VIDEOS
Journey through time with professor and DJ Tao Leigh Goffe as she uncovers her story at the intersection of Black and Chinese culture in APAHM month's #Initiative29 episode. Directed by Carmen LoBue.
Artist Talk with Tuan Andrew Nguyen and hosted by Tao Leigh Goffe, with a poetry reading by Sarah Wang.
August 21, 2023
Hosted by Brooklyn Rail
The bell hooks center presents Tao Leigh Goffe - A Mother is a Mountain. Gender Talk at Berea College in Kentucky (April 26, 2023).
Asian Art Museum, Afro-Asia Group, and Museum of African Diaspora presents Tao Leigh Goffe x artist Andrea Chung at the Museum and in the kitchen, celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Afro-Asian food and art intimacies.
“PhDJ” Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe joins the hot pot table! We talk with Tao about Chinatowns and Benevolent associations in different spaces (Kingston, Vancouver, New York), how she uses DJing in the classroom, and her explorations of Afro-Asia encounters through chop suey!
Asian American Alumni of Yale Association (AAAYA)
“Racial Contagion, Racial Enclosure: Yellow Peril and Black Life,” A Lecture and Conversation with Austin Baik, August 13, 2020,
Left of Black, Duke University, April 2019
In North Carolina, Tao Leigh Goffe explores her research and intellectual journey.
Afro-Asian Atlantic: A Symposium organized by Tao Leigh Goffe, Princeton University, University, April 2016
Featuring artists, entrepeneurs, writers, and historians on Black and Asian experience in the Atlantic with an emphasis on musical traditions.
Writing in the Dark: A Conversation between Tao Leigh Goffe and Caryl Phillips, Princeton University, University, February 2016
A discussion on Afro-pean intimacies and the Atlantic voyages for Black people in the UK.
Undocumented in the Academy: A Conversation between Tao Leigh Goffe and Dan-el Padilla-Peralta, NYU, February 2017
A discussion on Black undocumented life and justice in academia. Organized by Tao Leigh Goffe.
Oral Histories of the Diaspora,
June 14th, 2018
Wing on Wo & Co, Chinatown, NY
How do oral histories document generations past and present? How do these stories shape our future? What are the stories you've been waiting to tell? Four multimedia storytellers, scholars, and organizers share their work documenting personal, local, and global stories of the diaspora.
Mangrove as Caribbean Method in Two Acts
5 Jun 2023
Keynote address at the Third Annual Caribbean Symposium at Stanford by Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe (Cornell) and Dr. Eddie Bruce-Jones (SOAS)
Keynote presentation by Tao Leigh Goffe | The Appearance Conference
October 29, 2024
BCNY Celebrates 50 Years of Hip Hop: Project Comms Interviews Tao Leigh Goffe
24 Aug 2023
Galerie Lelong Dialogues: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum in conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe
21 Sept 2022
Caribbean Chinese Fried Rice: An Afro-Asian Diaspora Story
In collaboration with the Afro-Asia Group and Junzi 君子 Kitchen, MOFAD and The Greene Space are excited to invite you to participate in virtual event that interrogates Afro-Asian foodways and intimacies, featuring a lecture, cooking demo, and conversation exploring the crossroads of Black diaspora and Asian diaspora cuisines. Troubling the concept of what is “authentic” Chinese food and “fusion” cuisine, Professor Tao Leigh Goffe (Cornell University) and Chef Lucas Sin (Junzi, Nice Day) follow up on their exploration into the history of chop suey with a second installment on the varieties of fried rice across the Caribbean.