GUEST LECTURES AND PUBLIC SPEAKING
As a guest lecturer and invited speaker for scholarly and public audiences, I am committed to sharing stories of resistance, self-determination, and triumph. My speaking illuminates the history of Black activism and organizing and emphasizes how the pioneering efforts of Black intellectuals and activists remain relevant today.
Topics I address include:
Histories of Black women intellectuals and the ongoing fight for rights, equality, and education
African American history, especially the tragedies and triumphs of the post-Reconstruction era
The power of the archives
Values-driven leadership and transformative change
Black biography and life writing
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE LECTURES, FILMS, AND FEATURED SPEAKING
Hutchins Center at Harvard University
“Anna Julia Cooper / Beginnings: A Tale of Loss and Longing in the Archives”
National Archives
“African American Women in the Suffrage Movement and the Battle for the Vote”
Hutchins Center at Harvard University
“Shadow Writing and the Archive: The Life and Writing of Anna Julia Cooper”
African American Folklorists Podcast
Shirley Moody-Turner - African American Folklorists of the Month
Howard University
“Dr. Shirley Moody-Turner speaking at the event ‘Undisputed Dignity’”
WPSU
“Take Note: Dr. Shirley Moody-Turner & Denise Burgher - Black Women's Role In Political Organizing”
ASALH-TV Interview
“In Retrospect and Prospect S2, E3: #DigBlk: Black History in the Digital Sphere”
Penn State Humanities Institute, HumIn Series
RECENT KEYNOTES AND TALKS
“Finding Anna Julia Cooper,” NEH Institute Search for Founding Black Mothers, Morgan State, October 20, 2022.
“#DigBlk: Building Today’s Archives Through Oberlin’s Black Activist History.” Friends of the Libraries Co-Keynote, Oberlin, Ohio, November 13, 2021
“Come Celebrate: Building the Archives of Black History Together” Keynote, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, Brown University, February 23, 2021.
“Shadow Writing and the Archives: Anna Julia Cooper and the Politics of Knowledge Production.” Colloquium Talk. Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. March 6, 2019.
