Presentations
Keynote Lectures
“Keeping Up with the Monolingual Paradigm: Reflections on the Postmonolingual Condition Today.” Forked Tongues: The Role of (Foreign) Languages in Literature, Film, and the Arts. 2022 Graduate Center for Literary Research Graduate Student Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. June 5, 2022.
“Touching a Taboo Inheritance: An Immigrant Performs Mein Kampf.” Gatekeepers of Memory. Graduate Student Conference. Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. February 23, 2018.
“This Migration Which Is Not One: Refugees, Migrants, and (Turkish-)German Studies” Larry Wells Memorial Lecture and Keynote at Binghamton University German Studies Colloquium (Theme: “Dis-Placements, Refuges, and Other Belongings”). Binghamton University. Binghamton, NY. April 15, 2016.
“Citizens of Memory: Holocaust Remembrance and Transnational Migration.” With Michael Rothberg. Memory, Migration, Materiality. New School of Social Research, New York, May 1-3, 2014.
“Monolingualism as a Paradigm: Writing the Postmonolingual Condition.” Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism. Leiden University, Netherlands. June 23, 2012.
"Migrant Archives: Performing Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany." With Michael Rothberg. Performances of Memory in the Arts. Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. May 28, 2010.
“Agency, Address, Occidentalism: The Discourse of ‘Muslim’ Women in Europe.” De/Constructions of Occidentalism. Humboldt Universität. Berlin, Germany. June 21, 2007.
“Keine Adresse in Deutschland? Formen von Adressierungen als Medien der Installierung von Rändern und Zentren.” Marginale Brüche: Kulturelle Produktionen von Migrantinnen, Schwarzen und jüdischen Frauen. [No Address in Germany? Forms of Address as Means of Installing Margins and Centers. Marginal Ruptures: Cultural Productions of Migrant, Black, and Jewish Women]. Köln, Germany. November 27, 1997.
“Touching a Taboo Inheritance: An Immigrant Performs Mein Kampf.” Gatekeepers of Memory. Graduate Student Conference. Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. February 23, 2018.
“This Migration Which Is Not One: Refugees, Migrants, and (Turkish-)German Studies” Larry Wells Memorial Lecture and Keynote at Binghamton University German Studies Colloquium (Theme: “Dis-Placements, Refuges, and Other Belongings”). Binghamton University. Binghamton, NY. April 15, 2016.
“Citizens of Memory: Holocaust Remembrance and Transnational Migration.” With Michael Rothberg. Memory, Migration, Materiality. New School of Social Research, New York, May 1-3, 2014.
“Monolingualism as a Paradigm: Writing the Postmonolingual Condition.” Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism. Leiden University, Netherlands. June 23, 2012.
"Migrant Archives: Performing Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany." With Michael Rothberg. Performances of Memory in the Arts. Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. May 28, 2010.
“Agency, Address, Occidentalism: The Discourse of ‘Muslim’ Women in Europe.” De/Constructions of Occidentalism. Humboldt Universität. Berlin, Germany. June 21, 2007.
“Keine Adresse in Deutschland? Formen von Adressierungen als Medien der Installierung von Rändern und Zentren.” Marginale Brüche: Kulturelle Produktionen von Migrantinnen, Schwarzen und jüdischen Frauen. [No Address in Germany? Forms of Address as Means of Installing Margins and Centers. Marginal Ruptures: Cultural Productions of Migrant, Black, and Jewish Women]. Köln, Germany. November 27, 1997.
Invited Lectures
“Entering the Archive.” Archives of Migration (Annual Academic and Policy Symposium ‘Innovation through Migration’). Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute & UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, December 9-10, 2019.
“Inheritance Trouble: Migration, Memory, and the German Past.” With Michael Rothberg. Department of German/Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, October 20, 2014.
“Inheritance Trouble: Migration, Memory, and the German Past.” With Michael Rothberg. Department of German Studies Lecture Series. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. September 12, 2014.
“Migrant Archives: New Sources of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany.” With Michael Rothberg. Crossing the Disciplinary Divide: Conjunctions in German and Holocaust Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. March 20-22, 2014.
“Writing in Translation: Aras Ören’s Postmonolingual Poetics.” Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. December 5, 2013.
“Working Through the Past, Turkish/ German Style.” Migration, Memory, and Diversity in Germany. Emory University. Atlanta, GA. September 22-23, 2013.
