Sessions

1. Childhood and Youth

75. Child Border Crossers and Cross-Border Family Separations Fri 10:00
130. Children's Health and the State Fri 3:45
150. Exploring the Complex Histories of Girlhood: A Roundtable on Girls’ Organizations Sat 8:00
168. Book Session: Empire's Daughters: Girlhood, Whiteness, and the Colonial Project by Elizabeth Dillenburg Sat 10:00


2. Crime, Justice and the Law

60. Crime, Justice and the Law Fri 8:00
78. Memory, Law, and the Politics of Historical Narrative Fri 10:00
164. Surveillance, Classification, and Bureaucratic Control Sat 10:00
180. Transnational Governance and Legal Pluralism Sat 1:15


3. Culture

15. Author Meets Critic: White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class by Mustafa Yavas Thu 10:00
59. Economic Culture Fri 8:00
77. System and Action Fri 10:00
113. Aesthetics and Politics Fri 1:45
131. Community, Consumption, and Creative Industries Fri 3:45
149. Temporality, History, and Memory Sat 8:00
167. Discourse and the Politics of Culture Sat 10:00
201. Public Life and Democratic Order Sat 3:15


4. Data Infrastructure

14. Using Data and Language Models Thu 10:00
35. New opportunities for British, Irish and Empire Social Historical Research Thu 3:15
107. AI Impact on Data Infrastructure Fri 1:45
125. IPUMS Full Count/MLP Workshop Fri 3:45
143. Digitizing Analog History Sat 8:00
185. Building Data Infrastructure Sat 1:15
195. Linking and Data Quality Sat 3:15


5. Economics

1. Economics Thu 8:00
9. Labor and Technology Thu 10:00
19. Labor and Innovation Transitions and Policies Using IPUMS Full Count Census Data Thu 1:15
32. Institutional Transformation and the Entangled Commercial Cultures of International Trade, 1450-1750 Thu 3:15
64. Cities and Industrialization Fri 10:00
100. Roundtable Discussion on the Handbook on the Economic History of War Fri 1:45
104. Foreign Trade and Industrial Capitalism in Communist China, 1 Fri 1:45
118. Author Meets Critics: Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 — 1776) by Jeremy Land Fri 3:45
136. Economic Growth and Sovereignty Sat 8:00
146. Monetary Matters Sat 8:00
154. Mobility, Networks, and Housing Sat 10:00
172. East Asia Development Models Reconsidered Sat 1:15
189. Defense and War Economics Sat 3:15
206. Foreign Trade and Industrial Capitalism in Communist China, 2 Sun 8:00
215. Author Meets Critics: The Paradox of Islamic Finance: How Shariah Scholars Reconcile Religion and Capitalism, by Ryan Calder Sun 10:00


6. Education, Knowledge and Science

40. "For You": Ethics, Literacy, and Responsibility in AI and Newer Social Media Thu 3:15
51. War as a Complex Mechanism Fri 8:00
69. Education and its Discontents, From Pre-K to PhD Fri 10:00
105. Navigating State Categories and Restrictions in Uncertain Times Fri 1:45
123. History In/Of Social Science: New Methods and Old Arguments Fri 3:45
141. Social Science Histories of Expertise (2): Twists and Turns in Paradigms of Expertise Sat 8:00
177. Social Science Histories of Expertise (1): Selected Histories of Knowledge and Ignorance Sat 1:15
194. Thematizing Social Things: Heretical Literatures, Curricula, and Institutional Memories Sat 3:15


7. Demography

26. Mortality Over the Life Course: Effects of Social, Family, and Historical Contexts Thu 1:15
53. Historical Change in Fertility Timing and Quantum Fri 8:00
71. Migration and Its Consequences: Networks, Fertility, and Labor Fri 10:00
110. Marriage and Divorce: The Role of Social Context and Legal Frameworks Fri 1:45
161. Demographic Shifts, Health Disparities, and Social Structures Using IPUMS Full Census Data Sat 10:00
179. Kinship, Family, and Ideational Change in Historical Context Sat 1:15
202. Author meets Critic: Everyday People in Early Modern Kyoto: Family, Firm and Community by Mary Louise Nagata Sat 3:15
209. Drivers and Consequences of Advantage and Disadvantage Sun 8:00


