Come for the keynote, stay for the cool and not at all nervous chairing.
This is so exciting to be a part of, though I admit I am absolutely dreading having to explain to the hideously well-informed readers of this subreddit that yes, I know I simplified everything massively to make my talk fit into ten minutes.
I'm just saying, I'll be at most* of the networking sessions, and this is a great opportunity to finally answer the age old question.
Is the digest actually run by a bot, or by a real human? Place your bets now!
(And if you know any good sites to hire a cheap actor on short notice let me know. Asking for a friend.)
If we signed up a couple of months ago via the newsletter do we need to sign up again.
I genuinely thought the first slide was just talking about 2020.
By now hopefully you have heard we're hosting an online Conference right here on the subreddit from Sept 15-17. We have a ton of exciting things planned and we don't want you to miss any of it!
Interested in watching the live keynote, "The Atomic Bomb and Visions of the New Post War Order", from /u/restricteddata?!
Want to shmooze and talk history with other members of the community at our live networking events?
Want to see it all? The full schedule is now available, so make sure to mark these down on your calendar! All Panels will be released on YouTube and perpetually accessible from their date onwards. Time refers to the AMA with the panelists that will be hosted on reddit.
Tuesday, September 17th
Panel 1 (10:00 am, ET): Indigenous Histories Disrupting Yours: Sovereignties, Histories and Power
Keynote Address (1:00 pm, ET): The Atomic Bomb and Visions of the New Post War Order
Panel 2 (4:00 pm, ET): How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse: Imagining Mass Destruction
Networking Day 1 (8:00 am and 8:00 pm, ET): Sessions on Academia
Wednesday, September 16
Panel 3 (10:00 am, ET): Pick Your Poison: Climate, Disease and Human Disaster from the Middle Ages to Today
Panel 4 (2:00 pm, ET): Sinners, Saints and Spies: Historical Women and Cultural Propaganda
Panel 5 (4:00 pm, ET): Power and Projections of Trauma in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Networking Day 2 (8:00 am and 8:00 pm, ET): Sessions on Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
Thursday, September 17
Panel 6 (10:00 am, ET): Being the Change that Others Don't Want: Asserting and Resisting Racial Hierarchies in Midcentury North America
Panel 7 (4:00 pm, ET): In Whose Trenches? Violence, Voice, and the Experience of War from Below
Panel 8 (6:00 pm, ET): Building the Nation, Dreaming of War: Nation-Building through Mythologies of Conflict
Networking Day 3 (8:00 am, 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm, ET): History by Era and AskHistorians META session