Keynotes and other invited speaking engagements:
- Keynote, “Slavery in the Cultural Imagination.” University of Amsterdam. (October 28, 2021)**
- “Disrupting the Caribbean,” with Zaka Toto. Decolonize That! Warscapes. (October 22, 2021)**
- “Teaching the Haitian Revolution.” Haiti Teacher/Fellows Program. UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. (October 9, 2021)**
- “Revolutionary Ripples: Caribbean History, Contemporary Art.” Roundtable. Pensacola Museum of Art. (October 2021)**
- "Pasts and Futures: Rethinking the Role of Institutional Histories in the Humanities." University of Michigan (October 7-8, 2021)**
- “Haitian Art and the Reign of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe.” Figge Art Museum (May 20, 2021)**
- "Toussaint was a Mighty Man." 10th Annual Bocas Lit Festival (April 24, 2021)**
- "Revolution and Counterrevolution in the 1790s." Society for US Intellectual History (April 19, 2021)
- “The World the King Made: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.” Harvard Humanities Center Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies (April 1, 2021).**
- “A King in a World of Kings: The Life and Times of Henry Christophe.” University of Chicago France and Francophone Worlds Workshop. (March 5, 2021).**
- Guest Interlocutor, Stanford Caribbean Studies Reading Group. (January 27, 2021).**
- “Digital Rasanblaj: Dissassembling the Haitian Archive.” Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). Stanford University. (January 12, 2021).**
- “L’Époque du Roi Henry 1er d'Hayti (1811- 1820),” Colloque sur La ville du Cap sous le règne du roi Henry 1er. Muséofil S. A. en collaboration avec le comité de la commémoration officielle des 350 ans de la ville du Cap-Haïtien. (December 5, 2020)**
- “Haitian History, Literature, and the Law.” Symposium on Law and Literature, UC Berkeley English Department and Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program (November 13, 2020).**
- "Unsettling Genealogies of Haitian Revolutionary History," University of Missouri, Columbia (October 23, 2020)**
- Respondent, Davis Seminar at Princeton University (October 16, 2020)**
- "Commemorating King Henry Christophe I," Haitian Network Group of Detroit (HNGD) (October 17, 2020)**
- "Henry Christophe at 200: Commemorating the End of an Era." Roundtable at the Haitian Studies Association (October 10, 2020)**
- “The Legacy of Haiti’s First and Last King.” Courtauld Institute Workshop on Henry Christophe in the Atlantic World, 1820-2020 (October 6, 2020)**
- Navigating the Job Market & Family Obligations. HSA Emerging Scholars Workshop (September 12, 2020)**
- “Haïti: History and Denial," French Department colloquia on race, anti-Black racism and racial equity. Wellesley College (September 17, 2020).**
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (October 16-17, 2020)*
- "Colloquium on Haitian Narratives," Ohio State University, (April 13, 2020)*
- "Navigating the Academy as Black Women." Virtual Graduate Student Seminar, National Humanities Center (July 15, 2020)**
- #UnSilenced Past with Kaiama Glover and Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Barnard College Center for the Digital Humanities (July 9, 2020)**
- "The World of Haitian Romanticism," Northwestern University (May 15, 2020)**
- University of Texas, El Paso (April 9-10, 2020)*
- "Beyond Trouillot: Unsettling Genealogies of Haitian Thought." Haiti Week, Center for Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University (February 4, 2020).
- “Baron de Vastey et l’Atlantique Noire.” Centre international de recherches sur les esclavages (CIRESC), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHSS), Paris France, January 31, 2020.
- “D’autres intellectuels africains-américains : « l’humanisme noir » au-delà des Etats-Unis.” Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones (LARCA), Université Paris-Diderot VII, Paris, France (January 28-31, 2020)
- Caribbean Digital VI, Barnard College/Columbia University (December 6, 2019)
- “‘A Black Kingdom May Take the Place of the White One’: Henry Christophe I and The Kingdom of Hayti (1811-1820).” Manchester Histories Festival, Manchester Central Library, 30 July 2019.
