Sessions

Thursday, November 20 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

1. Economics
2. Macro-Historical Dynamics
3. Visibility and Exclusion
5. State Power
7. The Developmental State: a Transboundary Odyssey
8. US Political Movements

Thursday, November 20 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

9. Labor and Technology
12. Author Meets Critics: Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History by David McNally
13. Queer Communities, Social Controversies
14. Using Data and Language Models
15. Author Meets Critic: White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class by Mustafa Yavas
16. Before Globalization: The Challenge of World History
17. Historical Methods: Practice and Theory
18. Fiscal Politics from Below: Local Responses to Central Governance

Thursday, November 20 / 1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

19. Labor and Innovation Transitions and Policies Using IPUMS Full Count Census Data
20. Making the West: Spatial Perspectives
21. Critical Perspectives on US History
22. Structure and Space in Historical Causality
23. The History of the Present: Historical Sociologists Imagine a Different Path Forward
24. Racial Capitalism and Modernity
26. Mortality Over the Life Course: Effects of Social, Family, and Historical Contexts
27. Author Meets Critics: "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" by Eric Blanc
28. Diasporic Identities
29. Reflexivity and Complexity in Social Science History
30. Housing Policy and Politics in the U.S.
31. New Perspectives on Revolutions Old and New

Thursday, November 20 / 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM

32. Institutional Transformation and the Entangled Commercial Cultures of International Trade, 1450-1750
33. Advances in Conceptual & Methodological Frameworks for Spatial History
34. Book Session: The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines
35. New opportunities for British, Irish and Empire Social Historical Research
36. Author Meets Critics: Enduring Empire U.S. Statecraft and Race-Making in the Philippines (2025) by Katrina Quisumbing King
37. Book Session: Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing by Rahim Kurwa
38. Author Meets Critics: Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science by Besnik Pula
39. Gender- Based Violence and anti-Feminism in Online and Offline Spaces
40. "For You": Ethics, Literacy, and Responsibility in AI and Newer Social Media
41. Labor and Politics
42. The Past and Present of Agribusiness
43. Discourse, Governance, and Social Control in Modern China
44. Author Meets Critics: The End of Engagement - America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 by David M. McCourt
45. Attacking the State: The Trump Administration’s Challenge to U.S. Governing Institutions

Friday, November 21 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

47. Spaces of Marginalization
48. Book Session: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery by Rudi Batzell
49. HGIS at Scale
51. War as a Complex Mechanism
52. Palestine: Struggling against Settler Colonialism
53. Historical Change in Fertility Timing and Quantum
54. Environmental Crises and Transitions
55. Gender in Health Discourses, Health in Gender Discourses
56. Author Meets Critics: Dynamics among Nations and Network Origins of the Global Economy by Hilton Root
57. Workplace Tasks in Historical Perspective
58. Migrant Lives at the Margins
59. Economic Culture
60. Crime, Justice and the Law
61. Historical Social Sciences and China (I): New Approaches to Studying Elite Politics
62. Roundtable: Agendas in Historical Sociology: Revisited, Revised, Reimagined

Friday, November 21 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

64. Cities and Industrialization
65. HGIS for the Public
66. Neoliberalism and Class Politics
67. Racial Projects and the Administrative State
68. The End of DEI and the Administrative State
69. Education and its Discontents, From Pre-K to PhD
70. Authors Meet Critics: Anticolonialism and Social Thought, ed. by Anaheed Al-Hardan and Julian Go
71. Migration and Its Consequences: Networks, Fertility, and Labor
72. Ecosystems as Case and Concept
73. Gender Representations. Law, Politics, Education
74. Remaking Modernity at 20: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective
75. Child Border Crossers and Cross-Border Family Separations
76. Refugees
77. System and Action
78. Memory, Law, and the Politics of Historical Narrative
79. Historical Social Sciences and China (II): Socialism, Capitalism, and Transitions in Between
80. Complexity, Conflict, and Crises: Voting Rights, States Rights and Outcomes for Citizens, Men, Women, Property Owners, Ex-Slaves, Asians and Indigenes
81. Complexity, Consequences, and Best Practices for AI in Historical Social Science Research and Data Development

