Sarah C. Watkins-Kenney and Lynn B. Harris (January 2023) Marine Art as a Research Tool for Investigating Cask Assemblages on 18th Century Slave Trade Shipwrecks. Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
Harris B.L. (January 2023). Just Nuisance to Standby Diver: Exploring the Cultural Heritage of Simonstown as a British Naval Port and South African Navy Base. Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
Valerie Johnson, Amber Pelham, Lynn Harris, Kim Kenyon and Justin McIntyre (January 2023). Carolina Slave Trade and Enslavement: Exploring Black Sacred Spaces, Shipwrecks, Shipyards, and Shipping Records. Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
Harris, B.L. (December 2022). A Dangerous and Exhausting Struggle”: Hunting the Devil Fish of Coastal North and South Carolina. North Carolina Maritime History Council Conference, Swansboro.
Harris, B. L. (May 2022). Patroons and Periaguas: Creole Maritime Heritage. and Shipyards of the Carolinas: Interpretations, Historical and Archaeological Evidence. SC Maritime Museum, Georgetown SC supported by SC Humanities Grant Program.
Harris, B.L. (June 2022). Jamaican Rum, Snakeroot and Walking Canes: Exploring 18th Century Port Brunswick Cargoes. North America Society of Oceanic History Conference, Wilmington, NC.
Harris, B. L. (November 2021). Patroons and Periaguas: Creole Maritime Heritage. Diggin in Virtual Speaker Series Peabody Institute and the Massachusetts Archaeological Society.
Harris B.L. and Wentzel L. (May 2022). Trypots and Tramways: Re-imagining Whaling Ports along the African Coast. Charting African Waterscapes: A Conference on African Maritime History Across Time and Space. Hosted byUniversity of Strathclyde, UK.
Harris, B. L. (2020, October). Shipyards of the Carolinas: Interpretations, Historical and Archaeological Evidence. Fall 2020 Speaker Series at South Port Maritime Museum, NC. Southport.
Harris, B. L. (2020, September). Slave trade ships from Africa entering Port Roanoke, North Carolina 1786-1787. NC Maritime History Council Annual Conference. North Carolina: Virtual due to Covid pandemic.
Harris, B. L. (2020, September). Portsmouth Island, NC: Expanding the Maritime Narrative of the Historic District. NC Maritime History Council. Virtual: Pandemic plan.
Harris, B. L. (2020, May). Sick Bays of the South Atlantic: Strategies for Countering Epidemics in Ports, Anchorages and on Islands during the 19th Century. 12th International Symposium on Underwater Research. Turkey.
Harris L. (March 2019). ‘Maritime Legacies of the Tar River.” ECU History and Sociology Department Workshop in collaboration with Princeville Community Members.
Harris L. (February 2019)“Recreate, Reuse and Recycle: African Watercraft as Creative Cultural Expressions.”Presented at South-Eastern Regional Seminar in African Studies, African Technologies and Creativity, UNC Chapel Hill, NC.
Harris L. (February 2019)“Gold and Glass: African Expressions of Creation aboard the Slave Ship La Concorde.” Presented at African Technologies and Creativity, Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies, African Technologies and Creativity, UNC Chapel Hill, NC.
Harris, L. (January 2019) “The Program in Maritime Studies at East Carolina University” The Fifth Annual Meeting for Africa: Protection of Underwater Heritage. Invitational Participant, UNESCO Conference, Island of Goree, Senegal.
Harris L. (January 2019) “Slave Shipwreck Archaeology “ presented at Shaping an Inclusive Interpretive Vision for La Concorde/Queen Anne’s Revenge Initiative. Invitational Participant, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and NC African American Heritage Commission.
Harris L. (February 2018) “Slave Ship Archaeology and a Case Study of African Roots in Caribbean Costa Rica.” Presented at South-Eastern Regional Seminar in African Studies, Gainesville, Florida.
Brown D. Lynn Harris and Kathryn Cooper (January 2018). The Plantation Boat Accommodation: The Historical and Archaeological Investigation of a Maritime Icon of the American Southeast, Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Harris L. (November 2017) “NAS and Service Learning in Costa Rica: Investigating Slave Ships, Fishing Culture, and Oil Rigs.” Nautical Archaeology Society, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
Paterkis A. and Lynn Harris (September 2017) ITAACI and Education in Conservation and Archaeology, International Conference of Museums (ICOM)-CC Copenhagen, Denmark.
Harris L. (May 2017) “Maritime Heritage at Risk: Shipwrecks, Lighthouses and Deserted Towns.” Presented at North American Society for Oceanic History Conference, Charleston, South Carolina. Harris, B. L. (2016-2017, January). Public Access to Beached Shipwrecks in Africa. Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Fort Worth, Texas.
Harris, L. (August 2017). Contributions of Underwater archaeology: Filling the Gaps of Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Caribbean. Verdades ocultas del Caribe Costarricense, August Cahuita, Costa Rica.
Harris, L. (November 2017) “American Heritage on African Shores: The Case Studies of Confederate Raider CSS Alabama and Liberty Ship Thomas T. Tucker.” North Carolina Historical Society, Greensboro, North Carolina.