Lesbian and Feminist Activisms in the Americas: Contested Notions of Solidarity and Citizenship in the Neo-liberal Reagan Era

Posted on February 13, 2011 by CLGBTH

AHA Annual Meeting
Friday, January 7, 2011

This panel focused on lesbian and feminist activism and transnational organizing in the waning years of the Cold War. This was a period when the lesbian and feminist movements were engaged in complex ideological, strategic, and tactical battles about the direction and the focus of the movement in the United States, and when lesbian and gay activists were initiating political battles in Latin America in the context of authoritarian regimes as was the case in Mexico or within liberation struggles as was the case in Nicaragua.

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AHA 2012

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Ian Lekus

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.

American Historical Association

Posted on January 11, 2011 by CLGBTH

126th Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL
January 5-8, 2012

Deadline: February 15, 2011

The 126th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 5–8, 2012, in Chicago. The Program Committee welcomes proposals from all members (academic and nonacademic) of the Association, from affiliated societies, from historians working outside the United States, and from scholars in related disciplines. The theme for the meeting, described in greater detail here, is “Communities and Networks.” While seeking proposals for sessions that explore facets of this broad topic, we also welcome submissions on the histories of all places and time periods, on many different topics, and on the uses of varied sources and methods. We also invite members to employ and to analyze diverse strategies for representing the past, including fiction, poetry, film, music, and art. The AHA is a capacious organization, unique among learned societies in its devotion to the full range of historical scholarship and practice. Our program will reflect this strength, and we will seriously consider any proposal that advances the study, teaching, and public presentation of history.

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