Selected Events
Jazz at the Duc w/ Dr. Rashida Braggs
Conceptualizer A biennial jazz workshop and concert held at the premier jazz club Duc des Lombards in Paris, France, since 2011.
Conceptualizer A biennial jazz workshop and concert held at the premier jazz club Duc des Lombards in Paris, France, since 2011.
Black | France Noire: Gendered Identities, Racialized Spaces Symposium
Speaker Columbia University Global Center, Reid Hall & Maison du Parc Centre Culturel et Maison des Arts, Paris & Bagnolet, France, May 21–23, 2025
Speaker Columbia University Global Center, Reid Hall & Maison du Parc Centre Culturel et Maison des Arts, Paris & Bagnolet, France, May 21–23, 2025
Autor de Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape Colloque: "Paris noir, circulations artistiques et luttes anticoloniales"
Discussant Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, March 20, 2025
Discussant Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, March 20, 2025
Everyday Antiblackness in France: An Evening with Trica Keaton
Speaker American Library in Paris, February 27, 2024
Speaker American Library in Paris, February 27, 2024
Wheatley at 250: Celebrating the Legacy of America's First Published African-American Poet
Discussant American Library in Paris Speaker Series, February 25, 2025
Discussant American Library in Paris Speaker Series, February 25, 2025
Global Black French Studies across Time and Space: The Formation and Future of the Field Conference
Convenor Boston College, October 3–6, 2024
Convenor Boston College, October 3–6, 2024
The Dreams of Josephine Baker / De droom van Josephine Baker
Consultant and interviewee Andere Tijden (NTR), broadcast on NPO2, Netherlands, December 30, 2024
Consultant and interviewee Andere Tijden (NTR), broadcast on NPO2, Netherlands, December 30, 2024
On Seeing, a book series committed to centering underrepresented perspectives in visual culture
Editorial Board Member MIT Press and Brown University Library, 2021–2024
Editorial Board Member MIT Press and Brown University Library, 2021–2024
The Afro/Black Paris & France Initiative (with Tyler Stovall)
Creator & Co-Principal Investigator 2019–2021
Creator & Co-Principal Investigator 2019–2021
Afro/Black Paris: Future/Past Symposium & Lecture and Film Series
Convenor Dartmouth College, April 2018
A symposium accompanying the Afro/Black Europe lecture and film series and launching my Afro/Black Paris Study Away Program at Dartmouth, 4/1/2018
Convenor Dartmouth College, April 2018
A symposium accompanying the Afro/Black Europe lecture and film series and launching my Afro/Black Paris Study Away Program at Dartmouth, 4/1/2018
Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II: Being Black in the EU)
Delegate and Consultant European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna, Austria, 2018
Delegate and Consultant European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna, Austria, 2018
Europe and Europe in the World: The Politics of Belonging and Social Inclusion panel and film
Convenor and Speaker Annual Meeting of the Council for European Studies, Paris, France, July 2015
Convenor and Speaker Annual Meeting of the Council for European Studies, Paris, France, July 2015
Black Migration Symposium
Convenor Vanderbilt University, Co-sponsored with Fisk University, February 10–12, 2012
Convenor Vanderbilt University, Co-sponsored with Fisk University, February 10–12, 2012
Black Europe and the African Diaspora: Exploring and Historicizing Contemporary Questions of Blackness, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-Racism lecture and film series
Convenor Vanderbilt University, Spring 2011
Convenor Vanderbilt University, Spring 2011
France Noire/Black France Film Festival
Conceptualizer and Director Forum des Images and the Residence of the US Ambassador to France, Paris, May 21–23, 2010
Conceptualizer and Director Forum des Images and the Residence of the US Ambassador to France, Paris, May 21–23, 2010
Black Europe Research Circle
Speaker Black Europe Summer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009–2011
Speaker Black Europe Summer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009–2011
France Noire-Black France: The History, Poetics, and Politics of Blackness
Convenor Reid Hall, Paris, France, June 2008
Convenor Reid Hall, Paris, France, June 2008
Black Europe Research Circle
Convenor and Funder National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and Its Legacy (NiNsee), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2008
Convenor and Funder National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and Its Legacy (NiNsee), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2008
Europe and the African Diaspora Lecture Series
Organizer Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Spring 2007
Organizer Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Spring 2007
Lumières Noires
Film Consultant A documentary on the 1956 International Congress of Black Writers and Artists Paris, France, 2006
Film Consultant A documentary on the 1956 International Congress of Black Writers and Artists Paris, France, 2006
Black Europe and the African Diaspora: Blackness in Europe Symposium
Convenor Northwestern University, April 2006
Convenor Northwestern University, April 2006