“Chairman Fred Lives”: The Life and Legacies of Fred Hampton, Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Water Tower Parlor (Palmer House Hilton, Sixth Floor)
Chair:
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
Panel:
Simon Balto, University of Iowa
Michael Klonsky, Hitting Left
Aislinn Pulley, Page May, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Assata’s Daughters
Jakobi Williams, Toussaint Losier, Indiana University, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Hofstadter’s Ghosts: Reconsidering Populism, Extremism, and Conservatism in 20th-Century History
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Continental C (Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level)
Chair:
David Walsh, Princeton University
Panel:
Anton Jäger, University of Cambridge
Tim Lacy, Loyola University Chicago
Leo P. Ribuffo, George Washington University
Elizabeth Sanders, Cornell University

Divided Loyalties in the United States: Polarization and Partisanship in Contemporary America
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Continental A (Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level)
Chair:
Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University
Panel:
Nicole R. Hemmer, University of Virginia
Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers University at Newark
Leah Wright Rigueur, Harvard University
Julian Zelizer, Princeton University and CNN

Plenary Session: Displaced Persons: The Present Crisis and Its Histories
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 8:00 PM-9:30 PM
State Ballroom (Palmer House Hilton, Fourth Floor)
Chair:
María Cristina García, Cornell University
Speakers:
David N. Myers, University of California, Los Angeles
Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa
Geraldo Lujan Cadava, Northwestern University

Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Water Tower Parlor (Palmer House Hilton, Sixth Floor)
Chair:
Marc Becker, Truman State University
Papers:
Afro-Caribbean Migrants, the Labor Movement, and Communists in the Greater Caribbean, 1900–30
Jacob Zumoff, New Jersey City University
Semi-Colonials and Soviets: Latin American Communists in the USSR, 1928–35
Tony Wood, New York University
Loyalty among Comrades: Relations between the Communist Party USA and the Communist Party of Puerto Rico
Margaret M. Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Relations between Latin American Communists and Their European and Chinese Comrades
Marc Becker, Truman State University

Historians and the Public Sphere in Turbulent Political Times
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Continental C (Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level)
Chair:
Daniel M. Bessner, University of Washington
Panel:
Daniel M. Bessner, University of Washington
Patrick Iber, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nancy MacLean, Duke University
Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine
Alejandro Velasco, New York University

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? The Debate over Free Speech on Campus
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Continental A (Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level)
Chair:
Claire Potter, The New School
Panel:
Samantha Harris, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Sean Decatur, Kenyon College
Stanley Fish, Florida International University and Benjamin Cardozo School of Law

Neoliberalism: The History and Future of a Word
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Continental A (Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level)
Chair: Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago
Panel:
Leslie M. Harris, Northwestern University
James Livingston, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Teresa A. Meade, Union College

Photography, Working Histories, Laboring Lives: A Companion Panel to Radical History Review Issue 132
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Salon 7 (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Kevin P. Coleman, University of Toronto Mississauga
Papers:
Chris Killip and Latoya Ruby Frazier: The Promise of a Class Aesthetic
Daniel Zamora, University of Cambridge
El Dorado in the White Pines: Representations of Wilderness on an Industrial Frontier
Siobhan Angus, York University
Working the Kodak Zone: The Labor Relations of Race and Photography in the Philippine Cordilleras
Adrian De Leon, University of Toronto
Capturing Capitalism’s Work: Competing Photo-Narratives of the Bracero Program
Erica Toffoli, University of Toronto
Imagining Racial Equality: Local 65s Union Photographers, Postwar Civil Rights, and the Power of the Real, 1940–55
Carol Quirke, SUNY Old Westbury
Handsworth Song: Working People and Black Radical Photography
Ian Bourland, Maryland Institute College of Art
The Back of the Photograph: Making Meaning in the Archives
Rick Halpern, University of Toronto
Comment:
Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago

Unfaking the News: Historians in the Media in the Era of Trump
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Waldorf Room (Hilton Chicago, Third Floor)
Chair:
Kenneth Osgood, Colorado School of Mines
Panel:
Jeffrey Engel, Southern Methodist University
Nicole R. Hemmer, University of Virginia
Timothy Naftali, New America Foundation
Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin
Julian Zelizer, Princeton University and CNN

Teaching US History in the Age of Trump: An International Perspective
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Continental B (Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level)
Chair:
James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago
Panel:
Mario Del Paro, SciencesPo
Shanon Fitzpatrick, McGill University
Sarah Miller-Davenport, University of Sheffield
Emily Remus, University of Notre Dame
Joshua Specht, Monash University

Everything You Wanted to Know about Community Engagement (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Continental C (Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level)
Chair:
Paul Ortiz, University of Florida
Panel:
Farina King, Northeastern State University
Robert Taber, Fayetteville State University
Natasha Varner, Densho
Comment:
Paul Ortiz, University of Florida