Presentations

Dr. Gaines’ most recent presentations and lectures can be found below.

Conference Presentations

Gaines, L. T. (2024). Black Studies and study away: Immersing students in Afro Puerto Rico [paper presentation]. Japan Black Studies Association, 70th Annual Conference. Tokyo (Shibuya), Japan.

 Gaines, L. T. (2023). Studying Away as a Pedagogy of Resistance: High Impact Learning Practices for Marginalized Students in Anti-DEI Florida [paper presentation]. Association for Ethnic Studies, 51st Annual Conference. Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Gaines, LT. (2023). There is Strength in Numbers: Recruitment as a Tool for Protecting Ethnic Studies [paper presentation]. Association for Ethnic Studies, 51st Annual Conference. Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Gaines, L. T., and Williams, F. (2023). An Unexpected Packing List: Making Study Away Accessible for All Students Through Course Design. Digital Learning Day [paper presentation]. University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. 

Williams, F., and Gaines, L. T., (2023). Exploring Classroom Language Use: Students’ Perceptions of Language Inclusivity and Exclusivity. 2023 St. Leo University Research Symposium, Dialogue Across Disciplines [paper presentation]. St. Leo University, St. Leo, Florida.

Gaines, L. T., Woodill, S., Cadwell Bazata, D., Eadens, D. A., and Haslett, K. (2022). Centering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Central Florida [paper presentation]. The Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 44th Annual Conference. Sanoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

 Gaines, L. T. (2022). “The Color Line … May Go Forever”: Beauty advertisements, Black women, and the Imagination of Equality. The Japan Black Studies Association, 68th Annual Conference. Tokyo, Japan/Virtual Meeting.

 Gaines, L. T. (2022). “Turns Black Skin White”: Black Women, Status, and Early 1900s American Beauty Advertisements. Eurasia Research, International Conference on Social Science and Humanities, 8th International Conference. The Tomlinson Centre, London, UK.

 Gaines, L. T. (2021). “There’s Boarded up Project Houses”: Socio-Economic Injustices, Urban Education, and Provisional Resistance in Baltimore. Critical Race Studies in Education Association, 14th Annual Conference. University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

 Gaines, L. T. (2021). Black Centered Action Instruction: Interdisciplinary Pedagogies to Serve Black Student Learning. The Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 43rd Annual Conference. Southern Utah University, Virtual Meeting.

Gaines, L. T. (2021). “The School Buildings are not Structurally Appropriate for a Learning Environment”: Educational Inequities and Provisional Resistance in Baltimore. The Japan Black Studies Association, 67th Annual Conference. Tokyo, Japan/Virtual Meeting. 

Gaines, L. T. (2020). “Being in the Center of the Crojects”: Urban Education, Structural Inequities, and Provisional Resistance. The Japan Black Studies Association, 66th Annual Conference. Meiji Gakuin University, Shirokane Campus, Tokyo, Japan. (Paper accepted, conference canceled because of global efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19/Coronavirus) 

Gaines, L. T. (2020, Apr 17 - 21) Provisional Resistance as Temporary Survival: A Case Study of Baltimore, Urban Education, and Structural Inequities [Paper Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/tzq4ogp (Conference Canceled, COVID-19/Coronavirus)

Gaines, L. T. (2020). Serving African American Students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution: Black Centered Action Instruction as a Pedagogical Practice of a Black Studies Educator. National Council for Black Studies, 44th annual conference. Atlanta, Georgia.

Gaines, L. T. (2020). “We’re Here to Support our Parents and our Students.”: African American Language to Express Community. National Council for Black Studies, 44th annual conference. Atlanta, Georgia.

Gaines, L. T. (2020). Tupac’s use of Hip Hop Nation Language to Relay, Resist, and Promote Resilience. National Council for Black Studies, 44th annual conference. Atlanta, Georgia.

Gaines, L. T. (2019). “Being in the Center of the Projects”: Urban Education, Structural Inequities, and Provisional Resistance. National Council for Black Studies, 43rd annual conference. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Gaines, L. T. (2017). Urban Education and sSructural Inequities: A Baltimore Case Study. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 102nd annual meeting and conference. Cincinnati, Ohio.

Gaines, L. T. (2017). In the Midst of Crisis: Language and Resistance in Flint. National Council for Black Studies, 41stannual conference. Houston, Texas.

Invited Talks, Presentations, and Panels

Spring 2022 John T. Washington Lecture Series, Featured Speaker, Africana Studies Program and Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of Central Florida. Presentation title: “It Could, in Fact, Conquer the Color Line”: Black Women, Beauty Advertisements, and Dreams of Equality https://youtu.be/XMwmb_SYfXg

Fall 2021  James Weldon Johnson Lecture Series, Invited Panelist, Africana Studies Program and Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of Central Florida. Presentation title: “In 1492, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue”: Lost Communities, Study Away Initiatives, and Student Retention https://youtu.be/z8H6suIEV94

Spring 2021   Discussion of Daughters of the Dust, Invited Panelist, Department of English, The College of Wooster

Spring 2020  Structural Inequities within Urban Education, Invited Lecture, African American/Black Student Success Center, Black Faculty Lecture Series, San José State University (Campus closed to limit the spread of COVID-19, lecture canceled)

Spring 2020  Black and Brown Experiences in Education, Invited Lecture, Chicana and Chicano Studies and Young Women’s Freedom Center, San José State University (Campus closed to limit the spread of COVID-19, lecture canceled)

Fall 2019  How to Apply to Graduate School, Workshop, Life After Series, Department of African American Studies, San José State University