SPEAKING
Dr. Goffe speaks widely, on topics including climate change, race and geology, sound technologies, the history of globalization, colonial intimacies, Afro-Asian coalitions, and global foodways. Through keynotes, bespoke workshops, activations, fireside chats, and plenary panel discussions, she has presented at Google, the Museum of Food and Drink, Apple, Harvard University, the National Archive of the Netherlands (Sound and Vision), the Guggenheim, Debevoise and Plimpton, the American Geophysical Union, and dozens of other companies, conferences, foundations, nonprofits, and universities. Please direct speaking inquiries to the Shipman Agency.
Invited Lectures
Previous and upcoming lectures, conferences, and invited speaking engagements. To inquire about Dr. Goffe’s availability for an event reach out to the Shipman Agency. For any writing commissions reach out to Janklow and Nesbit.
Upcoming
2024
June 13, Biodesign Challenge Panel, NEW INC, New York, NY.
June 7, New Museum Festival DEMO2024, New York, NY.
May 29, “Guano in their Destiny”: A Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe,” UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
May 24-25, “Mangrove as Method with Professor Eddie Bruce-Jones” Tate Museum, London, UK.
May 21, “Lines of Flight: New Laboratories,” University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK.
May 18, “Teen Community Hip-Hop Arts Workshop”, Boys Club of New York, New York, NY.
May 11, “Meet the Artist with Kandis Williams and Maaza Mengiste,” Wave Hill, Bronx, NY.
May 3, “A Freeman’s Challenge Book Talk with Professor Robin Bernstein,” P&T Knitwear, New York, NY.
Previous
March 24-25, “Afro-Asian Intimacies,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
January, Island City Labs x Deem Journal x Dark Lab, New York, NY.
2023
December 10, “Unmapping and Cartographic Pedagogy: Digital Humanities,” Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
November 20, “Visual Crosscurrents of the Black Pacific / Asian Atlantic,” Tisch Cinema Studies, New York University, New York, NY.
November 10, “Women in Tech: Black Feminist Technologies,” Torrents, National Women’s History Museum, Washington, DC.
October 26, “Emerson, Refuse, and Labor Refusal,” Americanist Colloquium, English Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
October 11, “Coral and Ash: Roundtable on the Work of Visual Artist Nadia Huggins,” New York University, New York, NY.
October 11, “Dark Blueprints: A Dark Lab Multi-Sensorial Activation,” Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, New York, NY (Invitation Only)
October 5, “Climate Prelude,” Sound Art Lecture, Art School, Columbia University, New York, NY.
September 28, “Toni Morrison as Curator and Worldbuilder” JM Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
September 17, Cooking Workshop “Worlds of Spice,” with Charlotte Ming, Berlin Open Lab, Dekoloniale Festival, Berlin, Germany.
September 14, Economy and Ecology, Plenary, Revisiting and Revising Bandung, Dekoloniale Festival, Berlin, Germany.
August 21, Brooklyn Rail: Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance Featuring Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Tao Leigh Goffe, with Sarah Wang.
July 18, “Asian American Pacific Island Digital Humanities,” Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
June 13, “Black Geologies: Race, Magma, Temporality,” Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin Germany.
June 1, “Black and Asian Technologies,” Logic School, CA.
May 31, “Kitchen Talk with Monique Truong on Afro-Asian Archives,” Kitchen Marronage, Asian American Alumni of Yale, Virtual.
May 25, “Digital Junkanoo Artist Salon,” Dark Laboratory, Instagram Live.
May 17, “Mangrove as Caribbean Method in Two Acts,” Stanford University Keynote Lecture, Global Studies, Palo Alto, CA.
April 14, Roundtable, Department of History Colloquium, Columbia University, New York, NY.
April 11-13, “A Mother is a Mountain: Black Feminist Technologies and Temporalities,” bell hooks center, Berea College, KY.
April 4, “Black Feminist Worldbuilding through Sonic Ecologies,” Department of African American Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
March 31, “The Pedagogy of bell hooks,” Thinking in Its Presence, Pomona College, Los Angeles, CA.
March 23, Re-Imagining Nanny of the Maroons, New York University, New York, NY.
March 22, Spaghetti Westerns and Soundsystems, Cinema Studies and Media Theory Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA.
March 21, Bandung Residency Institute: Afro-Asia Almanac, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Asian American Alliance for Arts, New York, NY.
