Events

Performing in “The Moving Cloth of Angelique Kidjo” for the  2018 Pop Culture Moves Conference in Paris

2024:

  • November 14-17: Presentation on “Black Women & The Tree of Jazz in Paris” at the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) in Seattle
  • October 19: Amber in the City of Light: Act 1 at the United Solo Festival
  • October 6: Presenting “Performing Black Women’s Jazz Migrations to Paris” at the Global Black French Studies conference in Boston
  • September 20-21: Co-presenter at the 2nd annual Immersive Technologies and Cultural Heritage (ITCH) Symposium at USC Libraries in Los Angeles
  • April 12: Screening of Amber in the City of Light performance film at The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at University of Guelph

2023

  • April 12:  Virtual Presentation on the “‘How am I to reach you?’– In search of connections in research and movement” Panel at The British Forum for Ethnomusicology Conference
  • January 7: “The Need for More in a Time of Loss: Performing Runnin’ to Grace.” The Modern Language Association Annual Convention in San Francisco

2022

2021

  • October 12: Chair of the Virtual “Sonic Protest” Panel at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting
  • June 10: Presentation of “The Ambiguous Play of Jazz.” at the Return to the Center: Black Women, Jazz and Jazz Education Sympoisum hosted by Berklee College of Music
  • April 21: Presentation of “Postwar Paris, Postwar Rome, Postwar Berlin” at the Freedom Abroad: The History of African Americans in Europe Conference hosted by Case Western University and New York University

2020

  • February 21-23: Presentation at “Fluid Black:: Dance Back,” The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance 4th Bi-Annual Conference hosted by Duke University
  • February 3: Guest Talk at Emory University at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference

2019

  • November 15-16: Symposium Presentation: “Paris/Algiers1969: Declarations of Freedom by the Black American Avant-Garde” at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
  • November 7-10: Panel Chair at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting
  • June 21-27: Group Art Exhibition at Tapir Gallery, Berlin
  • June 6-8: Symposium Presentation: “Americans in Paris: Artists in the City of Light, 1946–1968” at NYU Paris & American University of Paris, Paris
  • April-May: Visiting Scholar at Freie Universität, Berlin
  • March 22: Performance Workshop at Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg

2018