Invited Talks and Panels: 2019 Beyond the Magic: Digital Black Feminism and Toxicity Online, Race, Gender, & Toxicity Online hosted by the Social Science Research Council, Austin, Texas—Invited Opening Plenary Speaker 2019 My Feminism is Digital and Black, Feminist DH: Intersectionality and Doing Justice with/to Data, The University of Virginia Scholars Lab—Invited Plenary Speaker 2019 Black Girl Labor as Magic: Toward an understanding of Digital Black Feminism , The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace Spring Lecture—Invited Keynote Lecturer 2018 Emerging Digital Humanities, Digital Caucus, American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, November, 2018.—Invited panelist 2018 Developing Black Digital Humanities Initiatives, Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) – Invited Course Instructor 2018 Best Practices Workshop “Thinking Through the Archives” hosted by the USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program— Invited presenter 2018 Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC) Program’s inaugural conference Humanities Now: Transformative Teaching at UCLA—Invited panelist 2017 Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities Campus of William and Mary, - Invited Panelist 2017 Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood's 8th conference in Washington DC, Media Pre-Conference invited panelist 2017 Black Joy and Resistance: Black Feminist Discourse Online Humanities Lab at American University , Washington DC - Invited Speaker 2017 Badges of Oppression, Positions of Strength: Digital Black Feminist Discourse and the Legacy of Black Women's Technology Use, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University Luncheon Series, Cambridge, Mass - Invited Speaker 2017 Parren Mitchell Symposium "Truth & Lies: Race, Media, and Politics - Speaking Out Loud: Blogs, Music, and TV" at the University of Maryland, College Park - Invited pPanelist 2016 Deviant Black Bodies and Embodied Black feminism in the Blogosphere Digital Dialogues Series, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities - Invited Speaker 2015 “A Multicultural Mindset for Journalists” - Spring National High School Journalism Convention sponsored by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association – Denver, Colorado - Invited Speaker 2015 “Black Women and the Media” Black Women’s Summit – Colorado State University - Invited Speaker Conference Presentations 2018 Joy is Resistance: Resilience and (Re)Invention in Black Oral Culture Online, Association of Internet Researchers, Montreal, QB, with Jessica Lu 2018 Defying Death: Black Joy as Resistance Online, International Communication Association, Prague, Czech Republic, with Jessica Lu 2017 Deviant black bodies and embodied black feminism in the blogosphere, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL 2016 Beyond Tragedy or Transcendence: Obama, Mixed Race Representation, and the Digital Turn” Obama 2.0 Conference, University of Maryland Baltimore County 2016 Get in Formation: The new rules of engagement for black feminist discourse online Association of Internet Research, Berlin, Germany 2016 The Virtual Beauty Shop: Crafting a Digital Black Feminism in the Blogosphere Digital Blackness Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 2015 When the black lives that matter are not our own: Social justice and a digital black feminism (panel organizer) Association of Internet Researchers Conference 16, Phoenix, AZ 2015 Real and imagined boundaries: Building connections between social justice activists and internet researchers (Roundtable organizer) Association of Internet Researchers Conference 16, Phoenix, AZ 2015 Blogging Ferguson: Self-care and the ‘practice of freedom’ for marginalized writers and communities online International Communication Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2014 A different model for academic mentoring: How race, multiplicity, and holism intersect with online social media, with Jenny Korn, Association of Internet Researchers Conference 15, Daegu South Korea 2014 “Classroom Ethics: Social Media”, with Andrea Guzman National Communication Association, Short course, Chicago, IL. 2013 Shaking off the Other: Appropriation of marginalized culture and the Harlem Shake Association of Internet Researchers Conference 14, Denver Colorado 2013 The Virtual Barbershop: The political implications of community discourse online Black Doctoral Network Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA 2012 In Search of Community: Popular culture driven temporary support communities on SNS Association of Internet Researchers Conference 13 (panel chair), Salford, England 2012 #RIPWhitney: Grieving online and the extension of secondary orality Association of Internet Researchers Conference 13 (panel participant), Salford, England 2012 Protective or Oppressive? Analyzing Death Penalty Framing , with Elycia Taylor and Emilie Luchessi, National Communication Association 2012 conference, Orlando, FL 2012 From tragedy to transcendence: A model of biracial identity in media representation National Communication Association 2012 , Orlando, FL 2010 Worthy of Rescue: Framing poverty in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster” Illinois Communication Collaboration Conference. Champaign, IL. |
Upcoming: Project STAND - Invited Panelist - Chicago, IL September 19, 2019 Omohundro Institute Digital Symposium - Invited Panelist - Washington DC, September 26-27, 2019 Michigan State University Fall Distinguished Lecture in Digital Humanities, East Lansing Michigan, November 4, 2019 Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium - Keynote Speaker, The College of William & Mary Williamsburg, Virginia, February 21, 2020 Northeastern University Feminism and Democracy, March 2020 |