Garry Bertholf, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
THE FUTURE OF JAZZ—THE FUTURE IS FEMALE
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
7:00-9:00 p.m. (ET)
Russell House (300 High Street)
Together with the Women in Jazz Organization (WIJO) and Wesleyan University's College of the Environment Think Tank on Agency, I am organizing a live concert and post-concert conversation on the politics of gender, featuring saxophonist Roxy Coss, vocalist Tahira Clayton, pianist Caili O'Doherty, bassist Adi Meyerson, and drummer Cory Cox.
THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL: LOVE IN BLACK AND BROWN
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Monday, February 17, 2025
4:30-6:00 p.m. (ET)
Afro-American Cultural Center 101 (211 Park Street)
At the invitation of Yale English Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar Nafeesa Syeed and the South Asian Studies Council of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, I will be serving as a discussant for Barnard College English Professor and Creative Writer Nina Sharma’s book talk at the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale.
AFRICANA SALON
Bywater Arts District, New Orleans, LA
Friday, January 10, 2025
3:30-6:30 p.m. (CT)
The Mazant (906 Mazant Street)
Together with Yale University historian Alden Young, University of Maryland political scientist Michael Woldemariam, Tulane University composer and pianist Courtney Bryan, and the students and alumni-mentors of Wesleyan University’s Africana Research Collective, I am organizing an Africana Salon focusing on “Historical Agency and Black Political Economy” as well as “Spiritual Agency and Jazz Improvisation.” The salon will take place at The Mazant in the Bywater Arts District of New Orleans, Louisiana.
AGENCY AND IMPROVISATION
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Saturday, November 2, 2024
9:00-11:30 a.m. (ET)
Exley Science Center 150 (Tishler Hall)
Together with Roxy Coss, Sonia Sultan, Justine Quijada, Maryam Badr ’25, Nic Galleno ’25, and Hannah Podol ’25, I am organizing the Twenty-First Annual Robert F. Schumann “Where on Earth Are We Going?” Environmental Studies Symposium for the Bailey College of the Environment at Wesleyan University.
MELLON MAYS AND EDWARD BOUCHET FACULTY ROUNDTABLE
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Friday, March 1, 2024
1:30-3:20 p.m. (ET)
Department of African American Studies (81 Wall Street)
I am participating in a faculty roundtable with Brian Kane and Mary Lui for the Mellon Mays and Edward A. Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowship Programs at Yale University. The roundtable will be moderated by Erica Edwards.
ARCHIVES AND FICTION OF THE GLOBAL BLACK 1930s
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
4:30-6:00 p.m. (ET)
Downey House 113
I am moderating an English Department roundtable (titled “Archives and Fiction of the Global Black 1930s”) with Marina Bilbija, Alex Lubin, and Maaza Mengiste at Wesleyan.