- 2016, Atlanta
- Luncheon: Douglas Howland, “International Law and Globalization in Nineteenth-Century Asia”
- 2015, New York
- Luncheon: Dilip Menon,“Writing Indian History After Subaltern Studies”
- Panel: The Religious Society of Friends in U.S.-Japan Relations, 1880s–1950s: International Marriage, Humanitarian Aid, Homestay Families
- Sally Ann Hastings, Purdue University (chair and comment)
- Sharlie Ushioda, Lower Merion School District (Pennsylvania)
- Marlene Mayo, University of Maryland at College Park
- Elyssa Faison, University of Oklahoma
- 2014, Washington, D.C.
- Luncheon: Thomas S. Mullaney, “Waiting for Cadmus: Chinese Script in the Age of Alphanumeric Hegemony, 1871-Present”
- Reception, joint with the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia
- 2013, New Orleans (Muriel’s Jackson Square)
- Luncheon: Roundtable: “We’ve Come a Long Way”: Asia at the AHA
Speakers:
- George M. Wilson, Indiana University
- Barbara Ramusack, University of Cincinnati
- Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago, president-elect AHA
Reception
- 2012, Chicago
- Luncheon: Naoyuki Umemori (Waseda University), “An Origin of Postwar Japanese Nationalism: Eto Jun and His Appropriation of Civil War”
- Roundtable (jointly sponsored with SAHSA): Mobility as Subject: Histories of Non-places
- Dilip Menon, “Itinerant Territoriality: The Spaces and Times of Postcolonial History.”
Panelists:- Kate McDonald (UCSB)
- Hyun Ok Park (York)
- Ken Pomeranz (UCI)
Reception, Joint with the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia
- 2011, Boston
- Luncheon: Mark Bradley (University of Chicago), “Vietnam and the Postcolonial”
- 2010, San Diego
- Luncheon: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), “History of the Future in Old and New Shanghai”
- 2009, New York
- Luncheon: Eugenia Lean (Columbia University), “Sandalwood Soap, Carthamus tinctorius L., and Hydraulic Acid: Science for the Inner Chambers in Early Twentieth-Century China”
- 2008, Washington, DC
- Luncheon: Anand Yang (University of Washington), “Empire of Crime: Convicts and the Colonial State in South and Southeast Asia”
- 2007, Atlanta
- Luncheon: Marcia Yonemoto (University of Colorado), “The Geography of Gender in Early Modern Japan”
- 2006, Philadelphia
- Luncheon: Kenneth L. Pomeranz (University of California, Irvine), “China and India: Historical Reflections on Comparative Development”
- 2005, Seattle
- Luncheon: Mary Elizabeth Berry (University of California, Berkeley), “Cultural Literacy and National Formation in Seventeenth-Century Japan”
- 2004, Washington, DC
- Luncheon: Jonathan Spence (Yale University), “The Fall of the Ming: National or Personal?”
- 2003, Chicago
- Luncheon: Ronald P. Toby (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Alien Texts/Native Readings: History Writing in Early Modern Japan”
- 2002, San Francisco
- Luncheon: Paul Cohen (Harvard University), “National Humiliation in Twentieth-Century China”
- 2001, Boston
- Luncheon: John Dower (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Postwar Japan and the Cultures of Defeat”
- 2000, Chicago
- Luncheon: Sumathi Ramaswamy University of Michigan, “History in the Shadow of Loss”
- 1999, Washington
- Luncheon: Leslie Pincus (University of Michigan), “Toward a Political History of Aesthetics in Modern Japan”
- 1998, Seattle
- Luncheon: Gail Hershatter (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Dangerous Pleasures? The Study of Gender in China”
- 1997, New York
- Luncheon: Kären Wigen (Duke University), “Regional Identities in Modern Japan”
- 1996, Atlanta
- Luncheon: Prasenjit Duara (University of Chicago), “Gender/National History: The View from East Asia”
- 1995, Chicago
- Luncheon: Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), “Postwar Japan as History”
- 1994, San Francisco
- Luncheon: Harry Harootunian (University of Chicago), “Overcome by Modernity: Japanese Reflections on Life in the Twenties”
- 1992, Washington
- Luncheon: Jackson Bailey (Earlham College), “Preserving the Family Tradition in Japan: The Kumagais of Tanohata”
- 1991, Chicago
- Luncheon: Bruce Cumings (University of Chicago), “History and Memory: Why the Korean War is Forgotten”
- 1990, New York
- Luncheon: Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. (University of California, Berkeley), “Shanghai Gangsters: The Place of Crime in Modern Chinese History”
- 1989, San Francisco
- Luncheon: Michael Schaller (University of Arizona), “America’s Most Asian Expert? Douglas MacArthur”
- 1988, Cincinnati
