Recent & Upcoming Talks
Apr 2023
“Chicago’s Kitchenettes.” Invited virtual guest lecture. Smithsonian Art Institute of Chicago.
Mar 2023
“Kitchenettes in Chicago.” Urban Humanities (Un)Conference, “Digital Geohumanities” session. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Nov 2022
“Intimate Renderings of Black Homeplace” roundtable, co-organizer and presenter. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
Mar 2022
“Where to Start?: Ethics, Organization, Technology” with Grace Buono. GU Digital Humanities Symposium (virtual). Georgetown University
Nov 2021
“Interdisciplinary Research Methods: Studying Chicago’s Kitchenettes.” Black Studies Colloquium. Columbia University (virtual)
Nov 2021
“Celebrating 25 Years of the Internet Archive.” GU virtual roundtable panel
Nov 2021
Zora Neale Hurston critical research methods roundtable. National Women’s Studies Association Conference, virtual. [rescheduled from 2020]
Nov. 17, 2020
“Digital Humanities: Practices and Reflections” panel, Humanities in Action Zoom webinar, Georgetown University (link)
Nov. 16, 2020
“Modern by Design: Chicago’s Kitchenettes and Black Spatial Affordance.” Virtual guest lecture. Parsons School of Design, The New School
May 2, 2020
“Digital Mapping for Black Research” workshop. #DigBlk Series: Tools and Methods for Black Digital Research, Price Lab, University of Pennsylvania [cancelled- COVID-19]
Mar. 25-27, 2020
“Narrating Gendered Counter-Histories in Africa and the Diaspora” panel. New Directions Symposium, University of Rochester [cancelled- COVID-19]
Mar. 12, 2020
“Black Spatial Affordances,” Berkeley Black Geographies Symposium, University of California, Berkeley (link) [presentation cancelled- COVID-19]
Dec. 12, 2019
“Philadelphia Colored Conventions” with Gabrielle Foreman, Brandi Locke, Denise Burgher. Philadelphia Thought Leaders/Frances Harper Think Tank, Mother Bethel AME, Philadelphia, PA
Nov. 10, 2019
“(Re)Visualizing Value: Explorations in the Black Urban Humanities” panel (organizer/presenter), American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii
Sept. 19, 2019
“On Limits and Possibilities: Black Chicago’s Kitchenettes,” Washington University in St. Louis (link)
Aug. 26, 2019
“Kitchenette Counterpoints: Chicago’s Blight Discourse and the Making of the Modern South Side,” South Side Modern Symposium, Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture (link)
