Sessions

Thursday, November 19 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

1. Law, Authority, and Administrative Rationalization
2. States, Politics and Society
3. Media and Technocracy
4. Beyond the Periphery: Eastern Europe and the Complexities of Social and Political Transformation (I)
5. Fertility in Changing Contexts
6. Critical Perspectives on Colonial Projects across the Globe
7. Intellectual Histories and Theoretical Trajectories

Thursday, November 19 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

8. Surveillance, Health, and Settler Administration
9. Author Meets Critics: Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry by Jason Jackson
10. Social Technologies of African Development
11. Interdisciplinary Social Science History & Publishing in Social Science History
12. Beyond the Periphery: Eastern Europe and the Complexities of Social and Political Transformation (II)
13. Environment, Justice, and Land
14. Mortality: The Aftermath of Disease
15. The Tangling of Theory and Evidence in Historical Sociology
16. Critical Studies of Europe's East: Empire, Nationalism, and Political Economy
17. Enclosure, Expulsion, and Nation-Making in Cold War Asia
18. Theorizing and Morality in Historical Social Science I: Ethics and Method
19. Science and Expertise: Academic and Political Institutionalization
20. Child Migrants
21. Mapping Atlanta's Historical Geographies of Race, Class, and Justice I
22. Health, Medicine and Body

Thursday, November 19 / 1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

23. Power, Order, and Institutional Change in Premodern China and Korea
24. Origins of Partisanship in the British Empire
26. Book Panel: Class Warfare in Black Atlanta
27. Financial Stability and the Dollar
28. Beyond the Periphery: Eastern Europe and the Complexities of Social and Political Transformation (III)
29. Decentering Modernity : Women, Household, and Decision Making in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia
30. Mortality Inequalities Across Class, Place, and Borders
31. Subaltern Militancy and the Black Radical Tradition
32. Labor Migrations
33. Trust in Uncertain Times: Substantive and Methodological Reflections
34. Sustained Interventions in Schooling: Case Studies from Around the World
35. Finding Children and Youth in the Archives I
36. Mapping Atlanta's Historical Geographies of Race, Class, and Justice II

Thursday, November 19 / 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM

37. Marginalization, Exclusion, and Inclusion
38. Gender and the Making of Knowledge across Traditional and Modern Institutions
39. Nationalist Projects, Transnational Solidarities, Colonial Legacies
40. Recent and Ongoing Challenges to Liberalism in the US and Throughout the World
41. Goffmanian Political Economy (I): Big Picture
42. Settlement Patterns and Inequality
43. Author Meets Critics: The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression by Jason E. Taylor
44. Where Markets End and States Begin: Institutional Boundaries, Military Spending, and Neoliberal Networks
45. Race, Labor, and Inequality in Modern Capitalism
46. Patriarchal Regimes in Comparative Perspective: Variation, Measurement, and Historical Change
47. Historicizing the Relationship between Marxist and Postcolonial Theory
48. Collective Identity, Memory, and Nostalgia
49. Author Meets Critics: Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico by Diana Graizbord
50. Book Roundtable on Amy Farrell's "Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA"
51. Disease Ecologies, Notions of Modernity, and Conceptions of Illness

Friday, November 20 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

52. Migration Affects
53. Energy, Climate Change, and the Immediacy of the Present
54. Labor Stratification, Migration, and Political Economy
55. Warfare, Welfare States, and State-Corporation Relations
56. Politics and Social Science: From Weber’s “Science as a Vocation” to Present-Day Discussions
57. Goffmanian Political Economy (II): Finance
58. Indo-Us Maritime Trade, c. 1780-1950: Merchants, Networks, and Commodities
59. Reproduction, Population, and the Modern State in South and East Asia
60. Women and Property, - Inheriting, Using, Distributing
61. Spatial Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
62. Teaching Social Sciences Under Authoritarianism and Genocide
63. Discursive Developments Across Disciplines and Ideologies
64. Theorizing and Morality in Historical Social Science II: Time, Space, and Process
65. Finding Children and Youth in the Archives II
66. State and Business Institutions in Early Modern China

