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At a Glance
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Friday, December 13, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET.
January 3-5, 2025
- ACHA members: $40
- ACHA members with student and contingent faculty status: $20
- Non-ACHA members: $80
ACHA sessions are currently listed on the AHA conference schedule. We’ll be posting the official ACHA conference program in December.
All presenters must register for both the AHA and ACHA meetings. (AHA registration is here.)
We will be hosting our annual ACHA Social and Presidential Luncheon on Saturday, as well as a Sunday night off-site panel.
Participants are able to book discounted accommodations at any of the official conference hotels on the AHA hotels page. The ACHA’s headquarters hotel will be the Sheraton New York Times Square.
We are looking forward to a wonderful New York conference this January! The program is packed with a rich variety of papers, panels, and presentations that are sure to draw great interest from our members and other attendees.
In keeping with this year’s Call for Papers, we were pleased to receive many submissions on New York’s history as a springboard for exploring how Catholicism has shaped and been shaped by diverse practices, institution building, local and global politics, geographic mobility, and new forms of media. We received many submissions on Catholic media, material culture, and the “tangible things” of Catholic practice. We are also pleased to feature sessions on pedagogy, publishing, and critical archives studies. Other topics run the gamut, from early modern Catholicism to contemporary Catholic politics, so there is something for everyone.
The program once again includes a number of social and special events. On Saturday afternoon, be sure to join us for the Presidential Luncheon, which will feature the presentation of the ACHA’s prizes and awards, followed by a special Presidential Roundtable on Global Catholic Cinema, organized by Tony Smith. Thanks to the work of Charles Strauss and Jim Carroll, on Saturday evening the ACHA liturgy will take place off-site with a lively social planned for the Old Town Bar, who hosted us during ACHA 2020. Sunday evening, in what has become a popular new tradition, we are once again sponsoring an off-site and informal evening panel at the Frigid NYC theater in St. Mark’s Place. This year’s theme will be “Warp Catholicism.” Together, write organizers Jack Downey and Katie Holscher, “participants and audience will depart New York City and travel Catholic timewarps and spacewarps on a fantastic voyage!”
Along with my fellow program committee members, Tim Dulle and Michael Pasquier, I look forward to seeing you in New York on January 3-5, 2025 for the 105th Annual Meeting of the ACHA.
Monica L. Mercado
Chair, Program Committee