541A E.I. White Hall
Scholarly Presentations:
The Paradox of Sovereignty
2009 Raven Lecture, Henderson Center for Social Justice, Berkeley Law School
Group Marriage and Sexual Freedom (?) in the Oneida Community
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Berkeley, CA (3/08)
Faculty Colloquium on Law and Citizenship
Southern Methodist University, TX (1/08)
The Interracial Cathexis
Forty Years of Loving: Confronting Issues of Race, Sexuality and the Family in the Twentieth Century, Fordham University, NY (11/07)
"There Are No Black Indians": Native American Nations and the Crisis of Identity
Reconstructions: Historical Consciousness and Critical Transformation
University of Cincinnati, OH (10/07)
Marriage is Good for the Community": Utopias and Plural Relationships in the Oneida Community
LatCrit XII, Miami, FL (10/2007)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: Law and Collective Memory in Faulkner and Chesnutt
Rights, Ethics, Law & Literature Colloquium, School of Law, Swansea, Wales (7/2007)
The Vanderbilt Wedding: Gender, Power, and Marriage in the Gilded Age
Gender Unbound: Keele University, Staffordshire, UK (7/2007)
African Children as the New Black: The Increasing Cachet of International Adoption
Law and Society Association, Humboldt University, Berlin (7/2007)
Red-washing History: Tribal Anachronisms in the Freedmen Cases
International Indigenous Citizenship Conference
Syracuse University (4/2007)
The Freedmen Cases: Tribal Sovereignty at the Tipping Point
Federal Bar Association Indian Law Conference
Albuquerque, NM (4/2007)
Anything but the Dark Continent: The Absence of Africa in International Adoption
Syracuse University Lubin House Lecture; NY, NY (4/2007)
Junior Faculty Roundtable
The New Realism: The Next Generation of Scholarship in Federal Indian Law
University of California at Berkeley (10/2006)
Loving in Presidential Perspective
Loving by Law: 40 Years Since Loving v. Virginia
Henderson Center and the California Law Review, Berkeley (10/2006)
Tribal Citizenship Determinations: Past, Present, and Future
Tribal Law and Government Conference
University of Kansas School of Law (10/2006)
The Culture of Passing, Assimilation, Equal Treatment, and the Black/White Dichotomy in the U.S. (with Janis McDonald)
Too Pure an Air: Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice, and Equality
University of Gloucestershire, U.K. (7/2006)
The Interracial Cathexis: Cultural Fixations on Miscegenation in a Post-Loving Era
Too Pure an Air: Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice, and Equality
University of Gloucestershire, U.K. (7/2006)
Understanding the Indian Child Welfare Act
Syracuse University, Family Law and Social Policy Center (4/2006)
Fighting the Recognition Battle
Indian Country Law Conference
Miccosukee Tribe of Florida (2/2006)
Regardless of Africa: International Adoption and Parental Preference
Conference on Adoption and Culture, University of Tampa (10/2005)
Open Adoption
Dunbar Association, Inc., Syracuse, NY (10/2005)
To Undo What Has Been Done: Miscegenation and Inheritance in In Re Remley
American Society for Legal History; Cincinnati, OH (10/2005)
Public Purity and Private Amalgamation: How Antimiscegenation Law Facilitates Cultural Amnesia
Law and Society, Chicago, IL (2004)
Black Indian Blood: Competing Memories in the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University (2004)
In Guing Witnesse: Public Debates of Interracial Memory
Political Theory Workshop, University of Michigan (2004)
On Indian Parameters: The Academic Paradox of the Urban Mixblood Scholar
Pathways: A Graduate Conference on American Indian Studies, Yale University (2004)
American Icons and Miscegenation
Austrian Association for American Studies, Graz, Austria (2003)
Secrets of Miscegenation Amongst U.S. Presidents
Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, San Juan, PR (2003)
Wills, Women, and Wisteria: E.M. Forster and the Jurisprudence of Aesthetics
American Culture Association, New Orleans, LA (2003)
A Shocking Mesalliance: Narrative Authority and Legal Prescription in Charles Chesnutt
American Culture Association, New Orleans, LA (2003)
Assimilating the Indian Gentleman: Paradoxical Uses of Property
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Philadelphia, PA (2002)