2026 SESAH Conference Registration
The 2026 SESAH Conference will be held in Savannah, Georgia, from October 1-3.
Registration includes access to the keynote address and reception, plenary sessions, paper sessions, business meeting and awards luncheon, refreshments during morning and afternoon breaks, and closing reception. Optional study tours on Thursday, October 1, will be sold separately.
Registration is a two-part process. Everyone, including students and spouses/partners, must register separately. Your registration is not complete until you fill out the registration form.
1) Fill out the registration form at this link.
2) Pay your registration fees and purchase study tour tickets by following the instructions below.
Student members are not required to purchase registration. To qualify for the waived student registration, students must be a current student member in good standing and email an image of a valid school ID card to registration@sesah.org. Students who are not currently members can purchase memberships for $30 at sesah.org/join-support-contact. Students, however, must purchase study tour tickets. There are no waived or discounted fees for study tour tickets.
Spouses/partners of member registrants are not required to be members.
Registration fees are as follows:
$150 for current members
$200 for non-members (includes a $50 membership
$175 for spouses/partners of current member
FREE for student members with valid ID
Please note: all attendees, including spouses/partners, must pay their registration fees separately. To discuss options for group purchase, please contact Robbie Jones at treasurer@sesah.org.
A $25.00 late fee for ALL options, including tours, will be applied after September 8. Registration closes on September 16. This is so that we have accurate head counts for catering, refreshments, receptions, tours, facilities, etc. We expect Savannah to be very popular and reserve the right to close registration sooner than September 16 to prevent overcrowding.
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Thursday Morning Study Tours
- Bull Street – Savannah’s Cardo Maximus (walking) – $20
- Savannah’s Cardo Maximus, Bull Street has enjoyed a premier status since the town’s founding. Its five squares boast the city’s grandest civic buildings and mansions as well as prestigious civic monuments. Beginning in Johnson Square, the tour concludes in Forsyth Park.
- Savannah’s Cardo Maximus, Bull Street has enjoyed a premier status since the town’s founding. Its five squares boast the city’s grandest civic buildings and mansions as well as prestigious civic monuments. Beginning in Johnson Square, the tour concludes in Forsyth Park.
- Scad’s Campus of Adaptively Reused Historic Buildings (bus) – $20
- Distributed around the city, SCAD’s campus comprises roughly 80 adaptively reused historic buildings. Beginning with SCADstory, an immersive 4D telling of SCAD’s history, the tour will then use a SCAD bus to visit a selection of buildings, including Deloitte Foundry (former Candler Hospital, 1819; redesigned 1872-76).
- Distributed around the city, SCAD’s campus comprises roughly 80 adaptively reused historic buildings. Beginning with SCADstory, an immersive 4D telling of SCAD’s history, the tour will then use a SCAD bus to visit a selection of buildings, including Deloitte Foundry (former Candler Hospital, 1819; redesigned 1872-76).
- Savannah’s Historic Government Buildings (walking – 15 max) – $30
- Visits inside Savannah City Hall (1904-05) and the US Custom House (1848-52), followed by exterior stops at the Old Chatham County Courthouse (1889), Tomochichi Federal Building (1894-99; 1930-32), and Juliette Gordon Low Federal Buildings (1985).
- Visits inside Savannah City Hall (1904-05) and the US Custom House (1848-52), followed by exterior stops at the Old Chatham County Courthouse (1889), Tomochichi Federal Building (1894-99; 1930-32), and Juliette Gordon Low Federal Buildings (1985).
- Savannah’s Organic and Evolving Historic Waterfront (walking) – $20
- Among the best-preserved historic ports in America, Savannah’s historic waterfront stands as a unique cultural landscape, shaped by a 40-foot bluff with curving cobblestone ramps, dozens of iron bridges and numerous 19th-century warehouses revitalized through a highly successful 1970s urban renewal and on-going adaptive reuses, including Plant Riverside, a recent dramatic conversion of a historic power plant.
