Upcoming talks:
62. „When the Humanities Meet the Web: Studying Afroeuropean Digital Activism through a Literary Lens.“ Invited guest talk, CEAGS Research Colloquium, Leibniz U Hannover, 15 July 2026.
61. „Spanisch in Afrika: Eine Einführung in die Literatur Äquatorialguineas.“ Invited guest talk in the lecture series “Master Romanistik International”, 9 Dec 2025, U Bremen.
Past talks:
60. Speaker in the Round Table „Narrativas de sororidad entre mujeres racializadas en España: una conversación con Helen Digala y Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio sobre literatura y activismo digital antirracista.“ III Congreso Internacional de Estudios Literarios y Culturales Afrodescendientes, 21-24 Oct 2025, U Alcalá de Henares (Spain).
59. with Merveilles Mouloungui. „Participation politique et réseaux de savoirs à l’air du numérique : introduction à une analyse des discours d’activistes et artivistes caribéennes en ligne.“ XX Socare Congress: “Women in the Caribbean Fragmentations – Crossroads – Interconnections”, 16-18 Oct 2025, Ibero-American Institute, Berlin.
58. with Odome Angone and Merveilles Mouloungui. „Del afrociberactivismo a las humanidades digitales / De l’afrocyberactivisme aux humanité numériques.“ Round table at the XXXIX. Conference of the German Association of Romance Studies, 22-25 Sept 2025, Konstanz.
57. „Travelling between Spaces and Media: Migration, Transmediality and Postdigitality in Afro-Spanish Poetry.“ Conference „Multiple Mobilities and Migrations in African and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Media“, 17-18 July 2025, Goethe U Frankfurt a.M.
56. „The Digital as Archives of African and Afrodiasporic Knowledge.“ Round Table mit Shola Adenekan (Ghent U), Julia Borst (U Bremen), Rhonda Cobham-Sander (Amherst College), Amatoritsero Ede (Mount Allison U) und Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang (U Ghana/SIT). 50th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association, 25-28 June 2025, Nairobi (Kenya).
55. „Descolonizar o discurso acadêmico sobre as comunidades afrodiaspóricas na Europa.“ 1º Colóquio Hanseático e Internacional de Literatura e Cultura Brasileira, 12-13 June 2025, Hamburg.
54. „La création de contenu numérque comme outil de décolonisation de la production du savoir académique: l’exemple du projet AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE.“ SIRA 2: Parcours, savoirs, espaces et mémoires décoloniaux, U Cheikh Anta Diop, 21-23 May 2025, Dakar (Senegal).
53. „Digital Archives of Black Knowledge in Spain: Video Interviews on YouTube as Living Archives.“ MLA Convention 2025, 9-12 Jan 2025, New Orleans.
52. „How and Why Do Literary Scholars Study Websites? Insights into a Resarch Project on Afroeuropean Activism in the Digital Space.“ Invited guest talk in the Research Kolloquium of the ZeMKI, 3 July 2024, U Bremen.
51. „Bildwelten der Krise: Kriegerischer Konflikt, Mensch und Natur im Werk des ruandischen Filmemachers Joël Karekezi.“ Invited guest talk in the lecture series „Mechaniken der Panik – in Diskursen, Bildern, Handlungen“, 23 May 2024, CAU Kiel.
50. „The European Border in Africa – On Colonial Maps, Postcolonial Walls and Decolonized Spaces in Hispanophone African Literature.“ Invited guest talk in the lecture series „Border Temporalities: Doing Literature in a World of Walls“, 14 Dec 2023, FU Berlin.
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49. „L’imaginaire de la nature indomptable et l’arbitraire de la violence – Une analyse écocritique du film La miséricorde de la jungle (2018) de Joël Karezeki.“ Conference of the Association pour l’étude des littératures africaines APELA: Littératures africaines et écologie), 1-4 Nov 2023, U Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar (Senegal).
