Lectures and Presentations

Keynotes

• “No More Miracles: On the Origins and Futures of Nubian Studies, 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies, University of Warsaw, August 30, 2022. Download slides.

Lectures and Presentations

• “How to Read Something That’s Very Dead and There’s No One Alive to Teach You,” Drew University, March 14, 2023.

• “Developing an Interlinear Old Nubian Text Database,” 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies, University of Warsaw, September 1, 2022 (with Sō Miyagawa).

• “Socialist Monuments, Mapping, and Open Access,” Alternative Collections and Digital Humanities: Twentieth-Century Chinese Art and Visual Culture, University of Toronto, July 15, 2022.

• “How to Read Old Nubian?,” 古代・東方キリスト教研究会, September 26, 2021.

• “Introducing the Comparative Nubian Dictionary,” 15th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Edinburgh, August 4, 2021. Video.

• “Let’s Spare the Bureaucrats: Did Meroitic Official Titles Survive in Old Nubian?” Sovereignty and Kinship in North-East Africa, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 7, 2021. Video. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5576715.

• “Periodizing Old Nubian: Philological, Archeological, and Linguistic Approaches,” HornEast Seminar, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, April 20, 2021. Video

• “Alwan Nubian and Alphabetic Writing in the Medieval Sudan,” Polish Center for Mediterranean Archaeology, Cairo, September 11, 2019.

• “How to Read Old Nubian?,” Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Cairo, September 4, 2019. Video.

• “Introduction: Exosemiotics," Interplanetary Species Society, Reaktorhallen, Stockholm, August 24, 2019. Download slides.

• “A New Set of Subject Markers in Old Nubian,” 17th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Vienna, May 31, 2019.

• “How to Read Old Nubian?,” University of Cologne, March 26, 2019.

• “For Sale: Old Nubian Land Sales and What They Tell Us about Nubian Medieval Economy,” Reclaiming the Middle Ages for Africa, I: From Nubia to Ethiopia, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2, 2018.

• “A Memorial for Michael,” Creating the Medieval Studies We Want To Remember, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2, 2018.

• “The Old Nubian Language and Grammar,” Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, June 8, 2018.

• “Some Old Nubian,” Anthropology Department, University of California – Santa Barbara, May 15, 2018.

• “Thinking with and without the Mother,” UCSB Literature and the Mind Colloquium, University of California – Santa Barbara, May 14, 2018. Download slides.

• “Nubian Studies: A Case Study in Scholar-Led Open Access Publishing,” UCSB Library, University of California – Santa Barbara, May 8, 2018.

• “Thinking with and without the Mother," Visual Cultures Public Programme, Goldsmiths College, London, January 18, 2018. Download slides.

• “Translating Greek to Old Nubian: Reading between the Lines of Ps.-Chrysostoms’s In venerabilem crucem sermo,” Caught in Translation: Versions of Late-Antique Christian Literature, EASR Annual Conference, University of Leuven, September 20, 2017.

• “The Pedagogy of the New World Summit,” Homo Novus, Rīga, September 3, 2017.

• “Publishing as Activism: punctum books, Aaron Swartz, and the Medieval Sudan,” The Theory and Politics of Medieval Studies II: Activism, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 5, 2017.

• “Old Nubian Prosody and Assimilation," 16th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Addis-Ababa, May 5, 2017.

• “Subtitling Communism: Beneath Anri Sala’s Intervista,” Solution Communism, State of Concept, Athens, January 22, 2017.

• “On the New World Summit,” The Illegality of Freedom, Academy of Arts, Vienna, November 12, 2016.

• “Language Contact and Translation Practices in Medieval Nubia," The Medieval Nile and Red Sea as a Passage of Transmission, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 6, 2016.

• “On the New World Summit,” What Now? 2016: On Future Identities, Vera List Center, New York, May 21, 2016.

• “Introduction: Stateless Democracy and Self-Defense," 5th New World Summit, Utrecht, January 30, 2016.

• “Give Me the Colours… And the Country: Albanian Propaganda in the 21st Century,” Nationless, Skopje, December 6, 2015.

• “Whither Barbarism?," Summer School of Engaged Art, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, July 31, 2015. Download slides.

• “Violence and Non-Violence," Artists Organizations International, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, January 10, 2015.

• “Notes toward a Different Truth,” Rhythms: Work, Art and Text, Tembusu College, National University of Singapore, April 16, 2014.

• “Alain Badiou, Theater, Jonas Staal," Are You Alive or Not?, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, February 4, 2014.

• “Can Art Be Political?,” New World Academy, BAK, Utrecht, November 15, 2013.

• “A Passion for Yes: Coming Out and Affirmation,” Pedagogies of Disaster, National History Museum, Tirana, June 7, 2014.

• “This Is a Text in Which Are Gaps: A Response to Karla Mallette,” Philology and the Futures of Humanism, Dartmouth College, October 19, 2013.

• “The Disturbing Object of Philology,” Philology and the Futures of Humanism, Dartmouth College, October 19, 2013.

• “Towards a Revised Old Nubian Grammar: A Report on the Verbal System,” 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Cologne, May 22, 2013.

• “Een ironisch citaat: Alain Badiou over kunst," De Appel, Amsterdam, October 14, 2012.

• “Heidegger’s Mom and the Joke of Democracy: Fictional Notes on the Political,” lecture at the opening of Cross-Examinations #2: How Much Fascism?, curated by WHW in collaboration with Mihnea Mircan, Extra City, Antwerp, October 7, 2012. Video.

• “Resisting Old Nubian: Philology and Deconstruction of Medieval Sudan,” 2nd Biennial Babel Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, September 21, 2012.

• “Fuck Peer Review," 2nd Biennial Babel Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, September 21, 2012.

• “Testify, Testify, Testify: Pain and Democracy,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum Participants’ Conference, Città di Castello, July 8, 2012.

• “Interventions textuelles,” Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, April 4, 2011.

• “A Case Study: Introductions without the Subject,” Department of Comparative Literature, Leiden University, November 30, 2010.

• “On Art Appropriating Politics: Waiting for Jonas Staal’s Post-Propaganda,” Waiting for the Political Moment, Rotterdam, June 16, 2010.

• “Mes méthodes poétiques,” Centre d’études poétiques, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, November 4, 2009.

• “Rules of Engagement: Level 1–5,” Issues in Engagement in Digital Media Artworks and Literature, Leiden University, September 11, 2008.

• “Composition Methods of a Suicide Terrorist,” Anatomie van een bomwrak, Rotterdam, September 9, 2007.