8. Health, Medicine and Body

108. The Impact of Health Interventions Fri 1:45
132. Author Meets Critic: Emergency: COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life by Claire Laurier Decoteau Fri 3:45
159. Disparities in Recent Technological Health Advancements Sat 10:00
196. Author Meets Critics: Governing the Global Clinic by Carol Heimer Sat 3:15


9. Historical Geography and GIS

20. Making the West: Spatial Perspectives Thu 1:15
33. Advances in Conceptual & Methodological Frameworks for Spatial History Thu 3:15
47. Spaces of Marginalization Fri 8:00
49. HGIS at Scale Fri 8:00
65. HGIS for the Public Fri 10:00
101. NEH Community Deep Mapping Institute 1 Fri 1:45
119. NEH Community Deep Mapping Institute 2 Fri 3:45
128. Spatializing Race Fri 3:45
137. Geospatial Approaches in European Urban History Sat 8:00
155. Dispossession Geographies (Roundtable) Sat 10:00
173. GIS and Archaeology of New York City Sat 1:15
190. New York City: Mapping Social History Sat 3:15


10. Labor

27. Author Meets Critics: "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" by Eric Blanc Thu 1:15
41. Labor and Politics Thu 3:15
57. Workplace Tasks in Historical Perspective Fri 8:00
111. Author Meets Critics: Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity by Cedric de Leon Fri 1:45
129. Author Meets Critic: The UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants, by Stephen J. Silvia Fri 3:45
147. Conservative Actions and Anti-Development Arguments Sat 8:00
165. Workers and Work Transformations into the 21st Century Sat 10:00
183. Author Meets Critic: Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago by Zophia Edwards Sat 1:15
199. Author Meets Critic: Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s, by Daniel J. Clark Sat 3:15
218. Worker and Community Activism Sun 10:00


11. Macrohistorical Dynamics

2. Macro-Historical Dynamics Thu 8:00
16. Before Globalization: The Challenge of World History Thu 10:00
22. Structure and Space in Historical Causality Thu 1:15
29. Reflexivity and Complexity in Social Science History Thu 1:15
43. Discourse, Governance, and Social Control in Modern China Thu 3:15
56. Author Meets Critics: Dynamics among Nations and Network Origins of the Global Economy by Hilton Root Fri 8:00
61. Historical Social Sciences and China (I): New Approaches to Studying Elite Politics Fri 8:00
74. Remaking Modernity at 20: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective Fri 10:00
79. Historical Social Sciences and China (II): Socialism, Capitalism, and Transitions in Between Fri 10:00
102. Roundtable: Max Weber at 100: Legacies and Prospects Fri 1:45
115. Historical Social Sciences and China (III): The State and Empire in Chinese History Fri 1:45
122. Ideas, Networks, and Alliances in Revolutionary Transformation Fri 3:45
133. Historical Social Sciences and China (IV): Revisiting "Remaking Modernity" from China Roundtable Fri 3:45
140. Historical Forces in Comparative and Methodological Phenomena Sat 8:00
151. Contingency and Time in Historical Causality Sat 8:00
169. Corruption: The Historical Sociology of a Stubborn Concept Sat 10:00
182. Book Section: Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China (Oxford University Press) by Yan Long Sat 1:15
186. Power and Normativity, 1: Capitalism and Orders of Time Sat 1:15
198. Author Meets Critic: Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State by Yingyao Wang Sat 3:15
203. Power and Normativity, 2: State-Enforced Hierarchies and the Spatialization of Racial Orders Sat 3:15
212. Author Meets Critic: The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service by Choon Hwee Koh Sun 8:00
221. Author Meets Critics: The Real Economy: History and Theory by Jonathan Levy Sun 10:00
222. The Dutch in the World, 1500–Present: From Small Republic to Global Might, Then Fading Light? Sun 10:00


