Invited Lectures
2023
Harvard
“A Conversation with Dorinne Kondo and Viet Thanh Nguyen”
October 18th, 2023
Included in discussion series, “Notes From The Field and the Archive," which concerns how all of us – faculty, students, and staff – might better address issues of power and privilege in our classrooms and build a more equitable and inclusive community in the english Department.
Johns Hopkins
Reparative Arts in Community Engagement (RACE) Conference
Keynote speaker
From the RACE Conference website: “Drawing on Dorinne Kondo’s (2018) concept of ‘reparative creativity’, we understand reparative arts as the processes (methodologies/pedagogies) and/or products (visual, audio, performance) designed to present a call-to-action for change to systemic and/or structural causes of inequity and injustice in our society by amplifying community solutions towards repair and healing.”
2022
UCLA
Worldmaking: Gender, Race, Place
KEYNOTE Speaker
organized by the UCLA Practice-Based Experimental Epistemology Research (PEER) Lab
2020
Claremont Colleges
2019
UC San Diego
The Drama of Worldmaking
Presented as part of the aesthetics and politics series
Columbia University
NYU
I had a delightful visit to performance studies at NYU to talk about my book WORLDMAKING. Warmest thanks to Fred Moten for the generous invitation and to the exciting students and faculty for their engagement with my work. It was a pleasure reading scenes from "Seamless" with our talented cast.
The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Event with Dillon Sung
An event hosted by the Creativity, Theory, Politics research cluster in the American Studies and Ethnicity department. The event was organized by Dr. Adrian De Leon and I. Graduate student Dillon Sung presented on her work as artist and activist with the Stop LAPD Spying movement. Her work with digital archives raises urgent political, intellectual, and aesthetic questions that address our moment when police violence, police abolition and the rethinking of public safety are circulating in the public sphere in unprecedented ways.