After a wonderfully successful Committee on LGBT History program in Boston this past weekend, it is indeed time to start thinking about panels for next year’s AHA meeting scheduled for Chicago. Proposals are due February 15, and the CFP is here. A couple quick things:

• After our reception with the Coordinating Committee for Women in History and the Peace History Society, the CCWH has approached us to not only co-sponsor a reception again next year, but also to sponsor panels & roundtables as well. If you are already forming a panel with CCWH support, or thinking of a panel that would be appropriate to be sponsored by both organizations, please let me know. Likewise, we can co-sponsor panels with other affiliated societies—we had an excellent panel on Mexican homosexualities co-sponsored by the Conference on Latin American History, and it’d be terrific to work with CLAH again, as well as with other societies.
• The affiliates program deadline will be a few months later—it has been in mid-May the last two years. For those of you working with visual sources, I would however encourage you to submit panels for the main AHA program. This is because the AHA will cover A/V costs for those panels, but not for the affiliates program, and at this point in time, the charges for A/V equipment and labor are prohibitively expensive for us to pick up.