Recent

“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 ," ASA, 2019.

"Freedom," African Studies Keywords, ASA, 2019. 

New book forum on  African Freedom convened by Moradewun Adejunmobi, with Eleni Coundouriotis, Cilas Kemedjio, Simon Lewis, ALA, 2019.

Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France

“In Praise of Cultural Comparisons: An Itinerary of Abiola Irele’s Career as a Cosmopolitan, Polyvalent, Multi-lingual Intellectual,” ALA, 2018.

"La liberté et l'oeuvre de Sony Labou Tansi," Université de Paris VIII, 2018. 

"La liberté en Afrique: histoire d'une idée," Institut des Afriques / CNRS, Bordeaux, 2018.

"Penser la liberté en Afrique et les disciplines," LAM / Les Afriques dans le monde, Bordeaux, 2018.

"African Freedom: Languages, Contexts, History," SOAS / Univeristy of London, 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, 2018.

“Questions of Culture and the Idea Freedom in Africa and the African Diaspora,” ASA, 2017.

“The Idea of Freedom in Africa Today,” Decolonial Paradigms, Future Freedoms, round table with Tejumola Olaniyan, Cilas Kemedjio, Anjali Prabhu, MLA, 2017.

"Meaningful Freedom and Social Justice in the Writing of André Brink and Assia Djebar," ACLA, 2016.

Roundtable on Sissako’s  Timbuktu with Anjali Prabhu, Odile Cazenave, Ken Harrow, ASA 2015.

“Patrice Lumumba in the Archive of the Gatekeeper State,” ECAS - Paris, 2015.