““Reading Mennonite Writing Now.” The John and Margaret Friesen Lectures in Anabaptist / Mennonite Studies. Canadian Mennonite University. Winnipeg, Manitoba. March 3, 2022. Video
“Reading The Russländer in Ukraine: On Real and Literary Places.” A Memories of Migration Russlander 100 Tour Event. 1 Hr Lecture. Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies. University of Winnipeg. February 8, 2022. Video
“‘Near the Stacks of the East Village Public Library’: Intertextuality as Mennonite Literary History.” Mennonite/s Writing IX. Goshen College, Indiana. Sept 2022.
“On Project Bookmark Canada, Or: Reading a Few Pages of Ondaatje on the Bloor Street Viaduct.” Where from here? Canadian Literary Culture. Guelph, ON. Sept. 2022.
“Distant Reading, Mennonite Writing.” Modern Language Association. Washington, DC. January 2022. (Virtual)
Panel Participant. “Transnational Currents in Canadian Literature.” Modern Language Association. Seattle, Washington. Jan 9-12. 2019.
“1986: Or, Toward Minor Literary History.” Association of Canadian and Quebecois Literature. (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). Vancouver: University of British Columbia, June 2019.
“At the Shrine of Robert Service: On Literary Tourism in Canada.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). Vancouver: University of British Columbia, June 2019.
“Reading The John McCrea House: On the Politics of CanLit Commemoration.” Institutional Work Canadian Literature Symposium. University of Ottawa, May (Unable to attend)
“The History of Emily Montague and the Fiction of Capital.” Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 12-15, 2018.
“‘Imagined Stories… in Real Locations’: Project Bookmark and CanLit’s Drive to Make it Real.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). Ryerson University. May 31, 2017.
“’the cleanest village in the world’: Dreaming Alternative Worlds in Mennonite Literature.” Encuentro X: dissidence, sovereignties, performance. Santiago, Chile. July 17–23, 2016.
“Peace as Violence: A Short History of Mennonite Literature.” Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference. Conrad Grebel University College (University of Waterloo). June, 2016.
“The Spatial Politics of Canadian Literary Studies.” Special Joint Panel, Association of Canadian and Quebecois Literature and Canadian Association for Commonwealth Languages and Literatures. (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). University of Ottawa. June, 2015.
“Mennonite/s Writing 2015: Strangely Like Ourselves” (State of the Field Keynote) Mennonite/s Writing VII: Movement, Transformation, and Place. Fresno Pacific University (California). March 14, 2015.
“Mennonite/s Writing, 2014-15 Reading Series.” Conrad Grebel University College (University of Waterloo) Oct. 2014 – March 2015. 7 evenings of readings and public interviews, with Rudy Wiebe; Jeff Gundy; Miriam Toews; Patrick Friesen; Di Brandt; David Bergen; and Carrie Snyder.
“Following the Trail of the Conestoga: Or, Who’s Afraid of Hemispheric Studies?” English Language and Literature Speaker Series, 2014-2015. University of Waterloo. Sept. 26, 2014.
“On Burning The Book of Negroes: The Performance of Dissent and the Politics of Location.” Encuentro (Hemispheric Institute, New York University). Montreal. June 21-28, 2014.
“Who’s Afraid of Hemispheric Studies? North America in the CanLit Imaginary.” Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). Brock University. May 24-30, 2014.
“On Burning The Book of Negroes: The Performance of Dissent and the Politics of Location.” Encuentro (Hemispheric Institute, New York University). Montreal. June 21-28, 2014.
“Mennonite? Canadian? Literature?” Christianity and Literature Study Group, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). Brock University. May 24-30, 2014.
“Campo Siete: Negotiating Cultural Difference in Irma Voth and Silent Light.” North Eastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Susquehanna University (Pennsylvania). April 3-6, 2014.
“The Fiction of Mennonite North American Literature.” After Identity: Mennonite/s Writing in North America. Penn State University. May 28 – 31, 2013.
“Mennonite/s Writing in North America: Following The Trail of the Conestoga.” Straddling Boundaries: Hemispherism, Cultural Identity, and Indigeneity. CCUSB Inaugural Conference. Algoma University. May 24 – 26, 2013.
“Mennonite/s Writing in North America.” Mennonite Studies Group. Conrad Grebel University College (University of Waterloo). March 22, 2013.
“Wither the Nation?: On the Shifting Ground of Canadian Literary Studies.” Methods Café. Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto. November 23, 2012.
“Returning Home to the ‘Middle of the World’: New Cartographies of Belonging in Mennonite Literary Studies.” Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre Lecture Series, University of Toronto. Oct. 23, 2012.