48. „Narrated Identities and (Self-)Positionings in Afro-Spanish Activist Writing.“ Conference „Hispanophone Africa and beyond: colonial legacies, anti-colonial solidarities and postcolonial futures?“, 12-13 July 2023, Northumbria U (UK) (online).
47. Speaker at the Round Table „The Place Of Africa In Contemporary Spain And The Global Hispanophone“. Chairs: N. Michelle Murray (Vanderbildt U), Benita Sampedro Vizcaya (Hofstra U). Other speakers: Alfonso Bermúdez (U de Zaragoza), Eric Calderwood (U of Illinois), Mahan Ellison (Bridgewater College), Ahmed Idrissi Alami (Purdue U), Victoria L. Ketz (La Salle U), MLA Convention 2023, 5-8 Jan 2023, San Francisco, CA (USA).
46. „La valla de Melilla y el Mediterráneo: otras rutas en la obra de Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel.“ Invited guest talk in the bi-national seminar „Resignificando el triángulo transatlántico a través de la literatura“, 23 Nov 2023, JLU Gießen.
45. „Des-cartografiando el continente africano en El juramento de Gurugú de Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel.“ Scoping Workshop „Between Africa, Latin America and Europe: Aesthetics and Epistemic Visions of Afro-Hispanic Culture of the 20th and 21st Centuries“ (Volkswagenstiftung), 6.-8 July 2022, Xplanatorium Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover.
44. „Sergio Aparicio’s Galsen, el lenguaje de las almas – the Afrodiasporic subject and the (symbolic) return to Africa.“ LHCALA panel, 47th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association: Adversity and Creativity: African Literature, Film, Media and Public Discourse, 18-21 May 2022 (online).
43. „Between Europe and Africa: Diasporic Identity Constructions and Projections of ‚Home‘.“ Invited guest lecture at the Afro-Romance Institute, 13 Apr 2022, U of Missouri, Columbia, MO (USA).
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42. „Descolonizar el mapa en El Juramento de Gurugú.“ Invited lecture in the seminar „African in Spain and Spain in Africa“ by Elisa Rizo, 11 Apr 2022, Iowa State U, Ames, IO (USA).
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41. with Danae Gallo González. „Expressions de genres, politique hétéronormative du corps et résistance queer dans l’œuvre de Melibea Obono.“ Conference of the Association pour l’étude des littératures africaines APELA: Activismes et esthétiques queer dans les littératures africaines, 22-24 Sept. 2021, HU Berlin (online).
40. „Rethinking Community and Subaltern Agency – Critical Perspectives on Europe and Migration in Equatoguinean Literature.“ 8. Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations: Rethinking Postcolonial Europe: Moving Identities, Changing Subjectivities, 10-12 Febr 2021, JLU Giessen (online).
39. „Digitale Diasporas: Afrodeszendente Blogger*innen aus Frankreich und Spanien.“ Invited guest talk in the “Master Romanistik International”, 21 Jan 2020, U Bremen.
38. „Spanisch in Afrika: Eine Einführung in die Literatur Äquatorialguineas.“ Invited guest talk in the lecture series “Master Romanistik International”, 26 Nov 2019, U Bremen.
37. „Negotiating African/Afrodiasporic Heritage in Film and Photography – A Case Study from Spain.“ Conference at the Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC:Enriching Afro-Iberian Cultural Heritage: Current Trends on Culture, Religion and Language, 14-15 Nov 2019, Barcelona (Spain).
36. „Interconexiones Sur-Sur: la circulación del saber y los procesos de transferencia cultural en las obras de autorxs y artistas afrodescendientes en España.“ XXXVI. Conference of the German Association of Romance Studies, 29 Sept-2 Oct 2019, Kassel.
35. „Perspectivas literarias y (audio)visuales sobre afrodescendencia en España.“ Conferece „Interpréter l’Afrique / Interpretar África“, U de Yaoundé I, 26-28 June 2019, Jaunde (Cameroon).
