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Guest Lectures
“The End of Eating Everything”: Consumption in Wangechi Mutu’s Visual Art
Winter 2026, UC-Santa Barbara
English Department, UCSB, Professor: Cathy Thomas
“Eating Down Babylon”
Sub-Human-Non-Human Solidarities in the Rastafari Movement
October 2023, UC-Santa Barbara
Black Studies, UCSB, Instructor: Taylor Holmes
Afro-Veganism Lesson 1: Understanding the Afro-vegan Movement
June 2023, UCSB
Vegan Literature, UCSB, for Professor Renan Larue
Introduction to Black Veganism: The Rastafari Movement
February 2022, UCSB
Vegan Literature, UCSB, for Professor Renan Larue
Podcasting and Researching: Creating Black Vegan Futures
August 2023, UC-Berkeley
Food Program at UC-Berkeley
Production Meeting, Podcast Series Unerasure of Dulcie September
January 2022, UCSB
Black Studies UCSB, for Instructor Léonard Cortana (NYU).
"Eating Cadaver Cannot Make you more Alive" Human-non-Human Solidarities in the Rastafari Movement
March 2023, UCSB
Black Studies, UCSB, for Professor Faithe Day
Afro véganisme et Afro féminisme, racines communes dans une perspective de libération totale
Summer 2026, Paris (FR)
Besesaka Festival (pan-African festival), Paris (FR)
‘Third Degree Burnout Documentary’ Première Panel
Fall 2025, Los Angeles
A conversation between Kat Kramer, Shairai Bradsaw and Solaire Denaud at the Los Angeles Femme Film Festival 21st edition.
Conferences
Vegefest Denver, Colorado
July 2023, Denver
‘Eating cadaver cannot make you more alive’; Black plant-based diets in the Caribbean
Berkeley Plant Futures Symposium
January 2023, UC Berkeley
‘Global History of Plant-Based Diets’; a conversation between Nivi Jaswal and Solaire Denaud
Spotlight on the Art of Translation
February 2022, UCSB
‘There Is a Cameroonian Way to Speak English’ Translating African Futurist Comics ‘Mulatako’ by Reine Dibussi from Cameroonian French to Cameroonian English
Vegan Epiphanies
September 2021, UCSB
You Are Not Fully Alive If You Eat Cadaver: How a Rastafari Understanding of God Led to a Meatless Diet
Belgium Climate Justice Camp
September 2021, Brussel
Comprendre les traditions végétaliennes au sein des peuples Noirs (Understanding plant-based traditions among Black cultures.)
ChLA (Children’s Literature Association) Conference: ‘The Arcade’
June 2021
Continental Thinking and Archipelago Thinking: Counter-Discourses to French Colonialism in Maryse Condé’s Children’s Literature.
Media and Environment: Climate Justice Graduate Symposium
December 2021
Toxic Archipelago: Chlordécone Poisoning as a New Chapter of French Colonial History
Childhood and (In)Equity: Inclusivity Research on Children’s Literature Culture” Graduate Research workshop
November 2020
Tiered Memories and Scattered Islands: Black Diaspora as an ‘Archipelago’ in Maryse Conde’s Children’s Literature
Graduate symposium, UC Santa Barbara
December 2019
Black History in Children’s Literature: Maryse Condé
Diversity Panel Series for Incoming Student
July 2020
Queer and Trans Grad Life
Diversity Panel Series for Incoming Student
July 2020
Black Grad Life
French Inclusive Writing and the French Colonial Project: Anti-Colonial and Queer Linguistic Solidarities
Spring 2026, UCSB
Interdisciplinary Emphasis in Applied Linguistics Colloquium
‘“On Being Fruit-Full and Multiplying:” Tracing the Roots of Black Vegetarian Through the Work of Alvenia Moody Fulton
Fall 2025, UCSB
Center for Feminist Futures’ Graduate Fellows Symposium, UCSB
Resistir Para Existir: Black LGBTQ Art and Activism in the Americas at UCSB
May 15-17 2024
Panel: Dwa Pasaj Queer Dyaspora and Disruptive Bodies: Mario Lamothe on Carceral Migration and Embodied Protest
Discussant: Dr. Nadège Clitandre, Dr. Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper, Dr. Will Mosley and Solaire Denaud
Santa Cruz Vegfest
April 2024, Santa Cruz CA
‘Because the Devil has Taught Him to Eat the Wrong Food’ Understanding the Afro-Vegan Movement’
Solaire Denaud
Identi-teas: International students (Moderator)
November 2020
The IdentiTEA series are a social and intimate space to bring to light issues affecting the queer and trans communities, by the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity (RCGSD).
Identi-teas: Black students (Moderator)
November 2020
The IdentiTEA series are a social and intimate space to bring to light issues affecting the queer and trans communities, by the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity (RCGSD).
Identi-teas:International LGBTQ+ (Moderator)
November 2020
The IdentiTEA series are a social and intimate space to bring to light issues affecting the queer and trans communities, by the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity (RCGSD).
Plant-Based Living: Topics on Veganism by Advocacy For All Animals (UCSB)
January 2024, Isla Vista (CA)
'Haffi Stop Eating Too Much Animal': A Rastafari Perspective on Food and Decolonization'
Conference Organizing
A Research Screening and Discussion ‘Third Degree Burnout’
Fall 2024, UCSb
Sponsor: Black Studies Department, UCSB
Resistir Para Existir: Black LGBTQ Art and Activism in the Americas at UCSB
May 15-17, UCSB
Addressing Trans-phobia in Graduate School
February 2021, UCSB
Sponsors: Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity and the Women’s Center
Mentorship as a Deeper Investigation and Inspiration
January 2021, UCSB
Sponsors: Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
Graduate Student labor practices during COVID-19
January 2021, UCSB
Sponsors: Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity and the Women’s Center
Conference on Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
October 2020
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution with Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham. Co-organization: the Carsey-Wolf Center, the UCSB Library, the Disabled Students Program, and the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity (RCGSD).
IRSCL Congress 2023; ‘Ecologies of Childhood’
August 2023, UCSB