“If you know, you owe.” – Vincent Harding

Upcoming Engagements (virtual/in person):

• Detroit Public Library
• Springfield College

Previous events

• All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party’s fight for Health and Wellness in the 1960s and 70s University of Vermont, Larner College of Medicine. Feb 2, 2024.
• Ella Baker for the 21st Century: National One Day Symposium, Barnard College. Dec 1, 2023.
• The crime of apartheid in South Africa and beyond, University of Nottingham, England. June 22-23, 2023. Panelist.
• New Directions in the History of the Black Power Movement. Discussant and Plenary. Goethe University, Frankfurt. June 24-25, 2023.
• Black and Palestinian Solidarity: Notes from the Black Radical Tradition. Cornell University, May 2, 2023.
• 1619 Revisited: Abolition, Gender and the Black Radical Tradition, a conversation with Dr. Angela Davis and Dr. Robyn Spencer. College of Marin, April 20, 2023.
• Surviving Pending Revolution: Another Look at the Black Panther Party’s HealthPrograms, UCLA Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities. September 23, 2022.
• The Archives of Black Women’s radicalism, Seton Hall University Conference on Women and Gender, April 1, 2022.
• The Black Left Feminist Organizing Tradition, The Second Wave: Revolutionary Women of Color, Texas A&M University, March 24-25, 2022.
• Reconsidering Angela Davis: Reflections on Engagement and Societal Transformations. December 7, 2021. Online event sponsored by National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
• The Three Mothers: Anna Malaika Tubbs in Conversation with Robyn C. Spencer, October 27, 2021: 7:30 PM. Online event sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center.
• A conversation about The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party by Robyn C. Spencer sponsored by @AbantuAudio and Black Women Radicals. Thursday August 26, 2021 6:30-8:00 pm EST.
• The New School, “Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World.” As for Protocols Seminar, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, March 8, 2021.
• Discussant, Boston Seminar on African American History, January 21, 2021
• Pitzer College/Redford Conservancy, Historic and Contemporary Movements Against State-Sanctioned Violence, June 22, 2020.
• Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research, June 25, 2020
• “Women in the Black Panther Party” People’s Historians Online: Women in the Black Panther Party, Zinn Education Project, May 8, 2020.
• “Black Solidarity in Global Context,” Goethe-Instit NY, February 26, 2020
• “Angela Davis for President: Embracing the Black Radical Tradition in Perilous Times,” Fordham University, February 24, 2020.
• Rutgers University, October 16, 2019.
• “Tricontinentalism in Perspective,” James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY  October 17, 2019
• Til Victory is Won: 400 Years Of Making Revolution and Inventing Utopia, New York Public Library, October 26, 2019
• Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis, October 28-29.
• Relearning H. Rap Brown, October 4, 2019
• Dickinson College, September 12, 2019
• New York Historical Society Teacher Training Workshop, August 22, 2019.
• Columbia University’s Global Center, Paris, July 3, 2019
• The Social History of Revolution Series, London, July 2, 2019
• “The Radical Sixties”, University of Brighton, June 28-29, 2019
• 1969: When Woodstock changed the World, Marist College, June 14, 2019
• The NAACP at 100, Henry Street Settlement, May 29, 2019.
• NYU, Cold War Seminar, April 25, 2019
• Chicago SNCC Conference, April 4 -7, 2019
• Kingsboro Community College, March 27, 2019
• St. Johns University, March 18, 2019
• CUNY Graduate Center, February 14, 2019
• Columbia University Seminar on Twentieth Century Politics and Society, February 28, 2019
• University of Texas, Austin, March 15, 2019
• University of Delaware, March 26, 2019
• SUNY Binghamton, Modern US Workshop, March 29, 2019
• Clemson University, Nov 28 – Dec 1, 2018
• UCSD Black Studies Project, Nov 14, 2018
• ASA/NWSA, Nov 7-10, 2018
• Brown University, 50th Anniversary of 1968, Nov 1 -2, 2018
• Histories of Radical Black Women Symposium, Rutgers University, October 19, 2018
• Black-Palestine Solidarity, Columbia University, October 18, 2018
• University of Texas, Austin. October 8, 2018
• If They Come for Me in the Morning: What Will Be Different for U.S. Historians, Schomburg Library, October 3, 2018
• Rethinking H. Rap Brown and Black Power, Schomburg Library, October 4, 2018.
• Africa-Asia Conference, Sept 20-22, 2018.
• Sexuality, Women and Gender (SWaG) Instructional Equity Conference, June 7, 2018
• Delaware Historical Society, May 22, 2018
• Shelter Rock Forum, May 10, 2018
• Ramapo College, April 28, 2018
• Rutgers, Newark, February 19, 2018
• Humanities Institute, SUNY Stonybrook, March 8, 2018
• Queens College, February 4, 2018
• NYC College of Technology, February 13, 2018
• Caveat, “Flying University,” January 24, 2018
• Caveat, “Raise your hand,”  December 13, 2017
• Gutman Community College, December 6, 2017
• Hostos Community College, November 6, 2017
• 2017 Thornbrough Lecture (Butler University and the Indiana Association of Historians), November 3, 2017
• Baltimore Books Festival, September 24, 2017
• September 17, 2017, Nerd Night NYC
• September 14, 2017. Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate Center, CUNY
• July 31, 2017 Nerd Night East Bay (Oakland, CA)
• July 27 to 29, 2017. Summer of Love 50th Anniversary Conference. (San Francisco, CA)
• Berkshire Conference (New York)
• May 11, 2017. Burning Books Buffalo, NY
• March 22, 2017. Lehigh University’s “Fruits of the Same Tree: An Intergenerational Dialogue with Activists, Scholars & You!”
• March 28, 2017 Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta, GA
• March 29, 2017 Atlanta Metropolitan State College, Atlanta, GA
• March 6, 2017, Housatonic Community College, (Bridgeport, CT)
• March 2, 2017, Conversations in Black Freedom Studies at the Schomburg Library. Speaking as part of the IPHP project. (Harlem, NY)
• February 17-18, “From Civil Rights to Black Power: Tracing the African American Freedom Struggle,” Roosevelt University, (Chicago, IL)
• January 31, 2017.  NYU. Tamiment Library (NY, NY)
• January 25, 2017.  Bluestockings Bookstore (NY, NY)
• January 19, 2017.  WORD bookstore (Jersey City, NJ)
• January 17, 2017.  The Potter’s House Bookstore. (Washington DC)
• January 5, 2017.  Tattered Cover Bookstore.  (Denver, CO)
• American Historical Association (Denver)
• December 4-5, 2016: Symposium sponsored by The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
  • Booktalk: Sunday Dec 4 at 3:00 – 4:30pm Seminary Co-op Bookstore
  • Love Liberation: 50 Years of BPP History: Monday Dec 5 at 6pm
• November 29, 2016: Lehman College (Leif Library, Bronx)
• November 4, 2016: Shabazz Center (New York, New York)
• October 12, 2016: Oral History Association Conference (via skype)