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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

International Conferences
 

  • Diasporic Amazigh Film: Between Memory, Transmission and Confrontation. Paper co-presented with Lucy McNair at Diasporic Reading of Communities in North Africa and the Middle East. The Chaim Herzog Center. Ben-Gurion University, Israel, December 2019.

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  • The power of knowledge, the power of symbols. Gender and religious empowerment in Indonesia, Malaysia and India. Paper presented at Power in Southeast Asia Conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies.McGill University, Canada, October 2019.

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  • Revisioning collective transnational identities: the case of the New York Forum of Amazigh Film. Paper presented at Audiovisual culture and history: politics, emotions and discourses. University of Catamarca, Argentina, October 2019.

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  • Memory of war and historical memory for Vichy work camps in Tunisia through Albert Memmi’s The Pillar of Salt.Paper presented at The Onset of New Order: Europe 1939–1940. University of Warsaw, Poland, September 2019.

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  • Imagined or real? Networking community in the New York Forum of Amazigh Film. Paper presented at conference Morocco in Motion: Global Reach of Moroccan Cinema, University of Edinburgh, UK, October 2018.
     

  • Amazigh cinema at large: Challenges and hopes. Paper co-presented with L. McNair at World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, July 2018.
     

  • Roundtable: Translating Berber film: Film festivals abroad. Paper co-presented with L. McNair at Transnational Moroccan Cinema Conference, University of Exeter, Marrakech, Morocco, December 2016.
     

  • Sub-Saharan Immigration in Morocco: Legal and Social challenges. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), London School of Economics, London, UK, April 2016.
     

  • Luce World Pathways heritage language program from classroom to corporation: Internship success stories. Paper presented at 19th World Conference on Cooperative & Work-Integrated Education, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan, August 2015.
     

  • Islamic feminism: The contours of a new liberation theology. Paper presented at the workshop Gender, Law and Social Change in North Africa, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. March 2015.
     

  • Turkish dubbed soap operas in Morocco: Hybridization, liberation and alienation. Paper presented at Fourth World Congress for Middle East Studies (WOCMES) Ankara, Turkey, August 2014.
     

  • Muslim and European encounters through travel writing: 17th-19th centuries. Paper presented at The Maghreb Studies Association Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK, June 2013.

 

National Conferences
 

  • Identity and space in Amazigh/Berber film productions: Site of contestation. Paper presented at Literature/Film Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, December 2018.
     

  • Transnational identities in Amazigh/Berber cultural appraisals: Ethnicity practices through social media. Paper co-presented with S. Bahri at 23rdAnnual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, May 2018.
     

  • Community college freshmen and MA students: Students’ Reflections on a collaboration on literature and terrorism through a novel. Paper presented at the 2018 COIL Conference 2018 on Global Learning for All, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, March 2018.
     

  • Local governance and social accountability reforms in the wake of the Arab Spring. Paper presented at the MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2017.
     

  • Building an International Studies program in a community college: Pedagogy, resources and challenges. Paper presented at the International Studies Association, ISA Northeast Region, 49th Annual Conference, Providence, RI, November 2017.
     

  • Celebrity chef Choumicha revisits Moroccan traditional. Paper presented at MLA Modern Language Association, 2017 Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017.
     

  • Teaching French to North African soldiers in the French Colonial Army. Paper presented at the MESA (Middle East Studies Association) 50th Anniversary Meeting. Boston, MA, November 2016.
     

  • Moroccan satire: Shifting political boundaries. Paper presented at NEMLA (North Eastern Modern Language Association) Annual Convention, Hartford, CT, March 2016.

 

Regional Conferences
 

  • Language museums in the world. Paper presented at World. Symposium on Languages Across the Curriculum, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY, May 2017.
     

  • How do languages contribute to cultural competency in a global world understood as Anglophone? Paper presented at CUNY Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, March 2017.
     

  • Being female, black and activist in Martinique: The Life and Legacy of Ghislaine Joachim Arnaud. Paper presented at 19th Annual Women’s Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, March 2017.
     

  • Developing frameworks for cultural knowledge in world language study. Paper co-presented with L. Ramos, E. Kuhn-Osisus, & F. Salek at Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL), New York, February 2016.
     

  • Same sex marriage and adoption in France: Contours of a controversial law. Paper presented at 16th Annual Women's History Month Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, March 2014.

 

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