UPCOMING AND PAST TALKS


April 24, 2024

Dimensions of the Aesthetic Lecture Series
Frankfurt Humanities Research Centre
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany

April 22, 2024

Keynote Lecture
Doing Gender Lecture Series
Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands

April 19, 2024

Masterclass
Terra Critica: Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities
Utrecht, Netherlands

March 6, 2024

Book Talk
Technodiversity: Beyond Datafication and Digital Colonialism
Studium Generale Rietveld Academie
Amsterdam, Netherlands

March 5, 2024

On Anteaesthetics
We Have Never Had Sex Seminar Series
Sex Negativity Research Group
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands

March 4, 2024

Book Talk
San Serriffe Bookstore
Amsterdam, Netherlands

February 29, 2024

Public Knowledge: Anteaesthetics
with Vanessa Peterson,  Sadia Shirazi, and Larne Abse Gogarty
Camden Art Centre
London, UK

February 1, 2024

Book Talk
Pro qm Bookstore
Berlin, Germany

January 25, 2024

Book Talk and Study Session
Absence and Queer Negativity Series
Juf Poetry Project
Madrid, Spain

January 15, 2024

Form, Feeling, Technics: A Conversation on Black Art and Artistry
with Alexander G. Weheliye
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Freie Universität Berlin

December 5, 2023

“Dark Media and the Death-Work of Cinema”
American Studies Research Colloquium
Institute for English and American Studies
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany

November 30, 2023

“The Double Bind of Reproduction: On Black Mediality”
ICI-Berlin | Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Berlin, Germany

November 17-18, 2023

“Technesis of the Flesh.”
World Picture Conference
ICI-Berlin | Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Berlin, Germany

November 13, 2023

IAS Book Launch: Anteaesthetics
with Natasha Eaton and Larne Abse Gogarty
Institute of Advanced Studies
University College London
London, UK

November 9-12, 2023

“Unworlding, or the Monstrous Genealogy of Value.”
Visual Cultures and Monstrous Futures Panel
w/ TJ Demos, Anselm Franke, Sarah James,
Tahani Nadim, and Susan Schuppli
Historical Materialism Conference
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
London, UK

May 2, 2023

Ming Smith in a Minor Key: Open Study Session
w/ Garrett Bradley and Christina Sharpe
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY

April 14, 2023

“Black (Dis)Satisfication, Bodily Sovereignty, and the Ruses of Performance”
Can’t Get No Satisfaction: Theories of (Dis)Satisfaction for Film and Media Aesthetics Panel
w/ Iggy Cortez, Jennifer Fay, and Karen Redrobe
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Denver, CO

February 10, 2023

"Documentary Film and the Aestheticization of Violence"
Film Theory and Visual Culture Seminar
Department of Cinema and Media Arts
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

October 7-9, 2022

“Awaiting Her Verb”
Loophole of Retreat: Venice
The 59th Venice Biennale
Venice, Italy

September 3, 2022

“Haptic Visualities and the Skin of the Screen”
Conversation with Laura U. Marks and Ligia Lewis
Tanzmesse Internationale 2022

Köln, Germany

May 19-20, 2022

Embody and Catalyze:
A Joyful Celebration of Hortense Spillers
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

May 7, 2022

BAMPFA Art and Film Benefit
Honoring Trinh T. Minh-ha
and Amalia Mesa-Bains
Introduction to Trinh T. Minh-ha by Rizvana Bradley
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Berkeley, CA

April 29, 2022

What About China?
New film by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Awards and Premieres  

Post-screening Conversation with Trinh T. Minh-ha,
Jean-Paul Bourdier, and Rizvana Bradley
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
and San Francisco International Film Festival
Berkeley, CA

April 19-21, 2022

“Blackness and the Aesthetic”
Critical Theory Emphasis Mini-Seminar
UCI Critical Theory
University of California, Irvine

April 1, 2022

fugues, dérives, and escapes in cinema and experimental media
w/ Iggy Cortez, Elena Gorfinkel, and Kris Paulsen
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference

March 6, 2022

Tacita Dean’s One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting
Post-screening conversation with Christina Yang, Chief Curator BAMPFA, and Lauren Kroiz
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Berkeley, CA

