Drake, Jarrett Martin. “The Museum as Kaleidoscope: On Plantations Past and Present in Louisiana." Public lecture delivered via Zoom to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, February 13, 2023.

———. “(Ins)urgent Archives?” Invited paper presented at the Screening Scholarship Media Festival, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 17, 2021.

———. “A Path Worth Following.” Closing keynote address delivered at the Youth Leadership Conference, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 11, 2021.

———. “Liberatory Memory Work: Building Bridges to Abolition.” Public lecture delivered at the Department of Library and Information Studies INFOTalks Seminar Series, University of the West Indies, April 7, 2021.

Jenks, Angela C., Damien M. Sojoyner, Anthony Russell Jerry, Kathryn Cox, and Jarrett Martin Drake. “Organic Archives: Collaborative Justice-Making in Times of Crisis.” Roundtable presentation delivered at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 23, 2019.

Drake, Jarrett Martin. “An Abolitionist Approach to Resistance and Reparation for Harms of State Violence.” Paper presented at the Archival Education and Research Institute, Liverpool, United Kingdom, July 9, 2019.

———. “‘Graveyards of Exclusion:’ Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging.” Keynote address delivered at the Scholar and Feminist Conference, Barnard Center for Research on Women, Barnard College, New York, NY, February 9, 2019.

———. “Qualified Citizens: The Most from the Least.” Invited paper presented at the Monument Lab Live #2: Hidden Histories and Missing Documents Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, October 17, 2017

———. “Diversity’s Discontents: In Search of an Archive of the Oppressed.” Closing keynote address delivered at the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) National Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, September 27, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjJ1BwMXonc.