Attending #AHA25, the American Historical Association @ahahistorians.bsky.social annual meeting in NYC in January? I've organized two roundtables entitled "The Large and the Small: Trade-list History, Biography, and Memoir" parts 1 and 2. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #18thcentury 1/🧵 - ThreadSky

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social • 98 days ago

Attending #AHA25, the American Historical Association @ahahistorians.bsky.social annual meeting in NYC in January? I've organized two roundtables entitled "The Large and the Small: Trade-list History, Biography, and Memoir" parts 1 and 2. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #18thcentury 1/🧵

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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•98 days ago

The first panel is "Biography, Memoir, and Creative Nonfiction in Trade-List Writing." I'll be chairing @leahredmondchang.bsky.social, @marthasjones.bsky.social, Lilia Topouzova, and @tamaraw.bsky.social. 2/🧵 https://aha.confex.com/aha/2025/webprogram/Session25571.html

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•98 days ago

Writing trade-list narrative and creative non-fiction involves swapping between the telescope and the microscope at regular intervals. On the one hand, general readers are not looking for the narrow focus and intra-disciplinary debates of an academic monograph. 3/🧵

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•98 days ago

On the other hand, it is through rich, evocative examples of lives, deeds, and dilemmas that these readers can best appreciate what the past can tell us, how, and why we should care. 4/🧵

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•98 days ago

What opportunities do genres of trade-list narrative/creative history, memoir, and biography offer for telling stories at very large (environmental, multi-century) and very small (biographical, microhistorical) scales? 5/🧵

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•98 days ago

How might scholars navigate the challenges involved? And to what extent are modes of selection, structure, and voice that are atypical in academic writing more effective ways to gain insight and prompt empathy, curiosity and connection? 6/🧵

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•98 days ago

The second panel is “Big Ideas” Histories and Trade-List Writing. @leahredmondchang.bsky.social will chair me, @brdemuth.bsky.social, @carriegibson.bsky.social, and Rebekah E. Pite. 7/🧵

ansleyerickson.bsky.social•98 days ago

This sounds amazing and helpful! Maybe an incentive for this ny’er to go to when I likely would have skipped.

drsurekhadavies.bsky.social•98 days ago

Thanks! Just think how much less time and effort it will be to attend this year as opposed to one when it's not in your own backyard. :-)

historians.org•98 days ago

In case it's helpful, here is our teaching and learning guide for the annual meeting. There will be a number of sessions related to history education and education policy.

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