Recent Talks
David Goldblatt: An Open Book
A meditation on photographic form as narrative, for Photography, South Africa, Legacies, a symposium organized in conjunction with the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive, which united artists, curators, historians, and scholars exploring photography, land dispossession, and the role of archives in South Africa.
Friday, 11 April 2025 from 9am–3.30pm
Yale University Art Gallery
Image: David Goldblatt, Young men with dompas (an identity document that every African had to carry), White City, Jabavu, Soweto, 1972. © David Goldblatt.
Reimagining Liberation: An Open Study Session
An open study session that brings together critically acclaimed poet Momtaza Mehri and film programmer and writer Yasmina Price to consider how images shape political imagination, and to speak to the forms of nostalgia and amnesia embedded in the making of a “golden age of African portrait photography.”
Tuesday, 8 October 2024 from 6–7.30pm
Celeste Bartos Theatre, Museum of Modern Art & Online
The Radical Practice of Black Curation
A two day convening that engages the past, present, and future of Black curation as a practice that exceeds the urgent but constraining question of making and exhibiting art in a time of “racial reckoning.”
Thursday, 11 April 2024 from 12–6pm at Princeton University
Friday, 12 April 2024 from 8pm at The Park Avenue Armory
2024 Lewis-Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture in Africana Studies
A conversation between Nance and Onabanjo that centers the importance of photographic and archival work in documenting the history of Black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, and unique moments in the cultural history of the United States and throughout the African Diaspora.
Thursday, 1 February 2024 from 6–8pm EST
The Diana Center, Barnard College
Bridging the Sacred
Afro-Brazilian Spiritualities and Modern Art
Presented paper "Sight Unseen, Spirit Held," alongside Roberto Conduru and Leda Maria Martins. Panel moderated by Juliana Ribeiro da Silva Bevilacqua
Thursday, 14 September 2024 from 3-5pm ET
Founder's Room, Museum of Modern Art
Image: Claudia Andujar, Macumba, 1961. © Claudia Andujar.
Áfricas Contemporâneas no Fotolivro
Herança estética como ato político
A conversation with curator Ana Paula Vitoria on the occasion of her presentation bringing together a selection of 21st century photobooks created by visual artists across the African continent and the diaspora.
Tuesday, 13 June 2023 at 6.30pm BRT
Biblioteca de Fotografia, Instituto Moreira Salles, Avenida Paulista, 2424, São Paulo
Program in Portuguese
Celebrating the Legacy of Ernest Cole
In conversation with Hinde Haest, Leslie Matlaisane, and Denise Wolff on the occasion of the 2022 re-issue of Cole's House of Bondage by Aperture Foundation and the exhibition "Ernest Cole: House of Bondage" at FOAM Museum (27 Jan–10 June 2023)
Wednesday, 17 May 2023 at 1pm EDT
Online via Zoom
MoMA Forum on Contemporary Photography
Decentering the Document
Organized on the occasion of New Photography 2023: Kelani Abass, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Yagazie Emezi, Amanda Iheme, Abraham Oghobase, Karl Ohiri, and Logo Oluwamuyiwa
Wednesday, 19 April 2023 from 1.30pm EDT
Online via Zoom
Ming Smith in a Minor Key
Bringing together three creative and critical practitioners—Garrett Bradley, Rizvana Bradley, and Christina Sharpe—who will each offer meditations on a single photograph from the show
Tuesday, 2 May 2023 from 6–8pm EDT
MoMA Bartos Theatre
Image: Ming Smith, Cascading Light, 1981. © Ming Smith.
The Conditions of the Archive—Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos
A lecture on the making of Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos for New York Art Book Fair (NYABF) Classroom Series
Sunday, 16 October 2022 at 12pm EDT
Dia Art Foundation, 537 West 22nd Street, New York.
Rehearsals of Reverence
A paired lecture with Jessica Lynne, as part of the Loophole of Retreat: Venice, on the occasion of Simone Leigh's US Pavilion, Sovereignty.
