AHA Convention 2016

Queer Migrations, Part 1: Transperformance: Historicizing and Theorizing Performative Transgender Acts
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Room 211 (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)

Chair:
Gabriela Cano, El Colegio de Mexico

Papers:
Castrati and the Foundations of Pejorative Transsexual Scripting
Katherine B. Crawford, Vanderbilt University

Female Impersonation and the Queer Circulation of Female Visuality
Carson Morris, University of New Mexico

Performing the Deconstruction of Gender and Ethnicity through the Art of Punk Drag
Frankc Berlanga-Medina, University of Arkansas

Comment:
Gabriela Cano, El Colegio de Mexico

The LGBTQ Historians Task Force Survey and Report: Where Do We Go from Here?
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Crystal Ballroom B (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)

Chair:
Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panel:
Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
La Shonda Mims, Towson University
Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado

Before/Outside/Beyond Gay Marriage: New Directions in the History of Marriage in the United States
Friday, January 8, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room 211 (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)

Chair:
Rebecca L. Davis, University of Delaware

Panel:

Alison L. Lefkovitz, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark
William Kuby, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Christina Simmons, University of Windsor
Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado
Kristin M. Celello, Queens College, City University of New York

Publishing in Queer History: A Roundtable with Editors
Friday, January 8, 2016: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room 211 (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)

Chair:
Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University

Panel:

Douglas Mitchell, University of Chicago Press
Clara Platter, New York University Press
Annette Timm, University of Calgary and Journal of the History of Sexuality
Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University (State University of New York) and Journal of Women’s History

CLGBTH Business Meeting
Friday, January 8, 2016: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Room 205 (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)

Presiding:
Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University
Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado

Queer Migrations, Part 2: Coming and Going: Traversing Borders and Crossing Boundaries of Sexuality, Race, and Class in the 20th Century United States and Germany
AHA Session 136
Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Crystal Ballroom B (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)

Chair:
Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University

Papers:
A Queer Destination: Postwar Mobility, Migrations, and Vacations
Jerry Watkins, Georgia State University

Movement and Morality: Mass Media and Queer Travel in 1960s and 1970s West Germany
Svanur Pétursson, Rutgers University

“It Takes Only One…”: Transgressions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Sumner Welles’ America
Chris Parkes, London School of Economics and Political Science

Picking up the Sheets: Black Bodies and Civil Rights at the Postwar American Roadside
Cara Rodway, Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library

CLGBTH Annual Reception
Friday, January 8, 2016: 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Room 309/310 (Hilton Atlanta, Third Floor)

Queer Migrations, Part 3: Encounters of Empire: Gender, Sexuality, and US Militarism
AHA Session 165
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Crystal Ballroom B (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)

Chair:
Judy T. Wu, University of California, Irvine

Papers:
Sex, Hygiene, and Public Health: Medicalizing American Militarism Abroad
Khary O. Polk, Amherst College

Gender Troubling the Postwar: Military-Service Activism before Mccarthy, Mattachine, and Montgomery
Tejasvi Nagaraja, New York University

Queer Women in the Service of Empire: Gender, Sexuality, and US Servicewomen in Iraq and Afghanistan
Elizabeth Mesok, Harvard University

Comment:
Emily K. Hobson, University of Nevada, Reno

Queer Migrations, Part 4: Moving People: Unsettling Circuits of Sexual Politics
AHA Session 193
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Crystal Ballroom B (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)

Chair:
Jennifer Evans, Carleton University

Papers:
“A Very Enjoyable Stay in Gay Paree”: African American Women Performers and Queer Interracial Circuits in the Jazz Age
Cookie Woolner, Kalamazoo College

Toward an Intimate Atlantic: Transnational Precursors to Postwar Homophile Activism
David Minto, Princeton University

The Posthumous World Journeys of a Sexologist: Analyzing the Transnational Historiographic Embrace of Magnus Hirschfeld
Kirsten Leng, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Changing Notions of Citizenship and Internationalism in Mexico City’s Lesbian and Gay Movement, 1979–91
Lucinda C. Grinnell, University of New Mexico

Comment:
Jennifer Evans, Carleton University

Queer Migrations, Part 5: Rent Boys, Prostitutes, Hustlers: Anxieties and Economies of Male Same-Sex Sexual Commerce in Britain, Ireland, and Canada
AHA Session 221
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 8
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Crystal Ballroom B (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)

Chair:
Charles J. Upchurch, Florida State University

Papers:
Unintended Networks and Tapped Wires: Male Prostitution in the Making of an Information Service Economy
Katie A. Hindmarch-Watson, Colorado State University

“Perfidious Official Guardians”: Ireland, the Nation, and Same-Sex Prostitution
Jonathan E. Coleman, University of Kentucky

“For a Few Bob”: Rent Boys and the Judicial and Economic Systems of 20th-Century Dublin
Averill E. Earls, University at Buffalo (State University of New York)

“Evil Is in the Eyes of the Beholder”: Commercialized Male Same-Sex Sexual Activity and Venereal Disease in Vancouver’s Bathhouse Debates
Richard A. McKay, University of Cambridge

Comment:
Charles J. Upchurch, Florida State University

Queer Migrations, Part 6: Sexuality, Migration, and Urban Space across the Modern World
AHA Session 252
Sunday, January 10, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Crystal Ballroom B (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)

Chair:
Carina E. Ray, Brandeis University

Panel:
Saheed A. Aderinto, Western Carolina University
Clayton Howard, Ohio State University
Durba Mitra, Fordham University
Andrew Israel Ross, University of Southern Mississippi

Queer Migrations, Part 7: Traversing Boundaries: Sexual Citizenship, Trans/National Identities, and Political Movements
AHA Session 281
Sunday, January 10, 2016: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Crystal Ballroom B (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)

Chair:
John Howard, King’s College London

Papers:

Migrating Memories: Transatlantic Commemoration of the Nazis’ Homosexual Victims in West Germany and the United States
Jake Newsome, University at Buffalo (State University of New York)

“Male Virility Is a Cultural Tradition”: Anita Bryant, Miami’s Cuban American Community, and the Rise of the New Right
Julio Capó Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst

Consensual Kissing Is Not Sodomy: The Policing of Homo/Sexuality and the Defense of the Normal Heart in Southwest Missouri
Elisabeth Frances George, University at Buffalo (State University of New York)

Comment:
Jerry Watkins, Georgia State University