Remembering the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas One Hundred Years Later (roundtable discussion of Anne Garland Mahler’s A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe). American Studies Association. San Juan, PR. November 20-22
“Deviations, Deflections: On Latin America and the Postcolonial in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s The Most Secret Memory of Men.” Building and Breaking with Postcolonial Thought. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Houston, TX. October 22-25
“Cross-Correlations: On Comparison, Borrowing, and Other Forms of Exchange Across the South Atlantic.” South-South Comparativism: Histories, Methods, Repertoires. Freie Universität. Berlin, Germany. July 2-3
“Filaments: Recognition, Interconnection, and Other Forms of ‘Global’ Thinking in Contemporary Latin American Writing.” Universität zu Köln. Cologne, Germany. June 27-28
“Miradas cruzadas: América Latina desde África, África desde América Latina y otros modelos comparativos.” Latinoamérica/África: Ecos literarios y políticos. Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS). Mexico City, Mexico. April 24-26
Anthropology and Literature Now: Global South Methodologies (roundtable). Modern Language Association (MLA). New Orleans, LA. January 9-12 [Cancelled]
“An International Writers’ Workshop: The Iowa International Writing Program and the Legacies of the Aesthetic Cold War.” Decolonising the World Republic of Letters: Translation, Circulation, and Intellectual Networks across the Global South. Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH). Paris, France. May 23-24
“Africa and Science Fiction.” What is Africa? Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. January 16
“The Festivals are the Real Novels: The Latin American Writer on the World-Literary Circuit.” Novel Theory Seminar. Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University. December 6
Sures/Souths/Suls/Suds: Tracking Latin America-Africa Exchanges from the Twentieth Century to the Present (roundtable). Latin American Studies Association/Africa. Accra, Ghana. November 15-18 (virtual presentation)
“Festivals, Fellowships, Meetings, Programs: The Latin American Writer on the World-Literary Circuit.” World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures. Universität zu Köln. June 29-30
“Los legados del ‘boom’ latinoamericano: Gabriel García Márquez y la escritura africana contemporánea.” Gabo inagotable, nuevas lecturas en el siglo XXI. Universidad del Atlántico (co-organized with the Centro Cultural del Banco de la República). Barranquilla, Colombia. April 19
“Missed Connections: Mundo Nuevo, Transition, and the Network Failures of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.” Attachments, Interfaces, Dispersals. American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago, IL. March 16-19
“The Grounds for Comparison: On the Networks of the Congress of Cultural Freedom.” Atlantic Latinidades or Modes for Trans-Oceanic Engagement. Duke University. February 24-25
“On South-South Comparison: Questions of Method, History, and Location.” Thinking the Global South: Method, Theory, Strategy. Department of English and Creative Writing. University of Adelaide. October 15
“The Legacies of the Latin American ‘Boom’: Gabriel García Márquez and Contemporary African Writing.” Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Bowdoin College. September 28
Book Discussion: The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature by Sarah Quesada. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). University of California, Los Angeles. September 14-17
“Point Zero: Alternative Futures in Diasporic African Speculative Fiction.” Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA). University of Oslo. June 27-July 1
On Freedom in African Literature (roundtable). African Literature Association. Virtual meeting. May 18-21
“Freedom and the Aesthetics of Futurity in Diasporic African Speculative Fiction.” Department of Comparative Literature Colloquium. University of Chicago. May 20
“The Locations of South-South Comparison: Contemporary African Literature and the Legacies of the Latin American ‘Boom.’” Global South Workshop. University of Chicago. May 6
Challenging Borders: Representations of the Global South (roundtable). Department of Romance Studies. Duke University (virtual). March 24
Reciprocity Criticism: Friendship, Shared Books, Critical Dialogue (roundtable). Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Virtual meeting. October 27-30
"New Critical Directions in Global South Studies: A Conversation with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra." Workshop in Transnational Cultural History. Northwestern University. October 7
“Resituating South-South Comparisons: Contemporary African Literature and the Legacies of the Latin American ‘Boom.’” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Virtual meeting. April 8-11
The Ethics of Graduate Student Advising (roundtable). American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Virtual meeting. April 8-11
From Africa to Latin America and Back: Literature, Institutions, and Best Practices (roundtable). Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. Stanford University (virtual). March 15
“The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South.” Department of English, Monmouth University (virtual). November 20
“The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South.” Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh (virtual). October 1
Latin American Studies New Books Symposium, Penn State. November 15
Research Methods in African Literary Studies (roundtable). African Literature Association (ALA). Columbus, OH. May 15-18
Anthropocene Storytelling: Ecological Writing and Pedagogies of Planetary Change. Penn State. April 18-19
“Returns of the Post-Global: Migration, Circulation, and the Dislocations of Literature.” Global South Studies: A Symposium and Workshop. University of Virginia. March 28-30
“The Historical Novel and Global-Knowing: Booms, Genre, and the Uses of Comparison.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Washington, DC. March 7-10
“Present Futures and the Legacies of Afrofuturism: Speculative Fiction, Globality, Utopia.” Humanities Institute, Penn State. October 16 (with Matt Tierney)
“The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South.” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. September 27
“Magical Realism, Dictator Novels, and ‘Booms’: Comparison with and through Latin America.” Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University. September 25
“The Global South Novel: Before and After.” The Global South Novel. Society for Novel Studies. Cornell University. May 31-June 2
“Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow: The Aesthetics of Futurity in the Wake of Neoliberal Globalization.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Los Angeles, CA. March 29-April 1
Academic Communities Beyond Campus: Collaborating, Networking, Connecting (workshop). American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Los Angeles, CA. March 29-April 1
“The African Dictator in the 1990s: Post-Cold War Transitions and/as Permanent Crisis.” Dictatorship, Authoritarianism, and the Conceptual Mapping of the Global South. Thinking the Global South: A Critical Vocabulary for the Twenty-First Century. Penn State. March 16-17
Thinking the Global South: A Critical Vocabulary for the Twenty-First Century. Penn State. March 16-17
“Mésaventures: The Politics and Poetics of the Dictator-Novel in the African Postcolony.” Department of Comparative Literature Luncheon. Penn State. February 26
“Homegoing: Reading the ‘Global’ African Novel in the Twenty-First Century.” Twenty-First Century African Writers. Modern Language Association (MLA). New York, NY. January 4-7
From Atlantic to Global (roundtable). Modern Language Association (MLA). New York, NY. January 4-7