Talks, Presentations, and Media Appearances

I regularly present my research in a variety of public settings from academic gatherings to community and museum events. Below is a list of upcoming or recent talks and events. For more information you can download my CV or please be in touch via the contact page on this website.

Upcoming

July 14 2022: “Materiality and Meaning” Keynote Lecture for Materials of Modernity, Cambridge University

June 2 2022: Conversations on Art and Healing, Brooklyn Rail

May 16 2022: Bush Tea and Archived Bodies: Plantation Returns as Forms of Healing Africana Sacred Healing Arts Conference, First annual conference of the Black Sacred Arts series, Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University

May 12 2022: Sites of Healing: Plantation Histories and Histories of Care in the work of Annalee Davis, Consortium of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

April 2022:

April 22: CLAVIS Workshop, UT Austin

April 21: Plantation Imaginaries: Migrant Forms and Forms of Enclosure Humanities on the Edge Speaker Series, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

April 4: The Materials of Empire, South Asian Seminar Series, Columbia University

April 1: Roundtable Cotton and 19th Century Futures, C19 conference, Reconstructions, Miami, March 31-April 2

March 24 2022: Poems into Pictures: Representing the Song of Hiawatha In Black Diaspora Art, Department of Art History Distinguished Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Talks, Lectures, Media Appearances

March 8-10 2022: Tomas-Harris Visiting Professor, University College London, Lecture Series: Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Black Diaspora Art

Oct 2021:

“Colonialism and its Legacies: Modes of Memory,” Masterclass/Keynote Lecture for Culture, Things and Empire Virtual Seminar Series, University of Leicester, UK

“Art Hx: Digital Archiving and Forms of Care” for Bard Graduate Center, Digital Humanities Speaker Series

Art, Medicine and Empire, Clark Lectureship, Scripps College

September 2021:

“Seeing to Remember: Archives, Photographs, Colonialism,” CAST Collaboration, School of Art, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

 May 6 2021: Observing the Past: Archives, Interpretation and Practices of Care Panel discussion, for Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism     

May 4 2021: Transmission and Transfer: Visualizing the Global Plantation for The Art of Nordic Colonialism: Writing Transcultural Art Histories Digital Seminar on Race, Coloniality, and Global Art Histories, University of Copenhagen

April 29 2021: Black Bodies, White Gold: Cotton, Race and Representation in the United States, for Department of Art History Research Seminar, University of Sydney

 April 28 2021: Cotton and Racial Capitalism, for Race, Slavery, Colonialism and Capitalism,  Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) and the Research Center for Material Culture

 April 23 2021: Practices of Care, Teaching the Long 18th Century Roundtable, Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia.

 April 21 2021: Activating Archives, Public lecture Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Western Australia

 March 26 2021: Art and Colonial Medicine: Artist Conversation with Julie Gough and Annalee Davis for Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism

 March 4 2021: Decolonizing Visual Culture on Nyungar Boodjah, panel discussion, In Visible Ink Festival, Museum of Western Australia           

 March 3 2021: Vision and Value: Cotton and the Materiality of Race, Case Western University, Department of Art History Lecture

 February 18 2021: Seeing Through Empire: Medicalizing Vision, Imagining Space, Kansas University History of Art Graduate Symposium Keynote Speaker

 February 2 2021: Acts of Translation: Black Artists and the Song of Hiawatha, Terry K Simmons Lecture in Art History, Department of Art History, Tulane University

Conference and Academic Presentations

Jan 2022: The Global Plantation: Indigenous and South Asian interactions in Australia, for Migrant Objects and Communities in the Americas/ Objetos y Comunidades Migrantes en las Américas, CIHA World Congress, Sao Paolo

February 2022: “Market Aesthetics: Race, Materiality and Economics in the Atlantic World” for Visual Cultures of Race and Science Symposium, Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History, School of Arts & Humanities, The University of Texas at Dallas 

November 2021:

“Case Notes: Physicians, Plantations and Observational Drawings” for Visual Arts and Medicine University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum University, Austria.

“Therapeutic Landscapes: The Caribbean and Medical Vision” in Biotic Resistance: Eco-Caribbean Visions in Art and Exhibition Practice, Oxford University

September 2021: “Cotton, Incarceration and Care” for Association for Art History Festival, London, UK