“Working Through the Past, Turkish/ German Style.” Ethnic Minorities and Holocaust Memory: A Global Perspective. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. July 11-13, 2013.
"Postmonolingual Constellations: The Languages of Turkish-German Literature and Film." Migration, Multilingualism, and Translation. University of Richmond, VA. November 15, 2012.
“Working Through the Past, Turkish/German Style.” With Michael Rothberg. After the Violence: Memory. The 45th Wisconsin Workshop. University of Wisconsin, Madison. September 20-22, 2012.
“Postmonolinguale Verhältnisse: Deutsch-Türkische Sprachexperimente in Literatur und Film.” Polyphone Geschichte(n): Schreiben—Einschreiben—Teilhaben. Universität Innsbruck, Austria. June 20-21, 2012.
“The Monolingual Paradigm and the Postmonolingual Condition.” Multilingual 2.0. University of Arizona, Tuscon. April 13-16, 2012.
"Migrant Archives: Coming to Terms With the Past in Contemporary Germany." With Michael Rothberg. LITRA Lecture. Centre for Literature and Trauma, University of Ghent, Belgium. March 28, 2012.
“The Postmonolingual Condition.” Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. March 27, 2012.
“The Monolingual Paradigm and the Postmonolingual Condition.” International Literature Lecture. University of East Anglia. Norwich, UK. February 22, 2012.
"The Fictitious Singularity of the Mother Tongue and its Postmonolingual Rewritings." Singularities: Diffracted Memories in Transnational Literature. Utrecht University, Netherlands. June 24, 2011.
"Für eine transnationale Rahmenhandlung." Altonale, Hamburg, Germany. June 18, 2011.
“Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” With Michael Rothberg. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. February 11, 2011.
“Not Integrated: The Willful Neglect of Immigrant Perspectives in the Current Debates.” Symposium on Integration and Multiculturalism: Germany Debates. Max Kade Center, Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, OH. January 27, 2011.
“Memory Citizenship: Migrant Women and Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” With Michael Rothberg. Bryn Mawr College. November 22, 2010.
“The Postmonolingual Condition: Multilingual Art and Literature in a Globalizing World.” Midwest Symposium in German Studies. University of Missouri. Columbia, MO. April 16-17, 2010.
“Turkish Girls, Allah’s Daughters, and the Contemporary German Subject: Itinerary of a Figure.” Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. April 15, 2009.
“Turkish Girls or Allah’s Daughters? Shifting Discourses of Culture, Gender, and Violence in Contemporary Germany.” University of Manchester, UK. March 12, 2009.
“From ‘Turkish’ to ‘Muslim’: Gendered Stories and the German Contribution to the Making of a European Other.” University of Leeds, UK. February 3, 2009.
“Governing European Subjects: ‘Muslim Women’ and the Discourse of Tolerance.”Accommodating Muslims in Europe. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. March 21, 2008.
“Die Muttermilch aus der Nase: Nation, Migration und übersetztes Schreiben bei Emine Sevgi Özdamar.” [The Mother’s Milk from the Nose: Nation, Migration, and Translated Writing in Emine Sevgi Özdamar] Kultur, Literatur und Migration. Universität Tübingen, Germany. November 16-18, 2007.
“False Tolerance, False Guilt: The Discourse of ‘Muslim’ Women in Europe.” Working Group ‘Beyond Empire: America’s Shifting Relationship with the Middle East.’ New York University. New York, NY. October 31- November 2, 2007.
McDeutsch Symposium (German in an Age of Globalization). Museum für Kommunikation. Berlin, Germany. December 15, 2006.
“Beyond Organic Belonging: Multilingual Writing and Transnational Imaginaries.”Voices from Everywhere: Symposium on Tawada Yoko. University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. March 13, 2004.
“Critically ‘Kanak’: A Reimagination of German Culture.” The Fate of European Languages in an Age of Globalization: The Future of the German Language. Deutsches Haus at NYU. New York, NY. April 5, 2002.
Invited Class Lecture. “Turkish-German Literature of the 1990s.” Dept. of German, Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, PA. April 12, 1999.
“Inheritance Trouble: Migration, Memory, and the German Past.” With Michael Rothberg. Department of German/Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, October 20, 2014.
“Inheritance Trouble: Migration, Memory, and the German Past.” With Michael Rothberg. Department of German Studies Lecture Series. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. September 12, 2014.
“Migrant Archives: New Sources of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany.” With Michael Rothberg. Crossing the Disciplinary Divide: Conjunctions in German and Holocaust Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. March 20-22, 2014.
