2008 Conference Program

Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association

Historical Scales:
From the Global to the Local

2008
Pacific Coast Branch–American Historical Association
Annual Meeting · Pasadena, CA

August 7–9

The 2008 annual conference of the PCB will take place August 7–9, at the Hilton Pasadena at 168 South Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California.

All conference sessions and special events will take place at the Hilton Pasadena with the exception of the Welcoming Reception, which will be held at the Huntington Library in nearby San Marino (see address below).

Program Overview

Pre-Conference Events

Thursday, August 7
  1. 2:00–4:00 p.m. Meeting of the Council, PCB–AHA Location: Pacific AB
  2. 4:00–5:30 p.m. Meeting of the Editorial Board, Pacific Historical Review Location: Pacific AB
  3. 4:00–5:00 p.m. Meeting of the Program Committee 2009 (Members meet at the Registration Table, San Diego Room)
  4. 6:00–7:30 p.m. Welcoming Reception at the Huntington Library (advance registration required) Location: Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, California

Program Sessions and Special Events

Friday, August 8

Session I: 8:30-10:00 a.m.:
  1. 1. Publishing and the Profession
  2. 2. The Chicano Movement: Rights and Education
  3. 3. Scaled Down: Urban History at the Micro-Level
  4. 4. Pacific Dialogues: Re–Envisioning Gender and Memory through Theory and Practice
  5. 5. Working in the West: Ranchers and Ranching, 1880-1920
  6. 6. Popular Culture: Travel and Tourism
Session II: 10:30 a.m.–12:00 noon:
  1. 7. “All politics is local”: Metropolitan Political History in the Twentieth–Century American Southwest
  2. 8. Negotiating Empire in the Pacific: The U.S., Hawai’i, and the Philippines
  3. 9. Building Bridges between K–12 Schools and the History Academy: Advantages, Challenges, Responsibilities
  4. 10. Espacios Nuevos, Historias Nuevas: Latino Cultures in the Late 20th Century
  5. 11. Global Economics, National Policies, and Local Alternatives in Native America
  6. 12. Health, Identity, and Politics in the West
Lunch Break: 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Special Event: 12:00–1:30 p.m.
  1. Latino Scholars Luncheon (advance ticket required)
Session III: 1:30–3:00 p.m.:
  1. 13. The Hard Realities of Soft Imperialism: The United States in the Pacific Rim at the Turn of the 20th Century
  2. 14. The United States and the World: The Past, Present, and Future of the Study of American Foreign Relations
  3. 15. Mexican American Communities and World War II: Migrations of Peoples, Cultures, Memories and Commodities
  4. 16. Beyond Civil Society: Rethinking State–Society Relationships in Republican China
  5. 17. Cultivating the Global Metropolis: Television, Cargo Transport, and Carne Asada Tacos in the Making of Metropolitan Los Angeles
  6. 18. Phi Alpha Theta Session #1: North American History
Session IV: 3:30–5:30 p.m.:
  1. 19. Environmental History Roundtable
  2. 20. Swimming from the Early Modern Period to the Present: How Swimming has Influenced Perceptions of Race, Gender, Feminism, and Civilization in the Atlantic World
  3. 21. The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Long Beach as a Federal Client City, 1910–2008
  4. 22. Out of the Shadows: Race and Gender in the Study of American Foreign Relations
  5. 23. California Im/migration History: Scaling to Multiple Audiences with a Large–Scale Educational Website
  6. 24. Entrepreneurialism in Academic Research: History Departments and Sponsored Projects in the Twenty–First Century
Special Event: 6:00–7:30 p.m.
  1. Reception for Graduate Students (advance ticket required)

Saturday, August 9

Session V: 8:30–10:00 a.m.:
  1. 25. Pacific Crossings: Working the Pacific Over Centuries
  2. 26. Work, Culture, and Identity in the Southwest, 1769–1960
  3. 27. CANCELLED
  4. 28. Envisioning the Modern American City
  5. 29. The State of Historiography on the Vietnam War
  6. 30. War Memory as the Burden of the Past
Session VI: 10:30 a.m.–12:00 noon:
  1. 31. Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
  2. 32. At the Crossroads: Transnational Ideologies and Local Identities
  3. 33. Binaries of War Memories in World War II
  4. 34. Legacies: Indian Survival in California
  5. 35. A Conservative Icon and the Modern American President: President Ronald Reagan in Contemporary U.S. History
  6. 36. Phi Alpha Theta Session #2: European and Middle Eastern History
Lunch Break: 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Special Event: 12:00–1:30 p.m.
  1. Western Association of Women Historians Luncheon (advance ticket required)
Session VII: 1:30–3:00 p.m.:
  1. 37. “Text” and the Exploration of Race
  2. 38. Building Bridges Between K-12 Schools and the History Academy: Implementing Teaching American History Grants
  3. 39. Constructing Images of Women: Ideology and Material Culture
  4. 40. 19th Century California
  5. 41. Empire and Labor in the 20th Century
  6. 42. Embattled Communities: Citizenship and Identity across the U.S.–Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1956
Session VIII: 3:30–5:30 p.m.:
  1. 43. Justice and Rights: Coalition Building
  2. 44. Teaching World, United States, and California History as if the Pacific Mattered (a lot)
  3. 45. Learning from the Field: The Convergence of Public History and Academic History in Better Graduate Training
  4. 46. German Americans in the Times of Crisis
  5. 47. Making the Global Local
  6. 48. How to Navigate the Conference Process
Special Events:
  1. 5:00–6:00 p.m. Annual Business Meeting, PCB-AHA (all welcome)
  2. 6:00–7:00 p.m. Pre–Banquet Cocktail Reception (no–host bar)
  3. 7:00–9:00 p.m. Presidential Banquet and Awards Ceremony (advance ticket required)
  4. 9:00–11:00 p.m. Dessert Reception

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