Events
16th Annual Local History Roundtable
Date and Time
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 1:00 PM - 8:00 PM
RSVP
You can RSVP for this event until March 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Location
Hager-Lubbers Exhibition Hall & Loosemore Auditorium
Richard M. DeVos Center - Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
401 W. Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Description
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 Pew Campus in downtown Grand Rapids.
This years 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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This event also appears on the main events calendar tagged as academic, brooks, community, discussions, history, int100201, kutsche, and local.
Contact
Nora Salas
Director, Kutsche Office of Local History
Email: salasn@gvsu.edu
Phone: 616-331-8099
Ryan Moore
Office Coordinator, Kutsche Office of Local History
Email: moorer4@gvsu.edu