2024. “Six Theses on Literature in Late Monolingualism.” German National Literary Archive. Marbach, Germany. 26 June.
2022. “Literature in Late Mono/Lingualism.” Hoffman Memorial Lecture, Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH. 20 October.
2022. “Monolingualism, In/Justice.” Sir Run Run Shaw Memorial Lecture, Stony Brook University, New York. 14 April
2019. “Monolingualism Now: Fortification, Fragility, and Stamina.” Capstone conference for the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Translating Cultures Theme. University of London Institute for Modern Languages Research / UK. 5 April.
2019. “Un-Discovering Multilingualism.” Conference: “Polyglots and Polysystems? Researching multilingualism in contemporary Latin American and Latino literature and film,” KU-Leuven (Antwerp Campus) / Belgium, 15 March.
“Seven Stadia Long: On the Disorderly Social Sojourn of Collaborative Translation.” #Transcollaborate Symposium. Monash University in Prato / Italy, 3 July.
“Disinventing Monolingualism in Modern Language Research.” Transnationalizing Modern Languages conference. Italian Cultural Institute. London / United Kingdom, 2 December.
2015. “Seven Types of Multilingualism.” Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. Ottawa, ON / Canada, 31 May.
2014. “Face-Saving in Life-Saving: The Political Economy of End-of-Life Clinical Conversations.” Discourses on Death conference, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, 9 November
2012. “East by Eastwest: The Literary Occident of Turkish Transnational Modernity.” Where East Meets West?, University of Pennsylvania Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Graduate Conference. Pennsylvania, PA / USA, 21 February.