UPCOMING APPEARANCES:

 

 

 

Fall  2018 schedule coming soon!

 

 

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PAST APPEARANCES:

June 7, 2018,  Invited Presenter, “Listening to Race in the US, Or Why Sound Matters,” UC San Diego.

March 27, 2018, Invited Presenter, “Listening to Race in the US, Or Why Sound Matters,” University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

March 16, 2018, Invited Presenter and Guest Leader, Cultural Acoustics Seminar, Cornell University.

March 1, 2018, Invited Lecture, “Listening to Race in the US, Or Why Sound Matters,” Media and Communication Studies 10th Anniversary Event and Spring Forum Speaker for the Dresher Center for the Humanities, University of Maryland Baltimore County.

January 27, 2018, Book Reading, The Sonic Color Line in conversation with Tara Betts, 57^th Street Books, Chicago, Illinois.

January 26, 2018, Invited Lecture, “The Sonic Color Line: Black Radio Listeners and U.S. Radio’s Segregated ‘Golden Age,’” Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

November 14, 2017, Invited Keynote, “Revolutions Begin at Home: The Untold Story of How Black and Latinx Women of the Caribbean Diaspora Made Hip Hop!” Binghamton, Caribbean Students Association.

November 4, 2017, Invited Panelist, “Repping the Sounding Out! Podcast,” Podcasting/Born Digital Panel, Radio Preservation Task Force Annual Meeting, Library of Congress, Washington DC.

October 20, 2017, Invited Lecture, “The Sonic Color Line: Black Radio Listeners and U.S. Radio’s Segregated ‘Golden Age,’” University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

September 28, 2017, Invited Presentation, “Sound Studies Methodology,” Cornell University.

September 15, 2017, Invited Lecture, “The Sonic Color Line: Black Radio Listeners and U.S. Radio’s Segregated ‘Golden Age,’” Lafayette College.

June 29, 2017   Reading from The Sonic Color Line, 6 pm. Cellar Door Books in Riverside, California, 5225 Canyon Crest Drive Suite 30A

May 25-26, 2017 Co- Session Leader with Christie Zwahlen, (Director of Community Engagement and Service, Miami University), “Listening to Community Needs: Asset-Based Community Development through a Historical Soundwalk Project,” Listening to the City, hosted by the MIT Community Innovators Lab (CoLab), LA Listens, and the Design Studio for Social Intervention, Boston, Mass, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Building 9 – Room 255

May 2, 2017, 4:00-6:30 pm, Invited Presenter, “Theorizing Literary Sound,”  Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

March 27, 2017, 2-3:30 pm, Winningham 107,  “The Sonic Color Line,” University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Download flyer: JLS Flyer 

April 7, 2017  “The Sonic Color Line,”  Drexel University,  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

April 21, 2017  “The Sonic Color Line,” Hamilton College, Clinton, New York.

January 29, 2017,  Invited Symposium Featured Presenter, “‘Doing fifty five in a fifty four’: Listening and the Cadence of Whiteness.”  Voice: Texture, Tone, Timbre, Center for Interdisciplinary Voice Studies,  University of Winchester, UK.

January 10, 2014, 8:30-9:45 a.m., Paper presentation, “‘A Voice To Match All That’: Lead Belly, Richard Wright, and Lynching’s Soundtrack,” Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL

October 4, 2013, Paper presentation, “Whose Peace? Whose Quiet?: Black New Yorkers and Noise Laws in the Mid-Twentieth Century,” European Sound Studies Association Inaugural Meeting, Berlin, Germany

April 27, 2013, 9:00-10:15 a.m., Plenary, “Broadcasting race: African American Writers and Performers in US Radio’s Golden Age” at WHAT IS RADIO? EXPLORING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF RADIO, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON IN PORTLAND, OREGON

April 29, 2013, 3:00-4:30 p.m., University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, “Browsing Room, Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid Street, “The Sonic Color-line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening in America,”

March 14, 2013, 4:00 p.m., A.D. White House, Cornell University, History Department Colloquium, “‘Surely a Wonder of the Nineteenth Century’: Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and the Sonic Color-line.”

March 26, 2013, 12:00-2:30 p.m,  Anderson Hall, 821, African American Studies Speaker Series, Temple University, Philadelphia, “The Sonic Color-Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening in America.” 

March 27, 2013, 4:30 p.m., Chase Auditorium, Haverford College, Philadelphia,“The Sonic Color-Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening in America.”

April 9, 2013, 3:30-5:30 p.m., 306 Clemens, SUNY Buffalo, English Department Juxtapositions Series, “The Sonic Color-Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening in America.”