Negotiating ‘Nkudzedze’ During Global Trade: Interpreting the Materiality of Indigenous Practices of Taste in Southeastern Ghana, Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo. Ontario-Canada. January 25, 2024.
Community Engagements in the Field, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania. October 17, 2023
Community Archaeology as Accessible, Just & Sustainable Archaeology, Archaeology Core Course, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania. October 16, 2023.
Building Communities in Collaborative Research, Department of Anthropology Research Class, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania. February 21, 2023.
It Tastes Like Home: Local Tastes and Consumer Practices in Southeastern Ghana. Invited speaker, Center of Comparative Archaeology’s Research Fair, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania. April 14, 2023.
Introduction to Paleoethnobotany, Guest Lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania. February 27, 2023.
Thinking Like an Archaeologist. The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston-Illinois. February 28, 2019.
Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk. Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa. Exhibit at the Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston-Illinois. March 6, 2019.
The Archaeology of Trade in Africa, Anthropology Department Freshman Seminar Series, Northwestern University, Evanston-Illinois. May 9, 2019.
Conference Presentations
Kuma, D. Legitimate Trade: Local Tastes & Consumer Power in Southeastern Ghana, Amedeka (19th to 20th C). Paper presented at the 26th SAfA Biennial Meetings, Houston-Texas, 2023.
Kuma, D. Negotiating shifts in local productions and social life during ‘legitimate’ trade in Amedeka, Ghana (AD 1807-1900). Paper presented at the 25th SAfA Meetings, Oxford, 2020 (Canceled due to COVID-19).
Kuma, D. The Relationship between Land use Dynamics and Foodways in Amedeka, Southeastern Ghana. Paper presented at the 15th PANAF Congress. Rabat, Morocco, 2018.
Logan, A. and Kuma, D. Foodscapes as Gendered Taskscapes in West Africa. Paper presented at the 83rd SAA Meetings, Washington DC, 2018.
Kuma, D. Foodways in Atlantic Era West Africa – Ghana: Towards an Archaeology of Daily Life. Paper presented at the 83rd SAA Meetings, Washington DC, 2018.
Kuma, D. Engendering Food Acquisition Practices: Rethinking Everyday Life in Ghana- An Ethnographic Case of Amedeka. Paper presented at the 24th SAfA Meetings, Toronto, 2018.
Kuma, D. Foodways in Ghana-Amedeka. Paper presented at the African Seminar Annual Conference. Evanston-Illinois, USA, 2018.
