Invited Talks
"“With Love from Vienna: Der Alltag alter Juden in Wien nach dem ‘Anschluss”, German Embassy, The Hague, the Netherlands, January 19th 2017
“Karagöz in Alamania: eine Vorstudie” Özdamar Symposium, Université Paris-Sorbonne & Maison Heinrich Heine, April 1, 2016
"The Politics of Form: Avant-Garde Aesthetics as Political Intervention in Yoko Tawada's German Writings," Where Literature begins: The Practice and Poetics of Mulitlingual Address. Symposium followed by the 2016 Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture in Japanese Studies by Tawada Yoko, March 2016
"Yoko Tawada’s ‘Works on Paper’,” Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, November 2015
“Übersetzen auf der Insel Dejima” Mori-Ogai-Gedenkstätte, Humboldt University, Berlin. May 2011
“Translating Multilingual Texts: Yoko Tawada’s ‘Bioskoop der Nacht” in Dutch”, Un/Translatables in Germanic Literatures and Cultures, German Department, University of Pennsylvania, April 2011
“Creative Translation and Mimetic Writing,” University of Scranton, April 2011
“Struwelpeter in Translation,” Gallery Talk, Paterno Library, Penn State University, January 2011
Roundtable Herta Müller, Penn State University, February 2011
Svendborger Literaturgespräche. Deutsche Debatten Transnational, (with Yoko Tawada) Brecht Haus, Svendborg, Denmark, September 2009
"Gender and the Multilingual Avant-garde," Maastricht University, the Netherlands, July 2009
“Die Literatur der Migration und die Ästhetik der Avantgarde, University of Pennsylvania, April 2008
“Herta Müller’s Collage Poems,” Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Penn State University, 2008
“Herta Müller: Collage, Advertising, and the Practices of the Avant-Garde,” Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, Michigan State University, 2008
“Entpuppung und Verpackung: Waren und Marken in Yoko Tawadas Das nackte Auge,” Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 2007
“Herta Müller’s Scissor Script: Collage, Advertising, and the Practices of the Avant-Garde,” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
“The Japanese Illustrated Book: Continuity and Change,” Public Discussion with Yoko Tawada about her artist book “A Poem for a Book,” in conjunction with the exhibition “Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, at the New York Public Library, 2006
“Migrating Words: The Post-Wende Literature of Emine Sevgi Özdamar,” University of Toronto, 2005
“Memories of the Future: Politics, Language and Identities in the Early Prose of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, University of Arizona at Tucson, 2002
“Homelessness in Postwar German Literature,” Scripps College, 1998
“Feminist Subjects, Multi-media, Cultural Methodologies; From Meret Oppenheim to Valie Export,” Vassar College, 1996
“The Future of Comparative Literature,” Colorado College, 1995
“Feasting on a Naked Woman; a Surrealist Controversy Between Eating in and Dining out?” University of Virginia, 1994
“Max Ernst, Loplop Bird Superior, introduces” University of California Los Angeles, 1994
“Die Frau ist ein mit weissem Marmor belegtes Brötchen: Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim,” Ohio State University, 1993
Conference Papers:
“Translators on Trade Routes” Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, January 2013
“Commentator, “Dada and Surrealism in/from Romania” Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, January 2013
“Fremdes Wasser. Yoko Tawada’s Hamburger Poetik Vorlesungen,” German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2012
“Yoko Tawada’s “Tongue Dance,” or the Failed Education of a Tongue in Furs” Challenging the Monolingual Paradigm, Leiden, May 2012
A Fork in the Road or the Aspirations of a Tongue in Furs,” Annual Women in German Conference, Augusta, Michigan, October 2011
“Tawada, Yamamoto, and Brecht” German Studies Association, Washington. D.C., 2009
“Tawada et les hollandais—Tawada und die Holländer” International Conference on the works of Yoko Tawada, organized by the Université Paris 4 and Université Francois Rabelais, Tours, France, 2009
“From the Dutch Mountains. Early Modern Translation and the Awkwardness of Dutch- German Relations in Edo Japan, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 2008
"Post-Communist Memories of Colonial Pasts in Contemporary German Literature" “Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Comparative Perspective,” University of Warsaw, Poland, 2008.
