Conference Papers & Invited Talks
NECS Conference (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Network), Oslo: “Transatlantic Crossings: Madubuko Diakité and Black Radical Documentary,” June 2023.
e-flux, New York: “In the Presence of Absence: An Evening with the Noncitizen Collective,“ May 2023.
SCMS Conference (Society for Cinema and Media Studies), Denver: “Poetics of Displacement: Sonic Insurrection and Fugitive Blackness in the work of Madubuko Diakité,“ April 2023.
The Material Archive Studies Network, Stockholm University: “Archives in Exile: Cultural Techniques and the Undocument,” Archival Cultural Techniques: Preserving Practice, Agency and Knowledge, May 2022.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago: “The Invisible People: Madubuko Diakité, Migration, and Afro-Swedish Documentary,” March 2022.
Visible Evidence, Frankfurt: "War & Humanitarian Aesthetics: Notes on Modular Immersion," Visible Evidence XXVII: Documentary and Democracy in Crisis. Frankfurt am Main, December 2021.
NECS Conference (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Network), University of Palermo: “The Desert and the Sea: Transversal Media and Documentary Complicity.” The NECS 2021 Conference. June 2021.
e-flux, New York: Co-presented with Amina Khalil for the Noncitizen collective, in the panel "Moving-Image Activism and Disobedience on Screen" during the symposium State of the Moving Image. September 2021. See link here.
University of Ghana, Accra: “Las Hieleras,” co-presented with Claudia Torres. IASFM18 conference (International Association for the Study of Forced Migration). July 2021.
Film Quarterly Online: "Mediterranean Migrations & New Documentary Forms." June 2021 webinar. Recording here.
Oxford University: “Forensic Medicine and Operational Media: Migrant Age Assessment in Sweden,” Oxford Migration Conference 2021 – Borders & Justice. May 2021.
Harvard University: “The Black Box of Detention: Migration, Documentary, and the Logistics of the Moving Image,” Impossibility (Harvard VES graduate conference). October 2020.
Kaunas International Film Festival: “Noncitizen Archive,” Invited talk at Videogram Days, Kaunas, Lithuania. September 2020.
Rice University School of Architecture: Invited guest lecturer at the Information Richness seminar. Houston, Texas. Instructor: Amelyn Ng. November 2019.
Bergische Universität Wuppertal: “(Un)documenting the State Archive: Biometric Capture and Fugitive Redaction in Northern Europe.” Migrant States of Exception symposium, November 2019.
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University: Invited to give a talk on the Noncitizen Archive and participate in the roundtable “Archival Worlds: Documentation, Preservation, and Digital Media in the Middle East,” together with Diana Allan & Kaoukab Chebaro from The Nakba Archive, and George Awde & Yasmine Eid Sabbagh from the Arab Image Foundation. 2019.
Harvard University: “Involuntary Consent: Biometrics, Redaction and the Jurisgenerative Process,” Spaces of Law: IV International Conference in Transatlantic Studies, Real Colegio Complutense. 2019.
Columbia University: “The Entangled Archive of Displacement: On Detention, Deportation, and the Logistics of Cinema,” Where is Cinema: A Film and Media Graduate Conference. 2019.
New York University: “The Entangled Archive of Displacement: On Detention, Deportation, and the Logistics of Cinema,” The Re/active Image: 2019 NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference, Tisch School of the Arts. 2019.
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: “Under Erasure – Irregular Migrants and Transversal Heritage in Northern Europe.” Collecting Loss conference. Organizer: Research Training Group Identität und Erbe/Identity and Heritage. 2018.
Stockholm University: “Representation Reversed - The Noncitizen Archive: Counter-Imagery of ‘Refugeehood’ and National Belonging in Northern Europe.” Co-writer Jelena Jovicic (Stockholm University). EASA2018: Staying, Moving, Settling in Stockholm. 2018.
Royal Anthropological Institute, the British Museum: “Minor Intervals – The Noncitizen Archive and Jurisgenerative Poetics.” Co-writer Jelena Jovicic (Stockholm University). The Art, Materiality & Representation Conference, in London. 2018.
European Network for Cinema & Media Studies conference, Amsterdam: “The Noncitizen Workshops – Transversal Media and the Politics of Dissonance.” NECS Media Tactics and Engagement Conference. 2018.
Society for Cinema & Media Studies conference, Toronto: “Against Representation.” SCMS Race, Policing, and Media seminar. 2018.
Society for Cinema & Media Studies conference, Toronto: “The Noncitizen Archive – Activist-refugees and Transversal Media.” 2018.
Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7: “Looking Back: A Field Study of Video Activism and Dark Sousveillance.” 15th NECS Graduate Workshop—Future Sensibilities: Mediations of Precarious Life. 2017.