Previous and upcoming lectures, workshops, conferences, and invited speaking engagements.
Upcoming
2024
May 23-25, Roundtable Book Discussion: The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature, by Peter J. Kalliney, University of Louisville, KY, USA
with Christopher Ouma and Fatoumata Seck
May 23-25, Roundtable Book Discussion: Fugitive Time Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond, by Matthew Omelsky, University of Louisville, KY, USA
January 6, Humanities without Borders, Plenary Session, Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In conversation with Erin D. Graff Zivin, Ainehi Edoro, Yomaira Figueroa, Jonathan Leal, Michael Sawyer, Robin McDowell, and Michelle Chihara
2023
Date TBD, Fall 2023, “Network Poetics: The African Little Magazine,” University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
April 27-29, “The Big World of the African Little Magazine,” APDP Spring Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska.
April 17, “Studying Print through the Digital,” University of Kansas, Larence, Kansas.
Previous
2022
December 2, Conversations on Capitalist Crises in Poetry, Part V, University of Zurich, Zurich, Germany.
In conversation with Daniel Borzutzky, Anthony Reed, Stefan Benz, Marcel Hartwig, Hannah Schoch, Julia Sattler, Molina Klingler, Timo Müller
January 6-9, Digital Humanities and Multilingualism, Modern Language Association, Washington, DC.
with James Yeku, Cajetan Iheka, Kelley Kreitz, Laila Hussein Moustafa
2021
November 9, Annual African Digital Humanities Symposium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
with Alex Gil, Hlonipha Mokoena, Caitlin Tyler-Richards, Emmanuel Ngué, Agustine Farinola, Kanyinsola Obayan, and Jennifer W. Kyker
September 30, Book Panel on James Yeku’s Where the Baedeker Leads, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
In conversation with Mosunmola Adeojo, Arthur Anyaduba, Tosin Gbogi, Utitofon Inyang
July 2, Conversations on Capitalist Crises in Poetry, Part II, University of Zurich, Zurich, Germany.
In conversation with Anthony Reed, Stefan Benz, Marcel Hartwig, Hannah Schoch, Julia Sattler, Molina Klingler, Timo Müller
April 22, Keynote Speaker at the 18th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, Massachusetts.
April 8-11, “An Emergence of World Poetry: Black Internationalism and The Berlin International Conference of Poets, 1964,” American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, Illinois.
with Nathan Sur-Systema, Ryan Topper, Gabriel Bámbósé, Alexander Fyfe, Susanna Sacks, Javier Padilla, Jarad Zimbler, Rebekah Smith, and others.
March 25, High Theory Podcast, Conversation on “Distant Reading” with Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu, New York, New York.
March 17, " ‘The Paradox of Anthologizing the Globe: Transnationality, Translation, and the Contact Zone of Poetry,” Distinguished Voices in Literature, Van Burd Memorial Lecture, State University at New York, Cortland, Cortland, New York.
2020
November 20, Conversations on Capitalist Crises in Poetry, University of Zurich, University of Mannheim, University of Würzburg, Zurich, Germany.
In conversation with Anthony Reed, Isaac Pickell, Stefan Benz, Marcel Hartwig, Hannah Schoch, Julia Sattler, Molina Klingler, Timo Müller
October 8-9, Symposium on African Digital Storytelling, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
In conversation with Kim Gallon, James Yeku, Esther Armah, Chao Tayiana, Bayo Puddicombe, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Shola Adenekan, Sanjin Muftić, Jayne Batzofin, Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, Ainehi Edoro-Glines, Iryna Kuchma, Titi Babalola
September 18, The Talk, Hosted by Bethel Law LLC, Worcester, Massachusetts.
In conversation with Rosemary Amponsah, Papa Aye Nyansafo Aye-Addo, Mary Ankomah, Meghan McCoy, Kevin Asirifi
July 25, Regional Poetics, Now and Then Symposium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
In conversation with Marty C. Cain, Evan Gray, Canese Jarboe, Julia Madsen, Nikki Wallschlaeger. Keynote by C.S. Giscombe.
May 5, Book Talk on Exodus by ‘Gbenga Adeoba, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
In conversation with Gbenga Adeoba, Rasaq Maliq, Ndubist Martins, Ayibola Martins, Ogochukwu Ngwuddike
April 16 - 17, “Digitizing Flows: Remapping 20th and 21st Century Global Poetry,” Mellon Symposium on Digital Spaces, Physical Places/Digital Spaces, Physical Places: A Digital Humanities Symposium, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. (cancelled, pandemic)
January 10, Legacies of the Avant-Garde, Modern Language Association, Seattle, Washington.
In Conversation with Timothy Yu, Christopher Chen, Jamal Russell, and Alexandra J. Gold.
2019
March 21-24, “ ‘Outlaw Poetics’: Formation and Formulation of Black Innovative Poetics” New England Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C.
2017
June 14-17, “Vanguard Africa: Fighting for an African Avant-Garde,” African Literature Association Conference, New Haven, Connecticut.
2016
March 23-26, “(Un)Writing a Self: What is Blackness in Voyage of the Sable Venus?” New England Modern Language Association, Baltimore, Maryland.
Fall, “Identity in Fragments: What is Blackness in Voyage of the Sable Venus?” Clark University, English Department Graduate Colloquium, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Apri; 6-9, “The Power of Sight: Hybridity, Dis(re)orienting and Un(re)defining Africanness in Aidoo's ‘Our Sister Killjoy’,” African Literature Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
2015
April 19, “Rejecting an Aesthetic Apartheid: The Fight for a Black Avant-Garde,” Clark University Multi-Disciplinary Conference, Worcester, Massachusetts.