“If you know, you owe.” – Vincent Harding
Upcoming Engagements (virtual):
- 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.
Previous events
- 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)
