SSHA 2008 Conference Schedule

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• Wednesday, October 22: 10:00 AM-03:00 PM
  "Thinking About Time": Pre-Conference Workshop [view]

  • This year's SSHA annual meeting is focused on the theme of "time," offering participants an opportunity to reflect on the ways in which we think about, utilize, or take for granted temporality in our work. Please join us for this pre-conference workshop devoted to "Thinking About Time," Wednesday, October 22 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the University of Miami in Coral Gables.

• Thursday, October 23: 02:30 PM-04:30 PM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • Author Meets Critics: Judith Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism
    
  • State-making and Contentious Politics, East and West
    
  • Mortality and the Spanish Flu: Quantitative Measures
    
  • Trying to Get In: Race and Ethnic Competition over Access to Education
    
  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on American Indian History
    
  • 800 Million Dollars of Effort: Examining Teaching American History Grants in the Larger Context of History Education
    
  • The Time of Revolutionary Conjunctures
    
  • Thomas Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Unfinished Struggle for Racial Equality in the North
    
  • Spatial segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
    
  • Resources for Historical GIS research
    
  • Politics, Policy Origins, and Policy Consequences
    
  • Migrations to, within, and out of Sweden
    
  • Controlling Mobility
    
  • All Work and No Play?: Social Mobility,Hours of Work, and Energy consumption
    
  • Understanding Time and Place
    
• Thursday, October 23: 04:45 PM-06:45 PM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • The Institutionalization of Black Power
    
  • Author Meets Critics: Kathryn M. Neckerman, Schools Betrayed: Roots of Failure of Inner-City Education (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
    
  • Time in Migration History: Explorations through Various Mediums
    
  • The Temporalities of the Holocaust
    
  • Understanding the Ancient City: Legendary Rome
    
  • Cultures of Measurement
    
  • Long Term Trends in European and American Homicide: Some (Re)Considerations
    
  • Chronologies of Advanced Liberal or Neoliberal Governing
    
  • Recent Advances in Systematic Record Linkage with Large Databases
    
  • Politics, Power, and Space in American History
    
  • Author Meets Critics: Government and the Economy
    
  • Shifting Visions of Time, Space and Property
    
• Friday, October 24: 08:00 AM-10:00 AM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • Governance and Sorting in Educational History
    
  • Civil Rights in Miami, Past and Present
    
  • Single Women Across the Centuries
    
  • Social and Institutional Responses to Infectious Disease in the 19th Century
    
  • Contributory GIS For Historical Research
    
  • Shifting Forms of Knowledge
    
  • "LA Chronocartograph, 1542-2003," A Public Exhibit and Presentation
    
  • The fate of non-heirs in stem family societies: 25 years of Family Forms in Historic Europe (Cambridge University Press 1983) and beyond
    
  • Temporality and Changing Perceptions of Crime in the World
    
  • Layering the past: towards a spatial-analytical approach of urban history
    
  • New approaches to migration and assimilation
    
  • Migration and the rights of citizenship
    
  • Time and the Nature of Agrarian Change
    
  • When Does the Present Begin?
    
  • Price and Currency Movements in the Long Run
    
• Friday, October 24: 09:00 AM-12:00 PM
  Little Havana Walking Tour [view]

  • Dr. Paul George, historian for the Historical Museum of South Florida, will take SSHA participants on a guided historical tour of Miami's Little Havana, the vibrant center of the Cuban American exile community. On this tour participants will explore the 25 block enclave of restaurants, markets, cafes, small shops, record stores, and cigar factories centered at Calle Ocho (SW Eighth St.), the heart of Miami's Little Havana.

