AHS Annual Meeting 2025 - Ebbs and Flows. Water and Agriculture

RHN 59/2025 | Event

Organisers: Agricultural History Society (AHS)

5 – 7 June 2025, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

 

AHS Annual Meeting
Ebbs and Flows. Water and Agriculture

Program

Thursday, June 5

8:15-8:30 Welcome

8:30-10:00 Opening Plenary: “The (R)evolution of Indigenous Foodways” by Sean Sherman

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Presidential Address: “Indian Landlords and Socialist Votes: Imperial Indigestion in Oklahoma” by Sarah T. Phillips

12:00-1:30 Lunch in Minnesota Court (included with conference registration)

1:30-3:00 Session I

  1. Remembering the Rural Experience
  2. Roundtable: Diplomacy and Food Security
  3. Troubling the Waters: Recovering Water’s Impact on the Productivity and Vernacular Knowledge of Black Watermen and Farmers
  4. A Thirst for Water in the High Desert: Management, Conservation, and Land Use in the Twentieth Century
  5. Water and Agriculture in Iowa

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 Session II

  1. Intersections of Agriculture and Military Histories: From the American Civil War to the Two World Wars
  2. Roundtable: Rethinking Wheat Culture, Then and Now
  3. The Midwest and American Liberalism: A Discussion of The Liberal Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest
  4. German-Speaking Farmers and the Americas, 1760-1980

5:30-7:30 Graduate Student Reception in the Lounge at Citizen (for graduate students)

 

Friday, June 6

7:30-8:30 Rural Women’s Studies Association Breakfast (for RWSA members and guests)

8:30-10:00 Session III

  1. Farming and Colonization in Settler Drylands
  2. Sketches, Snapshots, and Stitches: Artifacts with Hidden Histories of Agriculture and Rural Life in US History
  3. The Political Development of American Debt Relief
  4. Roundtable: Thinking at the Intersection of Religion and Agriculture in the Modern United States
  5. Agroenvironmental Knowledge on the Move

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break & Poster Presentations

10:30-12:00 Session IV

  1. Water Infrastructure Through Art and Artefacts
  2. Bovine Economies
  3. Food Assistance and the Farm Bill: Current Challenges in Historical Perspective
  4. Roundtable on Diana Alejandra Méndez Rojas' Modernización nacional, experticia transnacional. Itinerarios de los becarios en ciencias agrícolas de la Fundación Rockefeller en México
  5. Federal Policy and Natural Disasters

12:30-5:30 Optional Conference Tour (pre-registration required)


Saturday, June 7

8:30-10:00 Session V

  1. Measuring Weather
  2. Climate in the Great Plains
  3. Roundtable: James C. Scott’s Enduring Legacy for Agricultural Historians
  4. What Did They Eat? Culinary Influences on Environmental Thinking

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session VI

  1. Lifecycles of Minnesota Farms
  2. Gender and Rural North America
  3. On the Other Side of the Mountain: Intermountain Water Transfers in Colorado
  4. Ancient Water Bodies, New Approaches: Managing and Modifying Water and Aquatic Life for Modern Chinese Agriculture
  5. Federal Policy and Planning

12:00-1:30 Lunch (on your own)

1:30-3:00 Session VII

  1. Rural Women and Culture
  2. Policy and Communities
  3. Roundtable: The Family Farm Movement’s Response to the Farm Crisis of the 1980’s
  4. New Perspectives on Agriculture in the US
  5. Agrarian Environments and Slavery

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 Session VIII

  1. Hydraulic Engineering and Local Communities
  2. Animals and Rural Landscapes
  3. Climate Change and Agriculture in Southeast Asia
  4. Irrigation and Arid Modernities

5:30-6:30 AHS Business Meeting (open to everyone)

6:30-9:00 Awards Reception & Post-Conference Unwind

 

Further information and the full conference program can be found here.

 

 

Source: https://www.aghistorysociety.org/2025-meeting