Invited Talks

“Assimilation After Revolution: Jewish Emancipation in Post-Revolutionary France.” Conversations on Assimilation, Antisemitism, and Culture. Theatre Wit and The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University. May 1, 2025. Northwestern University.

“Interrogating the Intersections of Christian Zionism and White Christian Nationalism from a Global Perspective,” Roundtable Discussion. March 21, 2025. Catholic Social Tradition Conference: Signs of the Times: Interdisciplinary Responses to Religious Nationalism. University of Notre Dame (USA).

“Antisemitism and Islamophobia: The European Question.” Keynote. Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Conference 2024: The End(s) of Empire. November 15-16, 2024. Senate House, London.

“Ex-Muslims and the Politics of Public Apostasy From Islam in Contemporary France.” Talk. December 12, 2022. Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs. Boston University.

“The Coloniality of Islamophobia in Contemporary France,” Global France Seminar. Talk. April 25, 2022. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“Creating and running a Jewish and Muslim Studies research network: Digital networking and social media in the service of academic research and collaboration.” Talk. Fifth Postgraduate Research Training Event and Research Meeting of the Northern UK Jewish Studies Partnership. June 11, 2021. University of Manchester.

“Perspectives on Race: India and Singapore,” With Priya Swamy. Talk. May 4, 2021. University College Utrecht.

“How to Be a Queer Muslim? Reflections on Race, Religion, and Representation in Singapore,” Queer Faith: Marginalization, Citizenship, and Nationhood/La foi et le queer : marginalisation, citoyenneté et nationalisme en contexte minoritaire. Symposium Presentation. September 25, 2020. University of Chicago in Paris.

“Jews and Muslims in contemporary French newspapers,” Dynamic Maghribi Jewish-Muslim interactions in performative and collaborative works of art since 1920. Workshop Presentation. September 16-18, 2019. The Carmago Foundation.

“Shalom alikoum! Challenging the conflictual model of Jewish-Muslim relations in France through stand-up comedy,” Dynamic Maghribi Jewish-Muslim Interaction across the Performing Arts (1920-2020). Workshop Presentation. December 6, 2018. University of Cambridge.

“Queering Jewish-Muslim Relations: The Case of Two LGBTQ Muslim and Jewish Organisations in France,” British Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2018. Conference Presentation. July 10, 2018. Durham University.

Invited Workshops

“Decolonial Theory and Languages, Cultures and Societies Research,” ILCS Research Training. June 19, 2024. Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

“Decolonial Theory and Languages, Cultures and Societies Research,” ILCS Research Training. July 5, 2023. Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

“Decolonial Theory for Modern Languages Researchers,” IMLR Research Training. June 29, 2022. Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

“Critical Race Theory in Singapore,” Muslim Societies in South-East Asia (MS-SEA). October 7, 2020. University of Liverpool in Singapore.

Conferences & Symposia Organised

Jewish-Muslim Research Network Conference 2020: Beyond ‘Jewish-Muslim Relations’? Co-organised with Katharine Halls. Conference. May 19-20, 2020. University of Manchester. Postponed indefinitely due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Gender and Sexuality in/around Islam and Judaism. Symposium. December 12, 2019. University of Manchester.

Disaffiliation, Dis-identification, Disavowal: (Ex-)Muslims and Public Apostasy from Islam in Francophone Culture and Politics. Co-organised with Joseph Ford. Conference. April 5-6, 2019. Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London.

Panels & Seminars Organised

“Theories and Contexts of Jewish-Muslim Relations,” Webinar. November 5, 2020. With Bryan Cheyette, Yulia Egorova, and Jonathan Glasser. Jewish-Muslim Research Network.

“Race, Religion, and Secularism,” Webinar. June 18, 2020. With Brian Klug and Sultan Doughan. Jewish-Muslim Research Network.

“The Poetics and Politics of Humour and Memory in the Francophone World,” Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Conference 2019: Postcolonial Realms of Memory in the Francophone World. Conference. November 15-16, 2019. Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London.

“Gender and Sexuality in Discourses on Ethnic and/or Religious Minorities,” Lavender Languages & Linguistics 26. Conference. May 4, 2019. University of Gothenburg.

“Gender and Sexuality in Discourses on Muslims in France and Quebec,” Lavender Languages & Linguistics 25. Conference. April 20, 2018. Rhode Island College.

Roundtables

“Identity Politics in Southeast Asia: Decolonial Approaches Toward Constructing the Pluriverse,” European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Conference 2021. September 8, 2021. Palacký University Olomouc.

Conference Papers

“Colonial tools of coercion: ‘New’ antisemitism, universalism, and assimilation,” 3rd International Conference on Critical Muslim Studies. June 24-26, 2024. University of Leeds.

“The role of terrorism, homophobia, and misogyny in justifications of institutional Islamophobia in France: a decolonial race critical discourse analysis,” Lavender Languages & Linguistics 27. Conference. May 21-23, 2021. California Institute of Integral Studies.

“Humour, Memory, and Jewish-Muslim Relations in France,” Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Conference 2019: Postcolonial Realms of Memory in the Francophone World. Conference. November 15-16, 2019. Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London.

“Gender and racialization in newspaper discourse on ‘Jewish-Muslim relations’ in contemporary France (2000-2017),” Lavender Languages & Linguistics 26. Conference. May 4, 2019. University of Gothenburg.

“Between ‘Race’ and Religion: Ex-Muslims and the Politics of Apostasy in Singapore,” Disaffiliation, Dis-identification, Disavowal: (Ex-)Muslims and Public Apostasy from Islam in Francophone Culture and Politics. Conference. April 6, 2019. Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London.

“Far-right French Femonationalism and Homonationalism: A Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Marine Le Pen Speeches from 2011-2017,” Lavender Languages & Linguistics 25. Conference. April 20, 2018. Rhode Island College.

“Queer ex-Salafists: A Case Study from France,” Lavender Languages & Linguistics 24. 29 April, 2017. Conference. University of Nottingham.

“The French Extreme Right’s Discursive Forays into Feminism and LGBT-advocacy,” International Gender and Language Association 9. Conference. May 19-21, 2016. City University of Hong Kong.

“Translating or Traducing Images: The Case of Charlie Hebdo,” Translation Theory Today. May 5, 2016. Conference. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

“The Front National’s “Islam”: The Discursive Construction of “Islamicized” Homophobia and Misogyny in France,” Lavender Languages & Linguistics 23. Conference. February 13, 2016. American University.

“Disrupting The Racial Politics of Radicalization and Terror(ism) through Huysmans’ A rebours,” Reading Terror: Representations and Resistance. Conference. November 30, 2015. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

“Le coran et la chair and L’armée du salut: Transgression towards a diversification of mainstream Islam through literature,” Lavender Languages & Linguistics 22. Conference. February 13, 2015. American University

Departmental Talks

“Judeo-Bolshevism, Islamo-Leftism, and the Great Replacement.” Talk. February 9, 2024. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan.

“No laughing matter? Taste and didacticism in politically-inclined stand-up comedy in contemporary France,” Taste in France, Taste of France. Research Day. May 16, 2019. University of Manchester.

Other Events

Moderated conversation with Robert Phillips on Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore. July 30, 2020. Jewish-Muslim Research Network.

Moderated conversation with Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua on Fiction, Humor and Social Critique in the Israeli-Palestinian Context. March 11, 2016. The Graduate Center, City University of New York.