The annual conference is now closed for submissions (you can see the CFP here). Registration should open up sometime in March on this page. Please check back for updates. A draft copy of the meeting schedule is here.
Accommodations and Conference Venue
Lodging is at our conference venue, the InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront, conveniently located in downtown Saint Paul, just off Interstate 35E. The conference rate for rooms is $169 a night plus tax. AHS has signed a contract for a block of rooms at the hotel that we need to fill to avoid penalties, so your consideration in booking at the InterContinental is appreciated. Any rooms in our block that are not reserved by May 8 will be released to the public.
To book a room, please use the link here. Or you may call (651) 292-1900 and ask to be connected to Central Reservations for IHG. Then either mention that you are booking for “AHS 2025 – Twin Cities” or block code “K6P.”
All conference sessions will be held at the InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront.
If you are interested in finding a roommate to help share lodging costs, we have created a Conference Roommate Finder. Please click here and fill out and submit the form. AHS staff will share your information in a spreadsheet that will only be made available to those who submit the form. You will then be responsible for making arrangements with someone on the list (AHS only provides the information and does not make roommate matches). After finding a roommate and making your hotel reservation with the booking link, please email aghistorysociety@gmail.com to inform us of the match so we can remove you from the spreadsheet.
Ebbs and Flows, Water and Agriculture
The 2025 meeting of the Agricultural History Society will convene in St. Paul, Minnesota. As we gather on the banks of the Mississippi River, in the state aptly nicknamed the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, we invite scholars to engage with the twin themes of water and agriculture.
From its origins thousands of years ago, to its present and future in the context of the climate crisis, agriculture is interlocked with water. Evolutions and revolutions of farming across time and space have paralleled evolutions and revolutions in how human societies have understood and used water in its many forms. Water is a necessary, but also highly contested, element of production. Its relationship with agriculture is profoundly political.
Agricultural historians have long strived to capture the historical complexity of this relationship, and agricultural history serves as an ideal terrain for encounters among a broad range of historiographical approaches and diverse perspectives: from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences; and from within and beyond academia. We envisage this conference as an opportunity to sustain and expand this cross-disciplinary conversation on the water-agriculture nexus.