March 4, 2022

Cinemas of Global Solidarity Symposium
w/ Philip Rosen, Alexandra Juhasz, Matthew Croombs, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Rosalind Galt, Luca Caminati, John MacKay, Sarah Hamblin, Masha Salazkina, Mariano Mestman, Ling Zhang, and Malini Guha
University of Calgary, Canada

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December 2nd-4th, 2021

Woman/Artist Conference
The History of Art Department
Yale University, New Haven

October 8th, 2021

Rizvana Bradley and Denise Ferreira da Silva
In conversation with The Otolith Group and Jota Mombaça
The Sojourner Project

Image: still from The Otolith Group, Infinity Minus Infinity (2020)

May 13th, 2021

“On Dispossession”
with Cameron Rowland
Department of Architecture
Rhode Island School for Design (RISD)
Providence, Rhode Island

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May 4th, 2021

Department of Art History
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

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March 30th, 2021

Conversation with Steve McQueen, Clara Kim, and Shannon Jackson
Berkeley Arts + Design and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Berkeley, CA

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March 17th, 2021

The Inheritance
Conversation with Ephraim Asili
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Berkeley, CA

Production still: from The Inheritance, 2020. Photo by Mick Bello.

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March 11th, 2021

“The Aesthetics of Seriality”
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
(Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien)
Vienna, Austria

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February 18th, 2021


McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
New Labor Movements
With Jenn Nkiru, Elegance Bratton,
Jovan James, and Leila Weefur
San Francisco, CA

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January 8th, 2021

Black Feminist Poethics
Part of the Presidential Theme, “Persistence”
Modern Language Association Convention
With Tavia Nyong’o, Zakiyyah Jackson,
Amber Musser, Rinaldo Walcott, and Alexander G. Weheliye

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November 10th, 2020

Living as Practice
School of Architecture
Hafencity Universität
Hamburg, Germany

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November 5th, 2020

Dispossession as Disposition
John Sommers Gallery
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

October 28th, 2020

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire
Book Launch for Jack Halberstam
Harvard Book Store
Cambridge, MA

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May 25, 2020

Aesthetics, Raciality, Dispossession (online lecture)
Rizvana Bradley, Moderated by Dominique Grisard
Circular Flow: On the Economy of Inequality
Kunstmuseum Basel
Basel, Switzerland

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March 5, 2020

The Third Part of the Third Measure
Conversation with the Otolith Group
and Tina Campt
Black Visualities Initiative
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

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November 9, 2019

Critical Visualities across Space and Deep Time
With Tavia Nyong’o, Dana Luciano, Katherine Brewer Ball,
and Cameron Rowland
American Studies Association Conference
Honolulu, Hawai‘i

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October 1, 2019

Study Hall
Rizvana Bradley and Simone White
The School for Temporary Liveness, Philadelphia Art Alliance

September 20th, 2019

Geosocial Encounters
Ecologies of Documentary Research and Practice
Slought Foundation and University of Pennsylvania

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September 29th, 2019

“Seriality/Refusal”
The School for Temporary Liveness
Philadelphia Art Alliance

September 12th, 2019

Arts Research Center
Dark Humanisms | Surplus Visuality
University of California, Berkeley

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August 28, 2019

NOISE Summer School
Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies
Utrecht University, Netherlands

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May 29, 2019

Un/Common Ritual
The Courtauld Institute of Art
King's Cross, London

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May 26, 2019

The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis
Van Abbe Museum
Eindhoven, Netherlands

With: Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun

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May 23, 2019

Abstraction, Violence, Representation
Ruskin School of Art
University of Oxford

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April 27, 2019

Loophole of Retreat: A Conference
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, New York

With: Dionne Brand, Tina Campt, Saidiya Hartman, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Christina Sharpe, Françoise Vergès, Simone White, and others

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April 26, 2019

The Theoretical Turn
IRAAS Institute 25th Anniversary
Columbia University, New York

