How are the sessions chosen and organized for the annual meetings?
The First Vice President of SAH serves as the General Chair for each annual meeting. The General Chair selects and organizes the sessions for the annual meeting from those that are submitted following the solicitation for session proposals that appears annually in the SAH Newsletter. All session proposals that focus on the history of the built environment are considered for inclusion. The number of sessions is limited by the duration of the annual meeting (Thursday through Saturday) and the number of simultaneous sessions (five) that can be accommodated by the meeting venue. The meeting includes 25 paper sessions with at least four or five speakers in each session. The scheduling of the sessions is done by the First Vice President and the SAH Manager of Meetings and Tours in an effort to provide a balanced program without sessions on the same topics competing.
