Pryor Center Past Events


Apr 11, 2024 - Twenty-Five Years of Arkansas Politics: A Conversation with Dr. Janine Parry


Feb 22, 2024 - Najja K. Baptist and Lisa Gilbert - We Who Believe in Freedom: The Black Politics of Elaine, Arkansas


Dec 12, 2023 - Randy Dixon and Kyle Kellams - Arkansas News History: Exploring the KATV Collection #4


Nov 16, 2023 - Cherisse Jones-Branch - Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps


Oct 19, 2023 - Rex Nelson - The Arkansas Paradox


Sep 28, 2023 - Eaker Air Force Base: Reflections on a Cold War


Jun 08, 2023 - Dr. Stephen K. Boss - Coastlines and People Virtual Symposium Summation


May 18, 2023 - Dr. Beth Schaefer Caniglia - Climate Change Migration & Environmental Justice in the Louisiana Delta


Apr 27, 2023 - Aaron R. Turner and Robert Cochran - Searching the Archive: The Photographic Legacy of Geleve Grice


Apr 20, 2023 - Dr. Charleen McNeill and Dr. Betsy Garrison - Measuring Community Resilience: An Empirical Evaluation of Two Instruments


Apr 13, 2023 - Alessandro Salemme and the Honors College Research Team - An Oral History of TheatreSquared


Apr 06, 2023 - Benetick Kabua Maddison - Marshallese Educational Initiative


Mar 30, 2023 - Sharon Killian and Jami J. Lockhart - Revealing Fayetteville's Hidden Cultural Landscape


Mar 23, 2023 - Dr. Ariel Ortiz-Bobea - How Climate Change Is Affecting US Agricultural Productivity


Mar 09, 2023 - Dr. Emiliano Lopez Barrera - Confronting the Double Burden of Malnutrition Generates Health and Environmental Benefits


Feb 23, 2023 - Dr. Shaheer Burney - Impact of Climate Change on the Agriculture Industry & Rural Communities


Feb 22, 2023 - John A. Kirk - Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956


Feb 09, 2023 - Dr. Luis Pena-Levano - Climate Change Interactions with Agriculture, Forest Sequestration & Food Security


Jan 26, 2023 - Randy Dixon and Kyle Kellams - Arkansas News History: Exploring the KATV Collection #3


Jan 25, 2023 - Dr. Yi Jun Xu - Can We Train the Lower Mississippi River? Lessons Learned and Future Challenges


Jan 11, 2023 - Dr. Anamaria Bukvic - Coastal Relocation as an Adaptation Strategy to Sea Level Rise


Dec 07, 2022 - Dr. Noel Aloysius - Managing Water Resource Challenges in the Mississippi River Basin


Dec 06, 2022 - Lindsley Armstrong Smith and Stephen A. Smith - Stateswomen: The Centennial Celebration of Arkansas Women Legislators, 1922–2022


Nov 16, 2022 - Prelude to War: A Film Screening and Discussion


Nov 09, 2022 - Dr. Patrick S. Market - Air Quality in the Mississippi River Valley – 2040 and Beyond


Oct 27, 2022 - The Buffalo National River – The Next Fifty Years


Oct 26, 2022 - Dr. Anthony Lupo - Hurricane Ida: A Preview of the Future?


Oct 19, 2022 - Dr. Robert V. Rohli - Using the Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification to Model Environmental Realms: Implications for Coastal Areas


Oct 12, 2022 - Michael Pierce and Calvin White Jr. - Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre


Sep 28, 2022 - Dr. Timothy P. Eichler - The Potential Impacts of Global Warming on Mid-Latitude Cyclone Climatology and Precipitation


Sep 27, 2022 - Natural Election Live: Does My Vote Matter?


Sep 19, 2022 - From Juke Joints to Jacobean Literature: Arkansas Vernaculars and the Creation of Southern Fiction


Sep 14, 2022 - Dale Carpenter and Robert Cochran - Reporting for Arkansas: The Documentary Films of Jack Hill


Sep 14, 2022 - Dr. Stephen K. Boss - Far-Field Effects of Sea-Level Rise and Ocean-Climate Processes on the Heartland: An Overview


Jun 22, 2022 - Cliff E. Jones - The Arkansas Delta Blues


Apr 15, 2022 - Recovering Our Land: The Osage Nation Pursuit of Self-Determination


Apr 14, 2022 - Airic A. Hughes - The Language of State Will: Research Conclusions from Through The Heart of the City: Interstates and Black Geographies in Urban America


Apr 12, 2022 - Trent Bozeman and James White - Elaine Now


Mar 10, 2022 - Masie Cochran - Tell Me a Story - Many Paths to Book Publication


Mar 05, 2022 - "An Evening with the Legends of Radio – Live and Unscripted"


Feb 03, 2022 - Obed Lamy - Once Forgotten: A Short Historical Documentary


Jan 24, 2022 - Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) - The End of the Post-Cold War: America in Crisis


Dec 02, 2021 - Brittany N. Hearne - Psychological Distress by Race/Ethnicity and Education at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic


Nov 18, 2021 - Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas


Nov 04, 2021 - Stephen Luoni, Graycen Colbert Bigger, and Jonathan Rhodes Present City in the Woods


