Event Highlights
Invited Lectures and Presentations
Explore a curated archive of distinguished talks, keynote addresses, and panel appearances delivered at national and international academic events, cultural forums, and conferences.
“‘Said the Joker to the Thief’: Black Nerd Praxis in the Post-Soul Era”
Invited presentation at A Symposium in Honor of Professor Richard Yarborough, hosted by the Department of English and the Center for African American Studies, UCLA — December 2024.
The Whale & the Wail: the greatest [Black] [music] history story ever told. Unfinished”
Keynote lecture delivered as part of Ceremonies out of the Air: Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1 Exhibition Lecture Series — December 2024.
“Zora Neale Hurston’s Chance”
Lecture delivered for the Chance Meetings Online Lecture Series, presented by the Authors Guild Foundation, Literary Programs — October 2024.
Roundtable Moderator: Christina Sharpe & Hanif Abdurraqib in Conversation
Served as moderator for a featured conversation at the 2024 Windham-Campbell Festival, Yale University — September 2024.
“Liner Notes for the Hurricane: Crate Digging for Porgy and Bess”
Keynote lecture delivered at the Guelph Jazz Festival Conference — September 2024.
“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”
Delivered the Ethel V. Curry Annual Lecture for the Department of Music at the University of Michigan — April 2024.
“Black Rainbows, Black Dreaming, Black Planning, Black Study: Toward a Bay Area Black Sound & the Archive Collective”
Invited presentation — February 2024.
Chair, Steering Committee; Convener and Project Coordinator
Flowin’: Breakthroughs in Black Feminist Jazz & Literary Studies, Yale University Schwarzman Center — September 23–24, 2022.
(Internationally attended conference)
Chief Conference Organizer, Curator and Project Coordinator
“Ain’t That a Groove”: The Genius of James Brown, Princeton University — International Symposium — November 2007.
“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”
Invited lecture for the Department of Performance Studies at Tufts University — March 2024.
“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”
Lecture delivered for the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University — January 2024.
Chief Organizer, Curator and Project Coordinator
Blackstar Rising & the Purple Reign: Celebrating the Legacies of David Bowie & Prince, Yale University Schwarzman Center — January 25–28, 2017.
(International symposium)
