Keynote and Invited Lectures
Annual Holocaust Lecture. "Inheritance Trouble: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance." Program in Jewish Studies. CU-Boulder, January 25, 2018.
Invited Speaker. “Trauma, Multidirectionality, Implication: An Interview.” Tätermodelle & Transgression: Grenzfälle in Gewalt- und Traumaforschung. Humboldt University zu Berlin, January 19, 2018. [via Skype]
Keynote Speaker. “Inheritance Trouble: Migration and Transcultural Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany.” Transcultural Memorial Forms. Nordic Summer School, Tallinn, March 18, 2017.
David Cesarani Memorial Lecture. “Inheritance Trouble: Migration and Transcultural Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany.” Royal Holloway University of London, February 23, 2017.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory and Beyond.” Seminar at Centre March Bloch, Berlin, March 1, 2017.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory and Beyond.” Seminar visit for Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway University of London, February 23, 2017.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory.” POLIN Museum, Warsaw, December 14, 2016.
Invited Speaker. “Chronicle of a Summer and Multidirectional Memory.” Bunkier Gallery, Krakow, December 13, 2016.
Keynote Panelist. “Memory Studies at a Moment of Danger.” Thinking About the Future of Memory, Memory Studies Association Inaugural Conference, Amsterdam, December 3, 2016.
Invited Speaker. "Europe's Migrants and the Shoah." Conversation with Matti Bunzl. Vienna Humanities Festival, Vienna, September 24, 2016. Video available here.
Invited Speaker. "From Multidirectional Memory to the Implicated Subject." Master Class. Huizinga Institute, Amsterdam, September 23, 2016.
Keynote Speaker. “Implicated Subjects and the Rhetoric of the Past.” Rhetoric of the Past, Royal Netherlands Historical Society Symposium, Rotterdam, September 22, 2016.
Keynote Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory: Entangled Narratives, Implicated Subjects.” Sites of Memory: Lost and Entangled Narratives. Jewish Museum Berlin, September 16, 2016. Video available here, with lecture at 1:46.
Keynote Speaker. “Inheritance Trouble: Transcultural Holocaust Memory in the Mirror of Migration.” Locating and Dislocating Memory: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe, Dublin, September 3, 2016.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject,” Seminar visit for “Memory, Trauma and Violence,” University of Leeds, March 1, 2016 (via Skype).
Invited Speaker. “The Gray Zone.” Centro Primo Levi, New York, November 24, 2015.
Invited Speaker. “‘Germany is in Kurdistan’: Internationalism and the Implicated Subject,” Scales of Memory, Australian National University, December 10, 2014. (via Skype)
Invited Speaker. “‘Germany is in Kurdistan’: Internationalism and the Implicated Subject,” Memory Without Borders, University of California, Berkeley, November 14, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Inheritance Trouble: Migration, Memory, and the German Past.” With Yasemin Yildiz. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of German/Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, October 20, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Inheritance Trouble: Migration, Memory, and the German Past.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Cornell University Department of German Studies, September 12, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory, Migrant Archives, and the Implicated Subject.” LMU, Munich, June 30, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Feelings Change Sides: Migration, Affect, and Mnemonic Transfers.” Memory Transfers and Transformations, NITMES: Network for Transnational Memory Studies, University of Konstanz, June 26, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory: New Directions in the Study of Cultural Memory.” Hanyang University, Seoul, May 23, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Citizens of Memory: Between Holocaust Remembrance and Transnational Migration.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Hanyang University, Seoul, May 22, 2014.
Keynote Speaker. “Citizens of Memory: Citizenship Between Holocaust Remembrance and Transnational Migration.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Memory, Migration, and Materiality. New School, New York, May 1, 2014.
Invited Speaker. "Migrant Archives: New Sources of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany." With Yasemin Yildiz. Crossing the Disciplinary Divide: Conjunctions in German and Holocaust Studies. Washington University, March 21, 2014.