Friday, November 20 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

67. Nationality in Question: Practices and Problems for Migrating and Displaced Europeans in the 1930s and 1940s
68. Presidential Session. Civil Society in the Global South
69. Book Panel: Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights
70. Wrangling Occupational and Denominational Data
71. Civil Society and the Welfare State
72. Intimate Rule: Gender, Marriage, and the Colonial State
73. Goffmanian Political Economy (III): Industry
74. Global Historical Sociologies of Violence: Economies of Violence
75. Women at Work
76. Reading the Modern: Computational Methods and the Historical Genealogy of Social Meaning
77. Book Session: Order of Business: The Golden Age of Fraternity and Its Legacy of Inequality by Pamela A. Popielarz
78. Teaching Spatial History: A Roundtable
79. Comparative-Historical Environmental Sociology Part One: Empirics and Theory
80. Rethinking Anticolonial Thought and Resistance Through the African North
81. Opening up Opportunity: Economic and Societal Change
82. Global Modernities and Alternative Epistemologies
83. Theoretical Approaches to Structural and Infrastructural Transformation
84. Book Roundtable on "Writing with Fire: The Cowboy Suit Tragedy and the Course of a Life" by Barbara Welke
85. Macrohistorical Dynamics
86. Gender and Health: From Coal Miners to Motherhood

Friday, November 20 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

87. Network Meeting - Childhood and Youth
88. Network Meeting - Crime, Justice and the Law
89. Network Meeting - Culture
90. Network Meeting - Economics
91. Network Meeting - Education, Knowledge and Science
92. Network Meeting - Health, Medicine and Body
93. Network Meeting - Historical Geography and GIS
94. Network Meeting - Labor
95. Network Meeting - Family and Demography

Friday, November 20 / 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM

96. Network Meeting - Data Infrastructure
97. Network Meeting - Macrohistorical Dynamics
98. Network Meeting - Migration/Immigration
99. Network Meeting - Race and Ethnicity
100. Network Meeting - Religion, Power, and Social Change
101. Network Meeting - Rural, Agricultural and Environmental
102. Network Meeting - States, Politics and Society
103. Network Meeting - Women, Gender and Sexuality
104. Network Meeting - Critical Studies

Friday, November 20 / 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM

105. Presidential Session: Development in the age of the New/Old Imperialism
106. Organizing Workers: Unions, Professionalization, and Labor Militancy in the United States
107. A Day in the Life
108. Rule of Law, Policy Feedback, and Civic Participation
109. Author Meets Critic: The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society by Mujun Zhou
110. Goffmanian Political Economy (IV): Selves and Bodies
111. Text Mining Across Space, Time, and Languages
112. Effects of Environmental Pressures
113. Sexuality, Race, and the Regulation of Difference
114. The Demographic Legacies of Slavery
115. Labor and Environment
116. Anti-Colonial Knowledge-Production: Affective Regimes, Fanon’s Revolutionary Psychiatry, and the General Union of Palestinian Writers
117. Morality in Economic and Political Transformations
118. Migrant Agencies and Countering State Mandates
119. Comparative Perspectives on State Ignorance
120. Historical Geographies of Childhood and Youth
121. Hegemony Unraveling: Crisis and Post-Crisis
122. Book Session. The Great Separation: The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Political Origins of Ordoeconomism, by Xiaohong Xu

Friday, November 20 / 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM

123. Presidential Session. Book Session on David Zaret, Petitioning and Power Relations in Pre-Modern Eurasia (Oxford University Press, 2025)
124. From Automation to Artificial Intelligence: Antilabor Technologies and Worker Resistance in Comparative and Historical Perspective
125. Beyond the Census I
126. Democratic Vulnerability, Diaspora Mobilization, and Advocacy Networks
127. The Ambivalence of Expertise in the Progressive and New Deal State
128. Goffmanian Political Economy (V): Policymaking and Performance
129. The City and Its Environments
130. State Institutions and Development
131. Islamic Political Thought, Sovereignty, and Alternative Modernities
132. Labor, Discipline, and the Gendered Social Question
133. Union Formation and Dissolution in Historical Perspective
134. Comparative-Historical Environmental Sociology Part Two: Modernity and its Others
135. Empire, Race, and Labour Movements
136. Fields, Organizations, and Differentiation
137. Author Meets Critics: Borders and Belonging by Hiroshi Motomura
138. Expertise and Accountability in Medicine: Case Studies from Around the World
139. Governing Childhoods: Labor, Discipline, and Marginality in South Asia
140. Power and Normativity in Society and History I: The Lives and Logics of Empire
141. Twentieth-Century Medical Perspectives

Saturday, November 21 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

142. Contested Intimacies: Gender, Knowledge, Desire, and the Making of Authority Across Modernities
143. Grassroots Labor Activism and Worker Solidarity
144. Beyond the Census II
145. Democratic Backsliding and Authoritarian Politics
146. Revolution Compared I: Classical Revolutions
147. Conflicting Imperial Political Economies
148. The World Historical Gazetteer as Shared Spatial Infrastructure for Social Science History
149. Development and Labor
150. The Chinese Reform as Social Science History (I): A Hundred Protagonists
151. The Global Color Line
152. Understanding Kinship and Family Dynamics
153. Colonialism, Decolonization, and Racial Capitalism
154. Aesthetics, Materiality, and Ideology
155. Author Meets Critics: Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America by Héctor Vera
156. Power and Normativity in Society and History II: Order and the Atlantic World

