| 2007 | Daring to be Powerful: Representing Raced and Gendered
“I Have Spoken: Resisting Imposed Silence on Black Women’s Bodies through Alternative Literacies” | Speakers |
Syracuse University, NY → Syracuse University |
| 2008 | Real Talk: Black Women Transforming Realities through Rhetoric and Literacy
“Writing With Soul’N Style: An Analysis of Geneva Smitherman’s Transformative Rhetorical Practice” | Speakers |
Syracuse University, NY → Syracuse University |
| 2009 | Tracing the Stream and Filling the Well: Afrafeminist (Re)Definitions of African Diasporic Women’s
“With Vision and Voice: African American Rhetorics of Healing in the Work of Iyanla Vanzant” | Speakers |
Syracuse University, NY → Syracuse University |
| 2010 | Rethinking Practices: Digital Natives in the Composition Classroom | Speakers |
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| 2010 | Remixing Representation: Rhetorical Reconsiderations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
“Killing Us Softly with Our Song: Tyler Perry’s Rhetoric of Healing and The Rewriting of Contemporary Black Womanhood” | Speakers |
Syracuse University, NY → Syracuse University |
| 2010 | Looking Forward While Looking Back: The Revisiting, Reinventing, and Rethinking of Ideas in Ethnic Discourse | Chair |
Syracuse University, NY → Syracuse University |
| 2013 | To Worry Words: Black Women’s Literacies and Rheto-rics in Public Culture
“Re-Composing Ourselves: Rhetorical Healing in Black Women’s Self-Help Books” | Speakers |
SUNY Albany, NY |
| 2015 | (Un)Disciplining Discourses: Risky Representations of Black Gender and Sexuality in Public Culture
“‘Call a Thing a Thing’: the Paradox of Truth-Telling in Black Women’s Self-Help Culture” | Speakers |
University at Albany, State University of New York → State University of New York |
| 2017 | Career Quest: Navigating a Future in Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Studies
“Turning Social Commitments into Action” | Facilitators |
University at Albany, SUNY → University at Albany, State University of New York |
| 2017 | Writing Feminisms Online, on Bodies, and in Life Writing
“The Learning Cure: Healing Pedagogies in Black Women’s Life Writing” | Speakers |
University at Albany, SUNY → University at Albany, State University of New York |
| 2019 | Writing Lives: Memoir in Composition Studies
“Memoir and Being Stuck” | Speakers |
University of Virginia, Charlottesville → University of Virginia |
| 2020 | Rhetoric’s Histories: Traditions, Theories, Pedagogies, and Practices | Speakers |
University of Virginia → University of Virginia |
| 2025 | New Black City: Life Writing, Literacies, Healing and Restorative Practices | Speaker(s) |
University of Virginia → University of Virginia |
| 2025 | Exploring the “B-side” of Rhetorical Education: Rhetorical Exercises in Alternative Forms | Speaker(s) |
University of Virginia → University of Virginia |
| 2026 | Conferencing Transformed: Black Women Recovering Community | Presenter |
University of Virginia → University of Virginia |
| 2027 | Designing Black Feminist Futures: Healing, Worldbuilding, Wellness, and Writing Beyond Survival | Presenter |
University of Virginia → University of Virginia |