Overview and Updates

AHA Staff | Dec 23, 2020

Virtual AHA is a series of online opportunities to bring together communities of historians, build professional relationships, discuss scholarship, and engage in professional and career development. A service to our members as they navigate the current emergency, Virtual AHA provides a forum for discussing common issues, building research networks, and broadening and maintaining our professional community in dire circumstances. It also provides resources for online teaching and other professional and career development. We are creating various kinds of content to help historians connect, while helping us learn more about what our members want and need.

Virtual AHA

Virtual AHA will run through June 2021. Virtual AHA incorporates the AHA Colloquium, our name for content drawn from the canceled 2021 annual meeting. It also includes an online teaching forum, career development workshops, a series of History Behind the Headlines webinars, National History Center programming, and more. These programs are free, and AHA membership is not required to register. Many of the webinars will be available for later viewing on the AHA's YouTube channel.

See historians.org/VirtualAHA for details. Download the Virtual AHA app at guidebook.com/g/virtualaha for the latest schedule updates and links.

Virtual Exhibit Hall

The AHA Virtual Exhibit Hall will be available online through June 2021. The Virtual Exhibit Hall provides an opportunity to learn about the latest historical scholarship, take advantage of publisher discounts, and network with editors and press staff. If you normally look forward to the exhibits at the annual meeting, the Virtual Exhibit Hall offers a similar experience from the comfort of your home. Best of all, no name badge is necessary: the Exhibit Hall is free and open to the public. Check it out at historians.org/ExhibitHall.

Programming Content Streams

AHA Colloquium: Bringing together communities of historians who ordinarily meet face-to-face at our annual meeting through web-based programming. Visit historians.org/Colloquium for a full list of staff- and participant-produced content.
History Behind the Headlines: Featuring prominent historians discussing the histories behind current events and the importance of history and historical thinking to public policy and culture.
Online Teaching Forum: Helping historians plan for teaching in online and hybrid environments.
Virtual Career Development: Emphasizing career exploration and skill development for graduate students and early career historians.
Virtual Seminars for Department Chairs: Supporting department chairs through the transitions and uncertainties resulting from COVID-19. Webinars will be small-group discussions (capped at 10 participants) and facilitated by an experienced department chair.
National History Center Congressional Briefings: Briefings by leading historians on past events and policies that shape the issues facing Congress today.
Washington History Seminar: Facilitating understanding of contemporary affairs in light of historical knowledge from a variety of perspectives. A joint venture of the National History Center of the AHA and the History and Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Upcoming Events

January 6: AHA Colloquium—Presidential Address: Slow History
January 7: AHA Colloquium—Virtual Assignment Charrette Teaching Workshop
January 7: AHA Colloquium—Plenary: Erasing History
January 7: AHA Colloquium—Online Learning via the Digital Humanities, the Online Classroom, and the Hybrid Classroom
January 8: AHA Colloquium—Late-Breaking Plenary: The International Implications of the US Election
January 8: AHA Colloquium—Cocktails and Coffee with the Committee on Minority Historians
January 9: AHA Colloquium—Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession Open Forum and Coffee
January 12: AHA Colloquium—New Military History
January 14: AHA Colloquium—Fugitivity
January 15: AHA Colloquium—Fine Tuning Program Outcomes: A Curriculum Mapping Workshop
January 19: AHA Colloquium—The Public and the Historical Enterprise: What Do They Know? What Do They Do?
January 20–22: AHA Colloquium—Don’t Panic! The Futures of History from the Liberal Arts College Perspective (three-event series)
January 21: AHA Colloquium—History PhDs in the World of Entrepreneurship
January 26: AHA Colloquium—Beyond Conflict: Archive and Ethics in the Middle East
January 29: History Behind the Headlines—Preserving Records: Archives and Presidential Transitions

Further Information about the AHA Colloquium for Those Accepted for the 2021 Program

People originally scheduled to be on the 2021 program will have a variety of options for sharing their work. We are looking forward to working with participants on creative new ways to share their work. Keep an eye on historians.org/VirtualAHA for regular updates.

A PDF program, documenting all sessions accepted by the AHA Program Committee and the affiliated societies, was posted on the AHA website in early November so that participants can validate their expected participation for their CVs. Anyone who was expecting to deliver a prepared presentation will have the opportunity to post written remarks on the AHA website.

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