AHA is here! Here are (some of) the panels you should attend

Rejoice! The American Historical Association's annual meeting is upon us! This year the AHA has convened in New York City—at the Hilton and Sheraton hotels in Midtown Manhattan, to be precise.
The theme of the conference is "History and the Other Disciplines." To get you in the appropriate anthropological, or even zoological, mood, watch this short documentary called "March of the Librarians."




If you're marching attending, there's a pretty excellent app to download for your iOS or Android (and an equivalent mobile site for all four people still on Blackberry or Windows Phone). It lets you navigate and search the program in pretty much any way you desire. (Even cocktail receptions are included!) And thanks to a recent update, the app also lists interview locations, for those unlucky enough to have to wear a suit to the conference.

One very useful feature of the app is "My Schedule," allowing you to save and view only the panels you're interested in attending. Here are the panels I've saved. I'm including some Friday-midday sessions, even though this post is going up too late for the reader of this post to take my advice. And of course, the iron law of conferences holds true here: though there are about 300 sessions at AHA, the ones you want to see will always overlap.

(PS Come see your blogger present at 11:30 on Sunday, one of four papers on the awesome panel "The Authority of Science at the Edges of Empire.")

Friday

1pm

• AHA 9 — Disasters Fast and Slow: Crafting a Multidisciplinary Agenda for Risk Reduction
• AHA 18 — New Histories of Capitalism in and Beyond the Atlantic
• AHA 19— "Of Numbers' Use, the Endless Might": Research at the Intersection of History and Mathematics
• AHA 23 — The Allure of the Judicial Archives: Writing the History of Slavery through Case Files, Dockets, and Silences
• AHA 26 — The Resurgence of Science in Historical Method

3:30pm

• AHA 39 — Calculating the Future: Capitalism and Predictive Statistics
• AHA 54 — Resource Conflicts and Popular Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century Latin America
• AHA 55 — Technology and the Material Turn in Transnational History: A Roundtable

Saturday

8:30am

• ADHS 1 — Perspectives on Tobacco in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century United States

10:30am

• AHA 102 — Digital Histories of Slavery
• CLAH 22 — Agrarian Science, Modernization, Social Engineering, and the Idea of Latin America: Transnational Perspectives from Brazil, Colombia, and the Caribbean

2:30pm

• AHA 140 — Nature, Culture, and Work: Consumption and Politics in Outdoor Labor and Leisure
• AHA 147 — Translating Science: Disciplines, Objects, Processes

5pm

• AHA Presidential Address — Toward an Empirical History of Moral Thinking: The Case of Racial Theory in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France (Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago)

Sunday

9am

• AHA 161 — Environmental History and Outer Space: Linking Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Natures across Time

11:30am

• AHA 197 — History and Biology: Doing History With Biology
• AHA 205 — The Authority of Science at the Edges of Empire

2:30pm

• AHA 223 — History and Biology: History and Evolution
• AHA 224 — History and Literature: The State of the Relationship
• AHA 232 — The History of Engineering and the Engineering of History
• AHA 237 — Whispers in the Archive: Rumor and Gossip as Primary Sources

Monday

8:30am

• AHA 262 — Scholarship, Activism, and Expertise: The Social Sciences in the United States in the Twentieth Century

11am

• AHA 290 — The History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in Global Perspective