Editor’s Note: If you’ve not looked at our banner recently, you may not know that Points readers is an official organ for the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS), an affiliated organization of the American Historical Association. That venerable body holds its annual meeting next weekend, and the ADHS is sponsoring two sessions chock full of cutting edge drug and alcohol history. Mark your calendars for the following:
Friday, Jan. 6, 9:30–11:30 a.m. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Parlor G. Rival Notions of Respectability: Moral Injunction & Commercial Regulation in the Matter of Alcoholic Drinks
Chair and Commentator: Elaine Frantz Parsons, Duquesne University
Self Control and Gender Boundaries: The Injunctions of the Irish Catholic Temperance Movement, 1840–1920, Mike McLaughlin, Carleton University
Teaching Piety and Temperance to Boys in British Bands of Hope, 1880–1914, Stephanie Olsen, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Controlling the Reputation of Argentine Wine: Winemakers and the Fight against Adulteration, 1890–1914, U. Bajwa, Johns Hopkins University
AHA Chicago, 2012
Saturday, Jan. 7, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Parlor G. The Press and Psychedelia: Image, Gender, and Behavior in the United States Since 1945
Chair and Commentator: David T. Courtwright, University of North Florida
Faith—the Anti-Drug: Religion and Recruits in the Battle against Youth Drug Use, Emily Dufton, George Washington University
Psychedelic Drugs in the Popular Press in the 1950s and 1960s, Stephen Siff, Miami University of Ohio