Selections from Panels and Papers Presented at National and International Professional Meetings 2015-2024
- Speaker: Michigan Historical Society, “Higher Power Calling: Lucretia Mott and Harriet Tubman on Freedom, Equality and Justice.” March 27, 2024. (Zoom).
- Speaker: GAR Civil War Museum, “Lucretia Mott and Harriet Tubman: Lives Spent in Freedom Movement,” March 3, 2024. (zoom)
- Speaker: Monroe Historical Society, Stroudsburg, “Higher Power Calling: Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania.” February 25, 2024 (in-person.)
- Speaker: FEMA 3rd District, “Underground Railroad’s Contribution to Freedom,” Freedom,” February 15, 2024 (zoom).
- Speaker: Monroe Historical Society, Stroudsburg, “Higher Power Calling: Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania.” February 25, 2024 (in-person.)
- Speaker: FEMA 3rd
- Panel Chair:“Grimke Sisters Narrating on Self, Identity, Authority.” April 2015 Toronto, Canada
- Panel Chair: “Underground Railroad in Popular Culture,” April 2015, Toronto, Canada
- Panel Chair: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, “Total Theater: History of Protest in African American Theater – Baraka, Wilson, Fuller,” April 5, 2014.
- Presenter: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: “Owning a House of One’s Own: Arthur Miller and The Ideal of American Dream,” April 6, 2014.
- Presenter, Selected Poetry; Creative Writing – Prose Poetry Session, “The Ambiguous Prose Poem,” NeMLA, March 9, 2012, Rochester, New York.
- Panelist, the 9th Annual UGRR Conference, Theme: “Frederick Douglass, The Spokesman for African American People,” Temple University, February 8th, 2012, Philadelphia. PA.
- Panel Chair: “Discourse on Democratic Identity and Freedom: Douglass, Wright, Ellison, and Baldwin” NeMLA April 7-10, 2011, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- Panel Chair, Roundtable, “Transnational Literatures: “Journeys of the Bicultural Self: Narrative Geographies from the Middle East” NeMLA Conference April 7-10, 2011, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- Seminar Chair, Title: “Home and Away: Strolling in and Around Orhan Pamuk’s Literary Landscapes”;
- Paper presented: “Imagination and Retrospect in the City: Orhan Pamuk” NeMLA Conference, 39th Annual Convention, Buffalo, NY, April 9-13, 2008.
- Panel Chair, Title: “The Garden of Memory: The Narrative, the City and the Past in Orhan Pamuk’s Novels”;
- Paper presented: “Reading Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Illustrations”, NeMLA Conference, 38th Annual Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1-4, 2007.
- “Literary Discourse and Black Arts Movement: Larry Neal, Charles Fuller, and Amiri Baraka”, NeMLA Conference 37th Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 2-5, 2006.
- “Modern Islam, Reform and Turkish Women” 34th Annual AMSS Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, 2005.
- “William Lloyd Garrison and ‘No Compromise’”, NeMLA Conference, 36th Annual Convention, Boston, March 2005.
- “The Music that Connects: Urban Aesthetics and Blues in August Wilson’s Dramaturgy”, NeMLA Conference, 35th Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, March 2004.
- “The Active Soul in Emerson and Whitman”, NeMLAConference, 34th Annual Convention, Boston March 2003.
- Panel Chair, Title: “Race and Theater”, NeMLA Conference, 31st Annual Convention, and April 2000.
- “Ntozake Shange’s Choreopoem: A Sample Study on Race and Gender Interactions” Narrative Conference Atlanta, April 16, 2000
- “August Wilson, Urban Aesthetics and Blues Connection”, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Narrative Conference, April 1999.
- “Amiri Baraka and His Activism”, NeMLA Conference, Pittsburgh, March 1999.
- “Permutations and Celebrations in Adrienne Kennedy’s Dramatic Characters,” Nemla, Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Baltimore April 17-18, 1998.