Emanuel Ringelblum Lecture and Keynote Speaker. “Citizens of Memory: Immigrants and Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” Globalizing the Holocaust. University of California, Davis, January 30, 2014.
Keynote Speaker. "Memory Bound: The Implicated Subject and the Legacies of Slavery." Memory Unbound. Mnemonics Summer School, Ghent, September 10, 2013.
Invited Roundtable Speaker. Ethnic Minorities and Holocaust Memory, University of Jena, July 13, 2013.
Keynote Speaker. "On Being a Descendant: Implicated Subjects and the Legacies of Slavery." The Colonial Legacy of the Treaty of Utrecht: 1713-1863-2013, Utrecht, June 21-22, 2013. A video of this lecture can be found here.
Plenary Speaker. “The Witness as World-Traveller: Multidirectional Memory and Holocaust Internationalism Before Human Rights.” Memory With(out) Borders. NITMES: Network for Transnational Memory Studies, Utrecht, June 18-19, 2013.
Plenary Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory.” Memory and Trauma Studies. Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, June 3, 2013.
Keynote Speaker. "Migration and Multidirectional Memory." Transnational Memory. University of Konstanz. May 28, 2013.
"What Does It Mean to Inherit the Past? Holocaust Memory Through the Migrant Lens." James Hoffmann Memorial Lecture. Dartmouth College. February 25, 2013. Read about it here!
Invited Speaker. “Migrant Archives and Multidirectional Memory: Immigrating into the Past.” Humanities Institute. State University of New York, Stony Brook, November 15, 2012.
Invited Speaker. "Multldirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject." Memory and Countermemory: For an Open Future. Arizona State University, November 9, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. “What Does It Mean to Inherit the Past? Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance.” Memory and Countermemory: For an Open Future. Arizona State University, November 8, 2012.
Invited Speaker. “Working Through the Past, Turkish/German Style.” With Yasemin Yildiz. After the Violence: Memory. University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 21, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. "Between Paris and Warsaw: Memory, Comparison, and Historical Responsibility." From Bio-hereditary Memory to Postmemory. 2nd Transdisciplinary Summer Workshop, Morawa n. Strzegom, Poland, July 5, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. "Migrant Archives and Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany." Polyphone Geschichte(n): Schreiben, Einschreiben, Teilhaben—Migration und Geschichte, Literatur, Medien und Politik, Innsbruck, June 21, 2012.
Invited Speaker. “What Does Coming to Terms with the Past Mean (in an Immigration Society)? Turkish/German Vergangenheitsbewältigung.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, June 13, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. “Migrant Archives, Minority Interventions, and Postmigrant Culture: A Multidirectional Approach.” Towards a Common Past? Conflicting Memories in Contemporary Europe. Nordic Network in Memory Studies, Lund, May 14-16, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. "'Grandpa Was No Nazi': Migration, Generation, and Memory in Contemporary Germany." Conflict in Memory: Interperonsal and Intergenerational Remembering of War, Conflict and Transitions. Aarhus University, May 9-11, 2012.
Invited Speaker. "Migrant Archives: Coming to Terms With the Past in Contemporary Germany." With Yasemin Yildiz. Centre for Literature and Trauma, University of Ghent, March 28, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. "Multidirectional Memory Between the Posts." Postcolonial Approaches to Postsocialist Experiences, Cambridge University, February 24, 2012.
Invited Speaker. "Migrant Archives and Multidirectional Memory in Post-National Socialist Germany." Seminar on the Archive, University of East Anglia, February 22, 2012.
Invited Speaker. "'Grandpa Was No Nazi': Migration and Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany." Debating Multidirectional Memory, University of York, January 12, 2012.
Invited Speaker. “’Opa war kein Nazi’: Migration and Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany.” Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, October 27, 2011.
