Mab Segrest’s Speaking Schedule
FEB 7
THUR – 8:45 am
After Lives of Slavery, Ecologies of Sanity
Best and Worst Practices in the Treatment of Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities
Allied Healthcare Education Centers (AHEC) Conference, Fayetteville NC
MAR 4
WED
On Dead Squirrels, Race Traitors, and American Lunacy, a Conversation with Mab Segrest
Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
APR 27
MON
Reading from Administration of Lunacy
University of California, Irvine, CA
Postponed due to Coronavirus.
APR 29
WED
Reading and Discussion with Cherrie Moraga
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Postponed due to Coronavirus.
May 6
WED
Mobilizing Whiteness to Re-Open America” UNDER THE BLACKLIGHT: The Intersectional Failures That COVID Lays Bare with Carol Anderson, Kimberle Crenshaw, Alex DiBranco, Joe Lowndes, Jason Wilson, Mab Segrest, Dorian Warren.
Sponsored by the African American Policy Forum.
JUN 9
TUE
Flannery O’Connor and Administrations of Lunacy
Dr. Bruce Gentry chats with Mab Segrest on Flannery And Lunacy, Andalusia Institute
JUL 28
TUE
Historical Trauma and Psychiatry: A View from the Asylum, Continuing Education Session
For the Staff of Transitions LifeCare (Raleigh hospice services) sponsored by its Committee on Diversity
JUL 29
WED
TOWN HALL ON RACISM IN RURAL AREAS, Sponsored by MAKESPACE, Spearfish, SD.
Moderated by Ayesha Meer and Petrika Peters of MAKESPACE, panelists Dr. Erika Whitaker, Golnesa Asheghali, and Mab Segrest.
AUG 13
THR – 7:00 pm
Atlanta History Center VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALK with Mab Segrest and Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Virginia Prescott on Administrations of Lunacy .
SEPT 10
THUR – 7:00 pm
Administrations of Lunacy: BRINGING THE STORY BACK HOME to MILLEDGEVILLE”: VIRTUAL Talk and visits to small classes with appropriate social distance.
From Georgia College and State University’s Magnolia Ballroom, Milledgeville, GA
SEPT 16
WED – 4:00 pm
ZOOM PANEL “Looking Back, Moving Forward with Southerners on New Ground”
On how activist archives inform understandings of intersectional struggles for social justice via research. Two newly released books, Wesley Hogan’s On the Freedom Side and Lisa Levenstein’s They Didn’t See Us Coming both incorporate research using SONG’s records and papers of SONG co-founders Mandy Carter and Mab Segrest in Duke’s Sally Bingham collections. Join the four for discussion.
OCT 14
WED
1:20 – 2:10 pm
Zoom Guest in “Intersectionality: Race, Sexuality and Social Justice” Class (American Studies, reading Memoir of a Race Traitor)
OCT 19
MON 6-8 pm
Administrations of Lunacy BOOK TALK with Professor Sharon Holland, Chair of American Studies, sponsored by Ethnic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
OCT 23-24
FRI-SAT
“Back to the Future of State Hospitals?” VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM on the 150th Anniversary of Virginia’s Central State Hospital exploring what people in the 21st century need to understand about race and 19th US century asylums.
Oct 23, 10 am Earl Lewis and 11 am Martin Summers
Oct 24 10 am Mab Segrest and 11 am Margaret Sommerville
Virginia State University, Ettrick, VA.
NOV 19-22
THUR-SUN
Queer and Radical Southern Feminisms
Featured panel with E. Patrick Johnson, Jacqueline Dowd Hall, and Jennifer D. Jones
Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Memphis TN
SPRING
2021
Eminent Scholar Residency
Mab Segrest will teach classes, meet with faculty and students, and make two public presentations.
University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL