Provisional 2012 Program Overview

New Beginning or Beginning of the End?

The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association

105th Annual Meeting, August 09th – 11th 2012

University of San Diego, San Diego, California

All events except where otherwise noted will be held at the Joan B. Kroc Institue for Peace and Justice (see map). The final printed program will be available at the conference Registration Table. We ask that any queries regarding the program be addressed to: pcbregistration@cgu.edu.

Pre–Conference Events
Thursday, August 09
Meetings & Events
02:00–04:00 pm Meeting of the Council, PCB–AHA
04:00–05:00 pm Meeting of the 2013 Conference Program Committee
06:00–08:00 pm Welcoming Reception
Sessions & Special Events
Friday, August 10
07:00–08:30 AM Meeting
Meeting of the Editorial Board, Pacific Historical Review
Location: Courtyard Marriott
08:30–10:00 AM Session I
  1. Sectionalism and Civil War
  2. Mixed/Transnational Families in the Borderlands
  3. Revisiting the Latin American Testimonio: Historiography, Canon Configuration, Methodology, and Sense of Urgency
  4. “Sportsland”: Boosterism, Community, and Identity in Greater Los Angeles
  5. Dignity on the Color Line: Race, Political Economy and Spatial Conflicts at U.S. Frontiers
  6. Official and Unofficial Americans as Agents of Anti–Communism and Anti–Fascism in the Early Cold War
  7. Landscapes of Progress: Labor and Boundaries of Belonging in the Trans–Pacific U.S. West
10:30 AM–12:00 Noon Session II
  1. Physical and Discursive Violence/Constructions of Asian Otherness in the Americas
  2. New Work in Chicano History: Space, Identities, and Activism
  3. Science, Diplomacy and Transnational Exchanges in the Early Cold War
  4. Roundtable: Race and Politics in Postwar California
  5. Roundtable: The Vietnam Legacy and the Limits of U.S. Power
  6. Homosexuality and Discourse in 20th Century Europe and the U.S.
  7. Women in the 1960s and Beyond
12:00–01:30 PM Lunch Break & Special Event
Latina/o Scholars Luncheon (ticket required)
01:30–03:00 PM Session III
  1. Roundtable: Aziz Rana’s Two Faces of American Freedom
  2. The Transpacific World
  3. Environmental Health in Southern California, 1920 – 1965
  4. Consuming History: Food, Race, and Community in the American West
  5. Perception and Misperception in Presidential Decision–Making: Three Case Studies, Korea, Vietnam, and China
  6. 1950s and 1960s Social Movements in the United States and Mexico
  7. Film History I: Transnationality in the Cinemas of the U.S. and Mexico
03:30–05:00 PM Session IV
  1. Roundtable: Occupy the Classroom: Teaching Ethnic and Gender Studies in the 21st Century
  2. Los chinos en el Norte de Mexico (panel in Spanish)
  3. Seeing is Believing: Gay and Lesbian Political Visibility Before and After Stonewall
  4. Suburbia Left and Right: New Explorations of Local Politics on the Crabgrass Frontier
  5. Imperial Ecologies: Hawaiian Case Studies
  6. Radicalism, the Courts, and the Cold War
  7. Phi Alpha Theta Panel I
05:30–07:00 PM Plenary Session
Roundtable: Another University is Possible: Overcoming Threats to the History Profession in Texas and California
Saturday, August 11
08:30–10:00 AM Session V
  1. Transpacific Migrations and Empires I: Networks of Pacific Trade
  2. Belonging to a Nation of Immigrants: The Hart–Cellar Act, Nationalism, and American Racialization
  3. Native American Cultural Adaptation
  4. Roundtable: Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Negotiations with and Perceptions of the United States
  5. A Transnational Perspective of 20th Century Social Movements
  6. Transnational Histories of Urban Planning
  7. Work, Culture, and Empire in the Caribbean
10:30 AM–12:00 Noon Session VI
  1. Transpacific Migrations and Empires II: Complexities of Transpacific Empires
  2. Violence in American History: New Approaches
  3. The Cold War and the Third World: New Approaches
  4. Constructing Borders: New Approaches to Immigration and Border History
  5. Women, East and West
  6. Film History II Spectacles of Race in 1970s America
  7. Reflections on U.S. Presidential History
12:00–01:30 PM Lunch Break & Special Event
Western Association of Women Historians Luncheon (ticket required)
01:30–03:00 PM Session VII
  1. Transpacific Migrations and Empires III: Race and Transpacific State Formations
  2. Roundtable: After the Contracts: The United Farm Workers and Farm Worker Activism since 1970
  3. Music, Race, and Citizenship
  4. Early California, North and South
  5. Image and Reality in Latin Americas Cold War
  6. Phi Alpha Theta Panel II
03:30–05:00 PM Session VIII
  1. The Mexican Revolution in History and Memory
  2. Race, Sexuality and Citizenship
  3. Roundtable: The Nexus between the History of Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the 2012 Elections
  4. Postwar U.S. History in a Global Context
  5. Gender and the Transpacific World
  6. Performance in the Western Hemisphere
  7. Transnationalism and the Chicano/Latino Experience
Special Events
05:00–06:00 PM Annual Business Meeting, PCB–AHA (all welcome)
06:00–07:00 PM Pre–Banquet Reception
07:00–09:00 PM Presidential Banquet and Awards Ceremony (ticket required)
09:00–11:00 PM Dessert Reception (ticket required)
Sunday, August 12
08:00 AM–12:00 Noon Meeting
Meeting for a Transpacific Issue, Pacific Historical Review (By invitation)
Location: Courtyard Marriott

All events except where otherwise noted will be held at the Joan B. Kroc Institue for Peace and Justice (see map). The final printed program will be available at the conference Registration Table. We ask that any queries regarding the program be addressed to: pcbregistration@cgu.edu.