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.
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.
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.
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.
“(Other) Foundations: Aline Motta in conversation with Estefania Bournot”
Conversation
Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, 24 June 2024.
“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.
“El arte de producir verdad: estéticas forenses en América Latina”
Paper presentation
LASA Bogotá, 12-15 June 2024.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“Reorientaciones geográficas en la cultura y la literatura de América Latina”.
Roundtable discussion at the Ibero-American Institute of Berlin 3rd February 2023.
“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.
“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
“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.
“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.
“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.
“Orientalism Expanded? Latin American Travel Narratives Heading East.”
Delivered at the MLA Conference, Chicago USA, January 2019.
“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.
“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.
“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.