Selected Presentations & Appearances
“Arab Spring, Rape and the Islamic State”
- War and Rape International Conference
· April 2016
Invited Talk
Brown University,
“Arts of the Syrian Revolution”
- Keynote for Syrian Awareness Series
· April 2016
Invited Talk
Davidson College,
“Archiving the Syrian Revolution”
· March 2016
Invited Talk
ACLA, Harvard University,
“Islamic State, Women and Art”
· December 2015
Invited Talk
Manarat Islamic University, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
“Staging Trauma in Revolutionary Syria”
· November 2015
Other
MESA, Denver,
“Dancing in Damascus”
· October 2015
Invited Talk
Religion Dept., Vanderbilt University,
“Islamic State, Their Prey and the Artist who Fears for Them”
· September 2015
Invited Talk
Arizona State University,
o “Choreographing Trauma in Post-2011 Syria”
· September 2015
Invited Talk
Arizona State University,
“Representing Violence against Women since 2011”
- Upholding Gendered Peace at a Time of Violence international conference,
· June 2015
Invited Talk
Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon,
“Femmes Arabes: Resistances, Migrations et Performances”
· May 2015
Invited Talk
Maison de la Recherche, Aix-Marseille Universite, Aix-en-Provence, France,
“Tribal Modern”
- Gulf Cooperation Council international conference
· April 2015
Lecture
University of Chicago,
“Representing the Violence of the Syrian Revolution”
- "Unpacking State and Sexual Violence" conference
· March 2015
Invited Talk
University of Virginia in Charlottesville,
“Violence and the New Arabic Novel”
· February 2015
Invited Talk
Keynote "Middle East Languages and Literatures" conference, University of Texas at Austin,
“Syrian Culture after 2011”
· January 2015
Invited Talk
Washington & Lee University,
“Writing Tahrir”
· November 2014
Other
Middle East Studies Association, Washington DC,
“Arab Culture after 2011”
· September 2014
Invited Talk
Peking University, Beijing,
“A Century of Arabic Literature”
- Beijing International Studies Univ.
· September 2014
Invited Talk
“Conversation with Chinese Women Writers”
· September 2014
Invited Talk
Beijing Normal University,
“Women and Revolution in the Mediterranean”
· September 2014
Invited Talk
Beijing Foreign Studies University ,
“Women and the Arab Spring”
- Keynote “Feminist Dialogues for the Diaspora” conference
· July 2014
Invited Talk
University of Warwick, England,
“Syrian Arts after 2011”
- “Event or Memory: Re-membering the Arab Spring”
· May 2014
Invited Talk
Muhammad V University, Rabat, Morocco,
“Machines de Guerre au Temps du Printemps Arabe”
· January 11, 2013
Lecture
Mondialisation/ Mediterranee Conference, CRNS, Paris
“Revolutionary Narratives: Nawal El Saadawi and Samar Yazbek”
· January 11, 2013
Lecture
Mediterranean Women’s Rights inthe Aftermath of the ‘Arab Uprisings’ Conference, Fez University
“Nabiha Jerad and the Tunisian Revolution”
· January 11, 2013
Lecture
Carthage Cultural Center, Tunisia
“Arab Revolutions as Poetic Event”
- Peace in the Middle East Conference
· January 11, 2013
Lecture
University of North Texas,
University of North Texas
“Mediterranean Networks: Connecting People, Ideas and Cultures”
· January 11, 2013
Lecture
Jean Monnet Lecture, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
“Writing the Hatay Novel”
· January 11, 2013
Lecture
Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya, Turkey
“Gendering Interfaith Monologues"
· January 4, 2012
Lecture
Literaturhuset, Oslo, Norway
o “Renewing Tribal Identity between Anatolia and the Gulf”
· January 4, 2012
Lecture
American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey
“Tribal Modern”
· January 4, 2012
Lecture
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
“Women, War and Islam”
· January 4, 2012
Lecture
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Academic Freedom during the Bush Era
· January 4, 2012
Lecture
Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya, Turkey
“Gendering the Gulf”
· January 4, 2012
Lecture
Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
• December “Women’s Literature in Today’s Arab Gulf"
· January 4, 2012
Lecture
Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
Apr “Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism” at “MediterraneanIdentities” conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
· November 18, 2011
Lecture
Nov “Nawal El Saadawi and Fatima Mernissi Write their Lives” Women’s Autobiography in Muslim Countries Conference, American University of Sharjah
· November 18, 2011
Lecture
“Gender, Race and Class in Gulf Tribal Societies” University of Virginia, Charlottesville
· November 18, 2011
Lecture
Writing the Tribal Modern” at “Ibrahim al-Koni” conference, Georgetown University
· November 18, 2011
Lecture
“Does Gender Matter?” Keynote at “Women, Islam and Peace-building” conference, Arizona State University, Tempe
· November 18, 2011
Lecture
Does Gender Matter?” Keynote at “Women, Islam and Peace-building” conference, Arizona State University, Tempe
· November 18, 2011
Lecture
Dec "Nazira Zeineddine: Lost Pioneer of Islamic Feminism" Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
· January 11, 2011
Lecture
Dec "Nazira Zeineddine: Lost Pioneer of Islamic Feminism" Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar "Lessons from an Erased Feminist" at "Women and the 21st Century: Feminist Alternatives" Conference, Cairo, Egypt Nov "Islamic Feminism in Early 20th Century" Am
· January 11, 2011
Lecture
Dec "Nazira Zeineddine: Lost Pioneer of Islamic Feminism" Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
· January 11, 2011
Lecture
Oct "Rabia al-Adawiya" Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
June 3-day seminar on Nazira Zeineddine with MA and PhD students in the Department of Philosophy, Universite de Tunis 1, Tunisia
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
Oct "The Cell Story: Prison Narratives during the Rule of Bashar Asad" Lund University, Sweden
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
May “Teaching Arab Women Writers” Teaching Arabic Literature Conference, Columbia University
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
Dec "Lessons from an Erased Feminist" at "Women and the 21st Century: Feminist Alternatives" Conference, Cairo, Egypt
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
Mar “Translation and Globalization” Translation Conference, Cairo, Egypt
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
Dec "Nazira Zeineddine: Lost Pioneer of Islamic Feminism" Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
Nov "Islamic Feminism in Early 20th Century" American University of Sharjah
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
Nov "Tribal Modern" Georgetown University-Qatar, Doha, Qatar
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
“In Praise of Hatred and other Prison Writings defying Taboos” Desire, Taboo and Transgression Conference, University of La Sapienza, Rome, Italy June
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
Jan “Autobiography in Hermeneutics” Autobiography in Muslim Countries Conference, University of Texas in Austin
· January 21, 2010
Lecture
“Malaise dans la liberte academique aux Etats Unis”
· October 1, 2009
Lecture
College International de Tunis
“Sex and the Syrian State”
· March 1, 2009
Lecture
Cornell University
“Feminism in Islam” inaugural lecture in “Arab World” series
· February 1, 2009
Lecture
University of Wisconsin
“Visualizing incarceration”
· February 1, 2009
Lecture
NYU
3 lectures in Arabic on Nazira Zayn al-din
· November 1, 2008
Lecture
Kuwait University
“Gendering tribal modernity”
· May 1, 2008
Lecture
UC-Irvine
“Muslim women in the 21st century”
· April 1, 2008
Lecture
U Colorado, Boulder
“Muslim women’s new visibility”
· April 1, 2008
Lecture
Colorado State University
Reading Muslim women’s writings”
· April 1, 2008
Lecture
Wyoming University
“Tribal modernity in Gulf Literature”
· February 1, 2008
Lecture
University of Pennsylvania
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
“The Syrian Revolution” - Model UN Keynote
· February 2016
Community Outreach
UNC-CH
North Carolina
North Carolina
“Women and Islam”
· October 2015
Community Outreach
Las Vegas Islamic Circle
Nevada
Nevada