SPEAKING
SPEAKING
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As a Black Feminist Ecocritic, Dr. Frazier provides commentary for print journalism and offers media appearances for podcasts and radio. Through Ask An Amazon, Dr. Frazier also provides keynote addresses and lectures for conferences, universities, social, civic, and business organizations. Select past speaking engagements are detailed below.
For media requests, speaking fees, & other inquiries:
2021
2021 Contemporary Issues in African American Studies and Literary Criticism. American Studies Program, Cornell University. Ithaca, New York (Online).
2021 Approaches to Centering Black Feminism in Eco-Thought. Lecture. The University of Passau Germany. Passau, Germany (Online).
2021 Ecology, Ancestral Healing, and Visual Art: A Conversation with Alexandria Eregbu & Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier. The Center for the Humanities at Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, New York (Online).
2021 Black Feminist Ecologies: A Virtual Salon. Wesleyan University. Middletown, Connecticut (Online).
2021 (Re)Constitutions of Choice. Panel presentation. Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Online).
2021 Unfamiliar Ecologies: Notes on a Black Feminist Eco-Ethic. Susan Ratner Writing and Pedagogy Series Invited Lecturer. Barnard College. New York, New York (Online).
2019-2020
December 10, 2020 Black Feminist Ecology. Featured Expert. The Great Unlearn. Online.
November 7-10, 2019 “Risky Places: Geographies of Race and Risk.” Panel presentation. American Studies Association Annual Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii.
September 20, 2019 “Intersections: Re-Thinking African American Literature and Culture in the 21st Century.” Invited Speaker. Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York
March 26, 2019 “Neo-Traditionalism and the Eco-Aesthetics of the African Feminist Artist.” Invited Speaker. Smith College Museum of Art. Northampton, Massachusetts.
April 9, 2019 “In Dialogue: Fo Wilson and Chelsea Frazier.” Invited Speaker. Hyde Park Art Center. Chicago, Illinois.
2018
November 9, 2018 "Emergent Narratives of Girlhood: Black Girl Futures." Panel presentation at the American Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia.
November 2, 2018 "Take Root Among the Stars: Visionary Fiction and the Legacy of Octavia Butler." Invited Speaker. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.
September 11, 2018 "Surrealist Ecologies." Moderator. Chicago Artist Coalition. Chicago, Illinois,
August 3, 2018 "Dreaming of Black Ecologies (Chelsea Frazier in Conversation with Michael Riley)." Invited Speaker. WAKANDACON. Chicago, Illinois
June 8, 2018 "Between Computation and Praxis: Ray Kurzveil and Sylvia Wynter on human(?) Intelligence." Invited Speaker. Human Futures and Intelligent Machines Summit. Virginia Tech Center for the Humanities. Blacksburg, Virginia.
May 19, 2018 "Afrofuturism: Black Superheroes." Invited Speaker. Woodson Regional Library. Chicago, Illinois.
April 9, 2018 "Combahee River Collective and Black Queer Feminist Thinking." Guest Lecture for "LGBT-Tea" (LGBTQA+ Resource Center and the Black Cultural Center). Depaul University. Chicago, Illinois.
2017
November 10, 2017 "Reframing Promise and Failure in the Modern Era of Environmental 'Justice.' Presentation at the American Studies Association Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
July 3, 2017 "Theorizing Red and Wounds in Wangechi Mutu's Eco-Art." Presentation. Inside Black Europe Symposium. Black Europe Summer School: International Institute for Research and Education. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
May 6 2017 "Theorizing Red and Wounds in Wangechi Mutu's Eco-Art." Invited Speaker. Ecologies, Agents, Terrains Conference. The Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, Massachusetts.
April 14, 2017 “Impoverished Frameworks and the Illegibility of Black Feminist ‘Eco-Ethics.’” Presentation. An Ecotopian Toolkit for Anthropocene Challenges. University of Pennsylvania Program in Environmental Humanities. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
February 25, 2017 "Contending with Hope and Failure in the Era of Environmental Justice." Invited Speaker. Northwestern Winter Symposium. Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.
February 22, 2017 "Fannie Lou Hamer Said..." Panel Presentation. "Fighting for LGBTQ Rights and People in a Trump-Pence Era." NU Queer Pride Graduate Student Association (QPGSA). Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois.
January 25, 2017 “Impoverished Frameworks and the Illegibility of Black Feminist ‘Eco-Ethics.’” Presentation. The Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop: Race, Capitalism, and Ecology. Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.
2016
February 27, 2016 “Troubling Ecology: Octavia Butler & Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism.” Presentation. Octavia E. Butler Society: Celebrating Letters, Life and Legacy Conference. Spelman College. Atlanta, Georgia.
January 7, 2016 “Troubling Ecology: Wangechi Mutu, Afrofuturism, and Black Feminist Interventions in Western Environmentalism.” Presentation. Modern Language Association Convention. Austin, Texas.