Western History Association (WHA)
2024-10-23 - 2024-10-26 | Kansas City, MO
The 64th Annual WHA Conference will be hosted at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center from October 23-26 (Wednesday-Saturday). The 2024 conference will be held concurrently with the Southern Historical Association.
The 2024 WHA President is Kelly Lytle Hernández, a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and the book Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022).

PLA's Annual Convention and Trade Show
2025-02-02 - 2025-02-06 | Westgate Las Vegas, 3000 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV, 89109, United States
The annual Convention and Trade Show (PLA) is the premier gathering for leaders in the public lands sector to network, gain essential tools, and explore products that enhance the visitor experience and support conservation, preservation, and enrichment efforts.

Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual Meeting
2025-04-23 - 2025-04-27 | Denver, CO
The 90th Annual Meeting will be held April 23–April 27, 2025, in Denver, Colorado.
The program is composed of general sessions, symposia, forums, lightning rounds, posters, and workshops. The SAA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of archaeologists of the Americas, and it offers unparalleled networking opportunities in its exhibit hall, excursions, and receptions and career-development opportunities.
The meeting has a wide audience that ranges from anyone who has interest in archaeology to experts in the field. Attendees come from all over the United States and from over 45 countries! With a wide variety of presentations and events, attendees are able to learn something new, meet new contacts, and reconnect with old friends.

Mormon History Association Conference
2025-06-05 - 2025-06-08 | Ogden, UT, Ogden, UT, United States
The Mormon History Association invites you to Ogden, Utah for its sixtieth annual conference to be held June 5-8, 2025. Situated on the Ogden and Weber Rivers near where they join the Great Salt Lake, and nicknamed “Junction City” when it became the connecting point between numerous railroad lines, Ogden has long been a site of junctions. Long before Latter-day Saints dreamed of an American Zion in the Great Basin, ancestors of Shoshone and other indigenous peoples criss-crossed the region, establishing trade networks and sharing languages, settlements, and cultures.
Ogden highlights a confluence of events and dynamics that shaped Mormon settlement, identity, and culture, and ensured that the tradition would always be intertwined with the wider world. The railroad especially brought diverse groups to Ogden. Wealthy investors and industrialists as well as Black Americans and Chinese, Japanese, German, and Irish immigrants were drawn to the burgeoning railroad town and its economic opportunities, bringing greater influence from the margins. They built communities that both constituted and contradicted centers of Latter-day Saint power, resulting in diversity, and alternative directions. Conversely, families like Apostle Franklin D. and Jane S. Richards represented Ogden’s influence on the highest levels of the church.

Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square
2025-10-11 08:00 - 2025-10-12 17:00 (America/Denver) | Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111
The Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square will take place on Friday, October 11 and Saturday, October 12. All events are at the Salt Lake City Public Library’s Main Library in downtown Salt Lake City.
Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.

Great Basin Anthropological Association (GBAA)
2025-10-15 - 2025-10-18 | Whitney Peak Hotel, NV, 255 N Virginia St, Reno, NV, 89501, United States
The GBAA promotes the study of the peoples and cultures of the Great Basin of the western United States and its relationship to adjacent regions.
Join Us in RENO, NEVADA for the 39th Biennial GBAC – OCTOBER 15-18, 2025

Western History Association (WHA)
2025-10-15 - 2025-10-18 | Convention Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States
The Western History Association’s annual conference is a four-day event scheduled in October. It features over 120 sessions, roundtables, workshops, and professional panels on all aspects of the North American West. Participants enjoy meals, receptions, awards ceremonies, and tours to nearby historic sites and cultural centers.

Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
2025-11-22 - 2025-11-25 | Westin Downtown Washington, DC, Washington, DC, United States
The MESA is a non-profit association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom in accordance with its status as a 501(c)(3) scientific, educational, literary, and charitable organization.
