Presenting ‘Publish or Perish? Developing a Publication Strategy during the PhD’ at the Society of Postcolonial French Studies Postgraduate Workshop (4 May 2018), University of California, Los Angeles. Photo: A. de Saussure.
Recent and upcoming talks (2019-22)
Recent conference papers (2022)
• 'The Prison and Pan-Africanism: Institutionalised Education, Intellectualism, and Liberation', 'Caribbean Generations: Ruptures, Traditions, Returns’ conference, 24–25 June 2022, Queen’s University Belfast.
• 'Representing Sciences and Collective Memory in Belgium's AfricaMuseum', 'Decolonizing Collective Memory' panel, Francophone Forum, Modern Languages Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 6-9 January 2022, Washington D.C., United States.
Organised seminars and panels
• Co-organiser of ‘Prison Breaks: The Ruptures, Continuities, and Genealogies of Haitian Confinement Literature’ panel at the 'Caribbean Generations: Ruptures, Traditions, Returns’ conference, with Dr Ryan Augustyniak (Florida State) and Prof. Charles Forsdick (Liverpool), 24–25 June 2022, Queen’s University Belfast.
• Co-organiser of ‘Alternative Assessments' workshop, with keynote by Dr Roxani Krystalli (International Relations), 3 June 2021, University of St Andrews.
• Co-organiser of ‘Fictions of Science: Redefining the Myths of French Heritage after the Advent of Race’ panel at the 2021 Society of Dix-Neuvièmistes' conference, with Dr Julia Hartley (King's College London), Dr Peter Asimov (Cambridge), Pauline Moret-Jankus (Université Grenoble Alpes), and Prof. Jennifer Yee (Oxford), 22-24 March 2021, University of St Andrews.
• Organiser of ‘New Directions in Science and Speculative Fiction’ webinar, with Dr Emily Finer (St Andrews), Dr Glyn Morgan (Science Museum London), and Dr Annie Webster (Cambridge/King's College London), 11 February 2021, University of St Andrews.
• Co-Organiser of 'Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science, Imperialism' conference, with Dr Sam Goodman (Bournemouth), 20 May 2019, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
Invited talks (research)
• [Upcoming] '"I'm not tempted by Paris: Poetics, Power, and the Postcolonial Intellectual in Brussels', Race, Power and Poetics Seminar Series, University College London, date tba.
• 'Plunder and Propaganda: Decolonization and Science in Belgium's AfricaMuseum', Semaine de la Francophonie, 30 March 2022, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA, United States.
• 'Politics, Poetics, and the Postcolonial Intellectual in Brussels', New Fellows Research Seminar, 23 February 2022, University of Liverpool.
• 'Plunder and Propaganda: Science and Memory in Belgium's AfricaMuseum', Modern Languages Research Seminar, 2 February 2022, University of Westminster, London. Recording available here.
• 'Postcolonial Brussels', Visiting Speaker Series, 17 November 2021, Division of Literatures and Languages, University of Stirling.
• 'Cats, Capitalism, and Colonialism: Re-visiting Pseudo Sciences in Emile Zola's Thérèse Raquin (1868)', 11 March 2021, 'Pseudo Science and Orientalism' session, XIX à distance seminar series.
• 'From Mobutu to Molenbeek: Postcolonial Brussels', 26 November 2020, 2020 Race, Migration and Decolonization Research Seminar Series, University of Kent.
• 'From Mobutu to Molenbeek: Postcolonial Brussels', 26 November 2020, 2020 Race, Migration and Decolonization Research Seminar Series, University of Kent.
• ‘The "Mbembe Affair": Some thoughts on race, history, and (critical) theory in Germany', 20 November 2020, German Research Away Day, University of St Andrews.
• '"Guided by Science?" Agriculture, Botany, and Control in the Belgian Congo', 16 November 2020, Modern French History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
• ‘A (Very) Long Nineteenth Century: Historiography, Sciences, and the Belgian Colonial Project', c19c Lunchtime Talk, University of St Andrews, 11 November 2020.
• ‘How (not) to decolonize a Museum? The case of Belgium’s Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale’, guest lecture for Dr Elizabeth Leet’s ‘National Monuments in Changing Times’ module, 9 October 2019, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, United States.
• ‘Imagining Brussels: Memory, Diaspora, and Representation’, Modern Languages Research Seminar Series, 9 October 2019, University of Nottingham.
• ‘Moving Memories: Representation and Postcolonial Brussels’, keynote address at the Cultural Identity Studies Institute Postgraduate Symposium, 6 September 2019, University of St Andrews.
• ‘Limits of Existence: Sex, Work, and Identification(s) in Leïla Slimani’s Dans le jardin de l’ogre (2014)’, French Week, 10 May 2019, Institute for Modern Language Research, London.
Invited talks (postgraduate career development)
• Presentation and Q&A: ‘From PhD to Permanency (?)', #ECRDay2022, 5 May 2022, Queen's University Belfast.
• Presentation and Q&A: ‘Applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship', #ECRDay2021, 29 July 2021, Queen's University Belfast. Recording available here.
• Talk in response to: ‘How might Modern Languages teaching and research contribute to racial justice in education and beyond?’, with Dr Siham Bouamer (Sam Houston State University), University of Kent, 26 November 2020.
• Presentation and Q&A: ‘Applying for Post-Doctoral Funding’, Online session for St Andrews Postgraduate Research students, 10 November 2020.
• Presentation, panel discussion and Q&A: ‘De-mystifying the Post-doc Process’, British Society of Middle Eastern Studies, 5 November 2020.
• Society of Postcolonial French Studies Postgraduate Workshop: ‘Publish or Perish? Developing a Publication Strategy during the PhD’, 3-4 May 2018, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States.
• Organiser of ECR workshops at the annual conference of the Society of Francophone Postcolonial Studies (covering themes such as funding applications and ‘navigating the REF’).