A'Lelia Bundles

Roberts Settlement Homecoming
2023-06-30 - 2023-07-02
Roberts Settlement Homecoming
Noblesville, IN
https://www.robertssettlement.org/

Roberts Settlement Centennial Homecoming
2023-07-01 13:30 - 15:30 UTC
Atlanta, IN
https://www.robertssettlement.org/100th-homecoming.html

Dizzy’s Club/Jazz at Lincoln Center
2023-07-13 18:00 - 21:00 UTC
Victory Goines’s Woodlawn Suite
https://woodlawnconservancy.givecloud.co/product/TheWoodlawnSuiteCD/victor-goines-and-friends-the-woodlawn-suite-cd

Young Women’s Leadership Institute
2023-07-18 | St Mary’s School, Raleigh, NC, United States
Saint Mary’s School
https://www.sms.edu/our-programs/leadership-institute

Association of Midwest Museums Conference Keynote
2023-07-27 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
Keynote (In person)
Union Station
Indianapolis, IN
https://www.ammconference.org/

Association of Midwest Museums Conference Leadership Breakfast
2023-07-28 08:30 - 09:30 UTC
Union Station
Indianapolis, IN
https://www.ammconference.org/

Women of Color Literary Society Talk (virtual)
2023-09-20
https://www.woc-fp.com/book-club

L. Michelle Smith Book Talk
2023-10-04 19:30 - 21:00 UTC
Busboys & Poets
450 K Street NW
Washington, DC

Madam Walker Memorial Way Dedication
2023-10-20 17:30 - 20:00 UTC
Madam Walker Legacy Center
617 Indiana Avenue
Indianapolis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAeFs9w-LPs
https://madamwalkerlegacycenter.com/events/open-house-october/

Marvin Bowser’s Black Hair Photo Exhibition Panel Discussion
2023-10-23
https://www.marvinbowser.photography/BlackHair-Exhibition
The Ven at Embassy Row Hotel
2015 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC

Capps Lecture: INconversation with A’Lelia Bundles and Tyrone McKinley Freeman (Virtual and in-person)
2023-10-27 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
National Humanities Council Conference
Madam Walker Legacy Center
Indianapolis
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inconversation-with-alelia-bundles-and-tyrone-mckinley-freeman-tickets-731909770827?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

A’Lelia interviews Tanisha Ford, author of Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
2023-10-28 15:00 - 16:30 UTC
Politics & Prose Bookstore
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC
https://www.politics-prose.com/tanisha-ford

Keynote: Madam Walker and A’Lelia Walker in New York (Virtual and in-person)
2023-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
NY Genealogical and Biographical Society’s State Family History Conference
36 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Registration: https://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/nysfhc/about

Madam Walker Scholarship Awards
2023-12-13 08:00 - 10:00 UTC
Society of Cosmetics Chemists
New York, NY

Indiana Avenue History Panel Discussion (in-person)
2024-02-01 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
Indiana Landmarks Black Heritage Preservation Program
1201 Central Avenue
Indianapolis, IN
www.indianalandmarks.org

Kurt Vonnegut Museum
2024-02-19 16:00 - 18:00 UTC
543 Indiana Avenue
Indianapolis, IN
https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/

Madam C. J. Walker Award for Excellence in DEI
2024-02-26 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
Personal Care Products Council Annual Meeting
Loews Coral Gables
Coral Gables, FL
https://www.personalcarecouncil.org/events/2024-annual-meeting/
and
https://www.personalcarecouncil.org/sustainability/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei/madam-c-j-walker-award-for-excellence-in-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei-nomination-form/

Hair Love Keynote & Booksigning (in-person)
2024-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
Willard Library
7 West Van Buren Street
Battle Creek, MI
https://willardlibrary.evanced.info/signup/calendar

Madam Walker and Annie Malone with Agbara Bryson (in-person)
2024-03-02 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
Peoria Riverfront Museum
222 SW Washington Street
Peoria, IL
https://www.peoriariverfrontmuseum.org/events

Keynote: The Power of Aging (in person)
2024-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
PAA Community Forum on Aging
www.paainc.org

Keller Williams Conference
2024-04-22
Indianapolis, IN

AHA Harlem Renaissance Plenary (NYC)
2025-01-03 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | New York Hilton, 1335 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
In observation of the 100th anniversary of Alain Locke’s The New Negro, A’Lelia will join a panel moderated by Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb with Gene Andrew Jarrett (Princeton), David Levering Lewis (NYU), Denise Murrell (The Met), and Jeffrey Stewart (UCSB) at the American Historical Association annual meeting.

AHA Black Women's Biography
2025-01-04 08:30 - 10:00 (Asia/Karachi) | New York Hilton, 1335 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
A’Lelia joins a panel with professors Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania), Thadious Davis (University of Pennsylvania), Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University), Cheryl D. Hicks (University of Delaware) and Sharon Harley (University of Maryland College Park). Inspired by Savage’s Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar (Yale, 2023), this session explores questions of sources, methodology, and interpretation in biographies of African American women. Panelists will speak from their experiences as scholars whose work represents a rich variety of approaches to researching and writing the lives of a diverse group of Black women.

Harvard Business School “Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders"
2025-01-31 08:00 - 13:00 UTC
For the third year, A’Lelia joins Professor Robert Simons’s Harvard Business School class — ““Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders” — to answers second year MBA students’ questions about Simons’s case study on Madam C. J. Walker’s life as an entrepreneur.

Harlem Renaissance at Woodlawn Cemetery (Virtual)
2025-02-11 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Join A’Lelia Bundles and Eric K. Washington for a talk on the best books to read to learn more about the Harlem Renaissance. This talk is sponsored by an American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

ASALH Luncheon Authors Book Fair (Washington, DC)
2025-02-22 10:00 - 12:00 (Asia/Karachi) | Westin Washington, DC, 2350 M Street NW, Washington, DC, 20016, United States
A’Lelia will join several authors at Author’s Book Fair at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s Black History Month Luncheon

Montgomery County, PA Women's Center International Women's Day (Virtual)
2025-03-06 18:00 - 19:30 (Asia/Karachi)
A’Lelia will speak at the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Women’s Center’s annual International Women’s Day program

Woman's National Democratic Club (Washington, DC)
2025-03-11 17:30 - 19:00 (Asia/Karachi) | 1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036
A’Lelia will speak about Madam C. J. Walker and A’Lelia Walker’s political, community and philanthropic activism at a Women’s History Month program at the Democratic Woman’s National Democratic Club in Washington, DC.

BIO Black Biography Conference (Montgomery, AL)
2025-03-22 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Chicago) | Troy University, 231 Montgomery St, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States
A’Lelia will deliver the keynote speech at the Telling Stories of Black Lives Through Biographies symposium hosted by Troy University and the Biographers International Organization in Montgomery, Alabama.

Telling the Stories of Black Lives through Biography (BIO Conference)
2025-03-22 09:00 - 10:00 UTC | Troy University, 231 Montgomery St, Montgomery, AL, 36104, United States
In her keynote address — “Because the Ancestors Insist: Why I Write Biography” — A’Lelia discusses her research and writing about Madam C. J. Walker and A’Lelia Walker, the long tradition of memoir and autobiography writing by Black authors, and how the current efforts to erase and sanitize Black history mirror late 19th and early 20th century efforts by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and some white historians to promote white supremacy in school curriculum and public monuments.