“Keeping the Foreign at Bay: Europeans in Edo Japan,” Symposium in Honor of Monika Totten, Goethe Institute, Boston, April, 2008
Commentator, “When Women Go Missing: Literary and Filmic Disappearing Acts,” German Studies Association, 2008.
Commentator, "Dutch Matters: Identity, Translation, and Literature in Germany and the Netherlands,” German Studies Association, 2007
“Displacement and Montage in Yoko Tawada’s Writings”, Tawada Yoko Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, 2006.
“The Politics and Aesthetics of Literary Collage,” Division on 20th-Century German Literature, Modern Language Association, 2006
“The Collages of Herta Müller,” German Studies Association, 2006
“’Paper Identities’: Yoko Tawada’s “Das Nackte Auge” Modern Language Association, 2005
“Translating Elfriede Jelinek” German Studies Association, 2005
“Strange Mobile Images,” International Association for the Study of Word and Image, University of Philadelphia, 2005
“Against Hybridity,” American Comparative Literature Association, 2005
“The Tea Ceremony of the Marquis de Sade: Yoko Tawada and the Surreal,” Tawada Yôko symposium, Japanese Program, University of Kentucky, Louisville, 2004
“Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement,” German Studies Association, 2004
“The Automatic Writing of the World: Yoko Tawada’s Opium für Ovid,” American Comparative Literature Association, 2004
“Word Fetishists: Herta Müller, Yoko Tawada and Emine Sevgi Özdamar,” Modern Language Association, 2003
“Intercultural Literature in Advanced Language Classes?” American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2003
“The Surrealist Beauty of Contemporary Germanophone Writing,” Mapping Multicultural Identities, German Studies Association, 2003
“Grandfather’s Present: Zafer Senocak in Dialogue with Emine Özdamar,” Europe at the Crossroads, 7th International Conference Loyola College, Berlin, 2003
“Life Puppets in the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Political Theater,” Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, 2003 “Contemporary Travel Literature in France and Germany” Signposts: Travel Literature Conference, Catholic University of America, 2003
“Teaching with Edu-Voice ,“ Conference Presentation together with Jutta Schmiers (Columbia University) and Michael Heller (Montclair State), CUNY Faculty Development Workshop, Beyond Technologies: Best Practices in the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Queensborough Community College, New York, 2003
“Germany: A Country of Immigration,” Montclair State University, 2002
“The Role of Arabic in the Writings of Emine Sevgi Özdamar.” 7th International Comparative Literature Symposium, Cairo University, Egypt, 2002
“Foreign from Within: The Revolutionary Writings of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, 7th Cultural Studies Symposium, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, 2002
“Japanese Diaspora and the European Avant-Garde: The Writings of Yoko Tawada, American Comparative Literature Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002
“Specters of International Migrations: Mirrors, Selfhood and Subjectivity,” California State University at Long Beach, 2002
“At Home in the World: Nomads and Tricksters in Postmodern Theory and Literature,” German Studies Association, 1998
“Portraying the Surrealist Couple: Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim,” Modern Language Association, 1992
“Kaspar Hauser’s Incognito: Masking and Mirroring in Meret Oppenheim’s Kaspar Hauser oder die Goldene Freiheit,” German Studies Association, 1992
“Meret Oppenheim on the Child of Europe: Kaspar Hauser’s Many Faces,” Germanic Circle, Harvard University, 1991
“The Surrealist Myth of the Child-Woman: Visual and Textual Representations,” International Conference on Myth and Fantasy, 1991
“’Life is other than what one writes: Surrealism, Madness and Unica Zürn,” SUNY Binghamton, 1990
"“With Love from Vienna: Der Alltag alter Juden in Wien nach dem ‘Anschluss”, German Embassy, The Hague, the Netherlands, January 19th 2017
“Karagöz in Alamania: eine Vorstudie” Özdamar Symposium, Université Paris-Sorbonne & Maison Heinrich Heine, April 1, 2016