- Among the best-preserved historic ports in America, Savannah’s historic waterfront stands as a unique cultural landscape, shaped by a 40-foot bluff with curving cobblestone ramps, dozens of iron bridges and numerous 19th-century warehouses revitalized through a highly successful 1970s urban renewal and on-going adaptive reuses, including Plant Riverside, a recent dramatic conversion of a historic power plant.
- Downtown Houses of Worship (walking) – $20
- Visits to a selection of downtown Savannah’s houses of worship, including Independent Presbyterian Church (1817-19; rebuilt 1891), St. John’s Episcopal (1853), and the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist (1872-76; interior rebuilt 1900-14).
- Visits to a selection of downtown Savannah’s houses of worship, including Independent Presbyterian Church (1817-19; rebuilt 1891), St. John’s Episcopal (1853), and the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist (1872-76; interior rebuilt 1900-14).
- Bull Street – Savannah’s Cardo Maximus (walking) – $20
Thursday Afternoon Study Tours
- Bull Street – Savannah’s Cardo Maximus (walking) – $20
- Savannah’s Cardo Maximus, Bull Street has enjoyed a premier status since the town’s founding. Its five squares boast the city’s grandest civic buildings and mansions as well as prestigious civic monuments. Beginning in Johnson Square, the tour concludes in Forsyth Park.
- Savannah’s Cardo Maximus, Bull Street has enjoyed a premier status since the town’s founding. Its five squares boast the city’s grandest civic buildings and mansions as well as prestigious civic monuments. Beginning in Johnson Square, the tour concludes in Forsyth Park.
- Scad’s Campus of Adaptively Reused Historic Buildings (bus) – $20
- Distributed around the city, SCAD’s campus comprises roughly 80 adaptively reused historic buildings. Beginning with SCADstory, an immersive 4D telling of SCAD’s history, the tour will then use a SCAD bus to visit a selection of buildings, including Deloitte Foundry (former Candler Hospital, 1819; redesigned 1872-76).
- Distributed around the city, SCAD’s campus comprises roughly 80 adaptively reused historic buildings. Beginning with SCADstory, an immersive 4D telling of SCAD’s history, the tour will then use a SCAD bus to visit a selection of buildings, including Deloitte Foundry (former Candler Hospital, 1819; redesigned 1872-76).
- Savannah’s Historic Government Buildings (walking – 15 max) – $30
- Visits inside Savannah City Hall (1904-05) and the US Custom House (1848-52), followed by exterior stops at the Old Chatham County Courthouse (1889), Tomochichi Federal Building (1894-99; 1930-32), and Juliette Gordon Low Federal Buildings (1985).
- Visits inside Savannah City Hall (1904-05) and the US Custom House (1848-52), followed by exterior stops at the Old Chatham County Courthouse (1889), Tomochichi Federal Building (1894-99; 1930-32), and Juliette Gordon Low Federal Buildings (1985).
- African American Savannah (walking) – $20
- Visits to sites of slave sales in City Market and analysis of local Savannah grey bricks – the product of industrial slavery, Franklin Square, First African Baptist Church (1855-59), and the black-only Yamacraw Village Housing Project (1938-41), with its administration building a replica of the lost Hermitage Plantation house.
- Visits to sites of slave sales in City Market and analysis of local Savannah grey bricks – the product of industrial slavery, Franklin Square, First African Baptist Church (1855-59), and the black-only Yamacraw Village Housing Project (1938-41), with its administration building a replica of the lost Hermitage Plantation house.
- Savannah’s Industrial Heritage – the Central of Georgia Railroad Complex (walking) – $30
- The tour explores the nation’s most intact 19th-century railroad complex (begun 1851), including administrative buildings, warehouses, historic gates, the passenger depot and the impressive railroad shops complex (now the Georgia Railroad Museum) with its still-functioning roundhouse and towering smokestack wrapped in a cast iron cistern.
- The tour explores the nation’s most intact 19th-century railroad complex (begun 1851), including administrative buildings, warehouses, historic gates, the passenger depot and the impressive railroad shops complex (now the Georgia Railroad Museum) with its still-functioning roundhouse and towering smokestack wrapped in a cast iron cistern.
- Bull Street – Savannah’s Cardo Maximus (walking) – $20
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