Speaking Events & Conferences
Upcoming Presentations
"Calle 13, Palestine, & the Globalization of Puerto Rican (De)Colonial Discourse."
Latin American Studies Association International Congress.
May 27-30, 2015
San Juan, PR
"Transatlantic Maghreb: Comparative Contexts and Transnational Frames."
Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting
November 22-25, 2014
Washington, DC
Past Presentations
"Goytisolo and Ben Jelloun: Corporeal Geography and Desiring Spaces in Tangier."
American Comparative Literature Association
New York University
March 20-23, 2014
New York, NY
"The Academic Market and Scholarly Access."
Mellon Mays Professional Network Annual Conference
University of Pennsylvania
February 7-9, 2014
Philadelphia, PA
"Noting Presence: The Caribbean Soundscape and the Body of Agency."
The Caribbean Philosophical Association
Annual Meeting
November 21-24, 2013
San Juan, Puerto Rico
"Avenues of Access: the Scholarship of Periphery and Center."
Northeast Regional Mellon Conference
Wesleyan University
University Center
October 5, 2013
Middletown, CT
"Remixing the Art of Social Change"
World Beats & Life Teach-in
Howard University
Armour J. Blackburn University Center
July 12-14, 2013
Washington, DC
"On n’est pas condamné à l’échec: Hip-Hop and the Banlieue Narrative"
Dartmouth College
May 9, 2013
Hanover, NH
"Transnational Hip-Hop and Arab Youth Politics"
Trinity College International Hip Hop Festival
Trinity College
April 4, 2013
Hartford, CT
"Hip-Hop, Islam and the French Connection: Deconstructing la laïcité"
North Eastern Modern Language Association 2012.
March 21 – 24, 2013
Boston, MA
"Poetic Forces: Creative Change in and Beyond the Arab Spring"
Brown University
The Cogut Center for the Humanities
March 12, 2013
Providence, RI
"Teaching the Arab Spring"
Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting 2012
November 17-20, 2012
Denver, CO
"Gender & The Arab Spring"
April 11, 2012
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT
"Globalization, Human Rights & the Arab Spring"
United Nations of Philadelphia, U.N. Day Event 2011
October 24, 2011
University of Pennsylvania
Role: Chief Organization & Moderator
"Echoes of Moorishness: Europe, Islam, and the Sounds of Immigrant Identity."
Jackman Humanities Institute
Feburary 7, 2011
University of Toronto
"Memory, Return, and the Other Side"
Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures
October 28-30, 2010
Washington University of St. Louis
"Who is European"
Drexel University International Café
May 13, 2010
Drexel University