CFH at AHA 2020
The CFH is hosting multiple events at this year’s upcoming American Historical Association meeting in New York City.
CFH Program at the AHA Annual Meeting
New York City
January 3-4, 2020
Lament as a Historical Practice
Friday, January 3, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Sheraton New York, Sugar Hill
Chair: Jay Green, Covenant College
Papers:
Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July Speech and Lament in American History
Trisha D Posey, John Brown University
Justice Everywhere: The Prison to
College Pipeline Program, Mass Incarceration, and Race Historical Continuity in
Mississippi
Otis Pickett, Mississippi College
“How Long, O Lord?” A Historical Pedagogy of Lament
Timothy Fritz, Mount St. Mary’s University
Comment: The Audience
CFH Breakfast Reception
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
New York Hilton, Green Room
Educating for Activism? Historians and Politics in the Contemporary United States
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
New York Hilton, New York Room
Chair: Heath Carter, Princeton Theological Seminary
Speaker(s):
Beth Allison Barr, Baylor University
Cara Burnidge, University of Northern Iowa
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Calvin College
Philipp Gollner, Goshen College
Luke E. Harlow, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Kathryn Lofton, Yale University
Jemar Tisby, University of Mississippi
Comment: The Audience
What Is Race? Historical and Theological Retrieval in American Christianity
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
New York Hilton, New York Room
Chair: Rita Roberts, Scripps College
Papers:
Before Ontological Blackness: Race and the 18th-Century Black Calvinist
Tradition
Steven Harris, Harvard University
“The Blood That Made America
Great”: German Racial Thought in Southern Protestantism
Joel Iliff, Baylor University
Racism as Vice: Towards a Thomistic Account of an Ill-Defined Phenomenon
Nathan Cartagena, Wheaton College
Comment: The Audience