I regularly deliver talks and lectures internationally. You’ll find a full list of talks in my CV. For speaking inquiries please follow the links on the contact form.
2026
“Case Notes: Art History's Medical Imaginaries”, Corner Society for the History of Medicine, Rochester Academy of Medicine
“Art and Healing,” Grand Rounds, University of Rochester
“On Art and Healing,” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Foundation Seminar
Return and Redress: Art History's Medical Imaginaries, Fire Station Museum, Doha
2025
Shades of Cotton: The Material Worlds of 19th-Century Textiles, Folk Art Museum, New York
Living in Brilliant Suspension Artist talk with Didier Williams, Artyard, Frenchtown
Keynote Speaker Way of the Forest, The Drawing Center, London
Keynote Speaker, Association for Art History Annual Conference, York University, UK
Reparative Aesthetics? University of Delaware Art History Lecture Series
2024
Return as Method, Body Series Lecturer, Freie Universität Berlin and Center for Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin
Methodologies of Art and Medicine Humboldt University, Center for British Studies
Anti-Colonial Barcelona and the Possibility of a Black Planet, a conversation with Elvira Dyangani Ose IFA Lecture Series
On Plantation Methodologies, IFA Graduate Seminar speaker,
Keynote Speaker, Material Memory: Textile Practices of Return, Textile Society of America
Sermons from Stones: Looking with Edward Mitchell Bannister, Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge Lecture, Harvard University Art Museum
Material Returns/Colonial Inheritances Wereldemuseum Curatorial Speaker Series, Leiden, NL
Care as Method, Portuguese Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia,
“Plantation Imaginaries: Art and Medicine in the Colonial World” Syracuse Symposium Lecturer, Syracuse University Humanities Center
2023
Guardian Newspaper Interview for Cotton Capital
Interview with Moya Lothian-MacLean, Medical Resources
“Plantation Imaginaries” Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
“How Things Matter” Distinguished Lecturer, University of Chicago Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture
Cotton and its Futures for Neve Insular 0,0003% - Algodão e Resistência [Insular Snow 0,0003% - Cotton and Resistance ] Centro Cultural Cabo Verde [Cabo Verde Cultural Center], Lisbon
“Decolonising Art History” Legacies and Liabilities? Decolonial, Interdisciplinary, and Intersectional Approaches to the Nineteenth Century Now' QMUL’s Centre for the Study of the Nineteenth Century and its Legacies
“Plantation Histories; Visual Futures” March Meeting 2023: The Postcolonial Constellation: Art, Culture, Politics after 1960, Sharjah Biennial
2022
Tomas-Harris Visiting Professor, University College London, Lecture Series: Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Black Diaspora Art
“Materiality and Meaning” Keynote Lecture for Materials of Modernity, Cambridge University
Conversations on Art and Healing, Brooklyn Rail
Poems into Pictures: Representing the Song of Hiawatha In Black Diaspora Art, Department of Art History Distinguished Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
2021
Black Bodies, White Gold: Cotton, Race and Representation in the United States, Department of Art History Research Seminar, University of Sydney
Decolonizing Visual Culture on Nyungar Boodjah, panel discussion, In Visible Ink Festival, Museum of Western Australia
Activating Archives, Public lecture Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Western Australia
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