PUblic SPEAKING

I am available to address audiences from high school to corporate to academic to the general public on a variety of topics at the intersections of my research interests and my career as a DJ and event organizer. Below is an abbreviated list of talks I have given, followed by videos of more recent talks. For a complete account please see my CV!

I was recently invited to discuss my book and questions of copyrght and colonialism on Africa Is A Country Radio, with Chief Boima, on Worldwide FM, the archive of that wide-ranging discussion, and some tunes that inspire me, is here:

2020 - PICO: Un parlante de África en América, panel discussion with artist/musician Jim Nedd (Colombia/Germany), Palmwine (Italy). hosted virtually by the Auto Italia gallery, London, UK.

- Feminist Art Technology: Fiftitu Buro, Linz, Austria

- Copyright and cultural resistance. Public lecture at Universidad Javeriana, Bogota

- Interview on key aspects of my forthcoming book “Rude Citizenship” and how it suggests ideas for musicians in the 21st century music economy. With Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon. https://interdependence.fm/episodes/interdependence-12-dr-larisa-kingston-mann-dj-ripley

2019 - Keynote: Race, Culture, and the DJ—Curation as Cultural Dialogue. California State University at Northridge. Nov 2019.

- Interview: Long conversation about my work, life, career and on gender politics in nightlife. Sunday DJ Spotlight with Dj Kilma. Youtube. Video.

2018 - Keynote: Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Musical Challenges to Copyright(ed) Culture. House Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin. October 20. Audio.

2016 - Groove is in the heart: researching dance music cultures at California State University at Northridge, May 2016
         - "How public housing and state neglect in England allowed pirate radio to flourish—and why it matters" Fordham Law School, March 10

2015 - “Researching copyright in colonial context,” Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice, Howard University, Washington, DC November 15.
         - "Power Collaboration and Lies” for a symposium “Collective Creativity: Collaboration and Collectives in Feminist Art Practice” at the
          Museum of Art and Design in New York. February 2015
         - "How and Why to Let Others Remix/Mashup Your Work" SXSW-Music, Austin TX. March 17, 2015
         - “Hip-hop and Black vernacular technology” at Norah Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Utah State University. March 28

2014 - “Exilic airwaves: UK Pirate Radio and the Tower Block” What is the Place of Intellectual Property? Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, CA, June 26
         - “Submerged Voices in Underground Performance,” Opening plenary, Rare Book & Manuscript section, American Library Association, June 24

2013 - Rocking the Body Politics: Musical Spaces for Resistance and Survival,” Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, April 22

2012 - “Exile, Resistance, Occupation, Music,” Clandestino Institut, Göteborg Sweden, June 8 

         - “International Approaches to the Creative Economy,” Western States Arts Foundation Cultural Policy Symposium, April 13 

2011 - “Music, Metadata and Memory: How We Already Own what is Shared,” Dorkbot/Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, July 2 

Larisa Mann on Pirate Radio and Public Housing at Fordham Law School, New York

Larisa Mann on Decolonizing Copyright: Jamaican Street Dances and Globally Networked Technology
https://blogs.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2011/03/22/larisa-mann-on-decolonizing-copyright-jamaican-street-dances-and-globally-networked-technology/comment-page-1/