Conference Program & Special Events
Pre–Conference Events
Thursday, August 6
- 2:00–4:00 p.m. Meeting of the Council, PCB–AHA
- 4:00–5:30 p.m. Meeting of the Editorial Board, Pacific Historical Review
- 4:00–5:00 p.m. Meeting of the Program Committee 2010
- 6:30–8:00 p.m. Welcoming Reception (advance registration required)
Program Sessions and Special Events
Friday, August 7
- Session I: 8:30–10:00 a.m.
- 1. •Screening of Documentary Films: “Maquilapolis (City of Factories),” “Made in L.A. (Hecho en Los Angeles),” and “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North”
- • In preparation for today’s Plenary Session: 3:30–5:30 p.m.
- 2. Crossing the Border into a Lost Civilization: A teaching unit proposed for the National Park Service Website Teaching with Historic Places about the Lost City of the Ancestral Puebloan in Nevada
- 3. Roundtable: The Dragon and the Eagle: China and the United States in the Past Two Centuries
- 4. Public Spaces and Private Lives in Paris
- 5. Reimagining Desert Landscapes in the American West
- 6. Borderlands Scholars: Southwestern Sites and Circuits
- 7. Centering Race and Gender Across Borders: Methods of Critical Historical Scholarship
- 8. Eating America: Food, Community and Identity
- Session II: 10:30–12:00 noon
- 9. Screening of Documentary Films (see Panel #1)
- 10. New Directions in the Lincoln County War
- 11. Roundtable: The Status of Women in the Profession: A PCB–AHA Presidential Roundtable
- 12. Food and Identities: Producing, Preparing, and Consuming Difference
- 13. California Exceptionalism Revisited
- 14. The Environment, Nature, and the Politics of Tourism in the Twentieth–Century American West
- 15. Religion, Identity, and Westward Migration: Catholic Sisters, Mormon Settlers, and a Modern Utopian Community
- 16. Localizing the U.S.–Mexico Border
- Lunch Break: 12:00–1:30 p.m.
- Special Event: 12:00–1:30 p.m. Latino Scholars Luncheon (advance ticket required)
- Session III: 1:30–3:00 p.m.
- 17. Screening of Documentary Films (see Panel #1)
- 18. Uncovering American Ruins: Native Pasts, Colonial Pasts and Historical Memory at the Turn of the 20th Century
- 19. Spaces of Intimacy in Los Angeles: Race, Gender and Identity at the Borders of Empire
- 20. Los Tres Grandes: Ernesto Galarza, Herman Gallegos, Julian Samora and the Founding of the National Council of La Raza
- 21. Curious Comparisons: Women’s Militarized Bodies, Minds, and Families
- 22. Word of the Desert: Literature and Identity in the Southwest
- 23. Roundtable: From Colony to Superpower: A Discussion of the History of U.S. Foreign Relations through the Work of George Herring
- 24. Bordered Health: Examining California’s Role in Defining Madness and Disease in the Pacific Region
- Session IV: 3:30–5:00 p.m.
- 25. Screening of Documentary Films (see Panel #1)
- 26. Indigenous Authority in the Borderlands
- 27. Pageantry, Memorials, and Museums: Historical Memory and the Creation of Community Identities in the American West
- 28. Race and National Identity in the Pacific
- 29. Seeking the Cure: TB in Early Twentieth–Century New Mexico
- 30. Reforming, Resisting, and Retelling: Gender and Race in the U.S. West
- 31. Gardens, Forests, and Field: Environmental History
- 32. Roundtable: The Theory and Practice of American History: A Tribute to Noel J. Stowe
- Plenary Session: 5:30–6:30 p.m.
- 33. Global Capitalism and Memory in Film (This session provides a unique opportunity to assess the significance of film in the teaching of history)
- Special Event:
- 6:30–8:00 p.m. Reception for Graduate Students (advance ticket required)
Saturday, August 8
- Session V: 8:30–10:00 a.m.
- 34. New Approaches to Medical History
- 35. Womanhood, Gender, and Cultural Change in North America
- 36. Pedagogical Session I, Sponsored by the American Institute for History Education
- 37. Roundtable: Big Daddy from the Perdanales: Debating the Lasting Impact of President Lyndon B. Johnson
- 38. Migration and Freedom: Irish, Jewish, African–American
- 39. Twentieth–Century Religion in the U.S. Southwest
- 40. New Perspectives on Indian Education
- 41. Ideologies, Identities, Conquest
- Session VI: 10:30–12:00 Noon
- 42. African–Americans Contesting Space
- 43. Caribbean Borderlands
- 44. Phi Alpha Theta I
- 45. Roundtable: Close Neighbors, Distant Friends?: The United States and Latin America into the 21st Century
- 46. City, Culture, History
- 47. Nature Study and Nationalism in Environmental History
- 48. Place Matters: Gender and the Geography of Colonial Encounters
- 49. Land and Identity: The Persistence of New Mexico Land Grants since Statehood
- Lunch Break: 12:00–1:30 p.m.
- Special Event (12:00–1:30 p.m.): Western Association of Women Historians Luncheon (advance ticket required)
- Session VII: 1:30–3:00 p.m.
- 50. Education and Assimilation in the Borderlands
- 51. Place, City, and Memory
- 52. Phi Alpha Theta II
- 53. Roundtable: Divided America: The Debates over Immigration and Social Justice in Modern America
- 54. War and Social Transformation
- 55. Roundtable: A Different kind of Festschrift: Noel Stowe and his Influence on Public Historical Practice
- 56. Race, War, and Remembrance After World War II
- Session VIII: 3:30–5:00 p.m.
- 57. Women Crossing Borders: Religion, Contraception and Civic Activity in America, England, and Germany
- 58. Radicals and Reformers: New Perspectives from the Nineteenth–Century US
- 59. Pedagogical Session II, Sponsored by the American Institute for History Education
- 60. Roundtable: Transitions: Pursuing a Doctoral Degree in Chicana/o–Latina/o History
- 61. Transforming Legal Borders in the Southwest
- 62. American Internationalism in the Pacific: Visions of Asia and America in the Twentieth Century
- 63. Religion and Migration
- 64. Roundtable: Nature, Culture and the History of the Grand Canyon: An interdisciplinary Grant Project
Special Events
Saturday, August 8
- 5:00–6:00 p.m. Annual Business Meeting, PCB–AHA (all welcome)
- 6:00–7:00 p.m. Pre–Banquet Cocktail Reception (no–host bar)
- 7:00–9:00 p.m. Presidential Banquet and Awards Ceremony (advance ticket required)
- 9:00–11:00 p.m. Dessert Reception (advance ticket required)