THURSDAY, JANUARY 5
1:30-3:00pm – Incorporating Queer History into Latin American Survey Courses: A Roundtable
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Cosponsored by the Conference on Latin American History and the AHA Teaching Division
Chair:
Nicholas Syrett, University of Northern Colorado
Panel:
Pablo E. Ben, San Diego State University
Benjamin A. Cowan, George Mason University
Zeb Tortorici, New York University
Heather A. Vrana, Southern Connecticut State University
3:30-5:00pm – Queer Scholars and Scholarship on the Job Market: A Roundtable
Mile High Ballroom 1D (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Chair:
Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado
Panel:
Julio Capó Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst
April Haynes, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jen Manion, Amherst College
Allison Miller, Perspectives on History
Amy H. Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6
8:30-10:00am – In Honor of Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Part 1: Oral History as Queer Archive: Listening with Horacio N. Roque Ramírez
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Cosponsored by the Oral History Association
Chair:
Stephen Vider, Museum of the City of New York
Panel:
Lauren Gutterman, University of Texas at Austin
Griselda Jarquin, University of California, Davis
Kristyn Scorsone, Rutgers University, Newark
Cyrana Wyker, Middle Tennessee State University
Comment:
Stephen Vider, Museum of the City of New York
10:30am-12:00pm – In Honor of Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Part 2: Remembering the Life and Work of Horacio N. Roque Ramírez: A Roundtable
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Cosponsored by the Oral History Association
Chair:
Nan Alamilla Boyd, San Francisco State University
Panel:
Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago
William A. Calvo-Quirós, University of Michigan
Marla Ramirez, San Francisco State University
Comment:
Nan Alamilla Boyd, San Francisco State University
12:30-1:30pm – CLGBTH Members’ Meeting: All Welcome!
Room 604 (Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room Level)
Presiding:
Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University
Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado
1:30-3:00pm – In Honor of Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Part 3: That’s His Place! Horacio N. Roque Ramírez and Queer Latina/o/x Histories
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Cosponsored by the Oral History Association
Chair:
Emily K. Hobson, University of Nevada at Reno
Panel:
Julio Capó Jr., University of Massachusetts Amherst
Anahi Russo Garrido, Metropolitan State University of Denver
David Hernández, Mount Holyoke College
Ana Minian, Stanford University
Comment:
Emily K. Hobson, University of Nevada at Reno
3:30-5:00pm – The Role of Historians in a Time of Backlash: An Open Conversation
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Sponsored by the AHA Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession
Chair:
Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
Panel:
Leah DeVun, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Wallace D. Best, Princeton University
Debbie Ann Doyle, American Historical Association
7:30-8:30pm – LGBTQ Historians’ Reception
Capitol Ballroom 1 (Hyatt Regency Denver, Fourth Floor)
Sponsored by Gale
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7
8:30-10:00am – Queering Historical Scale, Part 1: Queer Histories of Sex Work and Sexual Commerce
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Chair:
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University
Papers:
“Queer Cures: Commercial Sex Therapies in 19th-Century New York”
April Haynes, University of Wisconsin–Madison
“Male-Male Prostitution in 1950s–70s Italian Fiction”
Alessio Ponzio, University of Michigan
“Sepia Sex Scenes: Black Women’s Erotic Labor in Early Pornographic Film”
Mireille Miller-Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
Comment:
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University
10:30am-12:00pm – Queering Historical Scale, Part 2: Queer History beyond the City: Sexuality in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Rural America
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Chair:
Colin R. Johnson, Indiana University Bloomington
Papers:
“How Big a Scale Should the History of Sexuality Cover? Cases of Sexual Slander in America’s Early Republic”
Kent W. Peacock, Florida State University
“Rural, Queer, Settler: Astrid Arnoldsen’s Montana, c. the 1920s”
Emily E. Skidmore, Texas Tech University
“Laying It All on the Table: Scaling up Rural Queer History from Small-Town Wisconsin to Transnational Queer Networks”
Christopher Hommerding, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Comment:
Gabriel N. Rosenberg, Duke University
1:30-3:00pm – Queering Historical Scale, Part 3: Queering Femininity: Gender Normativity and Lesbian History
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Chair:
Lauren Gutterman, University of Texas at Austin
Papers:
“‘Pass Right By Your People’: Femme Invisibility and Postwar Lesbian History”
Alix Genter, The College of New Jersey
“‘Plagued with Unconscious Homosexual Cravings’: Queer Femininities, Latent Lesbianism, and Postwar American Sexual Culture”
Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University
“‘Treacherous Sweetness’: Interwar College Girls, Lesbianism, and the Specter of Unchecked Femininity”
Anastasia Jones, University of Toronto
Comment:
Lauren Gutterman, University of Texas at Austin
2:00-4:00pm – Tour 14: Colorado LGBT History Archives Tour and Presentation, Denver Public Library
Room 103 (Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room Level)
Please sign up when you register for the annual meeting. Limit: 15.
3:30-5:00pm – Queering Historical Scale, Part 4: Querying Metanarratives of Queer History in Modern Germany
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Chair:
April Danielle Trask, Amherst College
Papers:
“To Finally Let Fall the Burdensome Mask: The Queer Politics of Carnival in Early 20th-Century Germany”
Christina Carmen Chiknas, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
“The Afterlives of Sexual Evidence: New Uses for Old Sources in Nazi Germany”
Matthew Conn, Michigan State University
Comment:
Svanur Petursson, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
SUNDAY, JANUARY 8
9:00-10:30am – California Rewrites Its K–12 History
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Chair:
Nancy J. McTygue, California History-Social Science Project, University of California, Davis
Papers:
“Overseeing California’s Framework Revision”
Nancy J. McTygue, University of California, Davis; Bill Honig, California Department of Education; Thomas Adams, California Department of Education
“The Process of Updating History”
Beth Slutsky, University of California, Davis
“Scholar Advocacy and Incorporating the FAIR Education Act”
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University
11:00am-12:30pm – Incorporating LGBT History into the US Survey: A Roundtable Discussion
Mile High Ballroom 1A (Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level)
Cosponsored by the AHA Teaching Division
Chair:
Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University
Panel:
David D. Doyle, Southern Methodist University
Catherine O. Jacquet, Louisiana State University
Jen Manion, Amherst College
Kevin J. Mumford, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign