INVITED LECTURES and CONFERENCE PAPERS

INVITED LECTURES:                                                                             conference papers

lectures at Villanova University

  • 2015 “The Postcolonial Predicament” Péter Pázmány Katolikus Egyetem. Budapest, Hungary

  • 2015 “Nuevas tendencias en los estudios postcoloniales” PPKE, Budapest.

  • 2014 "A Man and a Brother" The Meaning of Race" Faculty talk series, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

  • 2014 "Community: Dealing with Difference" University of Debrecen, Medical School, Debrecen, Hungary.

  • 2012 Plenary speaker at The 15th Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium: "Discursive Tensions: Occupation, Confrontation, and Negotiation" Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

  • 2012 “The Americas, United?” Plenary speaker. Alpha Kappa Chapter of Phi Iota Alpha. Philadelphia, PA

  • 2011 “New Challenges in Higher Education” Simmons College, Boston, MA

  • 2011 “Speaking to Power: Testimonial Narratives from a Postcolonial Perspective” Penn State University. College Station, PA

  • 2008   “Borderline Case: Hybridity in the Beur Imaginary” Middle Eastern Faculty talk series. University of Pennsylvania

  • 2008   “East in the West: Orientalism in Latin America” Latin American Studies Program. University of Delaware.

  • 2008 "Oral Narrative Traditions in Academic Contexts: Facing the Challenges of the Interface" Round Table Discussion. École Normale Superieure. Paris.

  • 2008 Keynote address (with Fernando Leiva, SUNY at Albany) at the MACLAS XXIX Conference. University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.

  • 2007 “Sherazada, una vez más: el patriarcado postcolonial” Inauguration of the Exposition “Cara a cara / Face to face”. Centro Cultural Español. Miami.

  • 2007 "Globalization and the Postcolonial Predicament" School of Public Health, University of Debrecen, Hungary.

  • 2007 "Articulaciones de identidad en la era global” Pázmány Péter.Catholic University  Piliscsba, Hungary

  • 2006 "Las representaciones postcoloniales de la frontera" Keynote speech, Congreso Sociedad Chilena de Literatura, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile (August)

  • 2006 "Post/Colonia: aproximaciones." Universidad Austral. Valdivia, Chile (August)

  • 2006 "Dictatorship and Writing in Chile" Drexel University, PA.

  • 2005 “Hibridity and Metissage in Latin America” Bryn Mawr College, PA.

  • 2005 “Teoría postcolonial y la desigualdad de poder en América Latina” Swarthmore College. PA

  • 2005 "El sujeto postcolonial en el mundo árabe" Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile

  • 2005 "El dilema postcolonial" Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.

  • 2003 "Transnationality and the Postcolonial Predicament" University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

  • 2003 "Relocation of Knowledge: The Postcolonial Debate in the Latin American Cultural Context" University of Miami. Miami, FL.

  • 2003 "Chair: a Piece of Furniture? Vision for a Department of Modern Languages" Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

  • 2002 "Estrategias postcoloniales de representación: la deconstrucción del discurso eurocéntrico." New York University, NY

  • 2002 "Gender Matters: Articulations of Postcolonial Agency" CUNY Baruch College, NYC

  • 2001 "Different from Us? Notions of Feminism in Latin America and the Arab World." The Williams Barton Memorial Lecture Series. SUNY Fulton-Montgomery, Johnstown, NY

  • 2000 "Sherazade's Sisters: Comparative Approaches to Writing by Women" Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY

  • 2000 "Latin America: The Postcolonial Predicament" SUNY at Albany, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Faculty Lectures.

  • 1999 "Global Inequalities and the Role of Higher Education." DOTE University. Debrecen, Hungary.

  • 1998 "Gender and Heterogeneity in Latin America." Multicultural Sketches. Indiana University at Evansville.

  • 1998 "Mujer y testimonio en la Argentina." Round table discussion. Women and Collective Memory. American University. Washington, DC.

  • 1997 "The Andean Post-Colonial Predicament." Andean Seminar organized by Cynthia McClintock, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

  • 1997 "Puentes de entendimiento." Presentation on my book: Paralelismos transatlánticos. Nation and Self in the Writing of Latin American Women. Organizer: Gisela Norat. Agnes Scott Coll. Atlanta.

  • 1996 "Teoría postcolonial y literatura latinoamericana." Invited by Thomas Duble, Dir. Depto de Literatura. Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile.

  • 1996 "La nueva generación de autores neo-indigenistas" Invited by Mario Lillo, Dir. Instituto de Letras. Universidad Católica. Santiago de Chile.

