I’m attending the American Historical Association Conference this weekend, held in the Woodley Park hotels here in Washington, D.C. A list of the sessions I’m thinking of attending is below, and the asterisked ones I’ll be at for sure.
Readers may also be interested to know I’ve also applied to five PhD programs to start next fall. They are programs in history at University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, Northwestern and the University of Michigan, and also to the HASTS program at MIT.
Thursday, January 3
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Friday, January 4
9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
* De Facto Segregation: Regional Fallacies, Racial Myths, Historical Practices (M. Lassiter)
2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 5
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
* Hurricane Katrina and the History of Disaster (L. Vale)
Economic History of the Book in the US
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Learning to Teach: History Education for the 21st Century
2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
* Secure … for Whom? Campus Violence in Historical Perspective, from the Bell Tower to Blacksburg
Sunday, January 6
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.