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“COVID-19 and Viral Racism,” Lecture and Workshop. Global Arts and Humanities Society of Fellows, The Ohio State University, Livestreamed September 22, 2020.
“The Neoliberal University and Academic Feminism,” GCWS Feminisms Unbound Panel Series, Livestreamed September 17, 2020.
“Human Rights Pasts and Futures: Pandemics, Racism and Colonialism,” Panel Presentation. Global Arts and Humanities Society of Fellows, The Ohio State University, Livestreamed September 23, 2020.
"Affirmative Action Isn’t Reverse Jim Crow: Asian Americans and the Reconstruction of White Entitlement,” Lecture. Antiblackness and Alliance: A Series on Asian-Black Race Relations, Asian American Center and Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina, Livestreamed September 30, 2020.
“Racial Capitalism and Disposable Populations in the Time of Covid-19,” Red May Seattle 2020: Capitalism or Life, Viral Edition, Livestreamed May 15, 2020
Barbie Diewald's Ongoing Duet, a collaboration with Meredith Bove, was presented by LAKE Studios/Dance Research Center in Berlin, Germany, following a month-long residency.
Barbie Diewald is an invited speaker at the National Dance Education Organization's Summit for Dance Educators: Changing Spaces for Gender Inclusive Dance. They will be giving their talk “Dancing Into View: Lesbian Dance Histories in the Late Twentieth Century.” The virtual summit is March 1, 2025.
Barbie Diewald was commissioned to create a new choreographic work, “Prairie Dance” for the Motion State Dance Festival at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, RI. The work will premiere on March 27, 2025.
Assistant Professors of Dance Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron were artists in residence at the internationally-renowned Bates Dance Festival to develop their collaborative dance project, "Concourse." The work will premiere at Mount Holyoke College September 16 and 17, 2022.
Barbie Diewald was named a Faculty Research Fellow by the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Archives for her project "Consoling Clarity: Queer and Lesbian Aesthetics in Twenty-First Century Dance."