"The Politics of Form: Avant-Garde Aesthetics as Political Intervention in Yoko Tawada's German Writings," Where Literature begins: The Practice and Poetics of Mulitlingual Address. Symposium followed by the 2016 Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture in Japanese Studies by Tawada Yoko, March 2016
"Yoko Tawada’s ‘Works on Paper’,” Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, November 2015
“Übersetzen auf der Insel Dejima” Mori-Ogai-Gedenkstätte, Humboldt University, Berlin. May 2011
“Translating Multilingual Texts: Yoko Tawada’s ‘Bioskoop der Nacht” in Dutch”, Un/Translatables in Germanic Literatures and Cultures, German Department, University of Pennsylvania, April 2011
“Creative Translation and Mimetic Writing,” University of Scranton, April 2011
“Struwelpeter in Translation,” Gallery Talk, Paterno Library, Penn State University, January 2011
Roundtable Herta Müller, Penn State University, February 2011
Svendborger Literaturgespräche. Deutsche Debatten Transnational, (with Yoko Tawada) Brecht Haus, Svendborg, Denmark, September 2009
"Gender and the Multilingual Avant-garde," Maastricht University, the Netherlands, July 2009
“Die Literatur der Migration und die Ästhetik der Avantgarde, University of Pennsylvania, April 2008
“Herta Müller’s Collage Poems,” Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Penn State University, 2008
“Herta Müller: Collage, Advertising, and the Practices of the Avant-Garde,” Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, Michigan State University, 2008
“Entpuppung und Verpackung: Waren und Marken in Yoko Tawadas Das nackte Auge,” Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 2007
“Herta Müller’s Scissor Script: Collage, Advertising, and the Practices of the Avant-Garde,” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
“The Japanese Illustrated Book: Continuity and Change,” Public Discussion with Yoko Tawada about her artist book “A Poem for a Book,” in conjunction with the exhibition “Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan, at the New York Public Library, 2006
“Migrating Words: The Post-Wende Literature of Emine Sevgi Özdamar,” University of Toronto, 2005
“Memories of the Future: Politics, Language and Identities in the Early Prose of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, University of Arizona at Tucson, 2002
“Homelessness in Postwar German Literature,” Scripps College, 1998
“Feminist Subjects, Multi-media, Cultural Methodologies; From Meret Oppenheim to Valie Export,” Vassar College, 1996
“The Future of Comparative Literature,” Colorado College, 1995
“Feasting on a Naked Woman; a Surrealist Controversy Between Eating in and Dining out?” University of Virginia, 1994
“Max Ernst, Loplop Bird Superior, introduces” University of California Los Angeles, 1994
“Die Frau ist ein mit weissem Marmor belegtes Brötchen: Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim,” Ohio State University, 1993
Conference Papers:
“Translators on Trade Routes” Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, January 2013
“Commentator, “Dada and Surrealism in/from Romania” Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, January 2013
“Fremdes Wasser. Yoko Tawada’s Hamburger Poetik Vorlesungen,” German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2012
“Yoko Tawada’s “Tongue Dance,” or the Failed Education of a Tongue in Furs” Challenging the Monolingual Paradigm, Leiden, May 2012
A Fork in the Road or the Aspirations of a Tongue in Furs,” Annual Women in German Conference, Augusta, Michigan, October 2011
“Tawada, Yamamoto, and Brecht” German Studies Association, Washington. D.C., 2009
“Tawada et les hollandais—Tawada und die Holländer” International Conference on the works of Yoko Tawada, organized by the Université Paris 4 and Université Francois Rabelais, Tours, France, 2009
“From the Dutch Mountains. Early Modern Translation and the Awkwardness of Dutch- German Relations in Edo Japan, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 2008
"Post-Communist Memories of Colonial Pasts in Contemporary German Literature" “Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Comparative Perspective,” University of Warsaw, Poland, 2008.
