J. Michael Butler, PhD

Academic Presentations

 

 

(Since 2015)

 

Plenary Session: In Conversation with David W. Blight, Yale University, “Teaching Uncomfortable History in Florida and the Nation, Past and Present,” at “The Freedom to Teach: Confronting Complex Themes in Contested Spaces” conference, Flagler College, September 30, 2023.
 

“Say it Loud!: James Brown, Racial Pride, and Black Capitalism in the Age of Nixon,” RPM: Research in Popular Music Conference, Flagler College, September 11, 2023.

 

Keynote Address: “When History and Nostalgia Collide: St. Augustine’s Confederate Monument,” Florida Conference of History Education 7th Annual Conference, Flagler College, July 29, 2023.

“‘The Godfather of Soul’ Endorses ‘Tricky Dick’: James Brown, Richard Nixon, and the Evolving American Black Freedom Struggle,” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 8, 2023.  

 

“On the Ground in Florida,” Teaching Race and Slavery in the American Classroom Annual Conference, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University, November 5, 2022.

 

Keynote Address: “A Local Monument, A Global Struggle: Contextualizing the Confederate Monument in St. Augustine,” International Studies Association – South Conference, Flagler College, October 8, 2022.

 

Keynote Address: “Memory, Myth, Identity: Confederate Contextualization Since 2016,”  Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Academy for Teaching and Learning’s 6th Annual Faculty Focus Day, April 8, 2022.

 

Keynote Address: “Myth, Memory, and the Power of Story: How the Lost Cause Story of the Confederacy Has Been Perpetuated,”  Annual Conference, Florida chapter of American Association of University Women (AAUW), Orlando, FL, April 1, 2022.

 

Keynote Address: “Memory, Myth, Identity, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Confederate Contextualization,” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Conference, St. Leo University (FL), February 26, 2022.

 

“Race, Rape, and the Death Penalty in Florida,” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Conference, Florida Gateway College, February 28-29, 2020.

 

“A Soulful Prophet of the Chosen People:” Isaac Hayes, Black Moses, and the Post-1960s Black Freedom Struggle,” Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, June 14, 2018.

 

“Florida’s Freedom Struggle,” Florida State College at Jacksonville, 3rd Annual Student Research Conference, April 14, 2017.

 

“The St. Augustine Civil Rights Database,” National Conference for History Education, Flagler College, March 20, 2015.