  • 1995 "Los rasgos postcoloniales del discurso neo-indigenista." Andean Seminar organized by Cynthia McClintock, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

  • 1986 "Continuation of Precolombian Myths in Contemporary Literature." Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.

  • 1986 "Panorama de la literatura latinoamericana actual." Colegio Internacional. Salamanca, Spain.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2015 “‘End the University as We Know It’: Global – Tech – Academe” Conference of AHEA in Hungarian Cultural Studies. Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

2015 “Cultural Transfer: Representations of the Transnational.” Conference on Communication, Postcoloniality and Social Justice: Decolonizing Imaginations sponsored by the Waterhouse Family Institute, Dept. of Communication. Villanova University

2012 “’Hat’un Qosqo’ Tourism and the Commodification of History” MACLAS. American University. Washington, DC

2011     "“Mapping the Popular: Tourism and the Commodification of History.” Conference on Popular Culture. American University in Paris.

2010     “El orientalismo como método: alteridades latinoamericanas y su crítica” LASA (Latin American Studies Assoc), Toronto, CA

2010     “Border: a Sliding Signifier” ACLA, New Orleans.

2010   “Memoria escatológica e historias apócrifas del Sur” Festival de Poesía.  Villanova

2009     “Skimming Through: The Role of Public Intellectuals in the Information Age.” MLA Philadelphia.

2008 "Ushuaia: Local Histories and Global Consequences." CALACS. Vancouver, CA

2007 "End of Empire: Sylvia Iparraguirre’s Tierra del fuegoLASA Montreal, CA

2007 "El niño en medio de la violencia." Representaciones del niño. Congreso patrocinado por el Instituto Cervantes. Budapest, Hungary.

2007  "New World B/Order and the Relevance of Postcolonial Studies" Fulbright Conference. Berlin, Germany

2006  “Borderland and Identity: Theoretical Approaches” Tájak, tájegységek konferencia, Universidad de Pécs, Hungary

2006  "Bilingualism of the Other: from Abrogation to (Ex)appropriation" ACLA, Princeton, NJ

2002 "(B)order Crossing: Transnationality and Hybridity" SAMLA, Baltimore, MD

2002 "Orientalismo en la poesía latinoamericana: Paz, Borges, Neruda." 3er Congreso Internacional de Poesía Hispana. Universidad de Pécs, Hungary.

2001 "Chicanos y beurs: Migrancia y de/reterritorialización." LASA, Washington, DC.

2000 "'Muñecas bravas': género y resistencia femenina." ALFH Congress, Glendon College, Toronto, CA.

2000 "Inscripciones patrias desde el espacio doméstico en la narrativa de Gioconda Belli" IILI Congress. Universidad de Salamanca. Spain.

2000 "Théorie postcoloniale recyclée: Fanon au goût du jour." CIEF Congress. Sousse, Tunisia.

2000 "Angel Rama y su ensayística transcultural(izadora) en clave crítica." LASA, Miami, FL.

1999 "'Nuestra América' desde una perspectiva postcolonial" FIEALC Congress. Tel Aviv Univ., Israel.

1999 "In Search of Paradise: Identity in Gioconda Belli's Novels" Origins, Ethnicity and Identity. SUNY Binghamton, NY.

1998 "Heterogeneidad y marginalización en la narrativa de Clorinda Matto." MLA, San Francisco, CA.

1998 "Ironía en la narrativa mexicana" The Hispanic Women Writer and her Fragmented World. Fundación Cultural Iberoamericana. George Washington University, Washington DC.

1998 "La recepción de la obra cervantina en Hungría." NEMLA, Baltimore, MD.

1997 "La vuelta: La experiencia del exilio y la del regreso en la narrativa chilena." Assoc. de Letras Femeninas Conference, Emory University. Atlanta, GA.

1997 "Esterházy, the postmodern." 21st Annual AHEA Symp., University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

1996 "Aproximaciones genéricas al testimonio femenino." Nation and Self in the Writing of Latin American Women, Agnes Scott College. Atlanta, GA.

1996 "El testimonio mapuche." Jornadas de Lengua y Literatura Mapuche, UFRO. Temuco, Chile.

1996 "La locura en las novelas de Carvalho-Neto." Coloquio Internacional. Université de Poitiers, France.

1996 "Tradition et modernité dans les romans magherbins" CIEF Congress, Toulouse, France.

1995 "Feminismo y contramemoria histórica en la narrativa de Gioconda Belli." Representación femenina: Imagen y escritura, Barnard College, New York, NY.