- Luncheon: Tetsuo Najita (University of Chicago), “Japanese History: New Sources, New Ideas”
- 1974-1987
- no CAH sessions
- 1973, San Francisco
- Luncheon: Immanuel C.Y. Hsu (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Modern China and It’s Identity Crisis
- 1972, New Orleans
- Luncheon: D.G.E. Hall (Cornell University), “The Claims of Southeast Asian History”
- 1971, New York
- Luncheon: Karl A. Wittfogel (New York City), “The Classical View of Asian History and Society”
- 1970, Boston
- Luncheon: Edwin O. Reischauer
- 1968, New York
- Luncheon: Ping-ti Ho (University of Chicago), “Chinese Origins: The Birth of China Reconsidered”
- 1967, Toronto
- Luncheon: Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley), “On the Value of Asian Travel”
- Session (joint with CAH): The Mongols and Medieval Europe
Denis Sinor (Indiana University), chair and discussant
“The Mongols in Russia” – Alexander V. Riasanovsky (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Mongols and Western Europe” – Jean Richard (Universite de Dijon) - 1966, New York
- Session (joint with CAH): Leaders of Nationalism in Asia
Arthur F. Wright (Yale University), chair
“Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani: Pan Islam as Proto-Nationalism” – Nikki Keddie (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Revolution” – Paul Lin (McGill University)
“Gandhi and the Historians” – Martin D. Lewis (Sir George Williams University)
“The Significance of Kemal Ataturk” – Niyazi Berkes, (McGill University)
Comment: Stephen N. Hay (University of California, Santa Barbara) - Luncheon: John K. Fairbank (Harvard University), “Problems of Sinology as an International Enterprise”
- 1965, San Francisco
- Luncheon: Joseph Levenson (University of California, Berkeley), “History and Cosmopolitanism”
- Session ( joint with CAH): Liberty Under Law in Contemporary East Asia: The Impact of the Past Upon the Rights of the Accused
Dan F. Henderson (University of Washington), chair
“Criminal Procedure in China” – Jerome A. Cohen, (Harvard Law School)
“Criminal Procedure in Japan” – B.J. George (University of Michigan)
Comment:
“Some Comparisons with the Development of Criminal Procedure in the West” – John P. Dawson, Harvard Law School
“Evaluating the Persistence of Tradition” – Albert Feuerwerker, University of Michigan - 1964, Washington, DC
- Luncheon: Kenneth P. Landon (Foreign Service Institute), “Southeast Asian Studies and United States Foreign Policy”
- Session (joint with CAH): Perspectives on Medieval Eurasia
Denis Sinor (Indiana University), chair
“Asia in the 7th to 9th Centuries: Unifying and Divisive Factors” – Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley)
“The Place of Islam in Eurasian History” – Marshall G.S. Hodgson (University of Chicago)
Comment: S.D. Goitein, University of Pennsylvania - 1963, Philadelphia
- Luncheon: Harry J. Benda (Yale University), “Modern Indonesia under the Historian’s Looking Glass”
- 1962, Chicago
- no CAH session
- 1960, New York
- Luncheon: Amuya Chakravarty (Boston University), “Tagor and Contemporary Asia”
- 1959, Chicago
- Session (joint with CAH): Marxism in Asia
Eugene Boardman (University of Wisconsin), chair
“Marxist Historiography in Japan” – George M. Beckmann (University of Kansas)
“The Marxist View of Modern India” – Gene D. Overstreet (Swarthmore College)
“China’s Modern History in Marxian Dress” – Albert Feuerwerker (Harvard University; University of Michigan) - Luncheon: H.G. Creel (University of Chicago), “The Chinese Origin of Examination and Its Significance in World History”
- 1958, Washington, D.C.
- Luncheon: Hamilton A.R. Gibb (Harvard University), “Near Eastern Bureaucracy”
- Session (joint with Conference on Asian History): Liberalism and Nationalism
Hans Kohn (City College of New York), chair
“The Middle East” – Howard A, Reed (American Friends Service Committee)
“Japan” – Delmer M. Brown (University of California, Berkeley)
“Western Europe” – Eugene Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles) - 1957, New York
- Session (joint with CAH): The Teaching of Asian History at the College Level
Eugene P. Boardman (University of Wisconsin), chair
“An Integrated Approach in an All-Asia Survey Course” – Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley)
“An Interdisciplinary Course at the Undergraduate Level” – John K. Fairbank (Harvard University)
Comment: Meribeth E. Cameron, Holyoke College - Luncheon: Owen Lattimore (The Johns Hopkins University), “Status and Politics in Inner Asia”
- 1955, Washington, D.C.
