Past Events

2025

5th annual bell hooks symposium: “Black Feminism, Black Art,” Northeastern University. Free and open to the public. Register.


From Funk to Rumba: Renée Stout and María Magdalena Campos-Pons's Visual Aesthetic Musicalities The Driskell Center, The University of Maryland

Tsedaye Makonnen & Cecily Bumbray. Taking the White Gloves Off: A Performance Art Series in Honor of Lorraine O’Grady ‘55. Curated by Nikki A. Greene, Wellesley College. 


For some strange reason it had to be": Radcliffe Bailey's Visual Aesthetic Remixes. Politics of the Visual Lecture Series. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Nikki A. Greene in conversation with Patrisse Cullors, in conjunction with the exhibition, María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold. The Getty Museum in collaboration with the Fowler Museum at UCLA. 

“Defining Visual Aesthetic Musicalities,” Black Music / Black Life Speaker Series. Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life, Dartmouth College. 

2025 Greater Roxbury Book Fair, Roxbury branch of the Boston Public Library

2024


Grime, Glitter, and Glass: Conceptualizing Visual Aesthetic Musicality in Contemporary Art
Interdisciplinary Arts Institute, Berklee College of Music


Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series: Nikki A. Greene
In conversation with Kimberly Juanita Brown, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University (virtual)


The Suzy Newhouse Center Book Launch Celebration featuring Nikki Greene in conversation with Jovonna Jones
Newhouse Lounge for the Humanities, free and open to the public


Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series: Kimberly Juanita Brown
In conversation with Nikki A. Greene, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University (virtual)


Dr. Nikki Greene in Conversation with Janelle Monáe
Alumnae Hall Auditorium. Open to the Wellesley College Campus Community Only