1995 "Verse mutuamente: la cuestión del Otro en las crónicas mesoamericanas." 11th LAILA Symp., UNAM Mexico City.

1995 "Sexualidad, pecado y dolor: el poder patriarcal en la expresión femenina de America Latina." Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. U. of Cincinnati, OH.

1995 "Del diario a la novela: La evolución de la expresión femenina en América Latina." 12th Annual International Conference on Foreign Literature, Wichita SU, Whichita, KS.

1994 "Las hermanas de Scherazada: la expresión literaria femenina." SAMLA, Baltimore, MD.

1994 "'Pintar como el pájaro canta': El camino hacia la independencia emocional en la obra de Elena Poniatowska." Letras Femeninas Symposium, Davidson College, NC.

1994 "The Rol of Culture in Central Europe." ISSEI Symp. Karl Franz Universität Graz, Austria.

1994 "La obra de Pérez Huarancca en el contexto del neo-indigenismo." 10th LAILA Symposium, PA State Univ. McKeesport, PA.

1994 "Az irodalom jövöje Középeurópában." (The future of literature in Central Europe) 19th Annual Conference of AHEA. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, N.J.

1994 "Textualidad Femenina en América Latina y Africa del Norte." 11th Annual International Conference on Foreign Literatures. Whichita State University, Whichita, KS.

1994 "Irodalom és kommercializmus." (Literature and Commercialism) Symposium on Freedom and Democracy. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary.

1993 "La poética inca en la poesía de Juan Wallparrimachi Mayta." Intl. Symposium of the Assoc. Bartolomé de Las Casas, Paris, France.

1992 "Imágenes y símbolos en algunos textos poéticos de César Vallejo." Simposio sobre César Vallejo, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela.

1992 "El fenómeno del desencuentro en las crónicas de la conquista." Simposio sobre el Quinto Centenario. Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

1991 "Multiform Narratives in Quechua Condenado Tales." 8th LAILA Symposium. Quito, Ecuador.

1991 "La transformación de la cultura indígena y los problemas de la aculturación." Language Culture and Society in the Americas, Mérida, Venezuela.

1991 "Apu Ollantay: El enigma del autor." Congr. of Americanists, Tulane University. NewOrleans, L.A.

1991 "Mito y arte en los Andes: La fusión de dos culturas." LASA Symposium. Washington DC

1991 "Culture and Literature in Post-Cold War Central Europe." International Seminar on Freedom and Choice Catholic University, Washington DC.

1989 "Apu Ollantay: las circunstancias de su creación." LASA Symposium. Miami, FL.

1988 "Observaciones críticas a la teoría estructuralista de Lévi-Strauss en el análisis del mito." III. Jornadas de Lengua y Lit. Mapuche. UFRO, Temuco, Chile.

1988 "El proceso de transformación en la cult. indígena durante la Colonia." LASA. New Orleans, LA.

1987 "La música Precolombina." MACLAS Conference, Lehigh U., Bethlehem, PA.

1987 "Novela-testimonio: Un día en la vida de Manlio Argueta." CHISPA, Tulane, New Orleans, LA.

1986 "Chamanism among the Mapuche Indians." ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary.

1986 "Cambios históricos en mitos Quechuas." 4th LAILA Symp., Mérida, Mexico.

1985 "The Effect of Education on Reading Habits." 10th AHEA. U. of Indiana, Bloomington.

1985 "Los géneros principales en la literatura del Incanato." 3rd LAILA Symp., San Antonio, TX.

1984 "La canción folklórica andina." 2nd. LAILA Symp. Washington D.C.

1983 "Acculturation (?) of the Hispanic Population in the Border Area of the U.S." Symposium on the Fate of Cultures. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.


  • "LATINO: Ethnicity or Race? The Cultural Practices of Distinction" Latin American Student Organization (LASSO) (2009)

  • Participant in a Roundtable on Interfaith Dialogue organized by the Humanities Program  

  • “Building Peace: Including the Global Solidarity Network in your Class” VITAL workshop lecture

  • Is Obama Black? Perceptions of Race in the United States  Public symposium at VU. Lecture is available on youtube

  • Martin Luther King Freedom School presentations (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009)

  • “Globalization and Its Others: Migration as an Unintended Consequence,” Martin Luther King Freedom School event

  • “Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Individual and Collective Trauma,” Ethics Program Lunch series

  • “Colonization and Patriarchy: Articulations of the Postcolonial Female Subject” Women's Studies Program Lunch series

  •  “‘A Man and a Brother’ Race as a Cultural Construct” Symposium in honor of Dr. Claude Lewis. Sponsored by the Honors Program.