Oct 30, 2021 - Carl A. Smith - A Hortus Botanicus for Green Recovery


Oct 14, 2021 - Marlon Blackwell - Abstract Unions


Sep 29, 2021 - John C. Davis - From Blue to Red: The Rise of the Republican Party in Arkansas


Aug 12, 2021 - Randy Dixon and Kyle Kellams - Arkansas News History: Exploring the KATV Collection #2


Apr 21, 2021 - Caree A. Banton – Elections and Identity Politics: Interrogating Group Belonging in Black and White Republics


Apr 01, 2021 - Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Matthew L. Spialek – Hurricane Harvey's Aftermath


Mar 03, 2021 - Randy Dixon and Kyle Kellams – Arkansas News History: Exploring the KATV Collection


Feb 10, 2021 - Stephen K. Boss – Far-Field Effects of Sea-Level Rise: We Are All Coastal


Jan 21, 2021 - Jeff Gruenewald – Far-Right Flashpoints: The Enduring Threat of Violent Extremism in America


Dec 03, 2020 - Natalie Todak - Body Worn Cameras and Police Accountability: High Hopes, Lackluster Evidence


Nov 04, 2020 - Michael Sierra-Arévalo - Peril on Patrol: Death, Danger, and US Policing


Oct 22, 2020 - Shaun L. Gabbidon - Shopping While Black: Hidden Injustices in the Private Justice System


Sep 24, 2020 - Lisa M. Corrigan - Feeling Riots: The Emotional Language of Urban Rebellion


Feb 05, 2020 - Alex Kingsbury - Opinion Journalism in the Age of Trump


Jan 29, 2020 - Kathleen DuVal - Techumseh in Arkansas


Dec 11, 2019 - George Sabo - Surprise Encounter with Crescent Hotel History in Eureka Springs


Nov 14, 2019 - Billy Fleming - Climate, Design, and the Green New Deal


Nov 06, 2019 - Kevin Strait - A People's Journey - Curating African American History and Culture in a National Museum


Sep 19, 2019 - A Symposium on the Elaine Massacre - Robert Whitaker - Discovering a Hidden Past: How Do We Know That a Massacre Occurred?


Sep 19, 2019 - A Symposium on the Elaine Massacre - Scipio Africanus Jones: Both Intelligent and Wise


Sep 19, 2019 - A Symposium on the Elaine Massacre - Rayman L. Solomon - Moore v. Dempsey and the Rights Revolution


Sep 19, 2019 - A Symposium on the Elaine Massacre - Sheila Walker and Dorothy Marcy - What Is a True Ally?: An Open Conversation on True Racism


Sep 19, 2019 - A Symposium on the Elaine Massacre - J. Chester Johnson - Damaged Heritage: From the Elaine Race Massacre to Reconciliation


Sep 19, 2019 - A Symposium on the Elaine Massacre - Judge Brian S. Miller - A Family History and Recovery from the Elaine Massacre


Sep 19, 2019 - A Symposium on the Elaine Massacre - Calvin White Jr. - Elaine Symposium Welcome and Video


Jul 10, 2019 - Ernie Dumas - The Education of Ernie Dumas: Chronicles of the Arkansas Political Mind


Apr 10, 2019 - Siva Vaidhyanathan - Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects People and Undermines Democracy


Mar 28, 2019 - Angie Maxwell - The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics


Feb 13, 2019 - J. D. Willson - Invasive Species: Successes, Challenges, and the Future


Jan 30, 2019 - Frank Scheide - Discovering a Lost Film among Charlie Chaplin's Outtakes


Nov 08, 2018 - Robert Cochran - Good News for Mr. Emerson: Kent Bonar Resurrects Thoreau in the Ozarks


Oct 24, 2018 - Janine Parry - From Blue to Red: Measuring, Comparing, and Explaining Arkansas's Partisan Earthquake


Oct 17, 2018 - An Evening with John Brummett


Oct 06, 2018 - The Blues Symposium - 2018 - Part 2


Oct 06, 2018 - The Blues Symposium - 2018 - Part 1


Oct 03, 2018 - Warm-Up Wednesday


Oct 07, 2017 - The Blues Symposium - 2017 - Part 1


Oct 07, 2017 - The Blues Symposium - 2017 - Part 2


Oct 07, 2016 - The Blues Symposium - 2016 - Part 1


Oct 07, 2016 - The Blues Symposium - 2016 - Part 2


Apr 21, 2016 - From the U of A to the Oval Office: Skip Rutherford Interviews Mack McLarty


Jan 10, 2016 - Dale L. Bumpers - Celebration of Life


Aug 09, 2013 - Panel Discussion - Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm


Jan 14, 2011 - 2010 Arkansas Preservation Awards


Oct 28, 2010 - J. Chester Johnson Poetry Reading


Oct 08, 2009 - Dale Bumpers and David Pryor: Pope County Democratic Party Banquet


Jan 01, 2008 - Bob Lamb Arkansas Memories


Sep 24, 2007 - Pioneering in the Professions: Integrating the University of Arkansas Schools of Law and Medicine


Sep 23, 2007 - Little Rock Nine News Conference


Aug 09, 2007 - Thomas F. (Mack) McLarty III: Political Animals Club of Little Rock


Apr 17, 2007 - Roy Reed and David Pryor - 2007 Ernie Deane Award