Blackening Britain Events & Press
Vassar Club of New York and African American Alumnae/i of Vassar College Salon Series, Wednesday June 8 at 7pm. (Register Here)
School of Advanced Study, University of London, Caribbean Studies Seminar, Tuesday February 22, 2022 at 11:00a.m. EDT/4:00p.m. GMT (Recording Available)
Interview with Amanda Joyce Hall (Yale University) for New Books in African American Studies, November 2021 (listen).
CUNY Academy: Wasser Award Book Talk: Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism at the End of Empire, Wednesday October 27, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. EDT.
The NYU Institute of African American Affairs / Center for Black Visual Culture Book Talk, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST (recording) .
Fordham University’s Department of African and African American Studies and Working Group on Freedom and Slavery Book Talk, Friday, March 5, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EST. REGISTER
Caribbean Philosophical Association Book Friday!, Friday, February 26, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EST. REGISTER
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora Book Talk, Friday, February 19, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. EST. REGISTER
Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
“Belonging Neither Here Nor There: Caribbean Radicalism and Revolutionary Epistemologies Across the 1960's Black Atlantic,” Mellon Sawyer Seminar Conference: Migration, Race, and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, Brown University, November 2021.
Roundtable Panelist, “Talking and Writing About Race in the Humanities,” CUNY Graduate Center, November 2021
Marilyn B. Young Memorial Lecture, panelist, New York University Department of History, February 2020.
“Sir Learie and Nello: Cricket, Race, and Leading the Country,” Society for Caribbean Studies: 43rd Annual Conference, Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom, July 2019.
Invited Panelist, 6th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium at University of Pennsylvania, Department of Africana Studies, “Citizenship, Belonging & Knowledge Production,” March 2019.
“Diasporic and African? Retaining and Recuperating Africanity in Diasporic Music Culture,” Harriet Tubman Institute, New Geographies: Africa and African Diasporas, New York, August 2018.
Chair and comment for "Black Europe: Writing and Performing Blackness," African-American Intellectual History Society, Waltham, MA, March 2018.
“Listen Up English Boy: British Black Power and Transnational Racial Consciousness,” Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Sevilla, Spain, November 2017.
“Taking Wickets in Babylon: West Indian Cricket and Black Nationalisms After Decolonization,” New Perspectives on Black British History, London, October 2017.
“From Compton to Cape Town: Kendrick Lamar, Diaspora, and Unbelonging,” New York University, March 2017.
“Articulations of Displacement and Dissonance from Compton: Kendrick Lamar in the Twenty-first Century,” Black Portraitures III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures, Johannesburg, November 2016.
“Caribbean Oral Tradition and the Making of a Diasporic Archive in Donald Hinds’s Journey to an Illusion,” 35th Annual West Indian Literature Conference, Montego Bay, Jamaica, October 2016.
“The Days for Groveling were Over: West Indian Cricket After Independence,” Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Charleston, SC, November 2015.
“After Notting Hill: Post-Riot Radicalism and the End of Empire,” The Windrush Roundtable: Caribbean Studies Scholars Symposium, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2014.
“Marcus Garvey and His Many Black Stars: Pan-Africanism for Whom?,” Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Santo Domingo, October 2013.
“Rapidly Radicalized Race Politics: Black Power in the West Indian Gazette and Black Power,” Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Pittsburgh, November 2011.
“The Caribbean Press and the Development of Transnational Political Solidarity," Caribbean Studies Association, Curacao, May 2011.
“We did arms ourselves, just like they did: West Indian Consciousness in the 1958 Notting Hill Riots,” Caribbean Studies Association, Barbados, May 2010.