2023, Atlanta, Undiscovered Country: Inhabiting the Edge of Catastrophe and Possibility
2022, Birmingham, AL Resistance and (Re)Generation
2019, Emory University, Looking Back, Talking Back, Moving Forward
2017, College of William & Mary, Migrations & Circulations
2015, Kennesaw State University (held in Atlanta), Reconstruction 2015-1965-1865
2013, College of Charleston, We All Declare for Liberty
2011, Georgia State University: Peoples, Publics, and Places of the Three Souths”
2009, George Mason University: Beginnings and Renewals: Locating American Studies
2007, University of Mississippi: Blues Tunes/Blues Texts: Music, Literature and Cultures in the Global South, staged jointly with the 5th annual Blues Today Symposium and the Southern Anthropological Society Conference
2005, Louisiana State University: Coastal Cultures/Islands and Rims: Remapping the Realm of American Studies
2003, Florida State University: “Regionalisms in this Age of Globalization”
2001, in Atlanta: Commencement de Siècle: American Culture for New Centuries
1999, in Wilmington, NC: Memory and the American Century
1997, in Seaside, FL: American Communities: Past and Present
1995, in Clearwater, FL: Cultural Counterpoint: American Themes and Improvisation
1993, in New Orleans: Crossroads of Culture
1991, in Williamsburg: Inventing the Past: Power, Politics, Poetics