* "Portraits de la classe ouvrière dans la littérature indienne contemporaine", ENS de Lyon, room D8-006, 28 November 2024, 14h-17h30. IHRIM seminar, "Littératures et arts, XIXe-XXe siècles" - "Écritures postcoloniales : éthique et représentation", with Fiona McCANN (Sorbonne Université) and Corentin JEGOU
(Université de Nantes).
* "Agency and Care: the Portrayal of Migrant Workers in Puja Changoiwala's homebound", Université de Lorraine, Nancy, ARIEL, 22 November 2024.
* “Can the Posthuman Speak? Voice, Agency and Care in Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Harry Parker and Namwali Serpell”, International Conference "Posthuman Fictions: Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Contemporary Culture", Universitá de Genova, Italy 19-20 Sept. 2024.
* "Unrest and (dis)comfort in in Contemporary British Fiction", University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 20 June 2024.
* "Introduction sur le 'refugee writing' : définitions et modalités", ENS de Lyon, room D2-004, 30 November 2023, 14h-17h. IHRIM seminar, "Littératures et arts, XIXe-XXe siècles" - "Literature and Migrations: Refugee Writing", with Jaine CHEMMACHERY (Sorbonne Université) and Cédric COURTOIS
(Université de Lille).
* "Kazuo Ishiguro's Creative Process: A View from the Archives", University of East Anglia, Great Britain, 3 May 2023, 17h-18h30.
* "Tasting through Language in Contemporary Nigerian Literature in English", University of Bern, Switzerland, 29 March 2023, 10h-12h.
* "Les courants de la création: une lecture des archives de Julian Barnes", Séminaire général de critique génétique, UMR ITEM, 14 February 2023, 16h-18h, ENS ULM, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, Salle Cavailles.
* "Victimhood, Agency, Vulnerability: Portraits of Delhi Manual Workers in Aman Sethi’s A Free Man (2011) and Mridula Koshy’s Bicycle Dreaming (2016)"
GAPS: 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt --- "Victims and/or Agents? The Limitations of Empathy in Postcolonial
Fiction and Non‑Fiction", 26-29 May 2022.
* "Knots of
Survival and
Modes of Solidarity in Novels by Julian Barnes and Caryl
Phillips"
Center for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India, 29 March 2022.
* “A Precarious Balance: Breaking and Connecting in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Helon Habila’s Travelers”
International Conference, "MAKING KIN’: Hos(ti)pitalities and (Trans)Migrations across Species, Technologies, Cultures, Genres", University of Grenoble Alpes, 29 October 2021.
* “Destabilizing Form in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Helon Habila’s Travelers”
International 15th ESSE Conference, University of Lyon, 31 August 2021.
* "Multiple Vulnerabilities in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun."
Klara and the Sun symposium. University of Bristol, 18 June 2021.
* « Julian Barnes's Creative Process: A View from the Archives. »
British Studies Seminar. University of Texas at Austin, 10 April 2020.
*« Le Perroquet de Flaubert de Julian Barnes : Genèse d’une passion littéraire »
Séminaire Flaubert de l’ITEM (CNRS/ENS Ulm), Paris, 12 octobre 2019.
* "Julian Barnes: A View from the Archives" - keynote speaker
METU British Novelists International Conference, "Julian Barnes and His Work", Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey), 13-14 December 2018.
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* “‘Survivors all’: Affirmative Connections in Novels by Julian Barnes and Caryl Phillips”
International Conference, "The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary
Literature and Culture", University of Erlangen (Germany), 12-13 October 2018.
* « The Poetics of Voice in Ben Okri's The Famished Road »
Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), French Interdisciplinary Group and Program in African Studies, 12 April 2017.
* « Whatever Happened to Hybridity in Postcolonial Studies? »
Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), French Interdisciplinary Group and English Department, 4 April 2017.
* "Pastiche, Collage and Bricolage: Caryl Phillips's Hybrid Journal and Letters of a Slave Trader in Crossing the River"
Agrégation Conference, University of Rouen, 21 October 2016.
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« ‘My favourite sort of rain’: Drizzle and Downpour in the Fiction of Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe and Graham Swift »
International Conference. « Climates :
what’s the weather like in anglophone literature & arts », University Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris 3, 14-15 October 2016.
* “The Newton-Hamilton Dialogue in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River: Navigating between Appropriation and Creation”
International Conference. Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River: "the many-tongued chorus", ENS de Lyon, 6-7 October 2016.
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« Post-Colonialism, Hybridity and Salman Rushdie. »
Asheville, University of North Carolina, 18 February 2016.
* « Taiye Selasi: to be or not to be Afropolitan. »
SEAC international conference, ENS de Lyon, 16 October 2015.
* « Jonathan Coe and the Contemporary: Statements and Doubts »
Keynote speaker for the Jonathan Coe symposium, organised by the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing and Professor Philip Tew - Senate House, London, 28 April 2015.
* « De l’autre côté du silence: The Slave Book (1998) de Rayda Jacobs »
International conference « L’esclavage oriental et africain au miroir des littératures française et anglaise, xviiie-xxe siècles » of the LIRE research laboratory (Sarga Moussa, Daniel Lançon - CNRS) at the Institut des Sciences de l’Homme in Lyon – 6 and 7 February 2014.
