Representative Talks
“‘The noblest blood God ever made’: W. E. B. Du Bois and Black American Medievalism Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”
The Grace Lecture; Department of English
College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA
“Faking the Middle Ages for Racial Justice: The Power of Obvious Intervention from the Rood of Grace to Harlem Renaissance Medievalism”
The Lansdowne Lecture; “Conspiracies, Fakes, and Follies” Conference of the Medieval Studies Program
University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada (Virtual)
“On Black Metaphors and Race in the Middle Ages”
Religious Mobilities of the Medieval and Early Modern World Webinar at the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Team, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Australian Catholic University in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia (Virtual)
“‘The shade of trees their ancestors left’: Medieval Blackness and African American Medievalism”
Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Medieval Studies Program, Americanist & Medieval Studies Colloquia
University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, WI (Virtual)
“Black and White Thinking: A Conversation with Cord Whitaker”
Interview by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Harvard University Committee on Medieval Studies
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research in Cambridge, MA (Virtual)
“‘From Medieval America to Modern’: On Being BIPOC and Making Meaning in White Disciplinary Spaces”
Department of English
Duke University in Durham, NC (Virtual)
“‘It’s Not What You Know’: Connections, Networks, and Power—Or the Power of Stories””
Humanities NOW: Humanities Initiative Spring Symposium
Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA (Virtual)
“Struggling in the eddies’ and Standing at the Corner: A History of Critical Medieval Race Studies”
Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies Lecture Series at the Institute for Advanced Study Program in Medieval Studies
Princeton University in Princeton, NJ (Virtual)
Black Metaphors: The Problem of Medievalist White Supremacy—and Its Black Medievalist Answer
Alpha Boulé of Sigma Pi Phi in Philadelphia, PA (Virtual)
November 5-6, 2020
Guest Lecture
“From Medieval America to Modern”: Plague, Prejudice and Protest in the Middle Ages and Today
The 2020 Conway Lectures: “Race in the Middle Ages”; The Medieval Institute
University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana (Virtual)
October 8, 2020
Guest Lecture
“Shimmering Contraries: Medieval Grammar and the Rise of Race and Racism”
John Hope Franklin Day; Brooklyn College of the City
University of New York in New York (Virtual)
September 24, 2020
Guest Lecture
“From Medieval America to Modern”: The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance and Making Black Lives Matter Today
The Rushton Lecture; Department of English,
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA (Virtual)