Keynote on “Niger’s Coup and the Question of Democracy in West Africa,” Denison University, Granville, OH, 2024.
“Nation-State and Governance,” Institutions of African Literature, Part I. African Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, 2023.
“Le Rap et la question écologique en Afrique,” Association pour l’étude de la littérature africaine, Université Cheick Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 2023.
Convened session on “Popular Engagements with Citizenship,” African Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA, 2022. Sponsored by Executive Committee of the African Literature Association.
“Smockey Bambara and the Art of Citizenship in Burkina Faso,” African Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA, 2022.
Moderated keynote address with Rama Thiaw and Thiat on The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, African Literature Association, Online 2022.
“Interpreting Sony Labou Tansi’s Kikongo World in the Novels Published in French,” Francophone Literature Forum, Modern Language Association, Online 2021.
Moderated keynote address with Yaa Gyasi, African Literature Association, Online 2021.
“Tejumola Olaniyan on Freedom and the African Diaspora,” Board-sponsored session, African Literature Association, Online 2021.
“Conversations About Freedom and Richard Wright’s Black Power,” Board-sponsored session, African Studies Association, Online 2020.
“Relative Degrees of Freedom in Rural Ghana: Obstacles and Opportunities,” Social Practice of Human Rights, Dayton, OH, 2019.
“Freedom and Belonging in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing ,” African Studies Association, Boston, MA, 2019.
“Freedom,” African Studies Keywords, African Studies Association, Boston, MA, 2019.
New book forum on African Freedom convened by Moradewun Adejunmobi, with Eleni Coundouriotis, Cilas Kemedjio, Simon Lewis, African Literature Association, Washington, DC, 2018.
“In Praise of Cultural Comparisons: An Itinerary of Abiola Irele’s Career as a Cosmopolitan, Polyvalent, Multi-lingual Intellectual,” African Literature Association, Columbus, OH, 2018.
“La liberté et l’oeuvre de Sony Labou Tansi,” Université de Paris VIII, Paris, France, 2018.
“La liberté en Afrique: histoire d’une idée,” Institut des Afriques / CNRS, Bordeaux, France, 2018.
“Penser la liberté en Afrique et les disciplines,” LAM / Les Afriques dans le monde, Bordeaux, France, 2018.
“African Freedom: Languages, Contexts, History,” SOAS / Univeristy of London, London, UK, 2018.
Convened Session, “Twenty-First Century African Writers. Critical reflections on the emergence of twenty-first century African literature in relation to dynamics and definitions of world literature,” MLA, New York, NY, 2018.
“Questions of Culture and the Idea Freedom in Africa and the African Diaspora,” African Studies Association, Chicago, IL, 2017.
“The Idea of Freedom in Africa Today,” Decolonial Paradigms, Future Freedoms, round table with Tejumola Olaniyan, Cilas Kemedjio, Anjali Prabhu, MLA, Philadelphia, PA, 2017.
“Meaningful Freedom and Social Justice in the Writing of André Brink and Assia Djebar,” ACLA, Cambridge, MA, 2016.
Roundtable on Sissako’s Timbuktu with Anjali Prabhu, Odile Cazenave, Ken Harrow, African Studies Association, San Diego, CA, 2015.
“Patrice Lumumba in the Archive of the Gatekeeper State,” ECAS – Paris, France, 2015.