* « Landscapes Within, Landscapes Without: Space Duality in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road »
International conference « The Imaginary of Space » organised by the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines at the University of Nantes, 18 and 19 October 2013.
* « Jonathan Coe’s Like a Fiery Elephant. The Story of B.S. Johnson: a Post-biography? »
International Conference "Writers' Biographies: Hybridities, Combinations and Metamorphoses" (Lise Guilheneuf and Aude Haffen) at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne - 19-20 September 2013.
* "Le genre littéraire: pourquoi faire? L'exemple du roman britannique contemporain"
Seminar TRYOUT (Marc Porée) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris - 18 February 2013.
* "Zadie Smith's NW: the Novel at an 'anxiety crossroads'?"
Conference of the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines (Catherine Bernard) at Paris Diderot University, Paris - 15 February 2013.
* "The Slave Book (1998) de Rayda Jacobs: l'esclavage musulman dans la province du Cap (Afrique du Sud)"
Seminar of the research center "Slavery" (Sarga Moussa, Daniel Lançon) at the Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon - 11 October 2012.
* « Le concept d’hybridité dans les études postcoloniales : pourquoi faire ? ou est-il nécesssaire d'expliquer l'hybridité aux enfants? »
Seminar of the research center « Littératures et théories postcoloniales » (Lise Guilhamon, Laetitia Zecchini) at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris - 3 February 2012.
* "B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates: Revisiting the Elegy."
* "A
Fat Man on a Beach: Conflicting Horizons in B.S. Johnson’s Work."
50th Symposium of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur « À l’horizon » at the University of Lille 3 - 22 May 2010.
* "Julian Barnes: “English Francophile”."
University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, 8 December 2009.
* “On the Other Side of Silence”: the Poetics of Voice in Contemporary Literature in English."
University of Duisburg-Essen, 1 December 2009.
* "B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates: Celebrating the Chaos."
International conference: "B.S. Johnson, his Contemporaries and the British Literary Scene 1949-1979." London, British Library, 12 October 2009.
* "Julian Barnes and the French connection."
Keynote speech. International conference: "Julian Barnes and the European
Tradition." Liverpool Hope University, 14 June 2008.
* "B.S. Johnson :
l’équilibre de l’écart."
* "Ethics and Experimentation in B. S. Johnson’s House Mother Normal."
8th Symposium of The
European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) at Senate House,
University
College, London - 28 August-2 September 2006.
* "The Destabilisation of Genre in Alain de Botton’s Iconotexts."
Conference « The
Infinite Dialogue » organised by the Société d’Études Anglaises
Contemporaines and the Société des Amis d’Intertexte at Senate House,
University
College, London, 23-24 September 2005.
* "The Book of Mrs Noah (1987) de Michèle Roberts : un roman aux sentiers qui bifurquent."
44th Symposium of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur
« Parcours / Détours » at the University of Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - 14, 15 and 16 May 2004.
* "Écrire après et à partir des grands maîtres : entre hommage et création (Julian Barnes, Michèle Roberts, Alain de Botton)."
Seminar of the research centre « Lire et représenter le présent » (Catherine Bernard) at the University of Paris VII – Denis Diderot - 7 November 2003.
* "Récritures du Déluge et de l’Arche de Noé dans la fiction contemporaine de langue anglaise (Coover, Findley, Winterson, Roberts et Barnes)."
Conference « La Citation à l’œuvre »
organised by the « Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherches du Monde
Anglophone » at the University of Provence (Centre Aix) - 17-18 January
2003.
* "Oranges et pommiers : figures du bovarysme dans Boating for Beginners (1985) de Jeanette Winterson."
International Conference « Emma Bovary, le bovarysme et la littérature de langue anglaise » organised by the ERAC at the University of Rouen - 13-14 December 2002.
* "Sur la piste des perroquets : les figures de la quête dans Flaubert’s Parrot de Julian Barnes."
International Conference « Flaubert’s Parrot de Julian Barnes, “un symbole du logos” ? » organised by the CELCLA-ERAC at the University of Rouen - 9-10 November 2001.
* "Transfiguration des genres littéraires dans la littérature britannique contemporaine (Jeanette Winterson, Jonathan Coe, Alain de Botton)."
International Conference « Les littératures de genre » organised by the research centre « Écritures du Roman Contemporain de Langue Anglaise »
(Paris IV Sorbonne) and the « Centre de Recherche sur les Origines de la
Modernité
dans les Pays Anglophones » (Paris X-Nanterre) at the University of Paris
IV-Sorbonne - 16-17 March 2001.
* "Du psittacisme à
l’émancipation ? La transtextualité flaubertienne dans Flaubert’s
Parrot de Julian Barnes."
Seminar of the research centre « Écritures du Roman Contemporain de Langue
Anglaise » at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne - 19 January 2001.
Seminar of the research centre « Écritures du Roman Contemporain de Langue
Anglaise » at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne - 3 November 2000.
* " “My wife ... died” : une mort en pointillé dans Flaubert’s Parrot de Julian Barnes."
International Conference « La mort : mise en scène, mise en texte » organised by the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines at the University of Havre - 6-7 November 1998.
* "Excentricité et interlinguisme dans Metroland et Talking It Over de Julian Barnes."
International Conference « L’excentrique dans la littérature britannique contemporaine » organised by the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines at the University of Montpellier III-Paul Valéry - 14-15 November 1997.