Events
Upcoming
Speaker Sheet
May 13-14, 2024 | “Reimagining the Suburban Ideal, in Multiracial Chicago and Los Angeles,” Conference on Suburban Studies, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
May 23, 2024 11am | “The New Suburbia,” Cezar E. Chavez Dept. of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Asian American Studies, Rolfe Hall 2125, UCLA.
June 4, 6pm | “The New Suburbia,” Historical Society of Southern California, virtual book talk.
June 16, 2:30pm | “The New Suburbia,” Lanterman House, La Canada, CA
June 22, time TBA | “The New Suburbia in Pasadena,” Pasadena Heritage, Pasadena, CA.
July 1, 5:00pm | “The New Suburbia,” The Book Club of California (virtual)
Recent
April 25, 2024, 10:00am | “The New Suburbia,” College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cal State Fullerton.
March 30, 2024, 2pm | “The New Suburbia: Book Talk,” Leland Weaver Library, South Gate, CA
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.
May 5, 2023: “The New Suburbia: Everyday Life and Landscapes in Diversifying LA.” Clark Davis Memorial Lecture, LA History & Metro Studies Group, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
April 1, 2023: “Latino homeownership and suburban political culture in Los Angeles, 1970-2010.” Organization of American Historians conference, Los Angeles, CA.
March 15, 2023: "The Historic Suburban Landscapes of Los Angeles.” Université Clermont Auvergne, France.
January 22, 2023: “Segregating the Foothills: The Roots of Racial Exclusion in La Canada, La Crescenta, and LA Suburbia,” Canada Crescenta Democratic Club, via Zoom.
October 2, 2022: “Segregating the Foothills: A History of Racial Exclusion in La Canada, La Crescenta, and LA Suburbia,” Lanterman House Museum, La Canada, Ca.
September 2022: With Andrew Wiese, “American Suburban History: Past Themes and Current Projects.” Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
April 2022: Convener, “A Transnational Student Conversation about Suburbanization,” Zoom teleconference, including students and faculty from Pitzer College (U.S.), Palacky University (Czech Republic), and Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany).
December 2021: “Are Latinx suburbs ethnoburbs? And why it matters.” MetropoLatinx History conference, Penn State University (virtual).
October 2021: “Informality in Cities and Suburbs,” roundtable discussion, Urban History Association Conference, (virtual).
January 2020: “Building a history + public policy framework in L.A.” AHA conference, NYC
November 2019: "Suburbia: Past & Future." Urban World Conference, in honor of Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University, NYC
March 2019: “Learning Suburban Affluence in Multicultural Suburbia: Case Study San Marino.” LA History & Metro Studies Group, Huntington Library, San Marino.
January 2019: “From Warm to Cold in LA: Exploring the Range of Reactions to Ethnic Diversification in Los Angeles Suburbs After 1970.” AHA Conference, Chicago, IL.
April 2018: “The Uneven History of Working-Class Housing in South Los Angeles." ISLA speaker series, Occidental College, LA.
March 2018: “Suburbs in Transition: Diversity and the American Dream." Urban Studies Annual Lecture, Manhattan College, NYC.
February 2018: “Rethinking the Dream: Old and new frameworks for understanding suburban life in Southern California after 1950.” Dunning Keynote Lecture, Historical Society of Southern California, LA.
April 2016: “Metropolitan America in a Globalization Age: Inequalities and Opportunities." Metro Symposium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