34. with Danae Gallo González. „Afrodiasporic Communities 2.0 – or: How Identificational Spaces of Afrodescendance Are (Re-) Negotiated in the World Wide Web.“ Conference “Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, 6-7 June 2019, London (UK).
33. „Aktivismus im Internet: Afrofeministische Blogs aus Spanien und Frankreich.“ invited guest talk in the seminar „Voces femeninas en/‚después de‘ la migración. La literatura hispano-marroquí“, 23 May 2019, U Leipzig.
32. „Espacios intersticiales en la poesía afroespañola.“ 1. Conference of the Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos: „Literaturas africaas en lenguas ibéricas (1956-2018)”, 18-20 Apr 2019, Agadir and Sidi Ifni (Morroco).
31. „Cine contemporáneo: perspectivas sobre la migración africana y la comunidad afrodescendiente en España.“ XXII. Conference of the German Association of Hispanic Studies, 27-31 March 2019, Berlin.
30. „La figura del migrante y tropos de in_movilidad en la literatura guineoecuatoriana contemporánea”, Institut Français de Guinée équatorial, Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), 6 Febr 2019.
29. „Poesía hispanoafricana más allá de Guinea Ecuatorial: posicionamientos transculturales y transnacionales del sujeto”, Centro Cultural de España en Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), 5 Febr 2019.
28. „Einblicke in die Forschungswerkstatt: Die spanische Black Diaspora”, invited guest talk in the lecture series Master Romanistik International, U Bremen, 18 Dec 2018.
27. „Afrospanische Entwürfe von Gemeinschaft in Literatur und Blogs”, invited guest talk in the lecture course Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaft Spanien / Lateinamerika, Martin-Luther U Halle-Wittenberg, 5 Dec 2019.
26. with Natascha Ueckmann. „La Shoah et le Sud Global : Perspectives francophones sur l’histoire européenne“, 11. Conference of the German Association of French Studies, Osnabrück, 26-29 Sept 2018.
25. „Dekolonialisierte Körper: Textstelle und visuelle Inszenierungen des weiblichen Körpers in afrofeministischen Blogs aus Frankreich und Spanien“, Romance Studies Colloquium of U Vienna, 25-27 May 2018, Payerbach (Austria).
24. „Negotiating Blackness in the Digital Space – A Comparative Perspective on Afro‐French and Afro‐Spanish Blogs“, Annual Meeting der American Comparative Literature Association, Los Angeles (USA), 29 March-1 Apr 2018.
23. with Stephanie Neu-Wendel, Juliane Tauchnitz and Maria Zannini: „Unheard (-of) (Female) Voices from the Afro-Romance Diaspora – Who is Speaking and Who is Listening?“, XXXV. Conference of the German Association of Romance Studies, Zurich, 8-12 Oct 2017.
22. with Stephanie Neu-Wendel. „Blogs and Websites as Spaces for Negotiating (Female) Afro-Romance Identities“, XXXV. Conference of the German Association of Romance Studies, Zurich, 8-12 Oct 2017.
21. „En/tre África y Europa: Afro-spanische Identitäten und transkulturelle Lebenswelten“, 2. Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Migration und Europa in kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive, Vechta, 6-8 Oct 2016.
20. „Being Im/Mobile: Migrant Characters in Afro-Spanish Narratives“, 42nd Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association: Justice and Human Dignity in Africa and the African Diaspora, Atlanta (USA), 6-9 Apr. 2016.
19. „Migration and the Transcultural Subject in Agnès Agboton’s Writings“, Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe V, 16-19 Sept 2015, Münster.
18. „Traumanarrative im haitianischen Gegenwartsroman: Lyonel Trouillot und Yanick Lahens“, I. Forschungstag Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen der Karibik, 19-20 June 2015, Berlin.
17. „‚Mi tragedia, a saber, ser negro en un país blanco‘. The Inner Conflict of the Diasporic Subject in Short Stories and Poems by the Equatoguinean Writer César Mbá Abogo“, 41st Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association: African Futures and Beyond: Visions in Transition, Bayreuth, 3-6 June 2015.
