2009
| 8 February | Lecture: African American Art in the Rosenwald Era. Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL |
| 6 February | Lecture & Book Signing for Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. |
| 18 January | Lecture: The Blues Aesthetic. Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
2008
| November | Lecture: Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY |
| September | Conversation with Dr. Walter O. Evans, Art Collector & Executive Director of the Jacob & Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Golden Belt, Durham, NC |
| July | Quotation & Book Excerpt: Lele Acquarone, "Donyale Luna," Vogue Italia 695 (July 2008): 280-281, 345. |
| May | Lecture: Barkley L. Hendricks. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC |
| Lecture: Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC | |
| April | Lecture: Diaspora and Exile: Black Women Artists in 1960s Europe. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA |
| March | Lecture: Paesaggio/Fuga. Dominazione e organizzazione nelle immagini afro-americane dell'Ottocentro. Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy |
| Lecture: The Black Arts Movement. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA | |
| Lecture: Landscape/Escape: Subjugation and Agency in Nineteenth- Century Images of African Americans. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA | |
| February | Lecture: Getting a 'New Head': Nineteenth-Century Images of Black Women's Head Adornments. Rice University, Houston, TX |
| January | Panel Discussion: The Art of Kara Walker. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC |