Events

Oct 24, 2026 | “Altadena the Beautiful: A Brief History of Community Organizing in Altadena,” for neighborhood co-captains of Altagether.org. Altadena Community Center.

Oct 1, 2026 | “Los Angeles 1926,” talk as part of the event Reforming L.A.: 1926 and 2026 – Autry After Hour Series, for the larger project “Governance and Democracy in the LA Region, Then and Now: A Centennial Perspective,” commemorating the 100th anniversary of the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. Autry Museum.

July 11, 2026 | “Housing Tools for Displacement and Segregation” for “Race & Place Tour: The Racial History of Pasadena,” Center for Restorative Justice, Pasadena, Ca.

May 21, 2026 | “The New Suburbia,” virtual book talk and Q&A with Ken Bernstein, manager of Office of Historic Resources, City of Los Angeles, hosted by the LA Planning History Group.

Oct 9-12, 2025 | Becky participated in five panels including the plenary on LA, co-led a van tour of LA suburbia, with Andrew Wiese, and served as co-chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the conference. Urban History Association conference, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.

- Read Gustavo Arellano on the plenary: https://gustavoarellano.beehiiv.com/p/urban-history-association-conference-2025

September 7, 2025, 2-4pm | “Saving Our Stories: Community Archives and Why We Need Them,” public workshop, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles.

March 7, 2025, 12-1:30 | “Reflections on The New Suburbia,” American Political History Seminar, Institute for Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley

March 6, 2025 | “The New Suburbia” book talk, Departments of History, American Studies, and College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley.

October 28, 2024, 7pm | “The New Suburbia” book talk, Altadena Historical Society

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 27, 2024 | “History of Segregation in Pasadena/Altadena,” Race & Place: Pasadena History Tour, Center for Restorative Justice, Pasadena

April 25, 2024, 11:30am | “The New Suburbia” book talk, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cal State University Long Beach.

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.