Appearances

Law School Admissions Council, Asheville, NC, The Rise, Keynote

Aspen Ideas Festival, invited lecture about The Rise

Global American Studies Symposium, Warren Center, Harvard University

The New York Public Library, Conversation with Anna Deavere Smith [Book launch for The Rise]

Callaloo Conference, Oxford University

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, panel on “African Art, New York and the Avant Garde”

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., “Photography in the Federal Art in Embassies Program”

“‘Pictures and Progress’: Frederick Douglass, The Circassian Beauties, and American Racial Formation,” Society of Early Americanists Conference

“A Conversation with Haile Gerima,” Sarah Lewis and Dagmawi Woubshet interviewing Haile Gerima, Callaloo Conference, Princeton University, [Co-organizer]

“Nicola Green: Images of the 2008 Obama Campaign,” Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

“A Writers’ Celebration of Romare Bearden, with Elizabeth Alexander, Stanley Crouch, Kwame Dawes, Khalil G. Muhammad, Sarah Lewis, and John Edgar Wideman,” 92nd Street Y, New York, NY

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., “Art and Architecture: Creating Community”

“Multiple Modernities and Global Art Worlds,” College Art Association, co-chaired with Leslie King-Hammond

Savannah College of Art and Design, deFINE Art Festival, Atlanta, GA, Keynote

“Pictures and Progress,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD

“Pictures and Progress: Frederick Douglass, The Circassian Beauties and American Racial Formation,” Yale University, History of Art Department

“‘Go Back to Russia! Go Back to Africa!’: Circassian Beauties and American Racial Formation,” The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale

Here and Now: African American Art and Film conference, sponsored by W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University and Tisch School of the Arts, New York University