- Keynote: “The Age of Haitian Romanticism,” International Conference on Romanticism, University of Manchester (UK), 31 July-2 August 2019.
- “Caribbean Sovereignty in an Age of Independence.” Middle Modernity Group, English Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 4-5 April 2019.
- “Haiti’s Baron de Vastey and the Black Atlantic.” African American Studies Department, Boston University, 3 October 2018. (Aired on NPR on 14 October 2018)
- “Beyond Trouillot.” Silencing the Past @ 25, University of Chicago, 26-27 October 2018.
- “Afro-Caribbean Atlantic Worlds,” with Kaiama Glover, Laurent Dubois, and Christina Mobley. The Global South: Theories, Narratives, Spaces and Technologies, at the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, University of Bologna, 3 July 2018.
- “The Age of the Haitian Revolution,” Transoceanic American Studies Symposium. German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. May 17-18, 2018.
- “The Politics of Naming Revolutions.” https://www.brandeis.edu/misplaced-revolutions/participants/seminar-guests.html, (Mellon Sawyer-Seminar), Brandeis University. 27 February 2018.
- “The Haitian Atlantic: A Literary Geography.” Nineteenth-Century Americanists Colloquium. Columbia University. 19 February 2018.
- Roundtable: “Interpreting the Haitian Revolution: Sources, Methods, Theories”/“L’interprétation de la Révolution haïtienne: documents, méthodes, théories,” at “Haiti: Slavery, Resistance, Revolution"/"Haiti: esclavage, résistance, révolution" : Symposium in honour of Professor Carolyn Fick, Concordia University. 8 September 2017.
- Keynote: “Story-Mapping the Haitian Atlantic.” Shaking Up the World? Global Effects of Haitian Tremors: 1791, 2010. Symposium. University of Aarhus, Denmark 10-12 August 2017.
- “A Transnational Literary Geography of the Haitian Atlantic.” Duke-UNC Americanist Speakers Series. 27 April 2017.
- “Baron de Vastey and Black Sovereignty in the Atlantic World.” Caribbean Emancipations Workshop. Duke University. 21 April 2017.
- Plenary Roundtable: “Abolitionism and Black Intellectual History.” African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). 24 March 2017.
- “Traveling the Haitian Atlantic.” University of Colorado, Boulder. 14 March 2017.
- “Haiti and the Digital World: Archiving Black Sovereignty Together in Life and Death.” Scholars’ Lab. University of Virginia. 18 January 2017.“South of Haiti: Caribbean Intellectual History and the Atlantic World.” Global South Conference, University of Virginia. 17 November 2016.
- "The Haitian Atlantic," National Humanities Center. Research Triangle Park. 10 November 2016.
- “Haiti @ the Digital Crossroads,” Franklin Humanities Institute. Duke University. 13 October 2016.
- Keynote: “Historiography and the Transatlantic Literary History of the Haitian Revolution.” “Haiti: Beyond Commemoration & Boundaries,” University of Chicago. 12 May 2016.
- “Haiti’s First Novel and the Transatlantic Print Culture of the Haitian Revolution.” African~Diaspora Forum, History Department, New York University. 14 October 2015.
- “Slavery in the French-Claimed Caribbean.” United Negro College Fund/Mellon International Seminar, Nantes, France. 7 July 2015.
- “Race and the Transatlantic Print Culture of the Haitian Revolution.” Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, 13 April 2015.
- “Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution.” UC-Santa Barbara, 15 May 2014.
- “The Revolutionary Public Sphere.” Rethinking The Age of Revolution: Rights, Representation, and the Global Imaginary (Mellon-Sawyer Seminar), Brandeis University, 24 October 2013.
- “Un-Veiling the Colonial System: A Roundtable on Haitian Independence.” Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, December 1-4, 2011.
- “Moreau de Saint-Méry’s daughter, the authorship of La Mulâtre comme il y a beaucoup de blanches, and other mysteries of the Haitian Revolution.” The Global Nineteenth Century Conference, U.C. Riverside, October 21-22, 2010.
- “The Revolutionary Hero.” Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL. September 26, 2007.