“Writing in Translation: Aras Ören’s Postmonolingual Poetics.” Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. December 5, 2013.
“Working Through the Past, Turkish/ German Style.” Migration, Memory, and Diversity in Germany. Emory University. Atlanta, GA. September 22-23, 2013.
“Working Through the Past, Turkish/ German Style.” Ethnic Minorities and Holocaust Memory: A Global Perspective. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. July 11-13, 2013.
"Postmonolingual Constellations: The Languages of Turkish-German Literature and Film." Migration, Multilingualism, and Translation. University of Richmond, VA. November 15, 2012.
“Working Through the Past, Turkish/German Style.” With Michael Rothberg. After the Violence: Memory. The 45th Wisconsin Workshop. University of Wisconsin, Madison. September 20-22, 2012.
“Postmonolinguale Verhältnisse: Deutsch-Türkische Sprachexperimente in Literatur und Film.” Polyphone Geschichte(n): Schreiben—Einschreiben—Teilhaben. Universität Innsbruck, Austria. June 20-21, 2012.
“The Monolingual Paradigm and the Postmonolingual Condition.” Multilingual 2.0. University of Arizona, Tuscon. April 13-16, 2012.
"Migrant Archives: Coming to Terms With the Past in Contemporary Germany." With Michael Rothberg. LITRA Lecture. Centre for Literature and Trauma, University of Ghent, Belgium. March 28, 2012.
“The Postmonolingual Condition.” Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. March 27, 2012.
“The Monolingual Paradigm and the Postmonolingual Condition.” International Literature Lecture. University of East Anglia. Norwich, UK. February 22, 2012.
"The Fictitious Singularity of the Mother Tongue and its Postmonolingual Rewritings." Singularities: Diffracted Memories in Transnational Literature. Utrecht University, Netherlands. June 24, 2011.
"Für eine transnationale Rahmenhandlung." Altonale, Hamburg, Germany. June 18, 2011.
“Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” With Michael Rothberg. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. February 11, 2011.
“Not Integrated: The Willful Neglect of Immigrant Perspectives in the Current Debates.” Symposium on Integration and Multiculturalism: Germany Debates. Max Kade Center, Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, OH. January 27, 2011.
“Memory Citizenship: Migrant Women and Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” With Michael Rothberg. Bryn Mawr College. November 22, 2010.
“The Postmonolingual Condition: Multilingual Art and Literature in a Globalizing World.” Midwest Symposium in German Studies. University of Missouri. Columbia, MO. April 16-17, 2010.
“Turkish Girls, Allah’s Daughters, and the Contemporary German Subject: Itinerary of a Figure.” Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. April 15, 2009.
“Turkish Girls or Allah’s Daughters? Shifting Discourses of Culture, Gender, and Violence in Contemporary Germany.” University of Manchester, UK. March 12, 2009.
“From ‘Turkish’ to ‘Muslim’: Gendered Stories and the German Contribution to the Making of a European Other.” University of Leeds, UK. February 3, 2009.
“Governing European Subjects: ‘Muslim Women’ and the Discourse of Tolerance.”Accommodating Muslims in Europe. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. March 21, 2008.
“Die Muttermilch aus der Nase: Nation, Migration und übersetztes Schreiben bei Emine Sevgi Özdamar.” [The Mother’s Milk from the Nose: Nation, Migration, and Translated Writing in Emine Sevgi Özdamar] Kultur, Literatur und Migration. Universität Tübingen, Germany. November 16-18, 2007.
“False Tolerance, False Guilt: The Discourse of ‘Muslim’ Women in Europe.” Working Group ‘Beyond Empire: America’s Shifting Relationship with the Middle East.’ New York University. New York, NY. October 31- November 2, 2007.
McDeutsch Symposium (German in an Age of Globalization). Museum für Kommunikation. Berlin, Germany. December 15, 2006.
“Beyond Organic Belonging: Multilingual Writing and Transnational Imaginaries.”Voices from Everywhere: Symposium on Tawada Yoko. University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. March 13, 2004.
“Critically ‘Kanak’: A Reimagination of German Culture.” The Fate of European Languages in an Age of Globalization: The Future of the German Language. Deutsches Haus at NYU. New York, NY. April 5, 2002.
Invited Class Lecture. “Turkish-German Literature of the 1990s.” Dept. of German, Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, PA. April 12, 1999.