March 10, Afr0-Asian Indigenous Ecologies Panel, Association of Asian American Studies, Afro-Asia Group, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
February 16, Keynote - “Being Led: Afro-Asia as Pedagogy, Practice,” Performance, “In Cahoots: Disciplinary Crossings and a Future for Performance Studies,” UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
January 27, “Chinese Atlantic, Black Pacific: A Screening by Tao Leigh Goffe in Conversation with Kandis Williams and X Zhu-Newell,” Sixth Annual Asian Art Council Meeting, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.
2022
December 11, Saltwater Children: An Artist Talk by Tao Leigh Goffe in Conversation with Autumn Knight, Sixth Annual Asian Art Council Meeting, National Gallery, Kingston, JA.
December 9-13, Sixth Annual Asian Art Council Meeting, Guggenheim Museum, Kingston, JA.
November 27, Re-Imagining Nanny of the Maroons, National Heroes Memorial, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, JA.
November 19-22, African American Art and Aesthetics, Creative Practice and Research Retreat, Lunder Institute, Colby College, MA.
October 13, Black Environmentalisms Symposium, Department of English, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
September 19, Slow Factory - Climate Week 2022 Kick Off: Fashion, Climate Justice, and Human Rights, New York, NY.
September 10, Art Talk with Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY.
August 15, Geosciences Keynote, Second National Conference, Washington DC.
July 12, Black Ecologies and the Contours of Environmentalism, Schomburg Library, New York Public Library, New York, NY.
July 8-10, Interspecies Futures Symposium, Natural History Museum (Museum für Naturkunde), Berlin, Germany.
June 27-28, Sound Carries: Aural Spatialities and the Politics of Representation, University College London, London, UK.
June 17, “Alien Fruit, Black Culinary Rebellion,” Juneteenth Institute, Space for Creative Black Imagination, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MA.
May 20, Food and Race: A Transatlantic Conversation, Institute of French Studies, New York University, New York, NY.
May 17, “Curating Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies,” Lawrence University, WI.
April 22-23, “"Color Crossings: Race, Affect, and Aesthetics," Pembroke Center, Brown University, Providence, RI.
April 22, Making|Art|History|Now, “Object Lessons,” Space for Creative Black Imagination, Maryland Institute College of Art, Yale School of Art, Yale Department of Art History.
April 20, “The DJ is a Time Machine,” Brown University, Providence, RI.
April 7, “The Microbiome of the Plantation: Afro-Asian Foodways and Fermentation,” Dr. Consuela Francis Emerging Scholar Lecture Series, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
March 31, Latin American and Caribbean Art Workshop, Department of Art History, Columbia University, New York, NY.
March 29, “Fermentation and the Politics of the Plantation,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
March 25, "Radical Imaginings & EcoFuturisms." Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
March 19, Transnational Music, Archives, and Popular Culture, University of Florida.
February 22, “Black Aesthetics and the Decolonial Imagination,” Smith College, Northampton, MA.
2021
November 13, “Black Planetary Futures,” Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, South Africa.
October 21, The Cooper Union’s Intersectional Justice Lecture Series, New York, NY.
October 14, “Reading Group on Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda” with Andrea Chung and Jason Chang, Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
August 16, “Cross-Racial Allyship and Building Coalition,” by invitation only.
May 26, “Jamaican Chinese Cuisine: A Cooking-Demo on Africa and Asia on the Same Plate,” by invitation only.
May 25, “Dirge: Black and Indigenous Hemispheric Burial,” Cornell University.
May 13, “Mortgaged Futures: Debt and Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico,” Roundtable on Landfall the film. (moderator).
April 21, Postpartum, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
April 21, “Colonialism, Borders, Nations, Refugees,” Climate, Culture & Society, Cooper Union, New York, NY.
April 16, “transfix / transfigure: afro-asia atlantic,” Black Atlantic Symposium, University of Utah, UT.
April 14, “Archive, Mixtape, Method,” California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
April 8, “The Abolition of Time,” Department of English, Brandeis University, MA.
April 7, “Black and Indigenous Futures,” Society of Black Archaeologists.
March 31,”#PhDJ,” Digital Clubhouse, Ethel’s Club.
March 29, Combating Anti-Asian Violence, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
March 24, “Hot Pot Talks x Afro-Asia Group,” Vancouver, British Columbia.
