Selected Recent Presentations

 

  • May 14, 2022. “Pre-Concert Talk Featuring R. Carlos Nakai and facilitated by John-Carlos Perea, PhD,” Invited dialogue with R. Carlos Nakai before the Gold Coast Concert “Cultural Crossroads: Black and Indigenous influences in the music of Dvořák.” Hosted by the Gold Coast Chamber Players. Community Hall, Lafayette Library, Lafayette, CA.

  • April 21-23, 2022. “Sounding Homelands, Composing Continuance: Listening to ‘Lenapehoking’ in Manhatta,” roundtable panelist for invited listening session with Mohican/Munsee composer Brent Michael Davids and the Lenape Center for the “When I think of Home: Race and Borders in Popular Music” Pop Convergence Conference hosted by the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, online.

  • April 15, 2022. “The Seminar Table is a Drum,” invited keynote address for the Indigenous Sound Studies Symposium, “Indigenous Relations and Unexpectedness: Intergenerational Sound Knowledge,” sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, Native American Student Development, and the American Indian Graduate Program, University of California, Berkeley. 

  • March 24-26, 2022. “On the Significance of Intertribal and Invitational Songs,” invited keynote address with Jessica Bissett Perea for the “Tourism and Musical Imaginaries” Conference hosted by the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université de Genève, and the University of California, Berkeley. 

  • February 19, 2022. “Pre-Concert Talk Featuring R. Carlos Nakai and facilitated by John-Carlos Perea, PhD,” Invited dialogue with flutist R. Carlos Nakai hosted by Stanford Live. Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University.

  • November 19, 2021. “Jim Pepper, Don Cherry, and the Globalization of American Indian Ways of Doing Jazz, 1969-1974,” invited talk for the Music Studies Colloquium hosted by the Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley.

  • July 21, 2021. “Indigenous Soundings: Environmental and Cultural Landscapes,” invited conversant for Sound, Meaning, Education Conference, Northern Arizona University, online.

  • April 24, 2021. “Pop Musicking and Survivance in Native North Pacific Communities,” roundtable participant for Pop Convergence 2021 hosted by the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, online.​

  • October 22, 2020: “Navigating a Path toward Tenure: Focus on Underrepresented Minorities,” roundtable participant for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, online.​​