Invited Speaker. “Trauma, Multidirectionality, Implication: An Interview.” Tätermodelle & Transgression: Grenzfälle in Gewalt- und Traumaforschung. Humboldt University zu Berlin, January 19, 2018. [via Skype]
Keynote Speaker. “Inheritance Trouble: Migration and Transcultural Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany.” Transcultural Memorial Forms. Nordic Summer School, Tallinn, March 18, 2017.
David Cesarani Memorial Lecture. “Inheritance Trouble: Migration and Transcultural Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany.” Royal Holloway University of London, February 23, 2017.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory and Beyond.” Seminar at Centre March Bloch, Berlin, March 1, 2017.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory and Beyond.” Seminar visit for Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway University of London, February 23, 2017.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory.” POLIN Museum, Warsaw, December 14, 2016.
Invited Speaker. “Chronicle of a Summer and Multidirectional Memory.” Bunkier Gallery, Krakow, December 13, 2016.
Keynote Panelist. “Memory Studies at a Moment of Danger.” Thinking About the Future of Memory, Memory Studies Association Inaugural Conference, Amsterdam, December 3, 2016.
Invited Speaker. "Europe's Migrants and the Shoah." Conversation with Matti Bunzl. Vienna Humanities Festival, Vienna, September 24, 2016. Video available here.
Invited Speaker. "From Multidirectional Memory to the Implicated Subject." Master Class. Huizinga Institute, Amsterdam, September 23, 2016.
Keynote Speaker. “Implicated Subjects and the Rhetoric of the Past.” Rhetoric of the Past, Royal Netherlands Historical Society Symposium, Rotterdam, September 22, 2016.
Keynote Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory: Entangled Narratives, Implicated Subjects.” Sites of Memory: Lost and Entangled Narratives. Jewish Museum Berlin, September 16, 2016. Video available here, with lecture at 1:46.
Keynote Speaker. “Inheritance Trouble: Transcultural Holocaust Memory in the Mirror of Migration.” Locating and Dislocating Memory: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe, Dublin, September 3, 2016.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject,” Seminar visit for “Memory, Trauma and Violence,” University of Leeds, March 1, 2016 (via Skype).
Invited Speaker. “The Gray Zone.” Centro Primo Levi, New York, November 24, 2015.
Invited Speaker. “‘Germany is in Kurdistan’: Internationalism and the Implicated Subject,” Scales of Memory, Australian National University, December 10, 2014. (via Skype)
Invited Speaker. “‘Germany is in Kurdistan’: Internationalism and the Implicated Subject,” Memory Without Borders, University of California, Berkeley, November 14, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Inheritance Trouble: Migration, Memory, and the German Past.” With Yasemin Yildiz. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of German/Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, October 20, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Inheritance Trouble: Migration, Memory, and the German Past.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Cornell University Department of German Studies, September 12, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory, Migrant Archives, and the Implicated Subject.” LMU, Munich, June 30, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Feelings Change Sides: Migration, Affect, and Mnemonic Transfers.” Memory Transfers and Transformations, NITMES: Network for Transnational Memory Studies, University of Konstanz, June 26, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory: New Directions in the Study of Cultural Memory.” Hanyang University, Seoul, May 23, 2014.
Invited Speaker. “Citizens of Memory: Between Holocaust Remembrance and Transnational Migration.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Hanyang University, Seoul, May 22, 2014.
Keynote Speaker. “Citizens of Memory: Citizenship Between Holocaust Remembrance and Transnational Migration.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Memory, Migration, and Materiality. New School, New York, May 1, 2014.
Invited Speaker. "Migrant Archives: New Sources of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany." With Yasemin Yildiz. Crossing the Disciplinary Divide: Conjunctions in German and Holocaust Studies. Washington University, March 21, 2014.
Emanuel Ringelblum Lecture and Keynote Speaker. “Citizens of Memory: Immigrants and Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” Globalizing the Holocaust. University of California, Davis, January 30, 2014.
Keynote Speaker. "Memory Bound: The Implicated Subject and the Legacies of Slavery." Memory Unbound. Mnemonics Summer School, Ghent, September 10, 2013.
