Recent & Upcoming Events

White cover of book with black text: Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History, Laura E. Helton. In center of book is a yellow square background and in the foreground a black-and-white reproduction of a painting of a woman in an elegant jacket and hat, holding a book, by Winold Reiss.

February 12, 2026

LHRT Reads: Book discussion and Author Q&A for Scattered and Fugitive Things

Library History Roundtable (virtual)

Image of Helton sitting at seminar table in front of slideshow.

November 12, 2025

“Scattered and Fugitive Things: Queer Readings on Black Archives”

Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto

October 17, 2025

“Scattered and Fugitive Things: On the History and Future of Black Collections”

Research@Winterthur Series, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

September 3, 2025

Book talk and signing for Scattered and Fugitive Things

Library of Virginia

May 1, 2025

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

New York City

March 15, 2025

Africana Arts & Humanities Festival

African American Research Library and Cultural Center

Ft. Lauderdale, FL

February 21, 2025

VIRTUAL

Author Conversation for “The Bookworm”

William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan

January 24, 2025

Arturo Schomburg Annual Lecture

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

New York City

December 3, 2024

Book talk for Scattered and Fugitive Things

Lehman Center for American History, Columbia University

New York City

October 17, 2024

Black Metropolis Research Consortium

Public Lecture on Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Chicago

Check out card from Roanoke Public Library, Gainsboro branch, 1930s, from Gainsboro Library Archives

June 25, 2024, 6:30 pm

Public Lecture, “Defiant Libraries: Virginia Lee and the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies”

Dumas Center

Roanoke, Virginia