Lectures, conversations, and public scholarship
Media and Public Appearances
D. Vance Smith regularly participates in public lectures, academic events, book talks, and media conversations that bring historical depth to contemporary questions of culture, power, ecology, and knowledge.
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Interview about Atlas’s Bones with Gerald Horne on Freedom Now
Gerald Horne interviews Professor D. Vance Smith about his important research and book entitled: “Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe.
Conversation about Atlas’s Bones
With Simon Gikandi at the Princeton Public Library. A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration
Book Talk — Atlas’s Bones
A conversation at the Princeton Public Library with Simon Gikandi about Atlas’s Bones. Sponsored by the Princeton Public Library, Labyrinth Books, the Humanities Council, the Program in Humanistic Studies, the Program in African Studies, the Department of English, and the Program in Medieval Studies
Interview on The Medieval Podcast with Danièle Cybulskie
Danièle speaks with D. Vance Smith about medieval European ideas of Africa, the long shadow cast by the fall of Carthage, and how Medieval Studies itself contributed to colonization.
Book Launch / Promotional Feature — Atlas’s Bones
An excerpt of Atlas’s Bones…hosted by The Chicago Blog (University of Chicago Press), highlighting the book’s approach to Africa’s influence in medieval and early European cultures.
Participation in Academic and Public Forums
Part of the Old Dominion Public Lecture Series, Smith delivered a presentation titled Blood Flowers: Recolonizations, exploring the historical and material roots of land use, conservation, and extraction economies
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