Friday, November 21 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

82. Network Meeting - Critical Studies
83. Network Meeting - Labor
84. Network Meeting - States, Politics and Society
85. Network Meeting - Childhood and Youth
86. Network Meeting - Historical Geography and GIS
87. Network Meeting - Rural, Agricultural and Environmental
88. Network Meeting - Demography
89. Network Meeting - Education, Knowledge and Science
90. Network Meeting - Health, Medicine and Body

Friday, November 21 / 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM

91. Network Meeting - Women, Gender and Sexuality
92. Network Meeting - Immigration/Migration
93. Network Meeting - Macrohistorical Dynamics
94. Network Meeting - Crime, Justice and the Law
95. Network Meeting - Economics
96. Network Meeting - Data Infrastructure
97. Network Meeting - Culture
98. Network Meeting - Race and Ethnicity
99. Network Meeting - Religion

Friday, November 21 / 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM

100. Roundtable Discussion on the Handbook on the Economic History of War
101. NEH Community Deep Mapping Institute 1
102. Roundtable: Max Weber at 100: Legacies and Prospects
103. Place/Space/Race
104. Foreign Trade and Industrial Capitalism in Communist China, 1
105. Navigating State Categories and Restrictions in Uncertain Times
106. Provincializing Modernity: Beyond the Traditional/(Colonial) Modern Divide
107. AI Impact on Data Infrastructure
108. The Impact of Health Interventions
109. Cruel Optimism? Women Maintaining the Status Quo or Organizing against It
110. Marriage and Divorce: The Role of Social Context and Legal Frameworks
111. Author Meets Critics: Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity by Cedric de Leon
112. "Author Meets Critics: Disparate Regimes by Brendan A. Shanahan"
113. Aesthetics and Politics
114. Transformations of Religious Influence: Propagation, Conflict, and Cultural Negotiation
115. Historical Social Sciences and China (III): The State and Empire in Chinese History
116. Politics of the Middle East
117. Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Historical Social Sciences

Friday, November 21 / 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM

118. Author Meets Critics: Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 — 1776) by Jeremy Land
119. NEH Community Deep Mapping Institute 2
120. Author Meets Critics: Imperial Policing by Clarno, Alvear Moreno, Bonsu-Love, Dana, MuñIz, Ravichandran, and Volpintesta
121. Racial Echoes of Settler Colonialism
122. Ideas, Networks, and Alliances in Revolutionary Transformation
123. History In/Of Social Science: New Methods and Old Arguments
124. Anticolonial Movements in a Global Context
125. IPUMS Full Count/MLP Workshop
126. Carbon Histories, Carbon Futures (open)
128. Spatializing Race
129. Author Meets Critic: The UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants, by Stephen J. Silvia
130. Children's Health and the State
131. Community, Consumption, and Creative Industries
132. Author Meets Critic: Emergency: COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life by Claire Laurier Decoteau
133. Historical Social Sciences and China (IV): Revisiting "Remaking Modernity" from China Roundtable
134. Theorizing Axes of Conflict in US Politics
135. State-University Relations in Illiberal Times

Saturday, November 22 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

136. Economic Growth and Sovereignty
137. Geospatial Approaches in European Urban History
138. Elite Politics and Relational Power: Rethinking Political Change across Regimes
139. Author Meets Critics: White Man's Work: Race and Middle Class Mobility into the Progressive Era by Joseph O. Jewell
140. Historical Forces in Comparative and Methodological Phenomena
141. Social Science Histories of Expertise (2): Twists and Turns in Paradigms of Expertise
142. Critical Studies and Publishing in Interdisciplinary Journals
143. Digitizing Analog History
144. Landscapes of Power: Environmental Transformations of the 20th Century
145. Political Activism, Environment and Art
146. Monetary Matters
147. Conservative Actions and Anti-Development Arguments
148. Decolonization and Citizenship
149. Temporality, History, and Memory
150. Exploring the Complex Histories of Girlhood: A Roundtable on Girls’ Organizations
151. Contingency and Time in Historical Causality
152. Rethinking Democracy (1) - Democracy's Crises
153. Chinese Political Economy

