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Workshop @ LitArts RI - Haunting Returns: The Poetry of Pastness
Naimah Petigny 12/11/25 Naimah Petigny 12/11/25

Workshop @ LitArts RI - Haunting Returns: The Poetry of Pastness

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Rhode Island School of Design - Fall 2025 Humanities Forum "The Hold is Also an Embrace: Tracing Haunting Erotics in Black Life.”
Naimah Petigny 12/3/25 Naimah Petigny 12/3/25

Rhode Island School of Design - Fall 2025 Humanities Forum "The Hold is Also an Embrace: Tracing Haunting Erotics in Black Life.”

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“Seditious Acts: Collectivity and Resistance Within and Against the Violences.”
Naimah Petigny 11/20/25 Naimah Petigny 11/20/25

“Seditious Acts: Collectivity and Resistance Within and Against the Violences.”

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“Teaching with Tenderness in Harsh Times.”
Naimah Petigny 11/13/25 Naimah Petigny 11/13/25

“Teaching with Tenderness in Harsh Times.”

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Linden Place Research Residency
Naimah Petigny 4/28/25 Naimah Petigny 4/28/25

Linden Place Research Residency

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“Haunting Repair” 
Naimah Petigny 4/11/25 Naimah Petigny 4/11/25

“Haunting Repair” 

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2024 Tinhouse Summer Writing Workshop
Naimah Petigny 7/11/24 Naimah Petigny 7/11/24

2024 Tinhouse Summer Writing Workshop

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80 Acres Public Talk: “Living Legacies of Black Liberation.”
Naimah Petigny 6/19/24 Naimah Petigny 6/19/24

80 Acres Public Talk: “Living Legacies of Black Liberation.”

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Dance Without Surrender- Public Conversation: “Black Aliveness: Thinking Blackness, Memory, and Performance.”
Naimah Petigny 5/4/24 Naimah Petigny 5/4/24

Dance Without Surrender- Public Conversation: “Black Aliveness: Thinking Blackness, Memory, and Performance.”

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Leslie Parker Dance Project Residency - Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)
Naimah Petigny 3/9/23 Naimah Petigny 3/9/23

Leslie Parker Dance Project Residency - Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC)

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Providence College Public Talk: “The Hold is also an Embrace: Black life, Performance, and Liberation.”
Naimah Petigny 4/8/22 Naimah Petigny 4/8/22

Providence College Public Talk: “The Hold is also an Embrace: Black life, Performance, and Liberation.”

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Queens’s University, Belfast Public Talk: “The Radical Teachings of Audre Lorde’s Berlin Years.”
Naimah Petigny 9/14/20 Naimah Petigny 9/14/20

Queens’s University, Belfast Public Talk: “The Radical Teachings of Audre Lorde’s Berlin Years.”

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“Embodied Translations: Decolonizing Methodologies of Knowing and Being.” Invited speaker (with Beaudelaine Pierre and Richa Nagar) for Department of Geography, Spring Colloquium series.
Naimah Petigny 3/8/18 Naimah Petigny 3/8/18

“Embodied Translations: Decolonizing Methodologies of Knowing and Being.” Invited speaker (with Beaudelaine Pierre and Richa Nagar) for Department of Geography, Spring Colloquium series.

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Naimah Petigny 2/16/17 Naimah Petigny 2/16/17

“Black Femme Bodies in Motion.” Winton Chair Committee Cornerstone Visitor Lecture Series Panel

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