[H-PAD] If you are coming to the AHA Meeting in Philadelphia.....

Thu Jan 5 06:09:39 PST 2023

[These are our joint sessions with the *Radical History Review*; all will
be in Room 305 of the Marriott.]

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

Thursday, January 5, 2023, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description:*

On January 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Accords were signed, mandating the
official end of the US involvement in the Vietnam War, leading to the
withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam and the return of the
POWs. Richard Nixon proudly announced that he had brought “peace with
honor.” In this Roundtable, we will reflect on the meaning of that
agreement and the role of the peace movement in bringing it about. We will
draw on the experience of Sophie Quinn Judge (AFSC Saigon Representative)
and Arnold Isaacs (reporter for the *Baltimore Sun*) who were present in
South Vietnam during the 1973-75 period.

*Chair:* Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University

*Speakers: *

Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University

Arnold Isaacs, author, editor, Southeast Asia correspondent

Sophia W. Quinn-Judge, Temple University

*2.  Roundtable: Fighting the Culture War Attack on History—Strategies and
Experiences*

Friday, January 6, 2023, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description*

An experience-based assessment of recent efforts by historically-oriented
intellectuals and activists opposing the culture wars. Various strategies
will be addressed, including anti-gag order resolutions by faculty bodies;
virtual and in-person teach-ins and forums; activist scholarship including
books, essays, archives, and journalism; mobilizations through social
media; and public demonstrations of various sorts and sizes. Various groups
will be referenced including Historians for Peace and Democracy, African
American Policy Forum, Zinn Education Project, American Association of
University Professors, and several teachers and educators Unions.
Representatives of various groups and campaigns will be present, and broad
discussion will be encouraged.

*Chair:* Sarah Louisa Sklaw, New York University

*Speakers: *

Deborah Menkart, Zinn Education Project

Adam Sanchez, Central High School

Mary Nolan, New York University

Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University

Van Gosse, Franklin & Marshall College

Janine Giordano Drake, Indiana University

*3.  Roundtable: Unions in Higher Education—Historical and Contemporary
Realities*

Friday, January 6, 2023, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description*

Employee unions in higher education are controversial. Conservatives, who
are busy restricting the content of teaching and of student activities in
colleges and universities, and in reducing educational funding, are harshly
critical of unions. Moderates, though less openly negative toward unions,
seek to marginalize them. Nonetheless, higher education unions are
resurgent and are having impact. And an important sector of the public
applauds them. This roundtable will explore the nature and role of unions
of various types in higher ed–historically and in the present–with the
object of developing an accurate understanding of these organizations and
their potential.

*Chair:* Andrew Feffer, Union College and American Association of
University Professors–American Federation of Teachers

*Speakers:*

William A. Herbert, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining
in Higher Education and the Professions, Hunter College, City University of
New York

Angela Thompson,   general counsel, Communication Workers of America

Charles Toombs , San Diego State University and California Faculty
Association

Jenny Shanker, Adjunct Organizing Committee, Temple Association of
University Professionals

Todd Wolfson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Rutgers
American Association of      University Professors–American Federation of
Teachers

Paul A. Ortiz, University of Florida and United Faculty of Florida

*4.  Roundtable: Empire of Sanctions*

Friday, January 6, 2023, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description*

Sanctions are now the preferred economic weapon that the United States uses
to pressure, discipline and coerce enemies, and even allies. Sanctions
restrict targeted states from importing, exporting and receiving
investments; they prohibit US corporations and banks from dealing with
those countries; and they limit the economic activities of sanctioned
individuals. Today the US is an “empire of sanctions.” This roundtable will
discuss the legality and (in)effectiveness of sanctions and their impact on
civilians, explore a few key cases, and examine the blowback US sanctions
have generated.

*Chair:* Mary Nolan, New York University

*Speakers:*

Renate Bridenthal, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and
Graduate Center, City University of New York

Mary Nolan, New York University

Sarah Louisa Sklaw, New York University

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

Friday, January 6, 2023, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description*

Political attacks on American higher education have been endemic ever since
the modern university developed. This panel will look at several key
moments when the American academic community came under political attack.
Most of those attacks were connected to the most pressing political and
social problems of the time. Hostility to higher education was common long
before the Manhattan Institute’s Chris Rufo discovered that demonizing
critical race theory could fire up Republican voters. By exploring how
earlier faculties and administrators both won and lost these battles, this
session may provide the kind of relevant information that can help fend off
the barbarians at the campus gates.

*Chair*: Jonathan Zimmerman, University of Pennsylvania

*Speakers: *

Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University

Jonathan Zimmerman, University of Pennsylvania

Eddie R. Cole, University of California, Los Angeles

Robyn C. Spencer, Lehman College, City University of New York

Valerie C. Johnson, DePaul University

*6. Roundtable: Alternatives to the Anthropocene*

Saturday, January 7, 2023, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description*

The idea of the Anthropocene has spread far beyond its origins in geology,
becoming common in contemporary activist and intellectual circles. But who
is responsible for the mounting disasters associated with the age of
“Anthropos,” and who should be made to pay reparations? This panel with
contributions from *Radical History Review#*144 recuperates the alternative
worlds, orientations and subaltern environmental movements that constitute
radical historical alternatives to the Anthropocene. Panelists
conceptualize these alternatives to the Anthropocene as seeds of ecological
insurrection, sometimes lying long dormant, but always ready to rise up
again when the time is right.

