2025
‘After Abstraction: The Brazilian Avant-Garde in the Rightward Turn,’ at the Marxist Literary Group’s Institute on Culture and Society, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (June 2025).
‘World Literature and Absolute Method,’ at the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (May 2025).
2024
‘Absolute Style: Gillian Rose's Speculative Philosophy,’ at the annual Historical Materialism conference, SOAS University, London (November 2024).
‘Misplacing the Avant-Garde: Peter Bürger at the Margins,’ at the annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies, University of Copenhagen (October 2024).
‘Lacan's Modernist Stécriture,’ at the Lacan Today conference, University of Ghent (October 2024).
‘The Peripheral Avant-Garde: Neo-Concretism and the Time of Revolution,’ at the Marxist Literary Group’s Institute on Culture and Society, Saint James United Church, Montreal (June 2024).
‘Art, Exception, Subsumption,’ at the Aesthetics and/or Politics symposium, University of Campinas, Brazil (April 2024).
‘Machado on a World Scale: Roberto Schwarz, World Literature, and Immanent Critique,’ at the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Montreal (March 2024).
2023
‘Keywords for Value and Culture,’ roundtable organised for the annual Historical Materialism conference, SOAS University, London (November 2023).
‘The House of Fiction: Roberto Schwarz, Henry James, and the Politics of Form,’ at the Representations of Home Open Seminar, University of Lisbon, (September 2023).
‘Tarsila do Amaral and the Aesthetics of Nature,’ at the annual British and Irish Lusitanists conference, University College Cork (September 2023).
‘Roberto Schwarz and Dialectical Criticism,’ reading group organised for the Marxist Literary Group’s Institute on Culture and Society, University of Massachusetts Boston (June 2023).
‘A City Called Mirage: Kiluanji Kia Henda and the Spectre of Growth,’ at the Growing Pains: Contemporary Culture and Crises of Growth symposium, organised by Sean O’Brien, University College Dublin (June 2023).
2022
‘Roberto Schwarz and World-Literature,’ panel organised for the annual Historical Materialism conference, SOAS, University, London (November 2022).
‘Brazilian Modernism and the Blue Cultural Fix,’ in the Environmental Humanities Virtual Talks series, University College Dublin (June 2022).
‘Roberto Schwarz and the Aesthetics of Formal Subsumption,’ at Dispossessed: A Symposium on Marxism, Culture, Extraction, and Enclosure, University of Warwick (May 2022).
‘The Energy Unconscious: Jameson, Braudel, and Geological Time,’ at the Directions in Energy Humanities symposium, University of Warwick (April 2022).
‘João Paulo Borges Coelho, Autonomy, and the Global Literary Marketplace,’ as part of the Modern Languages Research Seminar series, University of Sheffield (March 2022).
2021
‘Portuguese-speaking African Writers in the World-Literary Marketplace,’ at the Cultural Labour and Contemporary Literatures in Portuguese symposium, University College Cork (July 2021).
‘World Energy Literature: Oil, Finance and Abstraction,’ as part of the Cultures, Ecologies and Economies of Oil series, University of Southampton (July 2021).
2020
‘Critical Irrealism and World Literature,’ Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow (December 2020).
‘The Long Waves of Disaster: Flood Epidemics and the Spectre of Aid,’ at the Flows and Floods: Changing Environments and Cultures conference, University of Warwick (February 2020).
2019
‘Irrealism in the Balance: Local Specificity and the Aesthetics of
World Literature,’ at the annual Historical Materialism conference, SOAS University, London (November 2019).
‘Blue Epistemologies in the Black Atlantic: The Symbolic Economy of
Water-Spirits,’ at the Mapping the Blue Humanities symposium, University of
Warwick (July 2019).