• Friday, October 24: 10:15 AM-12:15 PM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • Opting out of the system
    
  • Hidden Labor and Civil Rights Histories: Florida's Agricultural Workers, Past and Present
    
  • Remembering 1808: Politics and Economics of Ending the US Foreign Slave Trade
    
  • "Rethinking Giving: Charity and Philanthropy in the Twentieth-Century United States"
    
  • Historical Ecology: David Foster's Thoreau's Country: Journey Through a Transformed Landscape
    
  • Author Meet Critics: The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City
    
  • Coresidence revisited
    
  • Author Meets Critics: The Permanent Tax Revolt
    
  • Marriage and labour market
    
  • Religious geographies and historical GIS
    
  • Migration and transnational networks
    
  • Comparing Gender at Work: Europe and the US, 17th-20th Centuries
    
  • Changes in Possession: Stratification in Time and Place
    
  • Reframing Corporate Governance: Historical Context, Organizational Form, and National Culture
    
• Friday, October 24: 02:15 PM-04:15 PM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • Two-Timing: Comparing Private Honor and Public Justice in Past and Present Migrations
    
  • Histories of Sexuality: Chronological Versus Thematic Approaches
    
  • The 2008 Elections
    
  • Identities and Organizational Forms in the British Empire
    
  • "Power" as a social cause
    
  • Periodization in the Teaching of United States History
    
  • Fertility and Marriage in Europe and Korea I
    
  • Time Geography: The Work of Mei-Po Kwan
    
  • States, War, and Violence
    
  • Missing persons in record linkage: Life trajectories and gender
    
  • The Imagery of Urban Place
    
  • Refugees and Exiles
    
  • Electoral Fraud and Political Corruption in Historical Cases of Democratization
    
  • How Well Do 'Facts' Travel -- 1? Bones, Poverty and Commerce
    
  • Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
    
  • Changing identities
    
• Friday, October 24: 04:30 PM-06:30 PM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • To Have and to Hold: Marital and Household Relations Throughout the Life Cycle
    
  • Anti-Immigrant Movements in the United States: Past and Present
    
  • The Census, Cartography and Slavery: Envisioning Emancipation in the Age of the Civil War
    
  • Is GIS Changing Historical Scholarship? A Book Session on Placing History (Knowles & Hillier) and Historical GIS (Gregory and Ell)
    
  • Time and Temporality
    
  • Gender and Migration in Comparative perspective
    
  • Author Meets Critics: Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process
    
  • The Politics of Welfare
    
  • Sources of engineering knowledge: insights from the history of invention
    
  • Historical Legacies in the Making of Class and Nation
    
  • Cultural, economic and institutional influences on household formation and composition in Eastern Europe and Russia : 25 years of Family Forms in Historic Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1983) and beyond
    
  • Fertility and Marriage in Europe and Korea II
    
  • Humanities GIS 2.0: Surveying the present - projecting the future
    
  • Punishing Outsiders and the American Social Context of Enforcement
    
  • Temporalities and periodization in human history: technology, gender, and measures of 'civilization.'
    
  • How Well Do 'Facts' Travel - 2? Facts and Frontiers
    
• Friday, October 24: 04:30 AM-06:00 PM
  Art Deco Tour of Miami Beach [view]

  • Jeff Donnelly from the Miami Preservation League on a walking tour of Miami Beach's Art Deco District. Miami's Art Deco District is particularly known for the second phase of Art Deco known as "Streamline Moderne," which began with the Great Depression and ended with the start of WWII. Participants should consider staying in the historic district to enjoy dinner at one of the many local restaurants.

• Friday, October 24: 06:30 PM-08:30 PM
  Telling Time: Eleven Stories of Dreams, Memories, Paradoxes, Conundrums, Lies and the Uncanny [view]

  • Lynn Lukkas' first feature length film, "Telling Time: Eleven Stories of Dreams, Memories, Paradoxes, Conundrums, Lies and the Uncanny," is a meditation on time and an exploration of time across cultures and ways of knowing. Lukkas' project is a hybrid of documentary and experimental film/video forms intended to reveal the unique, the contradictory and the confounding in our everyday understanding of time.

• Saturday, October 25: 07:30 AM-09:00 AM
  Women's Breakfast with Bettina Arnold [view]

  • The speaker for the 2008 Women's Breakfast will be Bettina Arnold, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-director of the Center for Celtic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.One of the most prominent archaeologists of Iron Age Europe, Professor Arnold brings a unique perspective to the 2008 SSHA theme of temporality in social-scientific research. Arnold will be presenting her talk, "The Archaeological Foundations of the Eternal Mother."

