Kumanyika, C. (May 2009). “American Idol: The Creation and Formatting of a New Global Popular Music Product.” Presented at the International Communication Association, Chicago, IL. [Presenter].

Kumanyika, C. (April 2010). “Relocating the Voice in the Spectacle of Audio Reproduction.” Presented at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, New Orleans, LA. [Presenter]. 

Kumanyika, C. (October 2010). “Words I Manifest’: Music Industries as Battlegrounds of Corporate and Communal Praxis.” Presented at the Union for Democratic Communications, Penn State University. [Presenter].

Kumanyika, C. (May 2012). “Tweet #MegajugofPepsi to Cure Diabetes? Integrated Cause Marketing and the Fight for New Media Spaces.” Presented at the Union for Democratic Communications, Talahassee, Florida. [Presenter].

McAllister, M. P., & Kumanyika, C. (May 2012). “Brut Slaps…And Twins”: Hypercommercialized Sports Media and Gender Ideology.” Presented at the International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ. [Presenter].

Kumanyika, C. (November 2012). “Silent Partners: Male Spaces and Technological Mediation in 1950’s High Fidelity Advertising.” To be presented at the National Communication Association, Orlando, Florida[Presenter].

Kumanyika, C. (May 2013). “Branded Activism, Hip-Hop, and the Promotional Public Sphere.” International Communication Association London, United Kingdom. [Presenter].

Kumanyika, C. (August 2013). “'The Daisy Chain of Denial:’ National, Local and Virtual Narratives in the Sandusky Child Abuse Scandal” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C [Presenter].

Kumanyika, C. (October 2013). “Producing the Cause: The Cultural Work of Pittsburgh’s 1Hood Coalition” Union for Democratic Communications, San Francisco, California [Presenter].

Kumanyika, C. (November 2013). “Philanthrocapitalism, Hip-Hop, and the Rhetorical Constitution of a Branded Movement: The Case of Street King Energy.” National Communication Association, Washington, D.C [Presenter].