Happy New Year from all of us at The Junto! We hope you had a restful and enjoyable holiday break. For historians, the turn of the calendar to 2015 means that many of us are en route to the AHA Annual Meeting in New York City. Having grown up in the area, I’d like to welcome you all to New York, where the bagels and pizza are really just better, and we stand “on line” for coffee, not “in line.”

Many of us and we know many of our readers will be at the conference for a variety of reasons, not the least of which will be the fantastic slate of panels on early America and the Atlantic world. As we did last year, then, here is our guide to panels at this year’s conference, including a few not explicitly about early America that might nonetheless be of interest, especially on digital history and academic publishing. (For a full summary of digital history at the conference, see this list compiled by Anelise Shrout.)

Enjoy the conference, and please say hello if you see any of us around the hotels or at the bloggers and Twitterstorians reception on Friday evening. And please let us know if there are panels we’ve missed in the comments!

Shameless Self-Promotion! (Panels with Junto Representation)

99 (ACH 1). Blogging and the Future of Scholarship, Saturday 10:30 am, Gramercy Suite A (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
123. Choosing to Embargo? What to Do with Your History Dissertation, Saturday 2:30 pm, Sutton Center (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
ASCH 33. Silences in Protestant Autobiography: Exploring Sickness, Sexuality, and Race in American Religion, Monday 11:00 am, Hudson Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

Friday, January 2

1:00 pm

16. Indigenous Revolutions, 1700-1850, Gibson Suite (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
18. New Histories of Capitalism in and Beyond the Atlantic, Conference Room F (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)
20. Race, Sex, and the Law in Louisana’s Long Nineteenth Century, Conference Room D (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)
21. Scholarship Beyond Text, Conference Room E (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)
23. The Allure of the Judicial Archives: Writing the History of Slavery through Case Files, Dockets, and Silences, Petit Trianon (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
27. Undergraduate Experience and Current Scholarly Trajectory: A Panel Honoring Mary Beth Norton, Regent Parlor (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
30. Slavery as History, Slavery as Fiction , Part 1: Racial Paradise: Written and Visual Narratives of Slavery in Brazil (CLAH 2), Mercury Rotunda (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
ASCH 2. Raising a Righteous Generation: Educating Christians in the Transatlantic World, Hudson Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
CLGBTH 2. Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 2: Beyond the Binary: Early America and the Writing of Trans* History, Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
CLAH 3. Biographies of Ambition in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean, Liberty Suite 4 (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)
NASOH. Technological Answers to Maritime Problems: Ship Design and Construction in the Early Modern Western World—Recent Archival and Archaeological Discoveries, Liberty Suite 1&2 (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)

3:30 pm

43. Digital Tools: From the Archive to Publication, Beekman Parlor (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
46. History Meets Archaeology in Indigenous/Colonial North America, Madison Suite (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
50. Magna Carta in the Age of Enlightenment, Revolution, and Empire: Rethinking Constitutional History on the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta, Gramercy Suite B (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
60. Slavery as History, Slavery as Fiction , Part 2: The Slavery Archive As History and Narrative, Morgan Suite (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
ASLH. History and the Law: Creating, Acquiring, and Preserving Legal Knowledge, Conference Room K (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)
ASCH 5. Doing History, Hudson Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
CLAH 8. “A Fragile Harmony”: Economic Tensions, Social Frictions, and Political Instability in Venezuela during the Age of Revolutions, 1780–1810, Carnegie Room West (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)

Saturday, January 3

8:30 am

61 (CCWH 2). Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century, Mercury Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
69. Doing More with Less: The Promise and Pitfalls of Short-Form Scholarship in the Digital History Age, New York Ballroom East (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)
71. Geographies of Identity, Solidarity, and Belonging in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic, Gibson Suite (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
76 (SCWH 3). James McPherson’s Battle Cry after a Quarter Century, Murray Hill Suite B (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
80. Slaves and Mistresses: The Female Slaveholder in the Americas, Liberty Suite 3 (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)
90. Lessons Learned from the AHA’s Bridging Cultures Program, Part 1: PechaKucha 1: Incorporating the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds into the U.S. History Survey Course, Sutton South (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
91 (CLAH 13). New Perspectives on the Spanish Atlantic: The Slave Trade to Spanish America, Part 1, Empire Ballroom West (Sheraton New York, Second Floor)
ACHA 7. Negotiating the Atlantic: Catholic Networks in the Early American Republic, Madison Suite 4 (Sheraton New York, Fifth Floor)

