2024: Teaching and Learning with the Smithsonian: Creating Classroom Conversations that foster a hopeful future to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
2023:The Evolving Role of Museums: Preserving the Past, Portraying the Present, and Shaping the Future.’ 2022:Social Justice in the time of Pandemic: The Hurdles Behind, the Urgency of Now, and Moving Forward after Covid 2021:Facing the Complex, Multiple Challenges of the 21st Century. 2020: Humans and the Footprints We Leave: Climate Change and Other Critical Challenges 2019: The Search for an American Identity: Building a Nation Together 2018: We the People: America’s Grand and Radical Experiment with Democracy 2017: Social Justice: America’s Unfinished Story of Strife, Sacrifice, and Struggle 2016: American Ingenuity, Identity and Enterprise 2015: “I, Too, Am America”: Understanding the American Immigrant Experience 2014: From the Old Worlds to the New: How Exploration & Trade Shaped Modern .America 2013: Forging America’s Identity: Critical Encounters and Cross-Cultural Exchange 2012: American Experience: The Quest for Identity 2011: The Politics of Identity: Race in 21st Century America 2010: Museums at a Crossroads: Engaging a “Post Racial” Society 2009: A Lens on Social Justice: Creating Exhibits that Matter 2008: The Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge: Revisiting the Mission 2007: The Politics, Poetics and Promise of Collecting: The Responsibility of Museums 2006: Museums as Portals: Preserving the Past, Portraying the Present and Shaping The Future 2005: The Preservation of Cultures through the Arts & Humanities 2004: The Politics of Civil Rights: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Arts & Humanities 2003: EPluribus Unum: Ideals/Challenges/Realities 2002: American Identities: Representations and Misrepresentations 2001: American Identities: Arts and Culture 2000: Humanities, Technology, and Higher Education 1999: Three Hundred Years of the American Worker 1998: The African Diaspora |