Past Events

2022 Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History HOT (Human Origins Today) Topics Lecture Series

The Evolution of Skin Tones: A Reflection of Human Adaptation and Health

2020 CARTA Symposium

Comparative Anthropogeny: Exploring the Human-Ape Paradox

2018 Leakey Foundation Speaker Series

The Evolution and Meanings of Human Skin Color

2017 Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures at UC Berkeley

The Real ‘Skin in the Game’: The History of Naked, Sweaty, and Colorful Skin in the Human Lineage

The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People Today

 2017 Penn State New Student Convocation  (lecture begins at minute 32)

2015 CARTA Symposium

The Unique Features of Human Skin

2015 Philosophical Society of Washington 2345th Meeting

Human Skin Color

2014 AAAS Session

Neoracism and Scientific Racism in “Post-Racial” Societies

2014 Penn Humanities Forum Lecture

The Colors of Human Skin

2012 8th Standard Bank / PAST Lecture

Skin: Its Biology in Black and White (four part video)

2009 UCLA Darwin Evolving Lectures

Darwin’s Birthday Suit: The Evolution of Human Skin Pigmentation

2009 TED Talk

Nina Jablonski Breaks the Illusion of Skin Color

2007 Pop!Tech

Power of Touch