- Luncheon: W. Norman Brown (University of Pennsylvania), “The Sacred Cow”
- 1954, New York
- Luncheon: L. Carrington Goodrich (Columbia University), “Westerners and Central Asians in Yuan China”
2014, Washington, D.C.Luncheon: Thomas S. Mullaney, “Waiting for Cadmus: Chinese Script in the Age of Alphanumeric Hegemony, 1871-Present”Reception, joint with the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia
- 2013, New Orleans (Muriel’s Jackson Square)
- Luncheon: Roundtable: “We’ve Come a Long Way”: Asia at the AHA
Speakers:
- George M. Wilson, Indiana University
- Barbara Ramusack, University of Cincinnati
- Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago, president-elect AHA
Reception
- 2012, Chicago
- Luncheon: Naoyuki Umemori (Waseda University), “An Origin of Postwar Japanese Nationalism: Eto Jun and His Appropriation of Civil War”
- Roundtable (jointly sponsored with SAHSA): Mobility as Subject: Histories of Non-places
- Dilip Menon, “Itinerant Territoriality: The Spaces and Times of Postcolonial History.”
Panelists:- Kate McDonald (UCSB)
- Hyun Ok Park (York)
- Ken Pomeranz (UCI)
Reception, Joint with the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia
- 2011, Boston
- Luncheon: Mark Bradley (University of Chicago), “Vietnam and the Postcolonial”
- 2010, San Diego
- Luncheon: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), “History of the Future in Old and New Shanghai”
- 2009, New York
- Luncheon: Eugenia Lean (Columbia University), “Sandalwood Soap, Carthamus tinctorius L., and Hydraulic Acid: Science for the Inner Chambers in Early Twentieth-Century China”
- 2008, Washington, DC
- Luncheon: Anand Yang (University of Washington), “Empire of Crime: Convicts and the Colonial State in South and Southeast Asia”
- 2007, Atlanta
- Luncheon: Marcia Yonemoto (University of Colorado), “The Geography of Gender in Early Modern Japan”
- 2006, Philadelphia
- Luncheon: Kenneth L. Pomeranz (University of California, Irvine), “China and India: Historical Reflections on Comparative Development”
- 2005, Seattle
- Luncheon: Mary Elizabeth Berry (University of California, Berkeley), “Cultural Literacy and National Formation in Seventeenth-Century Japan”
- 2004, Washington, DC
- Luncheon: Jonathan Spence (Yale University), “The Fall of the Ming: National or Personal?”
- 2003, Chicago
- Luncheon: Ronald P. Toby (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Alien Texts/Native Readings: History Writing in Early Modern Japan”
- 2002, San Francisco
- Luncheon: Paul Cohen (Harvard University), “National Humiliation in Twentieth-Century China”
- 2001, Boston
- Luncheon: John Dower (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Postwar Japan and the Cultures of Defeat”
- 2000, Chicago
- Luncheon: Sumathi Ramaswamy University of Michigan, “History in the Shadow of Loss”
- 1999, Washington
- Luncheon: Leslie Pincus (University of Michigan), “Toward a Political History of Aesthetics in Modern Japan”
- 1998, Seattle
- Luncheon: Gail Hershatter (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Dangerous Pleasures? The Study of Gender in China”
- 1997, New York
- Luncheon: Kären Wigen (Duke University), “Regional Identities in Modern Japan”
- 1996, Atlanta
- Luncheon: Prasenjit Duara (University of Chicago), “Gender/National History: The View from East Asia”
- 1995, Chicago
- Luncheon: Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), “Postwar Japan as History”
- 1994, San Francisco
- Luncheon: Harry Harootunian (University of Chicago), “Overcome by Modernity: Japanese Reflections on Life in the Twenties”
- 1992, Washington
- Luncheon: Jackson Bailey (Earlham College), “Preserving the Family Tradition in Japan: The Kumagais of Tanohata”
- 1991, Chicago
- Luncheon: Bruce Cumings (University of Chicago), “History and Memory: Why the Korean War is Forgotten”
- 1990, New York
- Luncheon: Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. (University of California, Berkeley), “Shanghai Gangsters: The Place of Crime in Modern Chinese History”
- 1989, San Francisco
- Luncheon: Michael Schaller (University of Arizona), “America’s Most Asian Expert? Douglas MacArthur”
- 1988, Cincinnati
- Luncheon: Tetsuo Najita (University of Chicago), “Japanese History: New Sources, New Ideas”
- 1974-1987
- no CAH sessions
- 1973, San Francisco
- Luncheon: Immanuel C.Y. Hsu (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Modern China and It’s Identity Crisis
- 1972, New Orleans
