Celebrated keynote speaker

Lewis is a sought-after public speaker whose mainstage TED Talk has garnered over three million views. She has delivered keynote commencement addresses at venues ranging from the UN General Assembly and the Edinburgh International Festival to World Business Forum and Yale University, as well as numerous universities and organizations across the United States and abroad.

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Upcoming appearances

All appearances

2013

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

2012

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

2012

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

2012

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

2012

“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

2012

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

2011

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

2011

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

2011

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

2011

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

2010

“‘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

2007

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