RHR/H-PAD Sessions at the AHA Annual Meeting, January 3-6, 2020
The Radical History Review and Historians for Peace and Democracy (previously, Historians Against the War) have together organized, over the years, affiliate organization sessions at annual meetings of the American Historical Association (AHA). In the past we have sometimes mounted only one or two such sessions in any given year. For the forthcoming 2020 AHA meeting, January 3-6 in New York City—which will be accessible to many people who don’t usually attend this conference–we decided to do something different. In an attempt to increase the presence of, and raise the profile of radical history at the AHA in this era of Trumpism, we decided to sponsor a much larger number of sessions.
We are scheduling eleven sessions of several types. Five will focus on discussions of immediate strategy, activism, and history. Three will take the form of historical roundtables on several topics. And three will be more traditional historical sessions, with scholarly papers and comments and the like. Of the eleven, two are co-sponsored with the Committee on Latin American History (CLAH), and three are based directly on recent or forthcoming issues of Radical History Review.
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- A Right to Bear Arms? The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the 2nd Amendment
Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University
Speaker(s)
Saul A. Cornell, Fordham University
Patrick J. Charles, United States Air Force
Kevin M. Sweeney, Amherst College, Emeritus
Comment: The Audience
- Organizing K-12 Teachers, Academics, Students, and Activists
Friday, January 3, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Speaker(s):
Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Alan Singer, Hofstra University
Adeola Tella-Williams, high school government and world history teacher
Pablo Muriel, high school government and US history teacher
Comment: The Audience
- Revolutionary Positions: Global Legacies of Gender and Sexuality in the Cuban Revolution, a Companion Panel to Radical History Review Issue 136
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Co-Sponsor(s): Conference on Latin American History
Chair: Michelle Chase, Pace University
Creativity, Optimism, and a Little Bit of Magic: Nitza Villapol and the Cuban Diet, 1959–80
Alexis Baldacci, Bates College
The Montoneros’ “Nursery” in Cuba: Childhood, Everyday Life, and Politics in the Cold War
Isabella Cosse, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Universidad de Buenos Aires
“You Don’t Understand, They Won’t Give an Apartment to a Single Man”: Se Permuta and the History of Housing Policy in the Cuban Revolution
William Kelly, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Pains and Pleasures of Bicycling in the Special Period
Jennifer Hosek, Queens University
Comment: Heidi Tinsman, University of California, Irvine
- US-Asia Policy Pivots: Past and Present
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: Rebecca Karl, New York University
Papers:
Past Pivots to Asia: Imperial Beginnings
Roger Peace, diplomatic historian
The China Pivot: FDR, the State Department, and the Cold War
James L. Swarts, SUNY Geneseo
Obama’s Asia Pivot and the Distortion of History
Jeremy Kuzmarov, Tulsa Community College
Pivoting on a Dime: Donald Trump’s Reckless Pivoting to and from Asia
Peter Kuznick, Nuclear Studies Institute, American University
Comment: The Audience
- Historians and the Current Crisis: Strategy Roundtable
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: Margaret M. Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Speaker(s):
Alexander Aviña, Arizona State University
Barbara Epstein, University of California, Santa Cruz
Kevin Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Comment: The Audience
- Roundtable: 50th Anniversary: Cambodia and the Campuses: Lessons Learned and Unlearned
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: Andor Skotnes, The Sage Colleges
Speaker(s):
Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University (retired)
Christian G. Appy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thomas M. Grace, SUNY Erie
Comment: The Audience
- The Koch Network and Democracy: Disrupting Today’s Academic Capture
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: Elizabeth Mathews, George Mason University
Matthew Garcia, Dartmouth College
Nancy MacLean, Duke University
Comment: The Audience
- The Other 9/11: Struggle and Transformation in Authoritarian Chile, 1973–90
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Co-Sponsor(s): Conference on Latin American History
Chair: Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles
Papers:
Struggles in the Countryside: Gender Politics and Agrarian Reform in Democracy and Dictatorship
Heidi Tinsman, University of California, Irvine
Taking the Country into the Future: Insurgent Youth in Popular-Sector Santiago, Chile
Alison J. Bruey, University of North Florida
The Socialization of Children and Youth in the Anti-Regime Opposition
Marian E. Schlotterbeck, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, University of California, Davis
Strategic Changes in the Foreign Policy of the United States: From Dictatorship to Democracy in
Chile, 1985–90
Pablo Rubio, Biblioteca Congreso Nacional de Chile and Georgetown University
Comment: Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles
- Radicalism in Sport: Past, Present, Future
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: Brenda J. Elsey, Hofstra University
Speaker(s):
Brenda J. Elsey, Hofstra University
Amira Rose Davis, Penn State University
Steven W. Thrasher, Northwestern University
Brian D. Bunk, University of Massachusetts Amherst
David Clark LaFevor, University of Texas at Arlington
Ben Carrington, University of Southern California
- Roundtable on Organizing Students to Vote: History and Best Practices
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: Van Gosse, Franklin & Marshall College and Co-Chair, F&M Votes, Franklin & Marshall College
Speaker(s)
Hannah Klain, Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University Law School
Harold Ekeh, President, and Campbell Streator, Program Director, Every Vote Counts
Comment: The Audience
- Creating an Online People’s Encyclopedia—Roundtable
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, New York Hilton, Concourse B
Chair: Andor Skotnes, The Sage Colleges
Speakers:
Barry Cohen, Portside
Jay Schaffner, Portside
Van Gosse, Franklin & Marshall College
Comment: The Audience