2025

2025   “Visualizing Black Feminist Ecologies.” Keynote Lecturer. The Visiting Artist Series. Welch School of Art and Design. Georgia State University. Atlanta Georgia. February 17.

2025   “Black Feminist Ecology: Origins.” Lecturer. Distinguished Lecture Series. The Africana Studies Program at California State University, Fresno. Fresno, California. February 6.

2025   “Fireside Chat with Professor Angela Davis and Dr. Chelsea Frazier.” Moderator. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Series. Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI). Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. February 3.

2024   “Visualizing Black Feminist Ecologies.” Histories of Ecology. Museu de Arte Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo, Brazil. September 12. (virtual)

2024   “Black Feminist Ecology: Origins.” Keynote Lecturer. Whistle Space. Buxton School. Williamstown Massachusetts. September 7.

2023

2023   “Black Feminist Ecology: Origins.” Distinguished Voices in Literature Lecture. English Department. SUNY Cortland. October 11.

2023   “Black Feminist Ecology: Origins.” Biennial “Beaver Brook” Lecture Series in American/African American Literature. Keynote Speaker. English Department. Connecticut College. April 14.

2023   Biennial “Beaver Brook” Lecture Series in American/African American Literature. Keynote Speaker. English Department. Connecticut College. April 14.

2023   “Fueled by Misogyny: Gender & the Climate Crisis.” Invited Speaker. 9th Annual History Month Symposium: Feminists on the Politics of Crisis. Northeastern University. Boston, University. Mar 24.

2022

2022 “Transformative Practice: Creativity In Black and Indigenous Relationships to the Earth.” ReSOURCE symposium. South Side Community Art Center. Chicago, Illinois. Oct 7.

2022 “Putting The Cooker On Low: Ama Josephine Budge and Chelsea Frazier in Conversation with J.T. Roane.” Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. May 6.

2022 Mixing Femmes Erotics—Pleasure Synthesis Symposium. Panelist. Rhode Island

School of Design. Providence, Rhode Island. May 2. (Online)

2022 “Unfamiliar Ecologies.” Invited Lecturer. Race, Equity, and Justice Lecture Series at Allegheny College. Meadville, Pennsylvania. April 22. (Online)

2022 “Visualizing Black Feminist Ecologies.” Invited Lecturer. Visual Culture Colloquium Cornell University. Ithaca, New York. April 12. (Online)

2022 Duquesne University English Graduate Organization’s Spring Graduate Conference.

Keynote Speaker. Duquesne University. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 9. (Online)

2022 "Being Undisciplined: Black Feminist Study of Gender and Sexuality with Chelsea Frazier, PhD and Brittnay Proctor, PhD.” University of Louisiana—Lafayette. Lafayette, Indiana. April 1. (Online)

2022 “Troubling Ecology.” Duke University Global Blackness Working Group. Invited Speaker. Duke University. Durham, North Carolina. February 21. (Online)

2021

2021 Contemporary Issues in African American Studies and Literary Criticism. American Studies Program, Cornell University. Ithaca, New York (Online).

2021 Approaches to Centering Black Feminism in Eco-Thought. Lecture. The University of Passau Germany. Passau, Germany (Online).

2021 Ecology, Ancestral Healing, and Visual Art: A Conversation with Alexandria Eregbu & Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier. The Center for the Humanities at Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, New York (Online).

2021 Black Feminist Ecologies: A Virtual Salon. Wesleyan University. Middletown, Connecticut (Online).

2021 (Re)Constitutions of Choice. Panel presentation. Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Online).

2021 Unfamiliar Ecologies: Notes on a Black Feminist Eco-Ethic. Susan Ratner Writing and Pedagogy Series Invited Lecturer. Barnard College. New York, New York (Online).

2019-2020

December 10, 2020 Black Feminist Ecology. Featured Expert. The Great Unlearn. Online.

November 7-10, 2019 “Risky Places: Geographies of Race and Risk.” Panel presentation. American Studies Association Annual Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii.

September 20, 2019 “Intersections: Re-Thinking African American Literature and Culture in the 21st Century.” Invited Speaker. Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York

March 26, 2019 “Neo-Traditionalism and the Eco-Aesthetics of the African Feminist Artist.” Invited Speaker. Smith College Museum of Art. Northampton, Massachusetts.

April 9, 2019 “In Dialogue: Fo Wilson and Chelsea Frazier.” Invited Speaker. Hyde Park Art Center. Chicago, Illinois.

2018

November 9, 2018 "Emergent Narratives of Girlhood: Black Girl Futures." Panel presentation at the American Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia.

November 2, 2018 "Take Root Among the Stars: Visionary Fiction and the Legacy of Octavia Butler." Invited Speaker. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.

September 11, 2018 "Surrealist Ecologies." Moderator. Chicago Artist Coalition. Chicago, Illinois,

August 3, 2018 "Dreaming of Black Ecologies (Chelsea Frazier in Conversation with Michael Riley)." Invited Speaker. WAKANDACON. Chicago, Illinois

June 8, 2018 "Between Computation and Praxis: Ray Kurzveil and Sylvia Wynter on human(?) Intelligence." Invited Speaker. Human Futures and Intelligent Machines Summit. Virginia Tech Center for the Humanities. Blacksburg, Virginia.

May 19, 2018 "Afrofuturism: Black Superheroes." Invited Speaker. Woodson Regional Library. Chicago, Illinois.

April 9, 2018 "Combahee River Collective and Black Queer Feminist Thinking." Guest Lecture for "LGBT-Tea" (LGBTQA+ Resource Center and the Black Cultural Center). Depaul University. Chicago, Illinois.

2017

November 10, 2017 "Reframing Promise and Failure in the Modern Era of Environmental 'Justice.' Presentation at the American Studies Association Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois. 

July 3, 2017 "Theorizing Red and Wounds in Wangechi Mutu's Eco-Art." Presentation. Inside Black Europe Symposium. Black Europe Summer School: International Institute for Research and Education. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

May 6 2017 "Theorizing Red and Wounds in Wangechi Mutu's Eco-Art." Invited Speaker. Ecologies, Agents, Terrains Conference. The Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, Massachusetts.

April 14, 2017 “Impoverished Frameworks and the Illegibility of Black Feminist ‘Eco-Ethics.’” Presentation. An Ecotopian Toolkit for Anthropocene Challenges. University of Pennsylvania Program in Environmental Humanities. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

February 25, 2017 "Contending with Hope and Failure in the Era of Environmental Justice." Invited Speaker. Northwestern Winter Symposium. Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.

February 22, 2017 "Fannie Lou Hamer Said..." Panel Presentation. "Fighting for LGBTQ Rights and People in a Trump-Pence Era." NU Queer Pride Graduate Student Association (QPGSA). Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois.

January 25, 2017 “Impoverished Frameworks and the Illegibility of Black Feminist ‘Eco-Ethics.’” Presentation. The Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop: Race, Capitalism, and Ecology.  Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.

2016

February 27, 2016 “Troubling Ecology: Octavia Butler & Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism.” Presentation. Octavia E. Butler Society: Celebrating Letters, Life and Legacy Conference. Spelman College. Atlanta, Georgia.

January 7, 2016 “Troubling Ecology: Wangechi Mutu, Afrofuturism, and Black Feminist Interventions in Western Environmentalism.” Presentation. Modern Language Association Convention. Austin, Texas.