[H-PAD] H-PAD Occasional Newsletter

[Andor Skotnes]

H-PAD Update

Occasional Newsletter #13,

 February 1,2023


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RHR and H-PAD at 2023 AHA Annual Meeting



For the fifth time, Radical History Review, an affiliate organization of
the American Historical Association, with the support of Historians for
Peace and Democracy, held sessions at an AHA Annual Meeting. The 2023
meeting occurred in Philadelphia, January 5-8, 2023, at which we held 10
sessions:



1.      “Peace with Honor”: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the
Paris Peace Accords

2.      Fighting the Culture War Attack on History, Strategies & Experiences

3.      Unions in Higher Education: Historical & Contemporary Realities

4.      Empire of Sanctions

5.      The “Ed Scare”: The Current Conservative Panic over the Academy and
Its Antecedents

6.      Radical Historians, Intellectuals, & Activists: Our Roles in the
Current Situations

7.      Teaching the Truth in Secondary Schools during Contentious Times

8.      Topics in South African Cultural and Political History

9.      The Failed War on Terrorism: Afghanistan and Iraq

10.    International Solidarity with Palestinians – Palestinian
Internationalist Solidarities.



*Our sessions were well received, with an estimated total of 320 to 360
attending*; two sessions attracted more than 60 people, most of the rest
attracted between 30 and 40. The topics taken up by our sessions were
diverse.  Three addressed education, including one on education labor, and
one on teaching secondary school.  Five or 50% of our sessions focused on
international issues or foreign policy. And, reflecting current H-PAD
priorities, half of our session put strong emphasis on the culture wars.



*For the first time this year, we recorded most of our sessions* on audio
and video, including sessions 1-5, 9, and 10.  At this point, a video
recording is only available for session 10, but audio recordings are
available for the others.  *To download these recordings go to **here*
<https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1bBC5af2Q9RgryicYERPGsEsKdnT3IFBq>*.
*



*As in 2020, all our sessions were held in the same room*, so we thereby
pretty much became our space for the duration of the conference. We set up
a literature and information table for both RHR and H-PAD that was
available throughout much of the conference in the back of the room. We
distributed a large amount of literature for both organizations there and
had many useful conversations



*We plan to again sponsor sessions at the next AHA meeting* in San
Francisco, January 4-8.  If you would like to organize a session for this
conference, or if you would like to otherwise help our, please be in
contact.

*[For a full report of RHR/H-PAD at AHA2023 **go here*
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YTxMnPuJzKjxzDkCMdiiDsY06jw7tWua/edit>
*]*





Update: Historians on Call

H-PAD, in cooperation with the Zinn Historical Project (ZHL), is organizing
historians into a network called Historians on Call, to directly support
educators in the schools who are under attack from right-wing forces over
their teaching and curriculums. Go here
<https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/historians-on-call/> for an update on
ZHL’s website.  And join us!





Update: H-PAD Culture Wars Against Education Archive

The multifaceted culture wars against education constitute attacks on how
history and social studies are taught and written.  H-PAD has compiled this
archive of materials on the past and present of the culture wars and
responses to them, which we hope will help teachers and students on all
levels educate themselves about the current crisis and ways to respond to
it. The archive provides a variety of resources useful as well for
journalists, commentators, politicians, and the general public. Here is the
link
<https://www.historiansforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/The-Culture-Wars-Against-Education-12-29.pdf>
to the archive.
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