16. „Reflections on the (In)Visibility of the (Post)Colonial Caribbean Subject“, Socare Emerging Scholars Conference: Cultures of Resistance? Theories and Practices of Transgression in the Caribbean and its Diaspora, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University, 22-24 Jan 2015, Bielefeld.
15. „‚Tu ne peux pas comprendre, tu n’étais pas là.‘ Die Figur des Rückkehrers im haitianischen Diaspora-Roman“, 9. Conference of the German Association of French Studies, 24-27 Sept. 2014, Münster.
14. „Narcotraficantes, Pandilleros and Urban Violence: Coming of Age in Contemporary Dominican Novels by Luis S. Santos and Pedro A. Valdez”, Dominicanidad – Perspectivas de un concepto (trans-)nacional / Dominicanity – Perspectives on a (trans-)national concept, Conference at the America Romana Center of U Trier, 2-3 July 2014, Trier.
13. „Geschichten der Zer/Verstörung. Zur Fiktionalisierung der Gewalt im zeitgenössischen haitianischen Roman“, Invited guest talk in the Research Colloquium Forum INPUTS at U Bremen, 8 May 2014, Bremen.
12. „Der Körper als Medium traumatischer Erinnerung bei Lyonel Trouillot und Edwidge Danticat“, 8. Conference of the German Association of French Studies, 19-22 Sept 2012, Leipzig.
11. „Beyond Cadavers and Cocoa Trees. Re-appropriating Violence in Haitian Literature“, 36th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies, 4-6 July 2012, Oxford (UK).
10. „Überlegungen zu einer literarischen Ästhetik der Gewalt“, Cultural studies Colloquium for Emerging Scholars (Kulturwissenschaftliches Nachwuchskolloquium) at the Romance Studies Institute of Leibniz U Hannover, 4-5 Nov 2011.
9. „Gewalt im/am Text. Überlegungen zu einer literarischen Ästhetik der Gewalt im haitianischen Roman“, Socare Emerging Scholars Conference: Performing Emotions in the Caribbean: Kulturproduktionen der Karibik im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, 24-25 June 2011, Berlin.
8. „Violence and Space in Lyonel Trouillot’s Novels“, invited guest talk in the seminar Engagement, Exile and Errancy: Narrating Haiti After the U.S. Occupation by J. Michael Dash at New York University, 16 Nov 2010, New York.
7. „Lyonel Trouillot et les débordements de la violence„, 22th Annual Haitian Studies Association Conference, 11-13 Nov 2010, Providence, RI (USA)
6. „Eine Topographie der Gewalt. Port-au-Prince im zeitgenössischen haitianischen Roman„, 7. Conference of the German Association of French Studies, 29 Sept-2 Oct 2010, Essen.
5. „Delirious Odysseys in the City. An Analysis of Urban Space in Contemporary Haitian Novels„, Simultaneity, Multiplicity and Chaos in Cityscapes in the Americas and Beyond: Representations of Urban Complexity in Literatur, 25-26 June 2010, Bielefeld.
4. „Spaces of Violence in the Haitian Novel„, 35th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, 24-28 May 2010, St. Peter (Barbados).
3. „Räume der Gewalt im zeitgenössischen haitianischen Roman„, Research Symposium Gewalt und gesellschaftliche Konflikte in den romanischen Literaturen, 5-6 Jan 2009, Potsdam.
2. „Haunted by the Past, Longing for Salvation. Das Trauma der Täter- und Opferfiguren im Werk von Edwidge Danticat„, AVAR_net young scholars conferece Täterbilder/Opferbilder, 16-18 Oct 2009, Berlin.
1. „El ‚espeluznante historial“ de las fechorías de los inmigrantes haitianos. El desmontaje del discurso antihaitiano en La Avalancha de Manuel Matos Moquete“, 17. Conference of the German Association of Hispanic Studies (DHV) 18-21 March 2009, Tübingen.