12. Migration/Immigration

5. State Power Thu 8:00
28. Diasporic Identities Thu 1:15
58. Migrant Lives at the Margins Fri 8:00
76. Refugees Fri 10:00
112. "Author Meets Critics: Disparate Regimes by Brendan A. Shanahan" Fri 1:45
148. Decolonization and Citizenship Sat 8:00
166. The Complexities at the Nexus of U.S. Immigration Policies and their Histories Sat 10:00
184. Perspectives on Transnational Migration and Settlement Sat 1:15
200. Identity, Belonging and Everyday Practices: Chinese Diasporas in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East Sat 3:15


13. Race and Ethnicity

23. The History of the Present: Historical Sociologists Imagine a Different Path Forward Thu 1:15
36. Author Meets Critics: Enduring Empire U.S. Statecraft and Race-Making in the Philippines (2025) by Katrina Quisumbing King Thu 3:15
67. Racial Projects and the Administrative State Fri 10:00
103. Place/Space/Race Fri 1:45
121. Racial Echoes of Settler Colonialism Fri 3:45
139. Author Meets Critics: White Man's Work: Race and Middle Class Mobility into the Progressive Era by Joseph O. Jewell Sat 8:00
192. Ethnoracial Stratification as Privilege Sat 3:15


14. Religion

114. Transformations of Religious Influence: Propagation, Conflict, and Cultural Negotiation Fri 1:45
157. Institutional Shifts and Religious Agency: Disaffiliation, Integration, and Political Thought Sat 10:00


15. Rural, Agricultural and Environmental

42. The Past and Present of Agribusiness Thu 3:15
54. Environmental Crises and Transitions Fri 8:00
72. Ecosystems as Case and Concept Fri 10:00
126. Carbon Histories, Carbon Futures (open) Fri 3:45
144. Landscapes of Power: Environmental Transformations of the 20th Century Sat 8:00
162. Author Meets Critics: "Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future" by Zeke Baker Sat 10:00


16. States, Politics and Society

7. The Developmental State: a Transboundary Odyssey Thu 8:00
8. US Political Movements Thu 8:00
17. Historical Methods: Practice and Theory Thu 10:00
18. Fiscal Politics from Below: Local Responses to Central Governance Thu 10:00
21. Critical Perspectives on US History Thu 1:15
30. Housing Policy and Politics in the U.S. Thu 1:15
31. New Perspectives on Revolutions Old and New Thu 1:15
34. Book Session: The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines Thu 3:15
44. Author Meets Critics: The End of Engagement - America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 by David M. McCourt Thu 3:15
45. Attacking the State: The Trump Administration’s Challenge to U.S. Governing Institutions Thu 3:15
48. Book Session: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery by Rudi Batzell Fri 8:00
62. Roundtable: Agendas in Historical Sociology: Revisited, Revised, Reimagined Fri 8:00
66. Neoliberalism and Class Politics Fri 10:00
68. The End of DEI and the Administrative State Fri 10:00
80. Complexity, Conflict, and Crises: Voting Rights, States Rights and Outcomes for Citizens, Men, Women, Property Owners, Ex-Slaves, Asians and Indigenes Fri 10:00
116. Politics of the Middle East Fri 1:45
120. Author Meets Critics: Imperial Policing by Clarno, Alvear Moreno, Bonsu-Love, Dana, MuñIz, Ravichandran, and Volpintesta Fri 3:45
134. Theorizing Axes of Conflict in US Politics Fri 3:45
138. Elite Politics and Relational Power: Rethinking Political Change across Regimes Sat 8:00
152. Rethinking Democracy (1) - Democracy's Crises Sat 8:00
153. Chinese Political Economy Sat 8:00
156. Elites, Bureaucracy, and State Formation Sat 10:00
158. Renaissance and Early Modern Europe Sat 10:00
170. Rethinking Democracy (2): Capital, Institutions, and the Capture of Governance Sat 10:00
174. Author Meets Critics: Counting Caste: Census Politics, Bureaucratic Deflection, and Brahmanical Power in India by Trina Vithayathil Sat 1:15
176. Markets and Money in State-Society Relations Sat 1:15
187. Rethinking Democracy (3): New Imaginaries and Alternatives Sat 1:15
191. Beyond the Iron Curtain: Reassessing the Cold War's Global Impact Sat 3:15
193. Roundtable: Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented? Sat 3:15
204. Emergent States and the Dynamics of State Formation: Ideas, Institutions, and Social Change Sat 3:15
208. Empire and Imperialism in Theory and History Sun 8:00
213. American Politics in Transition: Economic Nationalism, Legal Battles, and Geopolitical Challenges Sun 8:00
214. How States Make Society Sun 8:00
217. Beyond Models and Archives: Reconstructing Historical Complexity through Methodological Innovations Sun 10:00
223. Legitimacy, Resistance, and Global Order: State, Society, and Movements at the Crossroads Sun 10:00
224. Nazism and the Holocaust Sun 10:00


17. Women, Gender and Sexuality

13. Queer Communities, Social Controversies Thu 10:00
39. Gender- Based Violence and anti-Feminism in Online and Offline Spaces Thu 3:15
55. Gender in Health Discourses, Health in Gender Discourses Fri 8:00
73. Gender Representations. Law, Politics, Education Fri 10:00
109. Cruel Optimism? Women Maintaining the Status Quo or Organizing against It Fri 1:45
145. Political Activism, Environment and Art Sat 8:00
163. Valor, Values, and Volition: Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Ayn Rand Sat 10:00
181. Histories of Gender Equality Action: Frameworks, Legibility, and Power Sat 1:15
211. Histories of Gender Equality Action: Frameworks, Legibility, and Power Sun 8:00


18. Critical Studies

3. Visibility and Exclusion Thu 8:00
12. Author Meets Critics: Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History by David McNally Thu 10:00
24. Racial Capitalism and Modernity Thu 1:15
37. Book Session: Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing by Rahim Kurwa Thu 3:15
38. Author Meets Critics: Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science by Besnik Pula Thu 3:15
52. Palestine: Struggling against Settler Colonialism Fri 8:00
70. Authors Meet Critics: Anticolonialism and Social Thought, ed. by Anaheed Al-Hardan and Julian Go Fri 10:00
106. Provincializing Modernity: Beyond the Traditional/(Colonial) Modern Divide Fri 1:45
124. Anticolonial Movements in a Global Context Fri 3:45
142. Critical Studies and Publishing in Interdisciplinary Journals Sat 8:00
160. Roundtable: What Is Critical Studies? Sat 10:00
175. Author Meets Critic: The Subversive Seventies by Michael Hardt (Oxford, 2023) Sat 1:15
178. On History and Historical Sociology Sat 1:15
210. The Politics of the Built Environment Sun 8:00
219. Domination through Administration Sun 10:00


21. SSHA Sessions

81. Complexity, Consequences, and Best Practices for AI in Historical Social Science Research and Data Development Fri 10:00
82. Network Meeting - Critical Studies Fri 12:00
83. Network Meeting - Labor Fri 12:00
84. Network Meeting - States, Politics and Society Fri 12:00
85. Network Meeting - Childhood and Youth Fri 12:00
86. Network Meeting - Historical Geography and GIS Fri 12:00
87. Network Meeting - Rural, Agricultural and Environmental Fri 12:00
88. Network Meeting - Demography Fri 12:00
89. Network Meeting - Education, Knowledge and Science Fri 12:00
90. Network Meeting - Health, Medicine and Body Fri 12:00
91. Network Meeting - Women, Gender and Sexuality Fri 12:45
92. Network Meeting - Immigration/Migration Fri 12:45
93. Network Meeting - Macrohistorical Dynamics Fri 12:45
94. Network Meeting - Crime, Justice and the Law Fri 12:45
95. Network Meeting - Economics Fri 12:45
96. Network Meeting - Data Infrastructure Fri 12:45
97. Network Meeting - Culture Fri 12:45
98. Network Meeting - Race and Ethnicity Fri 12:45
99. Network Meeting - Religion Fri 12:45
117. Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Historical Social Sciences Fri 1:45
135. State-University Relations in Illiberal Times Fri 3:45
171. Crisis in History! Historical Social Science Studies of Crisis Emergence and Responses Sat 10:00
188. Social History, Environmental History, and Complexity Sat 1:15
205. Hidden Complexity Sat 3:15