UPCOMING AND PAST TALKS
April 10, 2025
Colloquium
The Oakley Center for the Humanities
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
March 13, 2025
The Loft Hour
Arts Research Center
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
March 4, 2025
Digital Aesthetics Workshop
Stanford Humanities Center
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
February 6, 2025
Before the Nude: On Anteaesthetics
Weintz Lecture in Art History
Department of Art & Art History
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
November 15, 2024
Negative Life Book Launch
With Steven Swarbrick, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Mario Telò,
Iggy Cortez, Patrice Douglass, and Debarati Sanyal
The Rhetoric Department
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
November 10, 2024
Sunday Seminar
Political Theology Network
October 26, 2024
Choreographing Nothing: On Black Anteriority
Conversation with Rizvana Bradley and Deborah-Joyce Holman
Kunstverein Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
October 21, 2024
Anteaesthetics at Brown University
Brown Arts Institute, Department of the History of Arts and Architecture,
and the Perelman Arts District
Brown University,
Providence, RI
October 18, 2024
Media Ecologies In and Against the World
Elemental Media Conference
Department of Modern Culture and Media & the Elemental Media Lab
Brown University
Providence, RI
October 14-15, 2025
Dead Reckonings Conference and Colloquium
Center for the Humanities
Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
September 26, 2024
Netherworld: The Anteaesthetic Experiments of Black Women
Presented by Alfreda’s Cinema
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
New York, New York
September 14, 2024
The Body Improper, or Sovereignty in Ruins
Jean-Luc Nancy: Antiquity and Beyond Conference
The Rhetoric Department and the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
July 6, 2024
Politics of Form: Contemporary Art, Exhibitions, Critique
Symposium
with Adrian Anagnost, Eva Barto, Sezgin Boynik,
Markus Klammer, Fiona McGovern, Maria Muhle,
Jenny Nachtigall, Peter Osborne, and Vinicius Spricigo,
Documenta Institut
Kassel, Germany
June 26, 2024
Dimensions of the Aesthetic Lecture Series
Frankfurt Humanities Research Centre
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
June 19, 2024
Perspectives on American Literature and Culture
Research Colloquium
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
June 15, 2024
In Conversation with Cameron Rowland
Glasgow International | Festival of Contemporary Art
Glasgow, Scotland
June 3, 2024
Research Colloquium
Affective Societies
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
May 30, 2024
in theory
with Henrike Kohpeiss and Anthony Obst
diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery
Berlin, Germany
May 26, 2024
Dissonant Refusal
with Henrike Kohpeiss
Theaterhaus Gessnerallee
Zurich, Switzerland
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
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
May 4th, 2021
Department of Art History
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
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
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.
March 11th, 2021
“The Aesthetics of Seriality”
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
(Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien)
Vienna, Austria
February 18th, 2021
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
New Labor Movements
With Jenn Nkiru, Elegance Bratton,
Jovan James, and Leila Weefur
San Francisco, CA
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
November 10th, 2020
Living as Practice
School of Architecture
Hafencity Universität
Hamburg, Germany
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
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
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
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
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
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
August 28, 2019
NOISE Summer School
Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies
Utrecht University, Netherlands
May 29, 2019
Un/Common Ritual
The Courtauld Institute of Art
King's Cross, London
May 26, 2019
The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis
Van Abbe Museum
Eindhoven, Netherlands
With: Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun
May 23, 2019
Abstraction, Violence, Representation
Ruskin School of Art
University of Oxford
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
April 26, 2019
The Theoretical Turn
IRAAS Institute 25th Anniversary
Columbia University, New York
With: Zakiyyah Jackson, Christina Sharpe, and Joseph Winters
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
April 11, 2019
Harvard Theater & Performance Colloquium
Performative Detachments
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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
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
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
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
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
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