Invited Roundtable Speaker. Ethnic Minorities and Holocaust Memory, University of Jena, July 13, 2013.
Keynote Speaker. "On Being a Descendant: Implicated Subjects and the Legacies of Slavery." The Colonial Legacy of the Treaty of Utrecht: 1713-1863-2013, Utrecht, June 21-22, 2013. A video of this lecture can be found here.
Plenary Speaker. “The Witness as World-Traveller: Multidirectional Memory and Holocaust Internationalism Before Human Rights.” Memory With(out) Borders. NITMES: Network for Transnational Memory Studies, Utrecht, June 18-19, 2013.
Plenary Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory.” Memory and Trauma Studies. Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, June 3, 2013.
Keynote Speaker. "Migration and Multidirectional Memory." Transnational Memory. University of Konstanz. May 28, 2013.
"What Does It Mean to Inherit the Past? Holocaust Memory Through the Migrant Lens." James Hoffmann Memorial Lecture. Dartmouth College. February 25, 2013. Read about it here!
Invited Speaker. “Migrant Archives and Multidirectional Memory: Immigrating into the Past.” Humanities Institute. State University of New York, Stony Brook, November 15, 2012.
Invited Speaker. "Multldirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject." Memory and Countermemory: For an Open Future. Arizona State University, November 9, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. “What Does It Mean to Inherit the Past? Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance.” Memory and Countermemory: For an Open Future. Arizona State University, November 8, 2012.
Invited Speaker. “Working Through the Past, Turkish/German Style.” With Yasemin Yildiz. After the Violence: Memory. University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 21, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. "Between Paris and Warsaw: Memory, Comparison, and Historical Responsibility." From Bio-hereditary Memory to Postmemory. 2nd Transdisciplinary Summer Workshop, Morawa n. Strzegom, Poland, July 5, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. "Migrant Archives and Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany." Polyphone Geschichte(n): Schreiben, Einschreiben, Teilhaben—Migration und Geschichte, Literatur, Medien und Politik, Innsbruck, June 21, 2012.
Invited Speaker. “What Does Coming to Terms with the Past Mean (in an Immigration Society)? Turkish/German Vergangenheitsbewältigung.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, June 13, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. “Migrant Archives, Minority Interventions, and Postmigrant Culture: A Multidirectional Approach.” Towards a Common Past? Conflicting Memories in Contemporary Europe. Nordic Network in Memory Studies, Lund, May 14-16, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. "'Grandpa Was No Nazi': Migration, Generation, and Memory in Contemporary Germany." Conflict in Memory: Interperonsal and Intergenerational Remembering of War, Conflict and Transitions. Aarhus University, May 9-11, 2012.
Invited Speaker. "Migrant Archives: Coming to Terms With the Past in Contemporary Germany." With Yasemin Yildiz. Centre for Literature and Trauma, University of Ghent, March 28, 2012.
Keynote Speaker. "Multidirectional Memory Between the Posts." Postcolonial Approaches to Postsocialist Experiences, Cambridge University, February 24, 2012.
Invited Speaker. "Migrant Archives and Multidirectional Memory in Post-National Socialist Germany." Seminar on the Archive, University of East Anglia, February 22, 2012.
Invited Speaker. "'Grandpa Was No Nazi': Migration and Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany." Debating Multidirectional Memory, University of York, January 12, 2012.
Invited Speaker. “’Opa war kein Nazi’: Migration and Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany.” Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, October 27, 2011.
Keynote Speaker. "Under the Sign of Suitcases: Testimony and the Politics of Mediation." The Future of Testimony, University of Salford, UK, August 11-12, 2011.
Invited Speaker. "Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject: On Sebald and Kentridge." Program in Jewish Studies, Cornell University, April 28, 2011.
Keynote Speaker. "Progression, Procession, Transition: Kentridge with Benjamin." International Narrative Conference, St. Louis, April 7-10, 2011.