With: Zakiyyah Jackson, Christina Sharpe, and Joseph Winters

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April 26, 2019

Poetry Studies Now
Poetry at the End of the World
The Graduate Center, CUNY

With: Tonya Foster, Erica Hunt, Bhanu Kapil, Jared Sexton, Dorothy Wang, Ronaldo Wilson, and others

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April 11, 2019

Harvard Theater & Performance Colloquium
Performative Detachments
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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March 30, 2019

Rethinking the Black Intellectual Tradition: Pessimism as an Interpretive Frame
With: David Marriott, Axelle Karera, Calvin Warren, Melvin Rogers, Neil Roberts, Bhakti Shringarpure
Amherst College, MA

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November 30-December 1, 2018

Pointed Words: Poetry and Politics in the Global Present
Roundtable: Kevin Platt, Jennifer Nelson, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Kevin Repp
Yale University, New Haven

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October 30, 2018

The Poethics of Blackness in a Transnational Frame
Conversation with Tina Campt
Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination
Paris

With Kodwo Eshun, Christina Sharpe, Denise Ferreira da Silva,
Maboula Soumahoro, Françoise Vergès, Kaima Glover,
Saidiya Hartman, and Dionne Brand

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October 22, 2018

Laura Mulvey: Space, Time, and Motherhood
Conversation with Laura Mulvey
Yale School of Art
Yale University, New Haven

October 11, 2018

Candice Lin, A Hard White Body 
Conversation with C. Riley Snorton and Lotte Arndt
Logan Arts Center, University of Chicago

September 21, 2018

Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism
Social Text Symposium
Yale University, New Haven

Image: still from Mencer ñi Pewma, dir. Francisco Huichaqueo

September 13, 2018

Fugitive Forms
Conversation with Stephanie Seidel and Aria Dean
ICA
Miami

June 30th, 2018

On Whiteness: a symposium
In Conversation with Lauren Berlant, Sadhana Bery, Jane Caflish,
Lori Gruen. and Saidiya Hartman
The Kitchen,
New York City

May 23rd, 2018

Conversation with Aria Dean and Autumn Knight
The Kitchen
New York City

May 5th, 2018

Conversation with Yael Davids
Museo Tamayo
Mexico City

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April 20th, 2018 

"Breakdown: Black Gestural Ecologies"
Theater Arts & Performance Studies
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island  

April 4th, 2018

"On the Cinematic Thought-Image"
Cinema Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

January 20th, 2018

Conversation w/ Steffani Jemison
Jeu De Paume
Paris, France

December 5th, 2017

Dimensions in Black:
Perspectives on Black Film and Media
Film Society Lincoln Center
New York, New York

November 13th, 2017

Manthia Diawara
Film Screening and Conversation
Anthology Film Archives
Flaherty FIlm Seminar
New York, New York

 

October 5th, 2017 

Talk and Conversation with Hazel Carby
Fred Moten, and Erica Edwards
Scenes at 20 Conference
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

September 5th, 2017

Conversation w/ Phillippe-Alain Michaud
Mellon Sawyer Seminar
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

May 24th, 2017

"Fanon and Visual Culture"
 Fanon Now
Tate Modern
London, UK 

April 27th, 2017

Conversation with Glenn Ligon
Moderated by Mignon Nixon
University College London
London, UK

April 20th, 2017

"The Performative Genealogies of Black Abstraction"
Modern Art Oxford
Oxford, UK
 

March 4th, 2017

“Certainly No Clamor for a Kiss”
Haptic Bodies conference
Barnard Center for Research on Women
New York, New York 

February 17th, 2017

"Haptics," a conversation with Simone Leigh
The Critical Matter of Performance
New Museum
New York, New York

January 14th, 2017

Les Artistes Africains-Américains et La Color Line:
Histoires, Généalogies, Formes, Gestes
Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac
Paris, France  

January 8th, 2017

Performative Lecture with Simone Leigh
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, California

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September 29th, 2016 

Conversation with Isaac Julien
James Brudner Memorial Prize Lecture
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

March 18th-19th, 2016

The Flesh of the Matter: 
A Hortense Spillers Symposium
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

May 7th, 2015 

Speculative Planning Session
with Denise Ferreira da Silva and Che Gossett
New Museum
New York, New York