*Chair:* Ashley Dawson, Graduate Center, City University of New York

*Speakers:*

Ashley Dawson, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Naomi Paik, University of Illinois at Chicago

Zoe Goldstein, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Matthew Shutzer, University of California, Berkeley

Arpitha Kodiveri, New York University School of Law

*7.**  Strategy Meeting: Radical Historians, Intellectuals, and Activists
on Our Roles in the Current Situation*

Saturday, January 7, 2023, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description*

Moderated by the co-chairs of Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD),
this meeting of historians, intellectuals, and historically-oriented
activists will review recent social developments including the 2022 Midterm
Elections, the continuing attacks on women and people of color, the culture
wars, the pandemic, and the multiple international crises we face. Our
emphasis will be on how these impact our work, and on our responses,
electorally and non-electorally. We will focus on programs, strategies, and
tactics that we need for future successful, progressive outcomes. In short,
this will be a collective summation of recent experience and a
consideration on how best to move forward.

*Speakers:*

Margaret M. Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

Van Gosse, Franklin & Marshall College

Mary Nolan, New York University

Ellen Schrecker, ty

Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University

*8.  Roundtable: Teaching the Truth in Secondary Schools during Contentious
Times*

Saturday, January 7, 2023, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description*

A panel of secondary school teachers–who have faced or witnessed political
blowback against an honest and open examination of United States history in
their school districts and communities–discuss the stress teachers
experience under the microscope of social media, the constant pressure to
self-censor, and different strategies they use in their classrooms and
schools to respond. Their pedagogies focus on a critical examination of
history by students and their own commitment to “teach the truth.” They
believe study of the past helps students understand contemporary crises and
an examination of contemporary crises deepens student understanding of
history.

*Chair:* Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

*Commentator:* Alan Singer, Hofstra University

*Speakers: *

Imani Hinson, Uncommon Charter High School, Brooklyn, NY

Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School, St. Bernard Parish, LA

Pablo Muriel, Alfred E. Smith High School, Bronx, NY

Cynthia Vitere, Southside High School Rockville Centre, NY

Dawn Sumner McShane, A.B.G. Schultz Middle School, Hempstead, NY

Adeola Tella-Williams, Uniondale High School, Uniondale, NY
Jazmin Puicon, Bard High School Early College Newark, NJ

Romelo Green, Bellport Middle School and High School, Bellport, NY

*9.  Topics in South African Cultural and Political History*

Saturday, January 7, 2023, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description*

With the last phase of the South African anti-apartheid struggle, and even
more so with the liberation of 1994, studies of South African history have
proliferated. Culture and politics of the mass of the people have been the
frequent focus for historians who have thereby been making serious
contributions to not just South African history, but to the history of the
African continent, and indeed to that of the world. Given this frame, the
purpose of this session is modest. It offers a small sampling of the recent
historiography of South Africa to invite conference goers to dig deeper
into this important historical trend.

*Chair:* Andor D. Skotnes, Russell Sage College

*Presentations:*

Postliberation Culture and the Struggle for History: The Robben Island Lime
Quarry Event (Andor D. Skotnes, Russell Sage College)

Sons and Rebels, Traditions and Violence: “Traditional” Violence Takes a
Nationalist Turn in Rural South Africa, 1960–63 (Sean Redding, Amherst
College)

Custom as History in Modern South Africa (Elizabeth Thornberry, Johns
Hopkins University)

*10.  Roundtable: The Failed War on Terrorism—Afghanistan and Ira**q*

Sunday, January 8, 2023, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description*

Following 9-11, the Bush Administration made the extraordinary decision to
combat the threat of terrorism by conducting a war and occupation of Iraq
and Afghanistan. Two decades later, the failure of both projects is
evident. In this Roundtable, we will consider the explanation for that
choice, the significant consequences for these two nations and for the
United States, the role of the peace movement, and the long-term
implications of the multiple tragedies which occurred. How does this “war
on terrorism” fit into the long history of American foreign policy?

*Chair:* Kevin A. Young University of Massachusetts Amherst

*Speakers:*

Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies

Roger Peace, US Foreign Policy History and Resource Guide

Jeremy P. Varon, New School

*11. Roundtable: International Solidarity with Palestinians—Palestinian
Internationalist Solidarities*

Sunday, January 8, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown – Room 305

*Description*

In May 2021, millions of people around the world marched in solidarity with
Palestinians demanding justice and liberation. The year before,
Palestinians joined global protests against police violence and anti-Black
racism. This roundtable brings together historians from across multiple
subfields to discuss: what are some of the historical precedents for such
demonstrations of solidarity? What do these precedents tell us about the
histories of colonialism, imperialism, and internationalism in the
twentieth century? What methodologies best enable historians to examine
these transnational phenomena? How can these histories help us better
understand Palestine’s centrality in today’s global solidarity movements?

*Chair:* Maha Nassar, University of Arizona

*Speakers: *

Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph-Macon College

Nathaniel George, Harvard University

Sune Haugbølle, Roskilde University
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