conferences

If/When COVID Ends, What Will Be the Future of Academic Conferences?

"Thinking through how to proceed with annual conferences during and after the pandemic means thinking about why people want to attend them in the first place."

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: May 19

Join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), for a conversation with leading policy makers, academics, and researchers on the historical legacy of the Massacre, the effects on current-day policy and organizing debates related to racial justice, and the movement for reparations.

2021 ANNUAL MEETING CANCELED

The American Historical Association has canceled its annual meeting in January 2021; the organization will work to develop virtual programming in the next several months. 

A Letter From The UHA About Our 2020 Conference

As a result of the uncertainly resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the Urban History Association has decided to postpone by one year our biennial conference previously scheduled for October 2020. 

This one-of-a-kind conference celebrates the real people behind the Underground Railroad

The gathering at Temple is totally free and open to the public.

AHA Ends First-Round Job Interviews at Annual AHA Conference

American Historical Association ends annual meeting interviews and American Economic Association ends single hotel room interviews.

The Trouble With Classics Continues

New video shows exactly what was said during a heated discussion at the annual gathering of classicists in January. Does it change anything?

Presenting History Camp, The Unconference for Local Historians

by Lee Wright

Building on the barcamp model (also used as the basis for THATcamp), the History Camp conference takes place March 8 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

At history conference, a few different views of the District during Lincoln’s time

by John Kelly

Why the city of Washington D.C. is worthy of study.

Civil War topics part of D.C. history conference

The 40th Annual Historical Studies Conference meets Nov. 14 thru 17.

AHA issues call for proposals for 2015 Annual Meeting

by Debbie Doyle

The 2015 meeting will be in New York City.

Spotlight on the Digital Humanities at GMU's THATCamp Prime

by Lincoln A. Mullen

Credit: THATCamp.orgOn June 7 and 8, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media hosted its annual THATCamp Prime, an “unconference” about The Humanities And Technology. THATCamp started at CHNM in 2008 -- hence the name “prime” -- but since then there have been over one hundred fifty around the world. THATCamps draw professors, graduate students, librarians, archivists, and educational technologists for informal discussions (that is, no reading of papers) and hands-on workshops about how the humanities can take advantage of the possibilities of new technologies. THATCamps have been or will be hosted by major academic conferences, including the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, the American Academy of Religion, and the Organization of American Historians.

Digital Humanities in the Spotlight at PhillyDH@Penn

by Michelle Moravec

Tuesday, June 4, found just under two hundred very excited people gathered on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania for PhillyDH@Penn sponsored by PhillyDH, a consortium of "universities libraries / archives, museums, cultural institutions and digital media innovators."View from the sixth-floor balcony. Photo Courtesy of Jen Rajchel.

Turnout Middling at OAH Meeting in San Francisco

by David Austin Walsh

FROM SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco. Steep hills, charming cable cars, rolling breezes off the ocean, and people so friendly, strolling through Golden Gate Park at 9:00am on a Thursday morning will net an amiable young visitor in a tweed jacket no less than two offers for high-quality drugs.

April 2013 conference at Yale honoring Jon Butler

Over at Religion in American History, Chris Cantwell, newly appointed Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, calls our attention to an April 2013 conference at Yale honoring the work of American historian Jon Butler.  Presenters include James Bennett, Catherine Brekus, Stewart Davenport, Christopher Grasso, Alison Greene, Amy Koehlinger, Rachel Wheeler, and Molly Worthen. There will also be a toast from Harry Stout. The sessions have been crafted around Butler's seminal contributions to the field of American religious history.  They are titled: "Magic, Astrology, and the Early American Religious Heritage" "Jack-in-the-Box Faith:?: The Religious Problem in Modern American History" "Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretive Fiction: "Awash in a Sea of Faith."...