Talks and events
Speaker Sheet
Becky gives talks to a variety of groups. To book a speaking event, please use the contact page.
Upcoming
January 12, 2025, 1-2:30pm | “The New Suburbia” book talk, Ginger Elliott Exhibition & Conference Center, Claremont Heritage.
February 8, 2025 | “Reflections on The New Suburbia,” Seaside Institute Symposium, Seaside, FL.
March 6, 2025 | “The New Suburbia” book talk, Departments of History, American Studies, and College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley.
March 7, 2025, 12-1:30 | “Reflections on The New Suburbia,” American Political History Seminar, Institute for Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley.
March/April date TBD | “The New Suburbia” book talk, San Marino City Club, San Marino.
June date TBD | “Mapping community at the grassroots,” Autry After Hours, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles.
Oct 9-12, 2025 | Becky will be on various panels and will co-lead a van tour of LA suburbia, with Andrew Wiese, Urban History Association conference, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.
Recent
Becky gave over two dozen talks in 2024 on The New Suburbia and on housing discrimination in Los Angeles. She spoke to community groups, universities, and at academic conferences, bookstores, and book festivals. A sampling of recent talks include:
October 5, 2024, 11am | “The New Suburbia” book talk, South Pasadena Preservation Foundation.
September 19, 2024, 4-6pm | “The New Suburbia” book talk, co-sponsored by Departments of History, American Studies, and Sociology, Cal State University Long Beach.
August 19, 2024, 7:00-8:30pm PST | “The New Suburbia” book talk, Los Angeles City Historical Society (virtual).
August 16, 2024, 1:00pm | “Housing Tools for Displacement and Segregation” for Reconcile Pasadena, Center for Restorative Justice, Pasadena
July 1, 2024, 5:00pm | “The New Suburbia,” The Book Club of California (virtual).
June 23, 2024, 2-3pm | “The New Suburbia in Pasadena,” book talk, Blinn House, Pasadena Heritage, Pasadena, CA.
June 16, 2024 2:30-3:30pm | “The New Suburbia,” Lanterman House and Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley, La Canada
June 4, 2024 6pm | “The New Suburbia,” Historical Society of Southern California (virtual)
May 13-14, 2024 | “Reimagining the Suburban Ideal, in Multiracial Chicago and Los Angeles,” Conference on Suburban Studies, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
April 20, 2024, 4:30-5:30 | panelist as author of The New Suburbia, “American Dreams and Nightmares: The Life of the American Suburb,” Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, USC Campus, Los Angeles, CA (tickets required)
March 30, 2024, 2pm | “The New Suburbia: Book Talk,” Leland Weaver Library, South Gate, CA
March 26, 12-1pm (webinar) | “Suburbia” webinar, with Becky Nicolaides, Matt Lassiter, and Michelle Nickerson, Huntington-USC Institute on CA and the West.
February 29, 2024, 7pm | “Presentation and Book Signing: The New Suburbia,” Pasadena Museum of History, CA
February 23, 2024, 10:30am | “New Directions in Suburban History: A Roundtable,” a conversation with Becky Nicolaides, Matt Lassiter, and Lily Geismer, LA History & Metro Studies Group, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
February 20, 2024, 6pmEST | “The New Suburbia,” Skyscraper Museum, NYC (virtual)
January 28, 2024, 9am | “All Saints Church Pasadena presents The Forum: The New Suburbia by Becky Nicolaides,” All Saints Church Pasadena, CA
January 26, 2024, 7pm | “Becky Nicolaides, In Conversation With Naomi Hirahara, Discusses The New Suburbia,” Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena, CA
January 24, 2024: “Exploring the History of Our Suburbs,” for the series “Faithful in LA: Exploring Issues and Solutions Around Housing,” La Canada Presbyterian Church, La Canada, CA.
January 7, 2024: “The Suburb Toolkit,” for the roundtable panel “Taking It to the Streets: A Historians’ Roundtable on Translating Scholarship into Community Change.” Organizer of panel. American Historical Association annual conference, San Francisco, CA.
