selected speaking

2015

• October 3 (Moderator)  "Women in Chocolate" panel. Northwest Chocolate Festival, Seattle, WA.
• September 7  "Craft Chocolate: All That and a Bag of Chips?" The Chocolate Garage, Palo Alto, CA.
• June 16 (with Kathryn Sampeck)  "The Bitter and Sweet of Chocolate in Europe." The Social Meaning of Food Workshop, Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
• June 1  "Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food in Massachusetts." Chew On This: Presenting the History of Food in Massachusetts, Worcester, MA.
• April 27  "Chocolate 101." Neiman Fellows Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• April 14  "Chocolate Literacy." Food Lab and Food Literacy Project, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• April 6  "The Ethnicity, Migration, Rights of Chocolate." Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• March 1  "Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food." Dorchester Historical Society, Dorchester, MA.
• February 26  "Sweet Rewards: The Business of Chocolate." Branchfood, WeWork, and General Assembly, Boston, MA.

2014

• November 21  "Digital African Studies: State of the Field." Roundtable presentation. African Studies Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.
• October 29  "Digital Violence." Winthrop House Race Relations Event, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• October 25  "Sounding Out of Bounds." Out of Bounds: Ethnography, History, Music, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• October 10  "Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Colonial Mesoamerica and the Caribbean." Panel respondent. American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.
• October 4  "Labor in the Chocolate Industry: Let’s Look at Who Works and What Doesn't." Northwest Chocolate Festival, Seattle, WA.
• April 17  "'Messages from our poets/ I carry to the outside world': Ideologies of Cape Verdean Language and Music." University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA.

2013

• December 12  "Chocolate 101." Formaggio Kitchen, Cambridge, MA.
• November 23  "African Studies in the Age of MOOCs, Digital Humanities, and Open Access." Roundtable presentation. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
• November 20  "The Anthropologist and the Digital." Roundtable presentation. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
• September 22  "Turning Up the Heat on Raw Chocolate." Northwest Chocolate Festival, Seattle, WA.
• April 12  "Myth-Making, Modernity, and Representation in the Black Atlantic." Panelist. Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora (Re)Writings of Race and Space, DePaul University, Chicago, IL.
• March 27  "What Does the Internet Know About Lusophone African Music?: The Social Sciences, Digital Curation, and Expanding the Canon." African Musics Abroad Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• February 8   "Shaping Local Reception." Panelist. Africa Remix Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.