“Kina, Shqipëria dhe Arkitektura.” Instituti i Studimeve Albanologjike, March 15, 2023 (with Ylber Marku).
“How to Read Something That’s Very Dead and There’s No One Alive to Teach You.” Drew University, March 14, 2023.
“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.
“Periodizing Old Nubian: Philological, Archeological, and Linguistic Approaches.” HornEast Seminar, Aix-Marseille Université, 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.
“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.
Conference Presentations
“It’s All Greek to Me: Developing a Quantitative Method to Compare Old Nubian Translations.” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 4, 2023.
“Developing an Interlinear Old Nubian Text Database.” 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies, University of Warsaw, September 1, 2022 (with Sō Miyagawa).
“Introducing the Comparative Nubian Dictionary.” 18th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Edinburgh, August 4, 2021. Video.
“Let’s Spare the Bureaucrats: Did Meroitic Official Titles Survive in Old Nubian?” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 7, 2021. Video. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5576715.
“A New Set of Subject Markers in Old Nubian.” 17th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Vienna, May 31, 2019.
“For Sale: Old Nubian Land Sales and What They Tell Us about Nubian Medieval Economy.” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 2, 2018.
“A Memorial for Michael.” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2, 2018.
“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.
“A Passion for Yes: Coming Out and Affirmation.” Pedagogies of Disaster, National History Museum, Tirana, June 7, 2014.
“Towards a Revised Old Nubian Grammar: A Report on the Verbal System.” 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Cologne, May 22, 2013.
“Resisting Old Nubian: Philology and Deconstruction of Medieval Sudan.” 2nd Biennial Babel Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, September 21, 2012.