16th Annual Local History Roundtable
2025 Theme - Cultivating Connections: Strengthening Communities Through History
The 16th Annual Local History Roundtable will be held on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 1:00 - 8:00pm on GVSU's Pew Campus in downtown Grand Rapids.
This year's theme, Cultivating Connections, will examine local communities faced in the past and their impact on the present. The first panel is titled "Reflections on the AIDS Journey in West Michigan: Public Health and Community Care" and will be discussing the AIDS crisis and its impact on West Michigan. This panel will run from 1:30-3:00pm. The second panel will include current and former students, staff, and faculty from Grand Rapids Public Schools discussing Dr. Leanne Kang's project "Podcasts as Oral Histories: Uncovering GRPS Past and Present" and will run from 3:30pm-5:00pm. Dinner will follow, with the keynote address beginning at 6:00pm. Check out our program page for more details.
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Events
Panel Discussion - Reflections on the AIDS Journey in West Michigan: Public Health and Community Care
March 19, 2025 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
This panel will focus on the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in West Michigan. From the beginning of the disease those affected struggled to find medical care and treatments. This was greatly worsened...
Panel Discussion - Podcasting and Community Storytelling: Uncovering GRPS's History Together
March 19, 2025 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
How have experiences with the Grand Rapids Public School varied between the 1960s and today? What role does that history play in the efforts of current students, faculty, and staff to create change...
16th Annual Local History Roundtable Keynote Presentation
March 19, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
In this engaging talk Dr. Anna-Lisa Cox will draw upon her extensive research on early African American settlers in West Michigan. She will highlight the multiracial history of West Michigan and place...
16th Annual Local History Roundtable
March 19, 2025 1:00 PM - 8:00 PM
2024 Theme - Cultivating Connections: Strengthening Communities Through History The 16th Annual Local History Roundtable will be held on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 1:00 - 8:00pm on GVSU's...