March 24, “Reggae, Modern Jamaica, and Homegrown Caribbean Technologies,” Brown University, Providence, RI.
March 20, “Go West Young Man: The Dark Laboratory,” AAIHS.
March 19, “Homegrown: The Soundsystem as Caribbean Technology,” Cornell Media Studies, Ithaca, NY.
March 17, “Spaces of Capitalist Extraction: Guano Economies and Archives,” California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
March 16, “DJ’ing, Intimacy, and Remixing the Colonial Archive,” Yale University, CT.
March 9, Cornell Online Learning Community (COLC), Ithaca, NY.
March 5, “Digital Heirlooms,” George Washington University Asian American Students Association (AASA).
February 19, “Guangzhou Dream Factory,” Afro-Asia Group.
February 16, “Playing in the Dark: Archives and Opacity,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
February 3, “2350: Digital DJ’ing,” Columbia University, New York, NY.
January 25, “Taller Electric.Marronage x Dark Laboratory”
2020
December 16, “Founders Panel, Humanities for the Public,” University of Iowa.
December 3, “Black and Native Cinema, First Nation Panel,” African Diaspora International Film Festival.
October 23, “Social Justice and the Curricula,” Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference.
October 12, “Dark Laboratory Virtual Launch”
October 9, “DJ’ing, Sexuality, and Archival Practice,” University of Toronto.
September 30, “Bridging STEM and the Humanities through Black Indigenous modes of Storytelling,” Cornell Faculty Senate.
August 20, “Chop Suey Supper Club”, Museum of Food and Drink
June 6, On the Legacy of Toni Morrison, Cornell Reunions
April 16, “Coral Ecologies,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (postponed, pandemic)
April 15, “Digital Heirlooms: A Workshop,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (cancelled, pandemic)
April 12, “Ecological Epistemologies,” Association of Asian American Studies, Washington D.C.(cancelled, pandemic)
March 19, “Death Rites and Capital, Association of Asian Studies, Boston, MA (cancelled, pandemic)
March 7, “Listening at the Door: A Black British Feminist Mixtape,” University of Texas, Austin, TX
March 5, “Albums of Exclusion: Family, Vernacular Photography, and Afro-Asian Intimacies,” Scholars and Their Kin, Maison Francais, New York, NY
February 4, “Racial Economies of Reggae and Chinese Infrastructure,” Yale University, New Haven, CT
2019
December 5-6, “Cultural Exchange and the Life of the Metropolis,” International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, NY
November 20, “Sub-Marine Ecologies: Coral Reefs and Other Families,” Asian American Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
November 8, "Decolonial Fault Lines” American Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawai’i
October 3, “Black Object Lessons: A Workshop on Materiality and Digital Methods,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Charleston, SC
August 17, “Hang the DJ: Black Feminist Visual Soundtracks,’ Afrotectopia, Google Headquarters, New York, NY
August 6, “Digital Heirlooms: Global Intimacies and Alternative Family Trees,” with Felicia Chang, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad
July 25, “Unravel: Remixing Archipelagic Space and Time,” “The Global Condition,” Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erme, France
July 19, “Sanctuary and Academic Freedom,” 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
May 3-4, “Unlearning Imperial Rights / Decolonizing Institutions,” Pembroke Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
April 4-5, “The Jamaican 1950s,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
April 3, “WaveForms: Remixing the Caribbean Archipelago and Albums,” Duke University, Durham, NC
March 28, “Ancestral Thrones and Ritual Photography,” response to keynote by Albert Chong, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
February 16, “Sound x Colour: The Synaesthetics of Dub Art,” response to keynote by Denzil Forrester, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
2018
December 6-7, “Unmapping the Caribbean: Sanctuary and Sound,” Small Axe’s Caribbean Digital V, St. Augustine, Trinidad
November 28, “007 versus the Darker Races: Jamaican James Bond,” Department of English, New York University, New York, NY
October 11, “Remixing the Family Album,” Tisch Department of Art and Public Policy, New York University, New York, NY
October 10, Second Edition Launch of the “Caribbean Syllabus” Institute for Research of Women and Gender Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY
October 9, The University Seminars, American Studies, “Afro-Asia Bioengineering or the Curious Case of the Calcutta Mongoose,” Columbia University, New York, NY
September 25, “Race and Space: Chinatown, Jamaica” Global Liberal Studies, New York University, New York, NY
