UPCOMING EVENTS
Apr 14, 2018
Women of Color Symposium
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
RECENT EVENTS
Mar 10, 2018
"Drinking Lemonade"
Dallas Public Library
Dallas, Texas
Nov 6, 2017
"Black Women's Autobiography in the 21st Century"
Rabinor Seminar in American Studies
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
May 15-17, 2017
"Autobiography and the Black Female Body Politic"
IABA Americas Conference: "Living Outside the Lines"
Centre for Feminist Research, York University
Toronto, Canada
May 7, 2017
Keynote, African American Graduation Reception
The Hockaday School
Dallas, Texas
Mar 10, 2017
Daughters of the Dust, Post-Screening Discussion
Black Women's Film Festival
South Dallas Cultural Center
Dallas, TX
Mar 3, 2017
Understanding 60s History through Autobiography
GeoTech Conference 2017
Bishop Dunne
Dallas, TX
Feb 25, 2017
Pecha Kucha Presentation: "Female Empowerment"
CAAS 5th Annual Conference
University Center, University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX
Feb 9, 2017
"Getting in Formation: African American Women's Stories
in the Age of Black Lives Matter"
College of Wooster
Wooster, OH
Jan 15, 2017
Keynote: "Out of a Mountain of Despair, A Stone of Hope"
Martin Luther King Day Program
Crockett, TX
Nov 17-20, 2016
“Homesteading: Black Regional Identity in the Global South”
American Studies Association
Denver, CO
Nov 4, 2016
Women’s Caucus Keynote: Words of Witness
South Central Modern Language Association
Dallas, TX
May 3, 2016
Inaugural Faculty Book Fest
Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, SMU
Dallas, TX
Apr 15, 2016
Founder’s Day Keynote Address: “Benchmarks of a Well-Education Person, Bedrock of a Beautiful Life”
The Hockaday School
Dallas, TX
Apr 8, 2016
“’Children of the Sea’: Diasporic Consciousness in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying.”
College Language Association
Texas Southern University
Houston, TX
Feb 2016
4-week series: “An Introduction to African American Literature”
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
Dallas, TX
Feb 2016
Interdisciplinary Radio: Scholarship by Other Means
Podcast: “African American Political Thought, Part 1” with Dr. Shana Redmond (University of Southern California) and Dr. Nick Brommell (University of Massachusetts)
Feb 5, 2016
Book Release Salon: Words of Witness
Wordspace Dallas
Dallas, TX
Feb 5, 2016
Brown Bag Lunch Series: “Words of Witness”
George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
Dallas, TX
Jan 2014
The Ninth Annual MLK Jr. Symposium with Touré, Rev. Peter Johnson, and Lauren Embry
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
City Performance Hall
Dallas, TX
Dr. Ards reading at wordspace dallas
Dr. Ards at Du Bois Institute with Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and other DBI fellows
Dr. Ards Speaking at the HAARTS PANEL AT THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL
Dr. Ards Speaking at the SMU faculty book festival
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING
Literature for Real: Journalism, the American Canon, and the Evolving American South
May 2014
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
A symposium with papers from:
- Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin // Columbia University
- Isabel Wilkerson // The Warmth of Other Suns
- Ta-Nehisi Coates // The Atlantic
- Dr. Brittney Cooper // Rutgers University
- Dr. Daina Ramey Berry // University of Texas at Austin
- Dr. Walton Muyumba // University of North Texas