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57th NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, virtual, March 5–8 (Forthcoming)
Panel “Regeneration in Morocco: Memory, Identity & Innovation
Organized by Salsabil Fakkar (Université Internationale de Casablanca)
Beyond Colonial Cadrage: Safaa Mazirh and Productive Illegibility
114th CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, in person, February 18–21 (Forthcoming)
Panel “Photographic Subjectivities: Seeing, Being Seen, Refusing the Frame”
Organized by Jennifer González and Miguel Fernandez (University of California Santa Cruz)
2026
59th Annual MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Meeting, Washington, DC, in-person, November 22–25 (Forthcoming)
Panel “Occidentalism Reconsidered: The West through the Eyes of its Other”
Organized by Varol Kahveci (Columbia University)
Boiling Places: Mapping Algiers’ Urban and Political Landscapes
11th Biennial UHA (Urban History Association) Conference, Los Angeles, CA, in person, October 10 (Forthcoming)
Panel “Urban Life and (Post)Colonial Memory in the French Empire”
Organized by Esther Isaac (University of Chicago)
Tuareg Therapeutics: Artistic Visions Beyond Loss and the Spiritual Suturing of the Desert
BRISMES (The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) Annual Conference, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, in person, July 3
Panel “War, Colonial Violence, and Ecocide”
‘Symbols in Symbiosis’: Situating Tamazgha in Hamid Kachmar’s Abstract Expression
AMCA (The Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey) Symposium, “Aesthetics of Solidarity by Arab American and Arab/SWANA Diaspora Artists in the US, 1948–Present,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, virtual, April 12
Panel “Identity as Strategy in Contemporary Art”
Half-Seen Figures, Double Gestures: Locating Tin Hinan Across Choukri Mesli’s Monotypes
AIMS (The American Institute for Maghrib Studies) Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, in person, February 27
Ethics of Discovery: Chronicling the Neolithic Art of Tassili n’Ajjer in the Twentieth Century
UT Austin Antiquities Action 6th Annual Symposium, “Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones: Protecting Antiquities During War,” The University of Texas at Austin, TX, in person, February 22
Panel “Heritage as Imperium: Authoritarian Uses of the Past”
Zardazgheneb: Motion, Chaos, and Pathos in the Furigraphy of Hawad
113th CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, New York, NY, in person, February 14
Panel “Cross-Cultural Conversations in Visuality and Textuality”
Is Colonialism Invariably Toxic? A Short Story of the Desertification of the Sahara
NAIS (Native American and Indigenous Studies) Brown Bag Workshop Series, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, in person, January 30
Memory Made Modern: Reimagining Ancient Amazigh Visuality
The Brooks Foundation Symposium, “Building an International Knowledge Network,” Tate Modern, London, UK, in person, January 22
Panel “Internationalism and Transnationalism”
Organized by Jess Sully (Tate Modern)
2025
Tate Modern, London, UK, in person, December 9
The Brooks Foundation Fellowship Seminar
Organized by Jess Sully (Tate Modern)
Chasing Horizons or Discovering New Old Things
Lecture performance in the exhibition Spirits Searching for Forms to Settle in
Delfina Foundation, London, UK, in person, November 27
Ethics of Discovery: Chronicling the Neolithic Art of Tassili n’Ajjer in the Twentieth Century
58th Annual MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Meeting, virtual, November 13
Panel “Material Culture in the Middle East”
Indigenous Presentness: Translocal Politics of Amazigh Art and Resistance
Tate Modern, London, UK, in person, September 23
The Brooks Foundation Fellowship Seminar
Organized by Jess Sully (Tate Modern)
‘Give Us Fire, We’ll Tattoo the Dawn on You’: Exile and Freedom in Ishumar Music
2nd MENACA (Middle Eastern, North African, and Central Asian Dances and Music) Symposium, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, virtual, October 4
Panel “Envisioning Decolonialism”
Diasporic Imaginations in Algerian Art: From Aouchem to Zénati
Public lecture, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, in person, July 24
Sign, Symbol, Letter: Tracing Abstraction in Arab and Amazigh Aesthetic Modernism(s)
BRISMES (The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) Annual Conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, in person, July 2
Panel “Religion, Materiality, and Aesthetics”
Half-Seen Queen: Tin Hinan’s Imprint in Choukri Mesli’s Monotypes
Eleanor Greenhill Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, TX, in person, March 30
Organized by the Graduate Student Art History Association
Sardonic Smile of the Void: Hawad’s Sahara in the Crosshairs of an Extractive Enterprise
55th NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Annual Convention, Boston, MA, in person, March 8
Panel “‘The surplus would have to die:’ Surplus and Abundance, Alienation and Relationality”
Organized by Kailey McDonald (University of Buffalo)
2024
57th Annual MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada, in person, November 2
Panel “Visual and Aural Histories of [De]colonization in North Africa”
Organized by Lacy Murphy (Washington University)
Performing Place-based Knowledge: The Case of Aouchem
Maghrib in Past & Present, Le Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT), April 27
Phantom Images, Residual Violences: An Unlooking and Untelling of Marc Garanger’s Femmes algériennes 1960
21st Annual Sequels Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, in person, March 31
Panel “Witnesses and Actors: Archives in Production”
Organized by the Ethnic and Third World Collective
‘Verbs Are a Tragedy’: Poetics of Refusal from the Black Diaspora
54th NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Convention, Niagara Falls, NY, in person, March 24
Roundtable “Literature of Resistance”
Organized by Amanda González Izquierdo (Florida International University)
On Permanency: Colonial Urbanism in Algiers or Fanon’s lieu en ebullition
39th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium, The Florida State University, Department of Art History, Tallahassee, FL, in person, March 4
Indelible Resistances and the Mark-Making of Aouchem
111th CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, New York City, NY, virtual, February 15
Panel “Abstraction in and around the Middle East and North Africa in the Context of Decolonization”
Organized by Leili Adibfar and Kaveh Rafie (University of Illinois)
2023
Eleanor Greenhill Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, TX, virtual, April 2
Organized by the Graduate Student Art History Association
Phantom Images, Residual Violences: An Experiment in Method
110th CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, virtual, March 5
Panel “Reparative Collectivities, Communities and Ecologies: Toward a Reparative Art History”
Organized by Alexander Strecker & Jasmine Magana (Duke University)
2022
Public lecture, Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, virtual, August 7
2020
Panel discussion, facilitated by New Art Social, Quilliam Brothers, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, April 7
Women Working in Sculpture: Towards a New Lexicon
P anel discussion, the Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, February 5
2018
A rtist conversation with Julie Louise Bemment, PH. Space, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, November 21
2016