“‘We measured food in days’: Mennonites and Sauerkraut in Alayna Munce’s When I Was Young & In My Prime.” Foodways: Diasporic Diners, Transnational Tables and Culinary Connections. University of Toronto. October 4 – 7, 2012.
“‘Brilliant Exile, for the Heart / Is and Not Makes, a Work of Art’: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Displacement in Canada.” Exile’s Return. Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France). June 28-30, 2012.
“On Burning The Book of Negroes: The Geo-politics of Postnational Literatures.” Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. May 26, 2012.
“The Russländer and Cultural Identity: Reading for the Individual in Communal Narratives of Trauma.” Mennonite/s Writing VI. Eastern Mennonite University (Virginia). March 29 – April 1, 2012.
Invited Participant, Closing Panel. Mennonite/s Writing VI. Eastern Mennonite University (Virginia). April 1, 2012.
“Mennonite Literature as Communal Debate: Tracing the Collapse of the Russian Mennonite Commonwealth through Canadian Literature.” Mennonite/s Writing in Canada: The First 50 Years. (Lecture Series) Conrad Grebel University College (University of Waterloo). February 8, 2012. Watch
“Worlds Within or In Between Worlds? Returning Home in the fiction of Neil Bissoondath and M G Vassanji.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). University of New Brunswick. May 31, 2011.
“The Death of the Graduate Student (and the Birth of Highly Qualified Personnel): Research Capitalism and the Professionalization of Graduate Studies.” Professional Concerns Panel. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). University of New Brunswick. May 31, 2011.
“On Becoming a Mennonite Critic.” Transmissions. University of Guelph. March 17, 2011.
“Tourism, Mimicry, and the Politics of Return in Mennonite Canadian Literature.” European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey). April 26-30, 2011. (Withdrawn)
“Of Baba Stones and Land Claims: Reading Displacement in the Mennonite Migration Narrative.” Towards Critical Multiculturalism: Dialogues Between/ Among Canadian Diasporas. 5th Congress of Polish Canadianists. Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland). October 7-9, 2010.
“On a Newly Arisen Tone in Diaspora Studies.” Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). Concordia University. May 30, 2010.
“In Equal Elsewheres: Representing Diaspora in Canadian Literatures.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia. December 28, 2009.
“Mennonite Literature, Dionne Brand, and Surprises of Open-Ended Collaboration.” with Amy Kebe. TransCanada 3: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship. Mount Allison University. July 19, 2009.
“Mennonite Canadian Literature and Diasporic Narrative Strains.” TransCanada 3: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship. Mount Allison University. July 18, 2009.
“Mennonite Canadian Literature, the Ukraine, and ‘the rest of the world.’” Psychogeographies: The Terrain of Spectacle and Affect. University of Guelph. November 8, 2008.
“Canada’s First Novel? Anxieties of Empire in The History of Emily Montague.” Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). University of British Columbia. May 31, 2008.
“Half the Work for Twice the Credit? Exploring Academic Collaboration.” with Richard Cassidy, T.L. Cowan, and Erin Wunker. Professional Concerns Panel. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). University of British Columbia. June 1, 2008.
“‘In the World But Not of It’: Is there a Mennonite-Canadian Diasporic Literature?” TransCanada 2: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship. University of Guelph. October 13, 2007.
“Citizens of the Exception.” Narratives of Citizenship. University of Alberta, March 23, 2007.
“Editing the Community: Promise and Problems with the Guelph Speaks! Project.” Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). University of Saskatchewan. May 28, 2006.
“Obasan Meets Salt Fish Girl: Postcolonialism, Sovereignty, and the Changing Nation.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). University of Saskatchewan. May 29, 2006.
“‘And Yet’: Derrida on Benjamin’s Divine Violence.” Following Derrida: Legacies, an
International Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Manitoba. October 4, 2006.
“A Desire for the Real: Automatism and Accountability in The Englishman’s Boy.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). University of Western Ontario. May 28, 2005.
“Expanding Nationhood: Cultural Difference and Literary Expression.” 5th North American Student Conference (Student Organization of North America). San Juan, Puerto Rico. October 12-15, 2005. (Withdrawn)
“‘i would die etc.’: The Limitations of Language in War.” Global Linkages: Rethinking Literature and Violence. Université du Montreal. March 24, 2005.
“Re-Wording the Nation: Bhabha, Fiction, and the Canadian Condition.” Frost Free: Culture of Cool. University of Western Ontario. February 17, 2005.
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