“Keeping the Foreign at Bay: Europeans in Edo Japan,” Symposium in Honor of Monika Totten, Goethe Institute, Boston, April, 2008
Commentator, “When Women Go Missing: Literary and Filmic Disappearing Acts,” German Studies Association, 2008.
Commentator, "Dutch Matters: Identity, Translation, and Literature in Germany and the Netherlands,” German Studies Association, 2007
“Displacement and Montage in Yoko Tawada’s Writings”, Tawada Yoko Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, 2006.
“The Politics and Aesthetics of Literary Collage,” Division on 20th-Century German Literature, Modern Language Association, 2006
“The Collages of Herta Müller,” German Studies Association, 2006
“’Paper Identities’: Yoko Tawada’s “Das Nackte Auge” Modern Language Association, 2005
“Translating Elfriede Jelinek” German Studies Association, 2005
“Strange Mobile Images,” International Association for the Study of Word and Image, University of Philadelphia, 2005
“Against Hybridity,” American Comparative Literature Association, 2005
“The Tea Ceremony of the Marquis de Sade: Yoko Tawada and the Surreal,” Tawada Yôko symposium, Japanese Program, University of Kentucky, Louisville, 2004
“Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement,” German Studies Association, 2004
“The Automatic Writing of the World: Yoko Tawada’s Opium für Ovid,” American Comparative Literature Association, 2004
“Word Fetishists: Herta Müller, Yoko Tawada and Emine Sevgi Özdamar,” Modern Language Association, 2003
“Intercultural Literature in Advanced Language Classes?” American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2003
“The Surrealist Beauty of Contemporary Germanophone Writing,” Mapping Multicultural Identities, German Studies Association, 2003
“Grandfather’s Present: Zafer Senocak in Dialogue with Emine Özdamar,” Europe at the Crossroads, 7th International Conference Loyola College, Berlin, 2003
“Life Puppets in the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Political Theater,” Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, 2003 “Contemporary Travel Literature in France and Germany” Signposts: Travel Literature Conference, Catholic University of America, 2003
“Teaching with Edu-Voice ,“ Conference Presentation together with Jutta Schmiers (Columbia University) and Michael Heller (Montclair State), CUNY Faculty Development Workshop, Beyond Technologies: Best Practices in the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Queensborough Community College, New York, 2003
“Germany: A Country of Immigration,” Montclair State University, 2002
“The Role of Arabic in the Writings of Emine Sevgi Özdamar.” 7th International Comparative Literature Symposium, Cairo University, Egypt, 2002
“Foreign from Within: The Revolutionary Writings of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, 7th Cultural Studies Symposium, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, 2002
“Japanese Diaspora and the European Avant-Garde: The Writings of Yoko Tawada, American Comparative Literature Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002
“Specters of International Migrations: Mirrors, Selfhood and Subjectivity,” California State University at Long Beach, 2002
“At Home in the World: Nomads and Tricksters in Postmodern Theory and Literature,” German Studies Association, 1998
“Portraying the Surrealist Couple: Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim,” Modern Language Association, 1992
“Kaspar Hauser’s Incognito: Masking and Mirroring in Meret Oppenheim’s Kaspar Hauser oder die Goldene Freiheit,” German Studies Association, 1992
“Meret Oppenheim on the Child of Europe: Kaspar Hauser’s Many Faces,” Germanic Circle, Harvard University, 1991
“The Surrealist Myth of the Child-Woman: Visual and Textual Representations,” International Conference on Myth and Fantasy, 1991
“’Life is other than what one writes: Surrealism, Madness and Unica Zürn,” SUNY Binghamton, 1990