I will deliver a paper at the roundtable event “Race and Guns in America,” hosted by Duke Law’s Center for Firearms Law.

I will present a paper titled "Quiet Revolutions: Reclaiming Space in the Wake of Gun Violence" as part of the panel "Insurgent Spaces: Performing Revolt in Public" at the annual meeting for the American Studies Association

I will talk about my book, Extra Ordinary Violence: Performance, Race, and Gun Culture in the United States at Emory University’s Race & Difference Colloquium

I will present a paper titled "Sovereign Subjects: Performance and Anti-Blackness in US American Gun Culture" as part of the concurrent panel "Undoing Arousal" at the annual meeting for the American Society for Theatre Research.

I will appear on a panel about race, performance, pop culture, and professional wrestling. The panel is an engagement with Theatre Emory’s professional regional premiere of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, by Kristoffer Diaz.

I will present "You Cannot Jail the Revolution: Black Women and Protest Performance from the Black Panther Party to Black Lives Matter" as part of the panel "Radical Reclamation: Black Women, Protest, and Resilience" with Shamell Bell and Tezeru Teshome.

A conversation with playwright Jennifer Nii, Plan-B Theatre Company's Artistic Director Jerry Rapier, and director Alex Ungerman about Nii's new, award-winning play, The Weird Play. 

I will present the annual faculty lecture of the American Studies Program at Brigham Young University. My talk, titled "Picking Up the Gun: Spectacular Performances of Gun Ownership in the Black Panther Party," is a performative analysis of the guns that Black Panther Party leaders used in their protest march on the California State Capitol in 1967. These totemic objects, I argue, became conductive theatrical objects and communicated genealogies of white supremacy and black resistance and thus read in radically different ways to the different racial communities that witnessed the event.