Recent Historical and Educational Development

American Historical Association Annual Meetings

New York, Jan. 2 - 5, 2009

Sessions attended

• Problematic Passions: Case Studies in the History of Emotion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

• Globalizing Japanese Historiography: Japan in Comparative Perspective

• Connecting Histories Globally

• Historians Film Committee

• Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History

• The "California Method"? University of California's Model for World Historical Research and Pedagogy- Past, Present, and Future

Washington, D.C. January 3-6, 2008

Sessions attended

• Public vs. Private: Female Authority in Pre-Modern Europe

• Forum on the History of Science and Technology in Modern Historical Narratives

• The Body at the Crossroads of Medicine and History: Disease, Disability, and the Law in Medieval Europe

• Big Histories for Early Moderns

• Boxing’s Big Bang: The International Expansion of the Pugilistic Universe, 1910–40

• Teaching by Having Students Think Historically, Part 1 & 2

Tech Tools for Historians

• American Association for History and Computing Session 1:Visual Thinking in History

Atlanta, GA January 4-7, 2007

Sessions Attended

• Center for History and New Media-Students as Historians: Using Primary Sources to Engage All Learners—Roundtable

• Science and University in Early Modern Europe

• The Enlightenment and the Book Trade in Comparative Perspective

• Unstable Anatomies: Castrati, Hermaphrodites, and "Reproductive Wonders" in the Eighteenth Century

Southern Archivist Conference

Nashville, TN March 27-29, 2008

Sessions Attended

• Dating 1840—1940 Photographs by Technologies and Formats

• Digital Dilemmas: Archiving E-mail

• Unearthing Resources: Waking Up Cemetery Tours

• Moving History: Saving Regional Films