2018 “Santiago Gamboa’s Urban Global Cartography: Escaping the Colombia Border”
ACLA – American Comparative Literature Associate Annual Meeting
University of California Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, CA, March 29-April 1, 2018
2013 “Un Arc-en-ciel pour l’Occident chrétien: un rituel vodou pour la guérison d’une conscience postcoloniale”
Karay de l’inter/transculturel : heurts et bonheurs
CIEF – Conseil International d’Études Francophones
Grande Baie, Île Maurice, June 9-16, 2013
2013 “Aesthetics of Failure in Santiago Gamboa’s Plegarias Nocturnas”
Global Positioning Systems
The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting
University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, April 4 – 7, 2013
The Changing Landscape of American Multiethnic Literature through Historical Crises
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mar. 14-17, 2013
2012 “Crossings Propelled by Death”
Crossings Frictions Fusions- Traversées Frictions Fusions
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Long Beach, California, March 29-31, 2012
2011 “Death and Afterlife in Maryse Condé and René Depestre”
Mapping Death Year-End Symposium
The Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminar 2010-2011
Houston, Texas, April 23, 2011
2011 “Death and Afterlife: Nomadic Wanderings in French Caribbean Literature”
People Make Places
10th Congress of SIEF – International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal, April 2011
2010 “Du Fauvisme aux gouaches découpés, l’itinéraire exploratoire d’Henri Matisse”
The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY, February 18-20, 2010
Chaired panel: Flora, Fauna, and Fauvism: Artistic and Poetic Auras
2006 “The Alchemist, a Tale About the Individuation Process”
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, “The European Mind: Narrative and Identity”
University of Malta
Malta, July 24-29, 2006