June 23, "Gastropoetics of Coolitude," Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour, University of Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname
June 14, "A Conversation on Oral History & Praxis, Homeward Bound: Memory, Identity & Resilience" Wing on Wo & Co." New York (Chinatown), New York
June 4-8, "Dismantling the Master’s House: Caribbean Feminist Radical Pedagogies," & "China in the Caribbean, The Caribbean in China," Caribbean Studies Association, Havana, Cuba
May 24, "Remixing the Family Album, South is South: North/South Atlantic Imaginaries and the Afterlives of Asian Indenture," Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain
May 3, "Chinatown, Jamaica: Afro-Asian Intimacies in the Caribbean," Intersections in the Americas, the UCL Americas Research Network Annual Conference, London, United Kingdom
April 28, "Negotiating Mixed Heritage Identities," Workshop with Vijou Bryant, New York City Asian American Students Conference, New York University, NY, NY
April 27, Response to Keynote by Saidiya Hartman's "The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner," Mariners, Renegades, and Capitalism, New York University, NY, NY
March 24, National Dominican Students Conference, "Latine Media and Representation," New York University, New York, NY
March 23, "The Women," Black Portraiture[s], Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
February 28, "Living and Being Undocumented," Migration, Refugees & the Politics of Sanctuary, New York University, New York, NY
2017
November 17, “Reinventing Revolution Conference,” co-chair response to keynote by Gary Wilder, “After the Revolution: Black Radicalism, Radical Humanism and the Good Life,” New York University, Gallatin, NY, NY
November 6, “Excavation and Burial: Archival Encounters in The Pagoda by Patricia Powell,” Cultures and Context, New York University, NY, NY
October 10, “Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature by Sonya Posmentier,” moderator, panel with Brent Hayes Edwards & Evie Shockley. Center for the Humanities, New York University, NY, NY
June 6, “Chinese Whispers: Chasing the Chinese Ghost,” Caribbean Studies Association. Nassau, Bahamas
April 27, “Afro-Asian Visual Arts Intersections” Asian American Arts Activism, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY
April 13-14, “We Chinese are Dark Enough,” Photographic Memory Workshop Presents The State of the Album” The Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT,
April 5, “DJ’ing as Storytelling,” The Art of Research, New York University, NY, NY
2016
September 26, “Jamaican Chinese James Bond,” Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in a Global Frame, New York University, NY, NY
April 28, “Unfamiliar Harbors: Curating Archives of Asian America and the Asian Caribbean,” Asian American Studies Association, Miami, FL,
April 13, “Chiney Royal: Afro-Asian Intimacies in the Americas,” Department of African American Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2015
October 10, “Ghost Ships: The Spectre of Afro-Asian Death and Labor at Sea,” Maritime Melancholies: Oceanic Archives of Resistance, American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada
April 24, “Currents and Currencies,” Critical Encounters, Yale University, Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture, CT
April 2, Roundtable: “Future of Caribbean and Latin American Chinese Studies” with Lisa Yun, Kathleen Lopez, Anne Marie Lee-Loy, Ana Lee, Asian American Studies Association, Evanston, IL
February 27, “Jamaican Chinese James Bond,” Roundtable on Emerging Graduate Research in Asian American Studies, Yale Asian American Studies Conference, Yale University, CT
2014
November 15, “Eulogy of the Chiney Royal: Jamaican Chinese Vernacular Photography, Cultural Memory, and Burial,” Things (Re)called: Memory and Materiality Across the Disciplines, Yale University
October 2, “Framing the Chiney Royal: Jamaican Chinese Vernacular Photography and Cultural Memory,” Asians in the Americas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, ,
July , “The Gastropoetics of the Indenture" Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland
April 28, “Changing Climates,” Media Studies Colloquium, Yale University, CT,
April 11, “Ethnographies of Material Life: Oceans, Anchors, Detours,’” American Literature in the World, Respondent, Yale University, CT
2013
June, “Intimate Occupations: ‘Coolies,’ Cooks, and Queering the Colonial Archive in The Book of Salt and The Pagoda,” The Left Forum, Pace University, New York, NY
April 24, “Spaces and Times of Occupation,” Critical Encounters, Yale University, Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture, CT,
March 26, HAPA Students’ Organization, Dinner Discussion, Yale University, CT,
February 5, “Framing the Chiney Royal: Jamaican Chinese Family Photography,” Bouchet Diversity Talk: Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, Yale University, CT