Speaking
Invited Talks
12 June 2021 - We Everywhere: Dialogues of the African Diaspora [Turkey], Brooklyn Public Library, Macon Branch’s African American Heritage Center
31 March 2021 - Guest Lecture on “Race in the Middle East”, New York University
5 March 2021 - “A Brief History of the African Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey”, Slavs & Tatars, Albertinum, Goethe-Institute NY (recording)
23 June 2021 - “Global Blackness, Blackness Global: Traveling for Study Abroad”, Black Beyond Borders: Global Cities Cultural Exchange Program
14 October 2020 - “Contextualizing BLM in Turkey: A Panel Discussion”, Yabangee-Turkey in English and Istanbul&I (recording)
24 September 2020 - “Notes from the Field: On Researching Blackness, Slavery, and the African Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire”, Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series
3 August 2020 - “The History of Ottoman History: A Master Class w/ Dr. Zeynep Çelik & Dr. Tunç Şen”, Columbia Global Center (recording)
20 May 2020 - “The African Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire”, Petrides High School, New York
24 April 2019 - Guest Lecture on “Gezi Park Protests: Palimpsests of Dispossession”, New York University
1 March 2019 - “Iran Today: Women, Gender, and Society”, Petrides High School, New York
Selected Conference Presentations & Workshops
27 October 2020 - “Becoming ‘Zenci’: Formulating Race in the Ottoman Empire, 1840s-1914”, Koç University’s ANAMED, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, Turkey
10-11 October 2019 - “Eating the Other: Metaphors of the Racialized Other in Turkey”, On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives Conference, University of California, Los Angeles
18-19 November 2019 - “Vocalized Narratives, Unintelligible Blackness: Documenting Histories of Enslavement in Iran and Turkey”, Africa in the Middle East/Middle East in Africa Workshop co-organized by Cornell University and New York University
5-9 November 2019 - “Black Diasporic Turkey: New Routes of Freedom?”, Association for the study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), Williamsburg, Virginia
15-18 November 2018 - “The Black Experience of the Middle East & North Africa: Colonialism, Healing, Literature, and Islam” (Chair & Discussant), Middle Eastern Studies Association, San Antonio, Texas
10-14 October 2018 - “The Ethics of Listening” (Roundtable), Oral History Association, Montreal, Canada
18-21 November 2017 - “Dana Bayramı: Negotiating Blackness and Turkishness”, Middle Eastern Studies Association, Washington, D.C.
