Information for CVBs
The ACLS Conference of Executive Officers (CEO) meetings are an excellent opportunity to showcase your city’s facilities and attractions for an important group of meeting planners. The CEO is composed of the executive directors of the 79 member societies of the American Council of Learned Societies. The group’s fall meeting, held the first or second weekend in November, is both a city-hosted familiarization trip and a business meeting for CEO members. It meets in a convention city of interest to CEO members for their own organizations’ annual meetings and regional conferences.
If you are interested in hosting a meeting or have any questions, please contact Sandra Bradley, director of governance and society relations, by email or by phone at 212-697-1505 x123.
Listed below are CVBs that have hosted CEO “fam” trips over the last decade, along with information on ACLS member society meetings booked and/or under consideration for each city.
Visit Spokane
Fall 2019
Meetings under consideration:
- The booking of future meetings was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Visit Tampa Bay
Fall 2018
Meetings booked:
- American Anthropological Association (November 20-24, 2024)
Meetings under consideration:
- Latin American Studies Association
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Society for Military History
Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau
Fall 2017
Meetings booked:
- Society for Military History (April 29-May 3, 2022)
- American Council of Learned Societies
Explore St. Louis
Fall 2016
Meetings booked:
- American Anthropological Association (November 17-22, 2020)
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (March 24-28, 2020)
- Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (October 17-20, 2019)
- Society for the History of Technology (October 11-14, 2018)
Tourisme Montreal
Fall 2015
Meetings booked:
- American Sociological Association (August 10-13, 2024)
- American Political Science Association (September 14-18, 2022)
- American Society for Aesthetics (November 17-20, 2021)
- Oral History Association (October 10-13, 2018)
Hawaii Convention and Visitors Bureau
Fall 2014
Meetings booked:
- Association for Asian Studies (March 24-27, 2021)
- American Studies Association (November 7-10, 2019)
Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau
Fall 2013
Meetings booked:
- American Musicological Society (November 12-15, 2015)
- Society for Military History (April 30-May 3, 2018)
Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau
Fall 2012
Meetings booked:
- American Society for Theatre Research ( November 1-4, 2012)
- National Council on Public History (April 15-18, 2015)
- American Association for the History of Medicine (May 4-7, 2017)
Meet Minneapolis
Fall 2011
Meetings booked:
- Association of College and Research Libraries (April 10-13, 2019)
- American Anthropological Association (November 16-20, 2016)
- American Society of Church History (April 9-12, 2015)
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (March 30-April 2, 2017)
- American Association for the History of Medicine (April 28-May, 2016)
- American Folklore Society (October 19-22, 2017)
- American Musicological Society (November 5-8, 2020)
- American Society for Theatre Research (November 3-6, 2016)
- Law and Society Association (May 29-June 1, 2014)
- Linguistic Society of America (January 2-5, 2014)
- North American Conference on British Studies (November 7-9, 2014)
- Oral History Association (October 4-8, 2017)
- World History Association (June 26-29, 2013)