2023

 

March 23 and 25

“Henrique Dias and His Daughters: Social Mobility in the Portuguese Atlantic World” 

“Women’s  Work: Memory, Myth, and the Creation of Brazil”

Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies(SECOLAS) Antigua, Guatemala

 

March 28

“Three Women Who Changed the World: Empress Chabi,  Queen Njinga, Empress Maria Leopoldina”         

Woodstock Public Library Woodstock, GA

2022

January 4

“Women’s Work: Chica da Silva, Leopoldina, and the Creation of Brazil,” American Historical Association conference/ New Orleans, LA

March 12-15

“Soldados da Terra, Farinha da Guerra: Provisioning During the Luso- Dutch Battle for Bahia and Brazil,” Purdue University/ West Lafayette, IN

September 23

                               “Women and Latin American History” (Workshop)                                   Midwest World History Association/ Grand Rapids, MI

November 5

                       Author event Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America                       Fox Tale Book Shoppe Woodstock GA 

December 3

         “Revolutionary Women and Women Revolutionaries in World History”   National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), Philadelphia, NY

2021

 February 2

“Portrait of a Scholarly Nun: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695)”                                    Invited talk, Soka  University, CA

July 4

“Scorched Earth: Weaponizing Food, Fueling Resistance in the Dutch Battle for Brazil”  World History Association/Online

July 6

“The Writer’s Block,” Open workshop. World History Association/ Online

August 19

“Sewing Revolution: La Pola, Seamstress Spy of Bogotá,” Tie-In talk for “Women’s Work,”  Reeves House Visual Arts Center/ Woodstock, GA

October 29

“The Sword and the Veil: Women Who Drove Conquest, Exchange, and Revolution in Latin America(to 1822),” Long Island Council for the Social Studies conference/ Huntington, NY

November 20

“Truth and Fictions:  on Writing Biography,”  Atlanta Writer’s Club/Atlanta