native Religions in Colonial Latin America: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Symposium
AHA Session 241
Food, Sex, and Death: Medicine and Warfare in the Early Modern World
AHA Session 244
The Caribbean beyond Sugar: New Approaches to Sinew Populations and Colonialism in the Early Modern Caribbean
AHA Session 245
A Social History of Capitalism: Food and Famine in Late Colonial South Asia
AHA Session 249

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Region, Identity, and Landscape: Germany, Zimbabwe, and the United States
AHA Session 261
Women’s Weapons: Gender and the Struggle for Survival in the Wartime US and Cuba
AHA Session 266
On Uncle Sam’s Knee: The American Administrative State and Youth during the Progressive Era
AHA Session 270
The Problem of Imperial Relatives in Agrarian and Nomadic Empires
AHA Session 271

Sunday, January 8, 2017

9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Combating Empire: Americans, Their Institutions, and Colonial Subjects Stand Up to Imperialism in Haiti (1915), India (1919–20), and Syria (1925–27)
AHA Session 289
Mexico on the World Economic Stage
AHA Session 291
Escalation: Micro-global Histories of Political Violence 
AHA Session 295
Visuality and Anti-imperialism in US-Latin American Encounters
AHA Session 300
State Formation, Part 2: States, Empires, and Citizenship, 1860s–1960s
AHA Session 308

11:00 AM-12:30 PM

The Race of Color: African Americans’ Participation in US Empire
AHA Session 316
Who Won Suffrage? An Interdisciplinary, Transnational Debate
AHA Session 318
Decolonization and the US Occupation: Japan and Korea in the Aftermath of World War II
AHA Session 320
Perspectives on the New History of Capitalism
AHA Session 321
Colonial Justice in the French Indian Ocean, 1700–1800
AHA Session 322
Redrawing Imperial Maps of Knowledge: UNESCO, Decolonization, and International Collaboration in Science and Arts Expertise, 1945–65
AHA Session 328
Scales of Diplomacy: Austria-Hungary, the United States, and Statecraft in Unlikely Places
AHA Session 330
Universal Histories between Erudition and Enlightenment
AHA Session 332

2 thoughts on “Imperial & Global History Sessions at #AHA17”

  1. Thanks for compiling this! I think you missed our roundtable, though (“Women on the Move in the Early Modern World” on Friday at 10:30). Lots of great sessions!

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