Recent and Upcoming Talks
2023. “Genres of Anticolonialism.” Sonnenblick Lecture, Wesleyan University.
2023. “Genres of Anticolonialism.” Georgetown University.
2023. Roundtable on “Literature and Protest.” Modernist Studies Association.
2023. “Genres of Anticolonialism.” Symposium on Crisis and Postcolonial Thought, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
June 10, 2023. “Failed States, Failed Genres.” The 2023 International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, Kyung Hee University, Seoul.
May 25, 2023 (Virtual). “Aesthetics of Refuge.” Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, Spain.
April 14, 2023. “Globalizing Caste: Race, Class, and Comparison.” Anticolonial Interventions in Legal Culture, Stanford University.
April 3, 2023. “Genres of Anticolonialism: Rethinking Failure, Plotting Revolution.” Latitudes at University of Pennsylvania.
March 31, 2023. “The Contemporary Refugee Novel.” Conference on “Evolving Landscapes of Human Rights.” Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
March 28, 2023. “Failed States, Failed Genres.” Sister Sophie Visiting International Scholar in English, Queen’s University.
March 24, 2023. “Failed States, Failed Genres.” Vanderbilt University.
February 24, 2023. “Rethinking Failure: Genres of Anticolonial Thought.” University of Colorado, Boulder.
January 6, 2023. “Camp Form.” Panel on The Camp and the Colony, MLA.
September 30, 2022. “On Failure.” Symposium on Anticolonialism as Theory, UC Berkeley and Association of Postcolonial Thought.
September 15, 2022. “Postcolonial Love/Hate Reading.” ASAP/13.
May 2022. “The Global Afterlives of Slavery.” With Paul Nadal, Red May.
January 2022. “Literature and the Global.” MLA
December 2021. “Standing at the Border.” Princeton University. Series in Race, Difference, and Social Justice.
November 2021. “Standing at the Border.” University of Michigan.
June 2021. “Standing at the Border: Migration, Narrative, and American Literary History.” Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
May 22, 2021. “Standing at the Border: Migration, Narration, and the Futures of Sanctuary.” Narrative, International Society for the Study of Narrative.
May 19, 2021. Human Rights Book Salon: Runaway Genres. Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, University of Chicago.
May 14, 2021. Runaway Genres, Book discussion. University of Kentucky.
April 29, 2021. “Standing at the Border: Migration, Narrative, and the Futures of Sanctuary.” Johns Hopkins University.
April 9, 2021. “Speculative Fictions and Sanctuary Worlds.” Seminar, Border as Method, ACLA.
March 19, 2021. Runaway Genres, Book discussion. Tufts University.
March 11, 2021. “Speculative Fictions and Sanctuary Worlds.” Zif Workshop, “Theorizing African Diasporas Anew,” University of Bielefeld.
February 12, 2021. A Conversation with Yogita Goyal. The Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium, Department of English, NYU.
February 9, 2021. Runaway Genres, Book discussion. Brown University.
January 9, 2021. “Afropolitanisms.” MLA.
January 8, 2021. “Postcolonial Studies and the Left.” MLA
December 9, 2020. “Standing at the Border: American Literary History and Refugee Studies.” Amerika-Institut - LMU Munich.
December 1, 2020. Book Discussion with Robin Kelley, Richard Yarborough, Justin Torres, and Saree Makdisi, UCLA, via Zoom
February 28, 2020. “Toni Morrison and the Aesthetics of Refuge.” Keynote, symposium on Toni Morrison’s Transnational Perspectives, Florida Atlantic University.
January 11, 2020. “Postcolonial Critique Now and the Work of Literature.” MLA, Seattle.
January 9, 2020. “Migration and American Literary History.” MLA, Seattle.
December 14, 2019. “Migrant Others.” Unpredictable Weather, Asia Theories Network Tokyo Workshop, The University of Tokyo.
November 7, 2019. “Cultures of Surveillance and Accumulation: A Roundtable.” ASA, Honolulu.
October 12, 2019. Seminar organizer with Gordon Hutner, “Exiles, Migrants, Refugees.” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, ASAP/11, University of Maryland, College Park.
October 12, 2019. “Academic Publishing: Think Like a Journal Editor.” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, ASAP/11, University of Maryland, College Park.
October 11, 2019. “Publishing Books in the Contemporary Arts: Conversations with Editors.” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, ASAP/11, University of Maryland, College Park.
July 11, 2019. “Memorial Aesthetics of Refuge.” International Symposium, “In/Visibility and Opacity: Cultural Productions by African and African Diasporic Women.” Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany.
July 8, 2019. Panel discussion, “Africa and Beyond: Finding the Power in More than One Story.” Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
June 25, 2019. “Aesthetics of Refuge: Migration and the Claims of Universalism.” University of Paderborn, Germany.
June 25, 2019. “We Need New Diasporas: A Workshop on Contemporary Fiction.” University of Paderborn, Germany.
June 18, 2019. “Aesthetics of Refuge: Migration and the Claims of Universalism.” Plenary on “Contemporary Refugee Crisis.” Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College.
June 12, 2019. “Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery.” John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin.
April 26, 2019. “Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery.” University of Virginia.
April 24, 2019. “The Genres of Slavery.” Princeton University.
April 11, 2019. “Aesthetics of Refuge: Migration and the Claims of Universalism.” Americanist Research Colloquium, UCLA.
April 5, 2019. “Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery.” University of Missouri-Columbia.
March 19, 2019. “Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery.” Brown University.
November 24, 2018. “It is the Moment to Strike at Time.” National Taiwan University, Taipei.
May 24, 2018. “The Politics of Dread.” Asia Theories Network Workshop, Dongguk University, Seoul.