UPCOMING EVENTS

2025

Detroit, MI | Detroit Public Library (Main Branch) | April 13, 2025 | Reading from The Black Utopians, in conversation with Charisse Burden-Stelly

Livonia, MI | Madonna University Library | April 14, 2025 | 2025 Michigan Notable Books Tour: The Black Utopians

Lansing, MI | Capital Area District Libraries | April 15, 2025 | 2025 Michigan Notable Books Tour: The Black Utopians

Charlotte, MI | Charlotte Community Library | April 16, 2025 | 2025 Michigan Notable Books Tour: The Black Utopians

Middlebury, VT | Middlebury College | June 15-21, 2025 | Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference faculty member

Singapore | Singapore Writers Festival | November 7-10, 2025 | Details to come

PAST EVENTS

2025

Williamsburg, VA | William & Mary | March 19, 2025 | Hayes Translation Festival: Translation and the State of Translated Literature, with Lisa Dillman, Silvia Tandeciarz, Aruni Kashyap, Boris Dralyuk, and Ye Chun

Brooklyn, NY | Molasses Books | March 7, 2025 | Us&Them Reading Series, with Padma Viswanathan, John Hennessy, and Geoffrey Brock

New York, NY | CUNY Graduate Center | February 27, 2025 | The Critical Social/Personality and Environmental Psychology Colloquium Series, in conversation with Brittany Brathwaithe and Kenzi Bishara

Madison, WI | University of Wisconsin-Madison | February 24, 2025 | Public Works: Translating Research to Narrative Nonfiction

Nashville, TN | Vanderbilt University | February 17, 2025 | George Barrett Social Justice Program guest speaker

New York, NY | Barnes & Noble (Upper West Side) | February 12, 2025 | Launch event for Alex Zamalin’s Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop

London, England | DB Music London | February 7, 2025 | UK launch for The Black Utopians: Visions of Hope and Resistance in America

Grinnell, IA | Grinnell College | January 22, 2025 | The Rosenfield Program’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Lecture: “Black Utopianism and the Struggle for Historical Memory”

Brooklyn, NY | Liz’s Book Bar | January 19, 2025 | Lampblack Reading Series (with Jeremy Michael Clark and Christina Cooke)

Brooklyn, NY | Center for Brooklyn History | January 13, 2025 | CBH Talk: “The Battle for School Integration in the North” (launch event for Michelle Adams’ The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North)

2024

Virtual | City Lights | November 18, 2024 | Aaron Robertson, in conversation with Hafizah Augustus Geter

Cambridge, MA | Kirkland House, Harvard College | November 14, 2024 | Conversations with Kirkland: Aaron Robertson, in conversation with Imani Perry

Boston, MA | justBook-ish | November 13, 2024 | Boston Ujima Project’s Chuck Turner Arts and Lecture Series: “#BlackTrust - Black Utopias, Then&Now,” in conversation with Stacey Sutton

Pittsburgh, PA | City of Asylum | November 3, 2024 | Aaron Robertson & Joseph Earl Thomas Talk Utopia vs. Reality

Promise Land, TN | St. John Cultural Arts Center | October 12, 2024 | Promise Land Heritage Association presents “The Art of Writing: Authors Expo,” in conversation with Khalil Ekulona and Learotha Williams

New York, NY | McNally Jackson Books, Seaport | October 10, 2024 | Aaron Robertson presents The Black Utopians, in conversation with DeRay Mckesson

Montclair, NJ | Watchung Booksellers | October 8, 2024 | Aaron Robertson presents The Black Utopians, in conversation with Michelle Alexander

Chicago, IL | Pilsen Community Books | October 2, 2024 | Aaron Robertson & Lauren Michele Jackson celebrate The Black Utopians, co-hosted by The Point

Detroit, MI | Detroit People’s Food Co-op | October 1, 2024 | Aaron Robertson presents The Black Utopians, in conversation with David Goldberg

Narrowsburg, NY | Tusten Theatre | June 23, 2024 | Deep Water Literary Fest 2024: Another Eden - “Black Utopias,” in conversation with Nell Irvin Painter and Janus Adams

New York, NY | Rizzoli Bookstore | April 12, 2024 | Third annual Multipli Forti: Voci dalla letteratura italiana contemporanea, in conversation with Giulia Caminito, Saif Raja, and Hope Campbell Gustafson

2023

New York, NY | AIA Center for Architecture | May 13, 2023 | PEN World Voices Festival: “Translation Manifesto,” in conversation with Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, Bonnie Chau, and Alexa Frank

New York, NY | Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University | April 26, 2023 | Second annual Multipli Forti: Voci dalla letteratura italiana contemporanea, “The Publication and Promotion of Italian Literature in Anglophone Markets,” in conversation with Hamilton Cain, Jonathan Galassi, Maria Campbell, Sandra Waters, Luca Briasco, and Michael Reynolds

2022

Virtual | The Ohio State University | January 11, 2022 | Aaron Robertson and Jeffrey Angles on the practice of literary translation

2021

Virtual | The Center for Fiction | February 18, 2021 | “How Do We Imagine the Future of Translator Collectives?” in conversation with Sean Gasper Bye

2020

Princeton, NJ | Lewis Arts Complex | February 21, 2020 | C.K. Williams Reading Series: Aaron Robertson

2019

Fairfax, VA | George Mason University | September 25, 2019 | Third Annual Day of Translation, co-presented with the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center: “Breaking Boundaries: Representation in Translation,” in conversation with Matthew Davis, Ezio Neyra, and Mui Poopoksakul

Brooklyn, NY | Franklin Park | September 9, 2019 | Franklin Park Reading Series for launch of Sarah Rose Etter’s The Book of X

Brooklyn, NY | Molasses Books | April 26, 2019 | Us&Them Reading Series, with Rebekah Smith, Charlotte Whittle, and Sean Gasper Bye