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Speaking
Christina gives lectures at universities and national conferences on topics such as hip hop, gospel, pop culture, sound mapping, Black-Italian cultural connections, and more.
RECENT TALKS:
"BLACKITALIAN: Film Screening and Discussion."
University of California, Santa Cruz, May 13, 2026.
"BLACKITALIAN: Film Screening and Discussion."
Presenter, American Association of Geographers Conference, San Francisco, March 17, 2026.
“Mayhem in the Delta: Haunting Grounds and Supernatural Sonics in SINNERS.”
Chair and roundtable participant, Pop Conference, University of Southern California, March 14, 2026.
“BLACKITALIAN: A Documentary Film.”
Presenter and Chair, American Studies Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 19, 2025.
“BLACKITALIAN: A Documentary Film.”
Presenter, Italian American Studies Conference, Montclair, NJ, November 8, 2025.
“BLACKITALIAN: A Documentary Film.”
Presenter and roundtable participant, Stanford University, May 5, 2025.
“Vivo Per Questo / This is What I Live For: Afro-Italian Hip Hop.”
Roundtable participant, Santa Clara University, February 25, 2025.
“‘Because We Are So Much Alike”: The Black-Italian Contact Zone.” Organizer and moderator. Center for Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellow Event, Santa Clara University, CA, May 7, 2024.
“Fetti on Fetti on Fetti: Black-Italian Sonic and Gastronomic Connections in Hip Hop.”
Pop Conference, University of Southern California, March 7, 2024.
“Chrisitanity and its Others / Pleasure and Violence.”
Chair and discussant. Northern California Chapter for the Society of Ethnomusicology Conference, Stanford University, February 25, 2023.
“Musicality of Place, Locality of Sound: Musicking as Placemaking in the Changing City.”
Chair and discussant. American Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 3, 2022.
“Soundscapes of American Gentrification.”
Chair and roundtable panelist, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 29, 2021. (online)
“Black / Italian Crossroads.”
Organizer and moderator for panel discussion with Rhiannon Giddens, Francesco Turrisi, John Tuturro, John Gennari, and Camilla Hawthorne as part of the Center for Arts & Humanities Frank Sinatra Chair in the Arts Residency, Santa Clara University, 2021.
“Flamenco Fusion and Ethnic Confusion: Rosalía at the Crossroads of Blackness, Gypsy-ness, and Latinidad.”
Pop Convergence, Museum of Popular Culture
Seattle, WA, 2021
"Jazz Meccas in Motion: Displacement and Homecoming in San Francisco's Church of John Coltrane"
American Studies Association Annual Conference
Hawaii 2019
"Carceral Soundings and the Specter of Chain Gangs in Popular Music"
American Studies Association Annual Conference
Atlanta, GA, 2018
Book Talk on Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels
UC Santa Cruz Music Colloquia Series
Santa Cruz, CA, 2018
"Radical Imaginations: Jazz and Justice from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter"
Filoli Gardens Summer Jazz Series
Woodside, CA, 2018
