Every year Historians for Peace and Democracy, in partnership with Radical History Review, organizes our own mini-conference at the AHA. As an affiliate society, our panels are listed in the program and very well-attended [see the 2025 listing].

If you would like to submit a panel or roundtable for next year’s Annual Meeting, January 8-11 in Chicago, please fill out this form, including an abstract and title for your panel, plus titles and abstracts for individual talks, contact information for all speakers, etc.

Our deadline is April 15, so we can submit the full conference listing to the AHA for the program by May 31. We seek sessions dealing with all periods and places in history, and are especially interested in panels addressing (and including) K-12 teachers. We are open to co-sponsoring panels submitted to the AHA Program Committee, whether or not they have been accepted.

HPAD IPWG member Pam Murray is putting together a panel:

Call for participants in roundtable on “historians as activists: the case of Palestine Solidarity
Movements” for 139th annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago, Jan. 8-11, 2026.

The proposed roundtable will bring together professional historians of diverse backgrounds to share
their experiences and reflect on their involvement in local, regional, national or international Palestine
solidarity movements. Key questions to be addressed include: what role (s) have individual historians
played within these movements? How have they collaborated with other (mainly non-historian)
activists, bridging the proverbial divide btwn “town & gown”? How have they used their skills and
knowledge to challenge public complacency and negotiate a hostile political environment?

Although much of my own experience has been with the Palestine solidarity movement in Birmingham,
Al, I believe there is much to be learned from each other and from historians across the nation.

With due apologies for this late notice, if you are interested in being a roundtable participant, please
contact me via e-mail as soon as possible or at least before April 15.(email Pam here)