Recent events: presentations and public talks
“Old Maps, New Pathways: Cartography, Museum Collections, and Decolonial Possibilities,” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History (Middlebury VT, Feb. 9, 2022)
Co-presenter with “Mohican Nation in Williamstown” Independent Study, Fall 2021, Williamstown Rural Lands “Talks on the Hill” (Williamstown MA, Dec. 2, 2021), with Bonney Hartley, Hikaru Hayakawa, Jayden Jogwe, Gwyn Chilcoat, Margaux Kristjansson
“Indigenous Lives, Lands, and Colonial Dispossessions,” for panel on “Economics and Slavery in Colonial New England,” conference on “Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective,” Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University (New Haven CT, Oct. 28-30, 2021)
Presentation on Memory Lands, Colgate University (Sept. 20, 2021)
Presenter on King Philip’s War and the Native/colonial Northeast, “Mapping a New World: Places of Conflict and Colonization in 17th-Century New England,” NEH Teachers’ Workshop, Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library (July 16 and 30, 2021)
Author conversation series, discussion of Memory Lands, Tomaquag Museum (Exeter RI, June 9, 2021)
“Many Stories in the Land: Revisiting ‘Williamstown’ and Its Meanings—Past, Present, and Future,” Williamstown Historical Museum (March 27, 2021)
Feb. 3, 2020: Gomes Prize event at Massachusetts Historical Society (video link)—in conversation with Dr. Rae Gould (Nipmuc, Brown University), Boston MA
Nov. 13, 2019: Lecture at Harvard University, History and Literature Program, Cambridge MA
Nov. 8: Book talk, Amherst Historical Society and Museum (video link), Amherst MA
Nov. 6, 2019: “Natick and the Memoryscapes of King Philip’s War,” Natick Historical Society and Bacon Free Library, Natick MA
Oct. 23, 2019: Book talk at Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth MA
Oct. 19, 2019: “Legacies of 1619: Afro-Native Connections” (video link)—with Prof. Kendra Field, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston MA
July 17, 2019: Book talk at Woodman Museum, Dover NH
July 6, 2019: John Quinlan Murphy Memorial Lecture, Redwood Library & Athenaeum, Newport RI
June 18, 2019: Book talk, State Library of Massachusetts, Boston MA
April 11, 2019: Keynote with Lisa Brooks (video link), Brown University, Providence RI