Invited Speaker. "Multidirectional Memory and the Politics of Testimony," Testimonies, Personal Narratives, Alternative Tellings, Rutgers University, March 27-28, 2011.
Keynote Speaker. "Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject." Survival Logics: Narrative and the Margins, Rutgers University, March 25, 2011.
Invited Speaker. "The Tangled Legacies of Conflict: William Kentridge's Multidirectional Memory." Aftershocks, University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 17-18, 2011.
Invited Speaker. "Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany." With Yasemin Yildiz. University of Michigan, February 11, 2011.
Invited Speaker. “Memory Citizenship: Migrant Women and Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Bryn Mawr College, November 22, 2010.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject: On Sebald and Kentridge.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 11, 2010.
Keynote Speaker. “The Multidirectional Sublime and the Art of Transition,” Multidirectional Memory, University of Leeds, September 23-24, 2010.
Keynote Speaker. “Migrant Archives: Performing Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany,” Performing Memory in the Arts, with Yasemin Yildiz, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, May 28, 2010.
Invited Speaker. “Mining and Multidirectional Memory in Transitional South Africa,” University of Utrecht, Netherlands, May 27, 2010.
Invited Speaker. “From Competition to Solidarity: Mapping Multidirectional Memory,” University of Missouri, April 15, 2010.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory and the Question of Justice,” Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA, March 1, 2010.
Keynote Speaker. “From Gaza to Warsaw: Mapping Multidirectional Memory,” Transcultural Memory, Goldsmiths College, London, UK, Feb. 4-6, 2010.
Invited Speaker. "Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject: On Sebald and Kentridge." Program in Jewish Studies, Cornell University, April 28, 2011.
Keynote Speaker. "Progression, Procession, Transition: Kentridge with Benjamin." International Narrative Conference, St. Louis, April 7-10, 2011.
Invited Speaker. "Multidirectional Memory and the Politics of Testimony," Testimonies, Personal Narratives, Alternative Tellings, Rutgers University, March 27-28, 2011.
Keynote Speaker. "Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject." Survival Logics: Narrative and the Margins, Rutgers University, March 25, 2011.
Invited Speaker. "The Tangled Legacies of Conflict: William Kentridge's Multidirectional Memory." Aftershocks, University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 17-18, 2011.
Invited Speaker. "Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany." With Yasemin Yildiz. University of Michigan, February 11, 2011.
Invited Speaker. “Memory Citizenship: Migrant Women and Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Bryn Mawr College, November 22, 2010.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject: On Sebald and Kentridge.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 11, 2010.
Keynote Speaker. “The Multidirectional Sublime and the Art of Transition,” Multidirectional Memory, University of Leeds, September 23-24, 2010.
Keynote Speaker. “Migrant Archives: Performing Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany,” Performing Memory in the Arts, with Yasemin Yildiz, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, May 28, 2010.
Invited Speaker. “Mining and Multidirectional Memory in Transitional South Africa,” University of Utrecht, Netherlands, May 27, 2010.
Invited Speaker. “From Competition to Solidarity: Mapping Multidirectional Memory,” University of Missouri, April 15, 2010.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory and the Question of Justice,” Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA, March 1, 2010.
Keynote Speaker. “From Gaza to Warsaw: Mapping Multidirectional Memory,” Transcultural Memory, Goldsmiths College, London, UK, Feb. 4-6, 2010.
Invited Speaker. “Mapping Multidirectional Memory: Politics Between Past and Present,” Cultural Memory Seminar, Columbia University, New York, September 14, 2009.
Plenary Speaker. “’Un Choc en Retour’: Rethinking Trauma Theory with Aimé Césaire.” Literature and the Memory of Catastrophe, VLAC, Brussels, Belgium, May 30, 2009.
Invited Seminar Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory.” University of Leuven, May 13, 2009.
Keynote Speaker. “The Terrorism of Memory: The Multidirectional Legacies of October 17, 1961.” Trauma and Memory: Perspectives on Algeria and the Holocaust, University of Newcastle, UK, May 6, 2009.
