GUEST LECTURES

Máquina Kalunga: Archivo y memorias afro-atlánticas en la obra de Aline Motta. Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina, 25th September 2024.

Latinité: la diplomatie culturelle de Senghor et la construction d’une communauté Sud-atlantique. École Normale Supérieure Paris, 16th May 2024.

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Poéticas del vestigio: Arte y catástrofe después de Mariana. Conference Series “Sur”. Humboldt University, Berlin. 27th June 2023.

Islas y archipiélagos: nuevas comunidades imaginadas de la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea.

University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal. 10th January 2023.

Civilization and Barbarism in contemporary Latin American Media. Series on “TheRural Americas”,

Center of Inter-American Studies, Innsbruck University. 6th December 2022.

A Landscape of one’s own: Latin American voices from Germany.

Northwestern University, Chicago (IL). November 11th, 2021.

Keynote Barren Lives/ Human Rivers: Re-Thinking Climate Migration in the Extractive Zone

International Conference: Environmental Changes, Global Challenges and Livelihoods in Università Macerata, 24/25th October.

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Rethinking Development through South-South Lens: Ecocritical Approaches from the Extractive Zone

“New Perspectives on Development in the Americas” Lecture Series in ZILAS, Ingolstadt, 6th November 2024.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Contrapunteos afro-latinoamericanos: un diálogo con el escritor Sami Tchak”

Conversation

XIV Simposio Internacional Jorge Isaacs: Manuel Zapata Olivella vuelve a África, 17-24 November 2024.

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“(Other) Foundations: Aline Motta in conversation with Estefania Bournot”

Conversation

Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, 24 June 2024.

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“Diplomacia musical: Cuba y Brasil en el Atlántico Sur”

Paper presentation at the “Segundo Encuentro Internacional de Investigadores en Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos”

Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias. 4-7 June 2024.

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“El arte de producir verdad: estéticas forenses en América Latina”

Paper presentation

LASA Bogotá, 12-15 June 2024.

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“The Re-awakening of the Wakas: Latin American Eco-Feminist Approaches to Earth Cultures.”

Paper presentation at the international conference The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies.

University of Amsterdam. 4-5 th April 2024.

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“Transperipheral Alliances and Decolonial Interventions.”

Panel organizer (with Sophie Esch) and presenter.

International Conference of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Bayreuth University, Germany. 11-14 October 2023.

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“África-América Latina: redes, conexiones y debates en los años 60 y 70.”

Panel organizer (with Silvia Valero) and presenter.

ILLI, Athens 7th July 2023.

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“Reorientaciones geográficas en la cultura y la literatura de América Latina”.

Roundtable discussion at the Ibero-American Institute of Berlin 3rd February 2023.

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“Narratives of the Socio-technical and the Geological - Part II – Latin America and the Geological Turn.”

Workshop Session Organizer (together with Stanford Research Group MATERIA) and presenter.

LASA Vancouver, Canada, May 24–27 2023.

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“Memorias del paisaje. Hacia un arte sedimentario en el Sur Global”,

Paper presentation on the 30th September at the workshop Pensar y escribir la tierra.

Reflexiones sobre lo terrestre en las literaturas y culturas latinoamericanas. Humboldt

University, Berlin, 30th September – 1st October 2021.

“Memorias del paisaje y narrativas del expolio en la obra de Verónica Gerber y María Thereza Alves”,

Paper presentation at the Deutsche Hispanistentag,

Graz (Austria) 23-’-25 February 2023.

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“Front Brésilien D’information: Networks of (miss)information: fighting against ‘general understanding’”,

Paper presentation at the conference Revolutionary Papers: Counter- Institutions Politics and Culture in Periodicals of the Global South.

Cape Town (SA), 28 April to 30 April 2022

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“Redes diplomáticas entre Brasil y África occidental. El caso de Zora Seljan y AntonioOlinto”,

Paper delivered on the 23rd December at the IV International GRELAT

Conference Rewriting Africa in the Tout-Monde (20th-21st centuries).

Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), 24th-26th November 2021.

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"Destined to the stars, back in the dust: Towards an Aesthetics of Disappearance in the Global South”,

Online paper presentation at the conference Cultures in the Anthropocene.

An Interdisciplinary Challenge. University of Innsbruck (Hybrid), June 30th- July 3rd, 2021.

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“Brasil y la conquista de África. Tensiones entre la ‘democracia racial’ y la ‘diplomacia cultural’”.

Jornadas Cosmopolitismos disidentes. Redes, viajes, articulaciones.

UNSAM (Buenos Aires, Argentina) / Oslo University (Oslo, Norway) (ONLINE

Conference), 10-11th June 2021.

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“Vidas secas, ríos humanos. An ecocritical reading of the Brazilian Sertão.”

Facing the Great Derangement. Cultural Responses to Climate Change and the Unthinkable from Latin America and the Global South (ONLINE Conference-Workshop),

Stockholm University, 3-4th June 2021.

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“É o mundo negro que viemos mostrar pra vôce”: Brazil in the Pan-African Festivals 1966 – 1977.”

Presentation /Panel organisation

LASA (ONLINE), 16th May 2020.

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“A feeling of belonging: Latin America in the Pan-African festivals (1966-1979)”

Romanistentag Kassel XXVI, October 2019.

“Paisajes encarnados: Escrituras del cuerpo y del espacio en Andrea Jeftanovic.”

LASA Boston, May 2019.

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“De Macondo al mundo y viceversa: paisajes fractales de la crónica latinoamericana contemporánea.”

Delivered at the X International Congress Orbis Tertius, La Plata Argentina, May 2019.

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“Orientalism Expanded? Latin American Travel Narratives Heading East.”

Delivered at the MLA Conference, Chicago USA, January 2019.

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“Expandiendo occidente. Narrativas del Año cero y la búsqueda de otro otro.”

Presented at the Tenth conference on East-West Cross-cultural Relations.

Reconfiguring Transnational Flows across the Pacific., Zagreb, Croatia, May 2018.

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“Ciencia ficción indigenista en la narrativa de Alison Spedding. Tentativas sobre otros futuros posibles.”

Delivered at the Coloquio internacional de literatura Hacia la narrativa hispánica del futuro: retrospección y perspectivas,

Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, March 2018.

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“Crisis del paisaje. Distorsión del espacio en la narrativa de Neuman y Chejfec.”

Spring Academy Vor dem Fall – Krise und Identität aus kontrastiv- interdisziplinärer Sicht,

Kassel University, Germany, March 2015.

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“Bellatín en Japón, o los viajes de la ficción”.

Viajes, exilios y migraciones en la literatura latinoamericana del s. XXI, Université Bordeaux Montaigne,

Bordeaux, France, July 2016.

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“Rutas y encrucijadas: cronotopos de la narrativa contemporánea latinoamericana”.

III Coloquio Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores de Literatura Hispanoamericana,

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, April 2015.

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“Ampliación del paisaje. Algunas consideraciones sobre la narrativa del s. XXI”,

Summer School of the German Romance Studies Association (DRV)- Romance

Studies on the move, Potsdam, Germany, August 2014.