“‘The noblest blood God ever made’: W. E. B. Du Bois and Black American Medievalism Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”

The Grace Lecture; Department of English
College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA

“Faking the Middle Ages for Racial Justice: The Power of Obvious Intervention from the Rood of Grace to Harlem Renaissance Medievalism”

The Lansdowne Lecture; “Conspiracies, Fakes, and Follies” Conference of the Medieval Studies Program
University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada (Virtual)

“On Black Metaphors and Race in the Middle Ages”

Religious Mobilities of the Medieval and Early Modern World Webinar at the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Team, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Australian Catholic University in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia (Virtual)

“‘The shade of trees their ancestors left’: Medieval Blackness and African American Medievalism”

Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Medieval Studies Program, Americanist & Medieval Studies Colloquia
University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, WI (Virtual)

“Black and White Thinking: A Conversation with Cord Whitaker”

Interview by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Harvard University Committee on Medieval Studies
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research in Cambridge, MA (Virtual)

“‘From Medieval America to Modern’: On Being BIPOC and Making Meaning in White Disciplinary Spaces”

Department of English
Duke University in Durham, NC (Virtual)

“‘It’s Not What You Know’: Connections, Networks, and Power—Or the Power of Stories””

Humanities NOW: Humanities Initiative Spring Symposium
Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA (Virtual)

“Struggling in the eddies’ and Standing at the Corner: A History of Critical Medieval Race Studies”

Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies Lecture Series at the Institute for Advanced Study Program in Medieval Studies
Princeton University in Princeton, NJ (Virtual)

Black Metaphors: The Problem of Medievalist White Supremacy—and Its Black Medievalist Answer

Alpha Boulé of Sigma Pi Phi in Philadelphia, PA (Virtual)

November 5-6, 2020
Guest Lecture

“From Medieval America to Modern”: Plague, Prejudice and Protest in the Middle Ages and Today

The 2020 Conway Lectures: “Race in the Middle Ages”; The Medieval Institute
University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana (Virtual)

October 8, 2020
Guest Lecture

“Shimmering Contraries: Medieval Grammar and the Rise of Race and Racism”

John Hope Franklin Day; Brooklyn College of the City
University of New York in New York (Virtual)

September 24, 2020
Guest Lecture

“From Medieval America to Modern”: The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance and Making Black Lives Matter Today

The Rushton Lecture; Department of English,
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA (Virtual)

September 17, 2020
Author Seminar

Author Seminar on Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking

The Rushton Lecture; Department of English,
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA (Virtual)

July 23, 2020
Guest Lecture

“‘To Protect and To Serve’: Policing and Chivalric Violence”

A RaceB4Race™ Roundtable at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ (Virtual)

April 22, 2020
Guest Lecture

“The Modern Middle Ages in White and Black: White Supremacy and Harlem Renaissance Medievalism”

Gilbert Osofsky Memorial Lecture; Department of History,
University of Illinois at Chicago in Chicago, IL (Virtual)

February 13, 2020
Guest Lecture

Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race Thinking—And Why It Matters

The Yale Club of New York City in New York, NY

February 6, 2020
Guest Lecture

The Problem of Alt-Right Medievalist White Supremacy, and Its Black Medievalist Answer

ELH Colloquium Speaker Series; Department of English
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD

November 23, 2019
Guest Lecture

‘Color and Democracy’: the Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance and the Later Work of W.E.B. Du Bois

Color and Color Lines in the Middle Ages Symposium; Delaware Valley Medieval Association and Program in Medieval Studies
Princeton University in Princeton, NJ