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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b>Radical History Colleagues,<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b>The Radical History
Review (RHR) and Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) are again organizing
affiliate organization sessions for the AHA Annual Meeting in San Francisco,
January 4-7, 2024.<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">At the 2023 meeting we sponsored ten panels on a range of
topics, and a number of these drew large audiences (<a href="https://www.historiansforpeace.org/aha2023/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">2023 sessions</a>). For the
2022 meeting, held as Covid was receding, we held 10 sessions (<a href="https://www.historiansforpeace.org/aha2022/radical-history-review-rhr-historians-for-peace-and-democracy-h-pad-sessions-at-the-2022-aha-meeting-final-report/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">2022</a>).
In 2021 the meeting was largely canceled because of the pandemic. And in 2020
we sponsored eleven sessions (<a href="https://www.historiansforpeace.org/aha2020/sessions/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">2020</a>).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b>We are now calling
for session proposals for the 2024 meeting,</b> and our hope is to make our
intervention at least as successful as that of 2023 (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YTxMnPuJzKjxzDkCMdiiDsY06jw7tWua/edit" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">2023
report</a>),<span> </span>We already have three
sessions that have applied to be both AHA and RHR/H-PAD sessions. We aim to
develop something like ten more.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b>Proposals for our
affiliate sessions do not go through the AHA vetting process</b> (although as
mentioned, three have decided to do this anyway--at any rate the deadline for
AHA sessions has passed). <b>Instead, proposals
go directly to RHR/H-PAD, and we select and organize our sessions on our own</b>.
These sessions are very similar to regular AHA sessions in most ways.<span> </span>They are listed on the AHA website and in the
printed conference program. <span> </span>They take
place in the same rooms and locations as the regular sessions, at the same
times, and under the same conditions.<span> </span>Affiliate
sessions, including ours, have become an integral part of AHA annual meetings.
The AHA report on the 2023 conference in its journal <i>Perspectives </i>chose to highlight, of the 450 conference sessions, 12,
many of which were affiliate organization sessions<span> </span>And of the 12, 3 RHR/H-PAD sessions were
highlighted (<i><a href="https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/february-2023/aha23-a-philadelphia-story" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">Perspectives</a></i>
– see especially the last eight paragraphs).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b>Our AHA sessions are
wide ranging in terms of topics and form, and tend to emphasize political <span> </span>questions and frameworks as well as radical
theoretical approaches and questions of immediate political intervention as
well as ‘’’historical scholarship.”</b><span>
</span>At the last AHA meeting we stressed the culture wars-- their origins and
their threats-- as well as racism, and international processes and crises of imperialism.<span> </span>We also put focus on education and on the educational
labor movement.<span> </span>A weakness was that we
failed to really emphasize historical and current right-wing attacks on women
and LGBTQ+ constituencies, especially on health care and abortion.<span> </span>We need to rectify this failing this time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b>Finally it must be mentioned
that, for the first time in 2023, we audio- and video-recorded most of our sessions</b>
with participant’s permission, and made them available on our website as
podcasts and webinars (<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1bBC5af2Q9RgryicYERPGsEsKdnT3IFBq" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">audio</a>
- <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1zN8yGLeygPyJTv-SS0JytPd2Sd41w-ly" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">video</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b>So please consider
organizing a radical history panel for AHA 2024.</b><span> </span>And if you are considering this, please contact
us immediately!<span> </span>Don’t wait until you
have everything in place, but let us know now what you are thinking and
doing.<span> </span>We can help you in making
connections and in pulling things together. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b>Please contact us
with any AHA Conference ideas orquestions at <a href="mailto:skotna@sage.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">skotna@sage.edu</a></b>.
Please keep in mind that we must send in the completed RHR/H-PAD sessions to the
AHA by late May.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b>In solidarity, Andor Skotnes
for RHR/H-PAD<span></span></b></p>
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