10:30 am

102 (ACH 2). Digital Histories of Slavery, Gramercy Suite B (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
117. Slavery and Antislavery in the Antebellum North, Mercury Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
ASPHS 3. Circulation of People and Ideas in the Iberian Atlantic in the Age of Independence, Part 1: Key Historical Agents Operating in the Iberian Atlantic in the Age of Independence, Conference Room I (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)

12:00 pm

Ghosts of Amistad, Rendezvous Trianon (New York Hilton, Third Floor)

2:30 pm

128 (CLAH 23). An Atlantic Triangle: New England–Holland–Rio de la Plata Commercial Networks, Bryant Suite (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
138. Microhistories of the Illegal Slave Trade and the Old South, Liberty Suite 3 (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)
152. Slavery as History, Slavery as Fiction , Part 3: Imagining the Unimaginable: Film, Fiction, and Fabulation in Narratives of New World Slavery, Riverside Ballroom (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)
ASPHS 4. Circulation of People and Ideas in the Iberian Atlantic in the Age of Independence, Part 2: The Making and Unmaking of Gran Colombia, Conference Room I (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)
CLAH 27. New Perspectives on the Spanish Atlantic: The Slave Trade to Spanish America, Part 3, Carnegie Room East (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)

Sunday, January 4

9:00 am

158 (ACH 4). Authoring Digital Scholarship for History: Challenges and Opportunities, Beekman Parlor (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
169 (SAHSA 11). Of Borderlands and Frontiers: Crosscurrents and Divergences within Borderlands History and Settler Colonial Studies, Lenox Ballroom (Sheraton New York, Second Floor)
172. Politics Big and Small: African Americans, Law, and the Negotiation of Slavery and Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century American South, Conference Room F (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)

11:30 am

202 (LWCHA 4). New Directions in Unfree American Indian Labor Histories, Empire Ballroom East (Sheraton New York, Second Floor)
207 (CLAH 40, LWCHA 5). The Ground Below and Above: New Directions in the Study of Mining in the Colonial Americas, Petit Trianon (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
208. The Problem of Slavery, Rendezvous Trianon (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
212. Lessons Learned from the AHA’s Bridging Cultures Program, Part 3: Incorporating the Atlantic and the Pacific into the U.S. and the Comparative Americas Survey Courses: Methodologies for the Classroom, Nassau Suite A (New York Hilton, Second Floor)

2:30 pm

217. Why Caribbean History Matters, Concourse C (New York Hilton, Concourse Level)
224. History and Literature: The State of the Relationship, Gibson Suite (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
229. New Perspectives on Dutch New York: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding New Netherland and Its Atlantic Connections, New York Ballroom East (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)
239 (AARHMS 2). Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Part 3: In Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz: Spectacle in Early Modern Iberia and Beyond, Mercury Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
240 (CLAH 47). Reexamining the Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic, Part 1: Abolition in Practice: The Implementation of the Abolition Treaties in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic, Murray Hill Suite A (New York Hilton, Second Floor)

Monday, January 5

8:30 am

267 (CLAH 59). “The New Conquest History”: New Approaches to the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, Bryant Suite (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
269. Lessons Learned from the AHA’s Bridging Cultures Program, Part 4: Going Global in the U.S. History Survey, Petit Trianon (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
270 (CLAH 60). Reexamining the Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic, Part 2: Circumventing Abolition: Slave Traders’ Strategies of Survival and Success, Nassau Suite B (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
ASCH 30. Protestants and Catholics in Colonial New England, Holland Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)

11:00 am

274 (CLAH 64). At the Hour of Our Death: Reinterpreting Illness in Iberian Empires, Bryant Suite (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
284 (CLAH 65). Methods of Modernity from the Margins: Toward New Theories of Africa and/in the Americas, Conference Room B (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)
295. Teaching Lessons Learned from the AHA’s Bridging Cultures Program, Part 5: PechaKucha 2, Incorporating the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds into the U.S. History Survey Course, Gramercy Suite A (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
296 (CLAH 66). Reexamining the Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic, Part 3: Kidnapping and Illegal Enslavement in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, Gramercy Suite B (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
ASCH 32. Mapping Religious Space: Four American Cities from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century, Harlem Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
CLAH 68. Historical Pasts and Futures in Colonial Mexico, Liberty Suite 3 (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)
CLAH 70. The “República de Indios” and the Formation of a Legal Culture in Spanish America, Liberty Suite 4 (Sheraton New York, Third Floor)