Call for Proposals for the 135th Annual Meeting in New Orleans
Guidelines available here
The AHA's annual meeting is the largest yearly gathering of historians in the United States.
All historians are welcome and encouraged to submit proposals. The AHA also invites historically focused proposals from colleagues in related disciplines and from AHA affiliated societies. The Program Committee will consider all proposals that advance the study, teaching, and public presentation of history.
The Association seeks submissions on the histories of all places, periods, people, and topics; on the uses of diverse sources and methods, including digital history; and on theory and the uses of history itself in a wide variety of venues.
We invite proposals for sessions in a variety of formats and encourage lively interaction among presenters and with the audience.
Session Proposals
Sessions last for 90 minutes. Most sessions will be limited to four speakers plus a chair. The Program Committee will accept proposals for complete sessions only. We encourage organizers to build panels that bring together diverse perspectives.
Poster Proposals
The meeting will feature a poster session to allow historians to share their research through visual materials. Proposals for single, individual presentations may be submitted as posters.
The Program Committee welcomes proposals from all historians, whatever their institutional affiliation or status, and historians working outside the United States. With the exception of foreign scholars and those from other disciplines, all persons appearing on the program must be members of the AHA, although membership is not required to submit a proposal. All participants must register for the meeting when registration opens. The Association aspires to represent the full diversity of its membership at the annual meeting.
Electronic submission only, by midnight PST on February 15, 2021.
Questions?
Please review the annual meeting guidelines before applying.
Send questions about policies, modes of presentation, and the electronic submission process to annualmeeting@historians.org.
Questions about the content of proposals should be directed to Program Committee chair Mark Ravina (ravinaaha2022@gmail.com) and co-chair Margaret Salazar-Porzio (Salazar-PorzioM@si.edu). Members of the Program Committee are also happy to answer questions about proposals in their field.