“Construction (Queer) Counter-Models of Masculinities in Hip Hop: A Few Case Studies”
Presentation at the one-day conference “Cultural Representations of Masculinities: Models and Counter-Models in the English Speaking World” organized by Chloé BOUR–LANG, Tim HERON and Juliette MISSET (SEARCH), Université de Strasbourg. May 12, 2023.

“Shifting Canons in Hip Hop: African American Gay Rappers and the Visibility of Homosexuality”
Presentation at the 53^th AFEA Symposium “Légitimité, Autorité, Canons”. Workshop No.14 “Faire, défaire, refaire le canon poétique” (“Making, Unmaking, Remaking the Poetic Canon”) suggested by Abigail Lang (Université de Paris) and Vincent Broqua (Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis), Université Bordeaux Montaigne. May 31-June 3, 2022.

“African American LGBTQ+ Intersectional Dynamics in Some Contemporary Rap, R&B and Pop Music”
Presentation at the Institut des Amériques, Pôle Nord-Est conference, “Gender, Sexual and Racial Dynamics in the Americas” in the workshop “Popular Culture, Reappropriation of Norms, and Intersecrionality” offered by Yannick M. BLEC (Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis) and Sébastien MIGNOT (Université le Havre Normandie). Université Gustave Eiffel. January 13-15, 2021.

“Queer(ing) Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture: The Case of Lil Nas X”
Presentation at the one-day conference “Gender Trouble 2020: Queering art/Queering society?” organized by Juliette MELIA and Emmanuelle DELANOË-BRUN (LARCA), Université de Paris. October 9, 2020.

« Subvertir les clichés : Moonlight et la reconstruction des identités masculines noires dans le ghetto »
Presentation at the 51^st AFEA symposium “Disciplines/Indisciplines”. Workshop No. 14 “Les indisciplinés du cinéma” (“Undisciplined Movies”) suggested by Emmanuelle DELANOË-BRUN (Université Paris Diderot) and Delphine LETORT (Université du Maine), Université de Nantes. May 21-24, 2019.

« Du Down Low aux fiertés : redéfinition des identités et de la masculinité africaines américaines LGBTQ+ à travers les arts populaires, une analyse intersectionnelle »
Presentation at the “Intersectionnalité et transfert des savoirs : itinéraire d’un concept militant” organized by LARCA-UMR8225, Université Paris Diderot. November 14-16, 2018.

« “Black Identity” : d’une identité unique à une identité plurielle. Approche épistémologique des identités noires dans la littérature africaine américaine des années 1960 »
Presentation at the ““Pourquoi les identités… ?” Intérêts et limites d’une notion controversée, 8e Rendez-vous de Géographie culturelle, Ethnologie et Études culturelles en Occitanie” symposium organized by UMR 5281 Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement (ART-Dev) and EMMA EA 741, Université de Nîmes. June 21-22, 2018.

“William Melvin Kelley and the Decolonization of Ebonics: Language as a Constituent of African American Identities”
Presentation at the “Young Scholars Transfers : réflexions sur la notion de transfert en sciences humaines” symposium organized by Mélanie GRUE and Lucile POUTHIER, Université Paris Est. October 13-14, 2016.

“Memoir, Memory and Conceptualized Identities in William Melvin Kelley’s Narratives”
Presentation at the CAAR “Mobilising Memory: Creating African Atlantic Identities” symposium, Hope University, Liverpool. June 24-28, 2015.

“Chig Dunford and the Idea of Life in Cycle – From Insouciance to Awareness, and Conversely”
Presentation at the CAAR “Dreams Deferred, Promises and Struggles: Perceptions and Interrogations of Empire, Nation, and Society by Peoples of African Descent” symposium, Agnes Scott College, Decatur/Atlanta. March 13-16, 2013.

“Making Blackness Meaningful or When William Melvin Kelley’s Characters Become Self-Conscious”
Presentation at the CAAR “Black States of Desire: Dispossession, Transformation, Circulation symposium, Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot. April 6-9, 2011.