Saturday, November 21 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

157. Assessing Scales and Configurations of Segregation Using Fine-Grained Data: A Roundtable
158. Presidential Session: Populism and the New Right in the Global South
159. Building and Interpreting Censuses I
160. Past as Prologue: Migrant Labor, Migrant Rights, and “Multiculturalism” in Late Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
161. Theories of Consolidation, Legislative Politics, and Illiberal Contexts
162. Revolution Compared II: Revolutions Since Late Cold War
163. Black Power's Politics, Infrastructures and Afterlives: Authors Meet Collective Conversation
164. Book Session: Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey by Zeynep Ozgen.
165. Microdata Methods
166. The Chinese Reform as Social Science History (II): Temporality and Contingency
167. Labor Coercion and Class Formation in Global and Colonial Contexts
168. Racialized Local Spaces
169. Author Meets Critics: Andrew McCumber’s "Bad Nature: How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds," University of Chicago Press.
170. Critical Perspectives on US History
171. Prison Nation and Cop City: An Assessment of the Field of Carceral State History in the U.S.
172. Religion, State Formation and Political Authority
173. Tactics of Resistance Against Technocratic and Linguistic Domination
174. Childhoods in Postwar Eras
175. Power and Normativity in Society and History III: Power and Pluralism in Social Theory

Saturday, November 21 / 1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

176. Constructing and Responding to Crime
177. Building and Interpreting Censuses II
178. Imperialism, Migration, and the Welfare State
179. Red Guards, Elite Conflict, and the Cultural Revolution
180. Dollars, Debt, and Financial Risk
181. States Under Pressure
182. Geographies of Racialized Dispossession
183. Author Meets Critic: Ian Kumekawa, "Business State: Empire and Big Business in the Twentieth-Century British State."
184. The Chinese Reform as Social Science History (III): Braving the Market Waves
185. Labor, Political Economy, and the Expansion of Democracy
186. Confronting the White Supremacist Origins of Current Processes
187. Theorizing States and Modernity
188. Author Meets Critics Panel: Until the Last Ton: Fossil Fuels in India from Empire to the Climate Crisis by Matthew Shutzer
189. Author Meets Critic: Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX by Celene Reynolds
190. Governing by Classification: Archives, Imperial Time, and the Long Life of Colonial Rule

Saturday, November 21 / 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM

191. Presidential Session: book session on Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini. Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000. (Princeton University Press, 2025)
192. Violence, Gender, and Criminalization
193. Building and Interpreting Censuses III
194. Socialist Construction, Economic Reform, and Ideological Production in China and Taiwan
195. Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Removal, and Displacement
196. Revolutionary Writing, Identity, and Social Discourse
197. Mapping Perceptions of Space
198. The Chinese Reform as Social Science History (IV): Remaking Modernities
199. Author Meets Critic: The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth Century Immigration Debate by Sunmin Kim
200. Historical Ethnography with and beyond Benjamin
201. Religious Transformation, Community Formation, and Social Change

Sunday, November 22 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

202. Crime, Justice and the Law
203. Digitization and Linkage of the 1990 United States Census
204. Property Rights, Land Markets, and Cultural Industries
205. Racial Classification, Census Politics, and Jim Crow
206. Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Historical Analysis Between Short Term and Longue Durée
207. Advancing Spatial Methods
208. Contested Belonging in the Shadow of World War II: Gender, Nation, and Empire in East and Southeast Asia, 1937-1952
209. US Empire, Education, and Sociology
210. Why Some Rise and Others Don't: Inequality, Geography, and the Long Arc of State Formation
211. Author Meets Critics. Sacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews During the Holocaust by Aliza Luft

Sunday, November 22 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

212. Using IPUMS Full Count Data: Spatial Dimensions in Historical Data
213. Mapping Racial Violence
214. Émigré Regimes, Diaspora Mobilization, and Underground Resistance
215. Abolitionism, Coalition Formation, and Mobilization
216. Global Historical Sociologies of Violence: Enabling Violence
217. Red Flags and Colonial Frontiers: Ideology, Insurgency, and the Politics of Revolution
218. Race and Space
219. Author Meets Critics: Elena Jackson Albarrán, Good Neighbor Empires: Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas (Leiden: Brill, 2024)