Saturday, November 22 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

154. Mobility, Networks, and Housing
155. Dispossession Geographies (Roundtable)
156. Elites, Bureaucracy, and State Formation
157. Institutional Shifts and Religious Agency: Disaffiliation, Integration, and Political Thought
158. Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
159. Disparities in Recent Technological Health Advancements
160. Roundtable: What Is Critical Studies?
161. Demographic Shifts, Health Disparities, and Social Structures Using IPUMS Full Census Data
162. Author Meets Critics: "Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future" by Zeke Baker
163. Valor, Values, and Volition: Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Ayn Rand
164. Surveillance, Classification, and Bureaucratic Control
165. Workers and Work Transformations into the 21st Century
166. The Complexities at the Nexus of U.S. Immigration Policies and their Histories
167. Discourse and the Politics of Culture
168. Book Session: Empire's Daughters: Girlhood, Whiteness, and the Colonial Project by Elizabeth Dillenburg
169. Corruption: The Historical Sociology of a Stubborn Concept
170. Rethinking Democracy (2): Capital, Institutions, and the Capture of Governance
171. Crisis in History! Historical Social Science Studies of Crisis Emergence and Responses

Saturday, November 22 / 1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

172. East Asia Development Models Reconsidered
173. GIS and Archaeology of New York City
174. Author Meets Critics: Counting Caste: Census Politics, Bureaucratic Deflection, and Brahmanical Power in India by Trina Vithayathil
175. Author Meets Critic: The Subversive Seventies by Michael Hardt (Oxford, 2023)
176. Markets and Money in State-Society Relations
177. Social Science Histories of Expertise (1): Selected Histories of Knowledge and Ignorance
178. On History and Historical Sociology
179. Kinship, Family, and Ideational Change in Historical Context
180. Transnational Governance and Legal Pluralism
181. Histories of Gender Equality Action: Frameworks, Legibility, and Power
182. Book Section: Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China (Oxford University Press) by Yan Long
183. Author Meets Critic: Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago by Zophia Edwards
184. Perspectives on Transnational Migration and Settlement
185. Building Data Infrastructure
186. Power and Normativity, 1: Capitalism and Orders of Time
187. Rethinking Democracy (3): New Imaginaries and Alternatives
188. Social History, Environmental History, and Complexity

Saturday, November 22 / 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM

189. Defense and War Economics
190. New York City: Mapping Social History
191. Beyond the Iron Curtain: Reassessing the Cold War's Global Impact
192. Ethnoracial Stratification as Privilege
193. Roundtable: Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?
194. Thematizing Social Things: Heretical Literatures, Curricula, and Institutional Memories
195. Linking and Data Quality
196. Author Meets Critics: Governing the Global Clinic by Carol Heimer
198. Author Meets Critic: Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State by Yingyao Wang
199. Author Meets Critic: Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s, by Daniel J. Clark
200. Identity, Belonging and Everyday Practices: Chinese Diasporas in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East
201. Public Life and Democratic Order
202. Author meets Critic: Everyday People in Early Modern Kyoto: Family, Firm and Community by Mary Louise Nagata
203. Power and Normativity, 2: State-Enforced Hierarchies and the Spatialization of Racial Orders
204. Emergent States and the Dynamics of State Formation: Ideas, Institutions, and Social Change
205. Hidden Complexity

Sunday, November 23 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

206. Foreign Trade and Industrial Capitalism in Communist China, 2
208. Empire and Imperialism in Theory and History
209. Drivers and Consequences of Advantage and Disadvantage
210. The Politics of the Built Environment
211. Histories of Gender Equality Action: Frameworks, Legibility, and Power
212. Author Meets Critic: The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service by Choon Hwee Koh
213. American Politics in Transition: Economic Nationalism, Legal Battles, and Geopolitical Challenges
214. How States Make Society

Sunday, November 23 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

215. Author Meets Critics: The Paradox of Islamic Finance: How Shariah Scholars Reconcile Religion and Capitalism, by Ryan Calder
217. Beyond Models and Archives: Reconstructing Historical Complexity through Methodological Innovations
218. Worker and Community Activism
219. Domination through Administration
221. Author Meets Critics: The Real Economy: History and Theory by Jonathan Levy
222. The Dutch in the World, 1500–Present: From Small Republic to Global Might, Then Fading Light?
223. Legitimacy, Resistance, and Global Order: State, Society, and Movements at the Crossroads
224. Nazism and the Holocaust