• Saturday, October 25: 09:00 AM-11:00 AM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare by Chad Alan Goldberg
    
  • Author Meets Critics: David Grazian, On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
    
  • Time, Distance, and Memory in Migration Studies
    
  • The 1918-20 influenza pandemic, new perspectives
    
  • Author meets Critics: Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain by Joyce Burnette
    
  • Author Meets Critic: Donald Critchlow's The Conservative Ascendancy
    
  • Railways and Political Economy in Britain, France, and the United States, 1840-1950
    
  • Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia. 1890-1930s
    
  • Marriage market
    
  • Not the Usual Suspects: New Perspectives on "the Criminal"
    
  • Peasants and Power
    
  • Temporality, law, and the state
    
  • Contrasting Perspectives on Long run Institutional Change: from individual to enterprise to state and back
    
  • Perceptions of War
    
  • Making Enemies: Distinguishing Citizens and Aliens post 9/11
    
• Saturday, October 25: 01:00 PM-03:00 PM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • Gender and Political Satire in Comparative Perspective
    
  • Cuban Migration across Three Generations: Language, Identity, and Cultural Transformation
    
  • When Rights Became Human: The Temporal Emergence of Collective Selfhood
    
  • Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City
    
  • Gender, Autonomy, and Families I
    
  • Authors meets Critics: The Race Between Education and Technology by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz
    
  • Labor and Social Justice
    
  • Adult mortality and health
    
  • Kinship and Poverty
    
  • Eiko Ikegami: Bonds of Civility
    
  • Medical Culture and Medical Discourse: Changing Attitudes toward Treatment of Healthy and Sick Children
    
  • The Production of Culture and the Arts
    
  • Politics and Racial Policy in the Post-World War II Era
    
  • Migrants' life stories in teaching and research: Session in honor of Christiane Harzig
    
• Saturday, October 25: 03:15 PM-05:15 PM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • Political Disaffection in Cuba's Revolution and Exodus
    
  • Ruling from the Right: How Conservatives Have Governed Since the 1970s
    
  • It Can Swing Both Ways: Intentional and Unintentional Effects of Institutional Discrimination
    
  • Surveillance and Security: Historical Perspectives in a Post-9/11 World
    
  • Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Ching Kwan Lee)
    
  • Author Meets Critics: Ruling Oneself Out
    
  • A way out? Aging in the East, west, north and south.
    
  • Gender, Autonomy, and Families II
    
  • Comparative Colonialism
    
  • Representations of Time, History, and Temporality
    
  • Charting the U.S. Urban Experience
    
  • Historical GIS and temporal narratives
    
  • Gender, Family, and Migration
    
  • Trade Diasporas: Exchanges and Connections Across Space and Time
    
  • Schooling Politics/School Research: Using Social Science Tools and Theories
    
• Sunday, October 26: 08:00 AM-10:00 AM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • The New Restrictionism: Immigration Policy in Historical Context
    
  • Reforming the Social Body: Social Thought in Sixteenth-Century England and Scotland
    
  • Education and religion in China
    
  • International Relations and State Transformations
    
  • LA Chronocartograph, 1542-2003
    
  • Approaches and methods for the study of individuals, families and households in the past: 25 years of Family Forms in Historic Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1983) and beyond
    
  • Vernon Burton, Age of Lincoln
    
  • Aboriginals and Colonizers
    
  • Cultures of Industry and the Professions
    
  • Rural markets linked over space and time
    
  • Migration Differentials: places of origin and places of destination
    
  • Periodization, Politics, and the State
    
  • Workers and Unions Off the Factory Floor
    
  • Women as Investors and Savers: Patterns of the Past
    
• Sunday, October 26: 10:15 AM-12:15 PM
  Paper Sessions [view]
  • Struggling for Labor and Civil Rights in Florida and Beyond
    
  • Civil War Era Politics
    
  • Medical Biography: Interwoven Temporalities in Medical History
    
  • Record linkage and longitudinal data: Migration or missing information?
    
  • Child mortality and fertility across space, gender and generations
    
  • Biography of Criminals and Unequal Justice: The Usual Suspects
    
  • Economic Demography of Ancient Rome
    
  • Investigating the development of transportation networks with historical GIS
    
  • Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode: Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development.
    
  • Xenophobia in theory and practice
    
  • Legacies of the American South
    

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