2026
May: The African Literature Association, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
- Paper Title: The Averted Gaze: Photography and the Politics of Visibility in Kenya.
February – March: American Comparative Literature Association, Montréal, Canada.
- Paper Title: Oceanic Auto/Biographies: Memory, Photography, and Selfhood in East African Migrant Narratives
2025
November: The Archives of African Literature Colloquium, Black Archival Imagination Lab. Duke University, USA.
September: International Conferences on Literatures and Arts Across the Indian Ocean. Research Centre of Eastern Literature. Peking University, China.
Paper Title: Oceanic Autobiographies: Memory, Performance and the Indian Ocean in Syowia Kyambi’s Photographic Performance
July: Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS). Nairobi, Kenya.
Paper Title: On the Effluent Eye: Migrancy, Excess, and Belonging in Jane Bryce’s Zamani.
June: African Literature Association. University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Paper Title: Land Keeps the Score: Race, Rails, Relations along Equatorial Africa
2024
November: Guest Lecture, Graduate Student Association for Visual Culture, Department of Art History, The Pennsylvania State University
Lecture Title: “Mobility and Marginalization via the Nairobi Expressway”
July: Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Paper Title: Migrancy, Excess, and Statehood in Postcolonial East Africa.
May: African Literature Association. University of Louisville, KY, USA.
Paper Title: On the Persisting Question of Africanity in the East African Indian Diaspora.
2023
August: Mashariki Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. Makerere University.
#UpperDeckPeopleKE: Mobility and Marginalization via The Nairobi Expressway.
Sam Dennis 