Invited Speaker. “Burying the Untombed Dead: Multidirectional Sites of Memory in La Seine était rouge.” Centre for Literature and Trauma, University of Ghent, May 4, 2009.
Invited Speaker. “’Doesn’t that Remind You of Something?’: Caché, the Papon Trial, and Multidirectional Holocaust Memory.” Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp, April 23, 2009.
Keynote Speaker. “Concentrationary Memory is Multidirectional Memory.” Concentrationary Memories: The Politics of Representation. University of Leeds, UK, March 24, 2009.
Invited Speaker. “Around 1961: Decolonization, Globalization, and Multidirectional Holocaust Memory.” Marking Evil: The Memory of the Holocaust in a Global Age. Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel, December 30, 2008.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization.” Annual Public History Lecture. Concordia University, Montreal, November 15, 2007.
Invited Speaker. “A Tale of Three Ghettos: Multidirectional Memory and The Stone Face.” “Post-45.” Harvard University, Cambridge, November 8, 2007.
Invited Speaker. “Fractured Relations: The Multidirectional Holocaust Memory of Caryl Phillips.” After Testimony: The Ethics of Holocaust Narrative. University of Oslo Institute for Advanced Studies. Berlin, June 2007.
Plenary Speaker. “17 October 1961: A Site of Holocaust Memory?” Culture et Mémoire: Quelles Représentations? Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, March 2007.
Invited Speaker. “Toward a Translational University.” “The Politics and Culture of the Humanities.” IPRH/Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. March 9, 2007.
Invited Speaker. “Reason and Light: The Reception of Primo Levi in the United States.” With Jonathan Druker. International Conference on the Reception of Primo Levi, Fondation Auschwitz. Brussels, October 12, 2006.
Keynote Speaker. “Of Literature and Terror: Before and After September 11.” MUSE Conference, Illinois-Wesleyan, September 30, 2006.
Invited speaker. “Multidirectional Memory of the Holocaust.” Simon-Dubnow-Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig, Germany, July 21, 2004.
Invited speaker. “Encounters with Truth: The Holocaust, Colonialism, and Multi-Directional Memory.” “Anticipated Utopias: The Ethics and Politics of Collectivity,” Center for Critical Theory. Duke University, April 17, 2004.
Invited lecture. “The Representation of the Holocaust in Literature.” Department of Religious Studies. College of William and Mary, April 15, 2004.
Invited speaker. “Rethinking Holocaust Remembrance: Contested Memory, Screen Memory, Multi-Directional Memory.” “Contested Memories of the Holocaust.” Dartmouth College, April 10, 2004.
Invited lecture. “The Work of Testimony in the Age of Decolonization.” University of Illinois, Chicago, March 12, 2004.
Invited speaker. “Decolonizing Holocaust Memory.” “Genocide and Colonialism” Conference, University of Sydney, July 18, 2003.
Invited lecture. “Between the Post-Holocaust and the Postcolonial.” University of Virginia, February 15, 2002.
Invited speaker. “Representing the Holocaust in Postcolonial Narrative.” “The Holocaust: Postwar Literature and Representation.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, May 24, 2001.
Invited speaker. “Othello in Auschwitz? Blacks, Jews, and the Forms of Identification.” “Tales and Taboo: Controversial Narratives of the Holocaust and Nazism.” Cornell University, April 13, 2001.
Invited lecture. “On the Interdisciplinarity of the Extreme: Traumatic Realism and the Nazi Genocide.” Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University. 13 November 1998.
Invited lecture. "The Year of the Holocaust." Harvard University Department of English, January 18, 1995.
Invited lecture. "Documenting Barbarism." University of Miami Department of English, January 17, 1995.
Plenary Speaker. “’Un Choc en Retour’: Rethinking Trauma Theory with Aimé Césaire.” Literature and the Memory of Catastrophe, VLAC, Brussels, Belgium, May 30, 2009.
Invited Seminar Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory.” University of Leuven, May 13, 2009.
