2023
“Black Conceptual Practice: Theater of Refusal – Toward a Theory of Marginality,” Smithsonian American Art Museum, May 19, online.
Session convener and panelist: Blackness and Fugitive Motility Through Process and Praxis, ASAP/14: Arts of Fugitivity, October 4-7, Seattle, WA. Paper title: “The Becomings of Black Conceptual Practice.”
2022
Session chair: “Reading Kerry James Marshall’s ‘Rhythm Mastr’” College Art Association Annual Conference, May 4, online.
2021
Seminar participant: “Hidden in the Landscape,” the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference, October 27-30, online.
Panelist: ““Enmeshed: Senga Nengudi’s Performative Nylon Sculptures and Afro-Asian Ritual,” Association for Historians of American Art Biennial Symposium, October 15-16, online.
Panelist: “Locating/Dislocating: Transnational Perspectives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985,” College Art Association Annual Conference, February 10-13, online.
2020
Panelist: “Toward an Antiracist Contemporary Art History” convened by the Society for Contemporary Art Historians, online.
Invited speaker: “Vernacular Legacy and Dislocated Histories” for “Art Talks,” Lesley University MFA in Visual Art
2019
Invited speaker: “Inclusion and Diversity in Museums: What Does That Mean?” Symposium The New Now: Art, Museum, and the Future, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.
Session co-organizer: “When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art.” College Art Association, New York.
2018
Panelist: “Come out to show them: speech, error, and ambiguity in the work of Steve Reich and Glenn Ligon.” College Art Association, Los Angeles CA.
Panelist: Art + Politics Symposium, in conjunction with the exhibition Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art.
2017
Session co-chair: “Sensing Difference: New Artistic Approaches to Embodied Knowledge.” Southeastern College Art Conference, Columbus, Ohio (co-chair: Amanda Cachia, Moreno Valley College)
Session co-organizer: “The Meteorological Impulse: Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Atmospheric Turn.” College Art Association, New York (co-chair: John Tyson, National Gallery of Art/University of Massachusetts Boston).
Discussant: “Leslie Hewitt: Propositions in Still Photography & Film Vignettes.” In conjunction with the exhibition New Pictures: Leslie Hewitt, A Series of Projections, Minneapolis Institute of Art.
2016
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2011
Conference co-organizer: inaugural Bay Area Graduate Symposium in Art History, Film and Media.
Panelist: “Art History as Reverb: Post(black)production.” American Art History Graduate Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, NY.
Panelist: “Post-Race Atmospherics: Nadine Robinson’s Revelationary Soundscapes.” College Art Association, New York, NY.
2009
Panelist: “Re-Populating the Page: The Brownies’ Book and Literary Reconstruction of the Black Child in the Early Twentieth Century.” National Association of African American Studies, Baton Rouge, LA.
Panelist: “Light Sculpture / Sculpture Lite: Isamu Noguchi’s Akari lamps, postwar nationhood and artistic identity.” Art History Graduate Symposium, Stanford University.