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