Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, fall 2021Radcliffe Institute Fellow Uri McMillan delivers a presentation of his work-in-progress, a discussion of Nuyorican fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez's turn to Instamatic photography and his Candy Bar Girls series from the mid-1970s.

Grace Before Jones, Uri McMillan and Cedric Fauq, Nottingham Contemporary, spring 2021This talk is between Paris-based curator Cédric Fauq and cultural critic Uri McMillan on the occasion of the exhibition "Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio," which ran September 26, 2020-January 3, 2021 at Nottingham Contemporary in the UK. The exhibition explored performance and Black image-making via Jones's various guises.

Studio Salon, Uri McMillan with Simone Leigh, Narcissister, and Lorraine O'GradyStudio Museum in Harlem, Spring 2016This roundtable discussion features author Uri McMillan and three distinguished artists--sculptor Simone Leigh, performance artist Narcisster, and multi-disciplinary polymath Lorraine O'Grady. The event was to celebrate the publication of McMillan's Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance, (2015), the first cultural history of Black performance art. This public program was held at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Just Above Midtown, East, and West: Performance, Gesture, and Space-Making by Black Women Artists", Brooklyn Museum, Uri McMillan with Linda Goode Bryant, Maren Hassinger, and Lorraine O'Grady This roundtable discussion, moderated by Uri McMillan, explores questions of performance, gesture, and space-making by Black women artists in New York City in the 1970s. It features Linda Goode Bryant, founder of the Just Above Midtown gallery on "Museum Row", alongside her peers artists Maren Hassinger and Lorraine O'Grady. This public program was held at the Brooklyn Museum as part of a day-long series of talks celebrating the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-1985, which ran from October 13,2017-January 14, 2018.

"Being Otherwise, Being Grace Jones: Performing on the Outer Limits," Keynote by Uri McMillan, Global Blackness: A Multidisciplinary Exploration, Duke UniversityThis talk was a keynote presentation on the occasion of the one-day symposium "Global Blackness: A Multidisciplinary Exploration," sponsored by the Department of African American Studies at Duke University.