Invited Roundtables
“Beyond Monolingualism?” Modern Language Association. Vancouver, Canada. January 2015.
“Redrawing the Boundaries of Europe: Current Geopolitical Developments and What We Study” Modern Language Association. Vancouver, Canada. January 2015.
“Multilingualism and the Object of Translation Studies.” Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. January 2014.
“Einwanderungsland wider Willen: Wie steht’s um Deutschland?” Visionen der Zugehörigkeit: Juden, Türken und andere Deutsche. Jubiläumssymposion 10 Jahre Jüdisches Museum Berlin. [“Immigration Country Despite Itself: Where Is Germany Today?” Visions of Belonging: Jews, Turks, and Other Germans. Symposium Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Jewish Museum Berlin. Berlin, Germany. October 28-29, 2011.
Roundtable on Ruth Mandel’s book Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany. German Studies Association. Washington, DC. October 11, 2009.
“Language, Affect, Ideology.” Roundtable: “Affect Across the Disciplines.” Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. University of Illinois. Urbana, IL. December 3, 2007.
“German in an Age of Globalization” McDeutsch Symposium. Museum für Kommunikation. Berlin, Germany. December 15, 2006.
Conference Presentations
Respondent to panel “Multilingualism.” German Studies Association. Houston, TX. September 16, 2022.
“Writing for Translation: Aras Ören’s Postmonolingual Practices.” American Comparative Literature Association. Los Angeles, CA. March 31, 2018.
“Multidirectional Memory and the German Question.” With Michael Rothberg. Bringing Migration and History into the Equation: Re-Imagining Nationhood and Belonging. Jewish Museum Berlin. Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2011.
“The Postmonolingual Condition: Multilingual Forms and Monolingual Premises in a Transnational Age.” German Studies Association. Oakland, CA. October 7-19, 2010.
“Migration and Multidirectional Memory in Contemporary Germany.” With Michael Rothberg. American Comparative Literature Association. New Orleans, LA. April 2, 2010.
“Literary Multilingualism and Migrant Creativity in Contemporary Germany.” The New Immigrant Europe: Languages and Borderlands. University of Illinois. Urbana, Il. March 12, 2010.
“Beyond the Mother Tongue? The Postmonolingual Condition in Multilingual Art and Literature.” Departmental Lecture Series, Germanic Languages and Literatures. University of Illinois. Urbana, IL. February 4, 2010.
“Wordsearch: Multilingual Art and the Postmonolingual Condition.” Modern Language Association Convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 30, 2009.
“The End of German Guilt: The Discourse of Anti-Islamic Turkish-German Feminists.” German Studies Association. San Diego, CA. October 2007.
“Multilingualism and Memory: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Translational Aesthetics.” Culture et mémoire: quelles représentations? Colloque international et pluridisciplinaire. École Polytechnique. Département des Langues et Cultures. Paris, France. March 2007.
“Migration, Memory, and Multilingualism in Turkish-German Literature” Turkish Studies Symposium. University of Illinois. Urbana, Il. February 14, 2007.
“Kafka and Multilingualism.” German Studies Colloquium. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. October 1, 2004.
“Dreaming in Afrikaans: Transnationalism and the Displacement of Nativity in Yoko Tawada’s German Prose.” Modern Language Association Convention. San Diego, CA. December, 29, 2003.
“Uncanny Ties: Kafka on Yiddish.” Jewish Studies Workshop. University of Illinois. Urbana, IL. December 4, 2003.
“Discordant Notes from the Margins: Multilingualism and Minority Discourse in German.” 4th Annual Transnational Dynamics Workshop. University of Illinois. Urbana, IL. May 2, 2003
Invited Moderator. Turkish-German Issues Symposium. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. May 1, 2003.
“Critically ‘Kanak’: A Reimagination of German Culture.” The Fate of European Languages in an Age of Globalization: The Future of the German Language. Deutsches Haus at NYU. New York, NY. April 5, 2002.
“Belonging and the Boundaries of Memory: Between the Post-Holocaust and the Postcolonial.” With Michael Rothberg. Modern Language Association Convention. Washington, D.C. December 27, 2000.
Respondent. “Cultural Politics in Contemporary Germany.” Thinking Culture: Literature and Beyond. German Graduate Student Conference. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. November 7, 1997.
"Sharing Divided Times: Responses to the Uses of the Holocaust in the Works of Ruth Klüger and Jean Améry." Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches. Tampa, FL. March 1997.