Saturday, 8 October 2022 at 1pm CEST
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
ICA Talks
In Conversation with Deborah Willis in conjunction with Deana Lawson
Thursday, 20 January 2022 from 6pm
Streaming on icaboston.org
MoMA Forum on Contemporary Photography
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 from 1.30pm EDT
A celebration of Tina M. Campt’s new book A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See (2021)
Online via Zoom
David Goldblatt and Beyond
A Panel Discussion with Gabi Ngcobo, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, and Jo Ractliffe
PACE Live Program for David Goldblatt: A Strange Instrument, curated by Zanele Muholi
Tuesday, March 23 2021 from 1pm EST
Online via Zoom
Creative Conversations: Eric Gyamfi and Oluremi C. Onabanjo
Houston Fotofest Talks Program
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 from 7–8pm EST
Online via Zoom
Sonia Boyce in Conversation with Gabrielle Goliath, Moderated by Oluremi C. Onabanjo
"Living Just Enough" Talks Program (Goodman Gallery & Barnard College)
Friday, Oct 23, 2020 from 1pm EST
Online via Zoom
MoMA 10th Anniversary Forum on Contemporary Photography
What Does the World Look Like in 2020?
Tuesday, Sept 22, 2020 from 12pm EST
Online via Zoom
Bucksbaum Award Program
A Conversation with Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Thursday, March 5, 2020 from 6.30–8pm EST
Whitney Museum of American Art, Floor 3, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater
The Conditions of the Archive: FESTAC 77
In Conversation with Marilyn Nance
Monday, January 27, 2020 from 6.30–8pm EST
Denniston Hill & Independent Curators International
401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013
Image: © Marilyn Nance (1977)
The Last Day in Lagos: Encountering Marilyn Nance’s FESTAC 77 Photographic Archive
Entanglements of Black Visual Culture: Blackness, Archives, and Performativities Panel
Thursday, October 17, 2019 from 10.45am–12.15pm EST
Black Portraitures, New York University (Kimmel Center)
Image: © Marilyn Nance (1977)
Triangulating the Outsider & Tracing Techniques of Ecstasy
There Are No Shadows Here: The Perfect Moment at 30
Lecture on Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989)
Saturday, July 20, 2019 from 3–4pm EST
Washington Project for the Arts, D.C.
Image: © Tiona Nekkia McClodden (2019)
FESTAC 77: Unpacking the Archive
In conversation with Marilyn Nance
June 11, 2019
C-MAP Africa Research Group, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Image: © Marilyn Nance (1977)
To See and Be Seen: The Photobook as a Site of Subjectivity
MassArt Photography Department Visiting Lecture
March 19, 2019 from 3.30–5pm EST
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
Image: Liz Johnson Artur, Berlin: Bierke (2016)
Everyone is Present
In conversation with Terry Kurgan
February 27, 2019 from 6.30–8pm EST
Magnum Foundation, New York
Regarding Frames of Representation
In conversation with Catherine E. McKinley and Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
January 22, 2019 from 7–8pm EST
DUMBO House, Brooklyn
Artist Talk
In conversation with Naima Green
June 25, 2018 from 6–8pm EST
Arsenal Gallery, Central Park
Image: © Naima Green
Living Archive
Performance after Apartheid: In Conversation with Jay Pather
May 5, 2018
1-54 FORUM
Pioneer Works, New York
Image © Katrina Sorrentino and 1-54
Points of Departure
In Conversation with Mimi Cherono Ng’ok
May 1, 2018
Photography Expanded: Counter-Histories Symposium by Magnum Foundation
The New School, New York
Chin(A)frica: An Interface
In conversation with Samuel Fosso and He Xiangyu. Moderated by Xin Wang
March 29, 2018
Art Basel, Hong Kong
Iwalewahaus Curatorial Lecture
Research, Collecting, Exhibitions, and Publications: Developing a Curatorial Praxis
February 13, 2018
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Welcome Visitors
In Conversation with Penny Siopis
January 20, 2018
The Walther Collection Project Space, New York