- Luncheon: D.G.E. Hall (Cornell University), “The Claims of Southeast Asian History”
- 1971, New York
- Luncheon: Karl A. Wittfogel (New York City), “The Classical View of Asian History and Society”
- 1970, Boston
- Luncheon: Edwin O. Reischauer
- 1968, New York
- Luncheon: Ping-ti Ho (University of Chicago), “Chinese Origins: The Birth of China Reconsidered”
- 1967, Toronto
- Luncheon: Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley), “On the Value of Asian Travel”
- Session (joint with CAH): The Mongols and Medieval Europe
Denis Sinor (Indiana University), chair and discussant
“The Mongols in Russia” – Alexander V. Riasanovsky (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Mongols and Western Europe” – Jean Richard (Universite de Dijon) - 1966, New York
- Session (joint with CAH): Leaders of Nationalism in Asia
Arthur F. Wright (Yale University), chair
“Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani: Pan Islam as Proto-Nationalism” – Nikki Keddie (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Revolution” – Paul Lin (McGill University)
“Gandhi and the Historians” – Martin D. Lewis (Sir George Williams University)
“The Significance of Kemal Ataturk” – Niyazi Berkes, (McGill University)
Comment: Stephen N. Hay (University of California, Santa Barbara) - Luncheon: John K. Fairbank (Harvard University), “Problems of Sinology as an International Enterprise”
- 1965, San Francisco
- Luncheon: Joseph Levenson (University of California, Berkeley), “History and Cosmopolitanism”
- Session ( joint with CAH): Liberty Under Law in Contemporary East Asia: The Impact of the Past Upon the Rights of the Accused
Dan F. Henderson (University of Washington), chair
“Criminal Procedure in China” – Jerome A. Cohen, (Harvard Law School)
“Criminal Procedure in Japan” – B.J. George (University of Michigan)
Comment:
“Some Comparisons with the Development of Criminal Procedure in the West” – John P. Dawson, Harvard Law School
“Evaluating the Persistence of Tradition” – Albert Feuerwerker, University of Michigan - 1964, Washington, DC
- Luncheon: Kenneth P. Landon (Foreign Service Institute), “Southeast Asian Studies and United States Foreign Policy”
- Session (joint with CAH): Perspectives on Medieval Eurasia
Denis Sinor (Indiana University), chair
“Asia in the 7th to 9th Centuries: Unifying and Divisive Factors” – Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley)
“The Place of Islam in Eurasian History” – Marshall G.S. Hodgson (University of Chicago)
Comment: S.D. Goitein, University of Pennsylvania - 1963, Philadelphia
- Luncheon: Harry J. Benda (Yale University), “Modern Indonesia under the Historian’s Looking Glass”
- 1962, Chicago
- no CAH session
- 1960, New York
- Luncheon: Amuya Chakravarty (Boston University), “Tagor and Contemporary Asia”
- 1959, Chicago
- Session (joint with CAH): Marxism in Asia
Eugene Boardman (University of Wisconsin), chair
“Marxist Historiography in Japan” – George M. Beckmann (University of Kansas)
“The Marxist View of Modern India” – Gene D. Overstreet (Swarthmore College)
“China’s Modern History in Marxian Dress” – Albert Feuerwerker (Harvard University; University of Michigan) - Luncheon: H.G. Creel (University of Chicago), “The Chinese Origin of Examination and Its Significance in World History”
- 1958, Washington, D.C.
- Luncheon: Hamilton A.R. Gibb (Harvard University), “Near Eastern Bureaucracy”
- Session (joint with Conference on Asian History): Liberalism and Nationalism
Hans Kohn (City College of New York), chair
“The Middle East” – Howard A, Reed (American Friends Service Committee)
“Japan” – Delmer M. Brown (University of California, Berkeley)
“Western Europe” – Eugene Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles) - 1957, New York
- Session (joint with CAH): The Teaching of Asian History at the College Level
Eugene P. Boardman (University of Wisconsin), chair
“An Integrated Approach in an All-Asia Survey Course” – Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley)
“An Interdisciplinary Course at the Undergraduate Level” – John K. Fairbank (Harvard University)
Comment: Meribeth E. Cameron, Holyoke College - Luncheon: Owen Lattimore (The Johns Hopkins University), “Status and Politics in Inner Asia”
- 1955, Washington, D.C.
- Luncheon: W. Norman Brown (University of Pennsylvania), “The Sacred Cow”
- 1954, New York
- Luncheon: L. Carrington Goodrich (Columbia University), “Westerners and Central Asians in Yuan China”