Keynote Speaker. “The Terrorism of Memory: The Multidirectional Legacies of October 17, 1961.” Trauma and Memory: Perspectives on Algeria and the Holocaust, University of Newcastle, UK, May 6, 2009.
Invited Speaker. “Burying the Untombed Dead: Multidirectional Sites of Memory in La Seine était rouge.” Centre for Literature and Trauma, University of Ghent, May 4, 2009.
Invited Speaker. “’Doesn’t that Remind You of Something?’: Caché, the Papon Trial, and Multidirectional Holocaust Memory.” Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp, April 23, 2009.
Keynote Speaker. “Concentrationary Memory is Multidirectional Memory.” Concentrationary Memories: The Politics of Representation. University of Leeds, UK, March 24, 2009.
Invited Speaker. “Around 1961: Decolonization, Globalization, and Multidirectional Holocaust Memory.” Marking Evil: The Memory of the Holocaust in a Global Age. Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel, December 30, 2008.
Invited Speaker. “Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization.” Annual Public History Lecture. Concordia University, Montreal, November 15, 2007.
Invited Speaker. “A Tale of Three Ghettos: Multidirectional Memory and The Stone Face.” “Post-45.” Harvard University, Cambridge, November 8, 2007.
Invited Speaker. “Fractured Relations: The Multidirectional Holocaust Memory of Caryl Phillips.” After Testimony: The Ethics of Holocaust Narrative. University of Oslo Institute for Advanced Studies. Berlin, June 2007.
Plenary Speaker. “17 October 1961: A Site of Holocaust Memory?” Culture et Mémoire: Quelles Représentations? Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, March 2007.
Invited Speaker. “Toward a Translational University.” “The Politics and Culture of the Humanities.” IPRH/Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. March 9, 2007.
Invited Speaker. “Reason and Light: The Reception of Primo Levi in the United States.” With Jonathan Druker. International Conference on the Reception of Primo Levi, Fondation Auschwitz. Brussels, October 12, 2006.
Keynote Speaker. “Of Literature and Terror: Before and After September 11.” MUSE Conference, Illinois-Wesleyan, September 30, 2006.
Invited speaker. “Multidirectional Memory of the Holocaust.” Simon-Dubnow-Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig, Germany, July 21, 2004.
Invited speaker. “Encounters with Truth: The Holocaust, Colonialism, and Multi-Directional Memory.” “Anticipated Utopias: The Ethics and Politics of Collectivity,” Center for Critical Theory. Duke University, April 17, 2004.
Invited lecture. “The Representation of the Holocaust in Literature.” Department of Religious Studies. College of William and Mary, April 15, 2004.
Invited speaker. “Rethinking Holocaust Remembrance: Contested Memory, Screen Memory, Multi-Directional Memory.” “Contested Memories of the Holocaust.” Dartmouth College, April 10, 2004.
Invited lecture. “The Work of Testimony in the Age of Decolonization.” University of Illinois, Chicago, March 12, 2004.
Invited speaker. “Decolonizing Holocaust Memory.” “Genocide and Colonialism” Conference, University of Sydney, July 18, 2003.
Invited lecture. “Between the Post-Holocaust and the Postcolonial.” University of Virginia, February 15, 2002.
Invited speaker. “Representing the Holocaust in Postcolonial Narrative.” “The Holocaust: Postwar Literature and Representation.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, May 24, 2001.
Invited speaker. “Othello in Auschwitz? Blacks, Jews, and the Forms of Identification.” “Tales and Taboo: Controversial Narratives of the Holocaust and Nazism.” Cornell University, April 13, 2001.
Invited lecture. “On the Interdisciplinarity of the Extreme: Traumatic Realism and the Nazi Genocide.” Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University. 13 November 1998.
Invited lecture. "The Year of the Holocaust." Harvard University Department of English, January 18, 1995.
Invited lecture. "Documenting Barbarism." University of Miami Department of English, January 17, 1995.