KEYNOTE LECTURE: “The Gift: A French Atlantic History of Slavery and Memory” at the workshop “France and the Black Atlantic: Geographies of Slavery and Memory,” at Brown University Cogut Institute, March 14, 2024.
BOOK TALK “The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism,” in conversation with Cécile Fromont (Yale University), Yale University, New Haven, CT, January 29, 2024.
LECTURE: Stanley Stein Lecture 2022, “Naming the Nameless: Slavery, Memory, and Death in Brazil and the United States,“ Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. March 31, 2022.
LECTURE: 2023 Reckford Lecture, “Slavery as History and Memory,“ Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, February 23, 2023.
PANEL: “Memòria i polítiques de memòria al món, una mirada comparativa,” Symposium “Esclavisme a Barcelona. Una història silenciada.” El Born Centre de Cultura, Memòria, Barcelona, Spain, November 3-6, 2021.
PANEL: “Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade,” Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture Harvard University, United States, April 23, 2021.
LECTURE: “Slavery in the Age of Memory: Britain, France, and the United States,” Edinburgh Centre for Global History Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, April 22, 2021.
LECTURE: “The Death of the National Museum: Slavery Heritage on the Edge,” Out of the Ashes lecture series, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, March 22, 2021.
PANEL: “Race and Remembrance in Contemporary Europe,” Seminar of the Directors, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, United States, October 21, 2020.
PANEL: “Monumental Injustice in the Americas,” Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 12, 2020.
PANEL: “Rethinking Memory and Knowledge During Times of Crisis,” part of the series “Racism in History and Context,” German Historical Association (Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands), the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley, and the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, United States, September 15, 2020.
PANEL: “Monumental Debates: Academic Perspectives on Global Movements to Topple Historical Monuments,” Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, October 7, 2020.
PANEL: “The Death of Pro-Slavery Monuments: the United States and Brazil,” in Monumental: Flags, Statues, and the Politics of Public Space, Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment, Florida International University, August 18, 2020.
PANEL: “The Episode #1: Museums, Memorials & Memorialization after Atrocity: Communicating a Form of Ongoing Justice?” United Nations LIVE Discussion Series “Beyond the long shadow: engaging with difficult histories,” July 8, 2020.
LECTURE: “Museums and Slavery: Engaging the Past and the Present in the Public Sphere,” Lecture series “Contestations: Rethinking the Public Sphere for the Twenty-first Century,” Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, October 24, 2019.
PANEL: “Revising Early America,“part of the series Revisionist History, Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA, September 18, 2019.
PANEL: “Reparations and its Transnational History.” Panel “Assessing the Enduring Legacies of the Slave Trade and Slavery in Today’s Societies.” (starts at minute 38:20) International Conference “Interpreting and Representing Slavery and its Legacies in Museums and Sites: International Perspectives.” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 19-22, 2018.
LECTURE: “Reparations for Slavery and the Challenges of Global History.” (starts at minute 1:59:00) Keynote lecture, International conference “Global Perspectives: Regimes of Redress and Reparations, Transitional Justice, and the Rule of Law.” Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, LA, March 16-17, 2018.
LECTURE: “Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History.” School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, February 15, 2018.
LECTURE: “Memory of Slavery and The Problem of Reparations in Brazil,” Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brazil Initiative, Brown University, Providence, RI, February 7, 2018.
PANEL: “Universities and Reparations part of the Symposium “Universities, Slavery, Public Memory, and the Built Landscape,” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, October 18-21, 2017.
PANEL: “Sites of Disembarkation and the Public Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade,” International conference The States of Memory of Slavery: International Comparative Perspectives. La mémoire de l’esclavage dans tous ses états. Perspectives internationales comparées, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, October 22-23, 2015.
PANEL: “Le corps de l’esclave: mémoires et patrimonies blessés” (in French), International seminar Éprouver le Brésil. Mémoires, marges et subversions», organized by CÉLAT (Université Laval) and the Harriet Tubman Institute (York University), Université Laval during the Black History Month, on February 26, 2015.
SEMINAR PRESENTATION: “Esclavage, mémoires et reconnaissance au Brésil,” (in French), “Seminar “Mémoire historiques d’ici et d’ailleurs: regards croisés” at CEVIPOF (Paris), June 1, 2007.