The American Political History Conference convenes this week in Washington, D.C., and the program includes many panels and events that may interest readers of this blog:
On Friday, June 5:
Roundtable: The Politics of Jurisdiction in 19th Century United States
Moderator: Adam Rothman, Georgetown University
Panelists:
- Cynthia Nicoletti, University of Virginia
- Heather Carlquist Walser, Southern Methodist University
- Cooper Wingert, Fordham University
- Edward Green, Pennsylvania State University
The Politics of Bodies and Sexuality: From the Antebellum Era to Modern America
Moderator: Cassandra Good, Marymount University
Panelists:
- Chris Del Santo, City University of New York. “The Politics of Bodies, Missing and Masonic: Gender and Visualizing Conspiracy in Antimasonry,
- 1826-1835.”
- Claire Simone Roth, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. “Spartan Mothers No More: Yeomen Women, Desertion, and the Collapse of the
- Confederate State.”
- Christen Hammock Jones, University of Pennsylvania. “Sufficiently Entangled: The Legal and Political ‘State’ of Reproductive Rights in the 1970s.”
- Eva Baylin, Vanderbilt University. “The Right to Sex: Pick-Up Artists and the Crisis of Masculinity.”
America at 250 Roundtable: Executive Power from the Founding Era to Trump
Moderator: Lindsay Chervinsky, George Washington Presidential Library
Panelists:
- Julian Davis Mortenson, University of Michigan
- Jane Manners, Fordham Law School
- Garrett Graff, journalist
- Edward O. Frantz, University of Indianapolis
- Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Pomona College
America at 250 Roundtable: Debating Congress from the Founding Era to Today
Moderator: Seth Blumenthal, Boston University
Panelists:
- Katlyn Carter, University of Notre Dame
- Daniel Peart, Queen Mary University of London
- Kevin M. Baron, Siena University
- Abe Silberstein, New York University
- Sarah Rowley, Depauw University
Representation and Voting Rights from Reconstruction to Today
Moderator: Frank Towers, University of Calgary
Panelists:
- Eileen Cheng, Sarah Lawrence College. “Hijacking the Memory of Defeat: The Federalists and the Legacy of the Confederacy.”
- Alma Steingart, Columbia University. “The Mathematization of Representation: Rethinking United States Political Representation in the Twentieth
- Century.”
- Zachary Clary, Vanderbilt University. “‘You Can’t Kill an Idea’: The NAACP and the Martyrdom of Medgar Evers and Harry and Harriette Moore.”
- Robinson Woodward-Burns, Howard University. “Roll Back of State Constitutional Voting Rights, 1968-2025.”
America at 250 Roundtable: The Past, Present, and Future of Judicial Supremacy
Moderator: Gautham Rao, American University
Panelists:
- Jamelle Bouie, New York Times
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Georgetown University
- Nikolas Bowie, Harvard University
- Rachel Shelden, Pennsylvania State University
- Karen Tani, University of Pennsylvania
On Saturday, June 6:
New History of Sex, Reproduction, and Anti-Discrimination Law in the 1970s and 1980s
Moderator: Sara Matthiesen, George Washington University
Panelists:
- Jennifer Holland, University of Oklahoma. “Lesbian-Homoville, CO: How Anti-Abortion Activists Started the Modern Anti-Queer Movement.”
- Sarah Milov, University of Virginia. “‘A Malformed Child Could Sue the Company’: Fetal Protection and the Specter of Childhood Cancer in the 1970s.”
- Karen Tani, University of Pennsylvania. “‘Productive Life or Tragedy’: Disability Rights, Deregulation, and Anti-Abortion Politics in the Reagan Era.”
Roundtable: Political History as Legal History and Legal History as Political History
Moderator: Matthew Lassiter, University of Michigan
Panelists:
- Sam Erman, University of Michigan
- Amanda Hughett, University of Illinois Springfield
- Kate Masur, Northwestern University
- Karen Tani, University of Pennsylvania
Book Roundtable: White Power: Policing American Slavery [by Gautham Rao]
Moderator: Adam Malka, University of Oklahoma
Panelists:
- Gautham Rao, American University
- Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College
- Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan
- Anna O. Law, CUNY Brooklyn College
- Kevin Arlyck, Georgetown University
-- Karen Tani
