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 “‘Said the Joker to the Thief’: Black Nerd Praxis in the Post-Soul Era,” A Symposium in Honor of Professor Richard Yarborough
UCLA - December 2024

“The Whale & the Wail: the greatest [Black] [music] history story ever told. Unfinished”
MoMa - December 2024

“Zora Neale Hurston’s Chance,” Chance Meetings Online Lecture Series
Authors Guild Foundation - October 2024

Christina Sharpe & Hanif Abdurraqib in Conversation, 2024 Windham Campbell Festival
Yale - September 2024

“Liner Notes for the Hurricane: Crate Digging for Porgy and Bess”
Geulph Jazz Festival Conference- September 2024

“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”
University of Michigan - April 2024

“Black Rainbows, Black Dreaming, Black Planning, Black Study: Toward a Bay Area Black Sound & the Archive Collective”
February 2024

“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”
Tufts University - March 2024

“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”
Rutgers University - January 2024