“Restituted Grandchildren and Intergenerational Data Rights: Ethical Safeguards for Digital Testimonies in Argentina in the Age of Generative AI.” Symposium on the Principles for Ethical Use of Digital Testimonies of Victims and Witnesses of Mass Violence, June 2026.
📍 Paris, France
“Secrets Sequenced: Podcasting Family Genetics and the Narrative Turn in DNA Disclosure.” Narrative Conference, June 2026.
📍 Aarhus, Denmark
“Platformed Kinship: Genetic Genealogy and Relationality in Contemporary Life Writing.” DGfA Conference, May 2026.
📍 Münster, Germany
“Communicating Family Secrets Involving Sperm Donors.” National Communication Association Conference, November 2025.
📍 Denver, CO
“Intimacy in Podcasts Discussing Reproductive Family Secrets.” National Communication Association Conference, November 2025.
📍 Denver, CO
“Narrative Constructions of Reproductive Family Secrets in the PBS Series Finding Your Roots.” National Communication Association Conference, November 2025.
📍 Denver, CO
“We and the Water: Marielle Macé’s Nos Cabanes (Our Cabins, 2019).” Narrative Conference, April 2025.
📍 Miami, FL
“Transnational Paradigms in Oral History Collections of U.S. Immigrant and Ethnic Archives.” University of Debrecen, August 2024.
📍 Debrecen, Hungary
“AI-Assisted Algorithmic Networked Memory.” Modern Language Association Convention, January 2024.
📍 Philadelphia, PA
“Ethical Questions Raised by AI-Assisted Autobiographical Story Archives.” Modern Language Association Convention, January 2024.
📍 Philadelphia, PA
“Ethical Questions Raised by AI-Assisted Personal and Collective Storytelling.” IABA Asia: Life Writing in Unprecedented Times, September 2023.
📍 Online
“Collective Covid Diaries: Performing Unity.” IABA International Conference, July 2023.
📍 Warsaw, Poland
“Gyűjteményes sorstörténetek a 18. században és aggregált posztok a 21. században: Mi a szerepük a demokráciában?” University of Pannonia, June 2023.
📍 Veszprém, Hungary
“Covid Diaries: Performing Unity.” Narrative Matters Conference, June 2023.
📍 Tampere, Finland
“Ethical Questions Raised by AI-Assisted Personal and Collective Storytelling.” Communication Ethics Conference, June 2023.
📍 Pittsburgh, PA
“Collective Covid Diaries in Hungary and the U.S.” American Hungarian Educators Association Conference, April 2023.
📍 Hamden, CT
“The Countess of Castiglione in the Mirror of Nathalie Léger.” Hybridity in Life Writing: How Text and Images Work Together to Tell a Life, University of Paris, July 2022.
📍 Paris, France
“Digital Collections of Personal Stories: Building Collective Intimacy.” Modern Language Association Convention, January 2022.
📍 Washington, DC
“Nos Cabanes: Marielle Macé’s Alternative Places.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, October 2021.
📍 Online
“Life Writing as World Literature.” Co-presented with Ioana Luca. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, April 2021.
📍 Online
“The Cross-Border Memoirs of Jean Guerrero and Francisco Cantú.” Modern Language Association Convention, January 2020.
📍 Seattle, WA
“Curating the Life of a Self-Curator: The Comtesse de Castiglione in the Mirror of Nathalie Léger.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, October 2019.
📍 El Paso, TX
“Personal Authenticity and Historical Accuracy in Film Adaptations of Gulag Memoirs and Diaries.” European Chapter of the International Auto/Biography Association Conference, June 2019.
📍 Madrid, Spain
“Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir.” Association Française d’Études Américaines Conference, May 2019.
📍 Nantes, France
“Cross-Border Memoirs Negotiating the Limits.” Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur Conference, May 2019.
📍 Paris, France
“Archiving Immigrants’ Personal Stories as Part of National History.” Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, November 2018.
📍 Berkeley, CA
“Stories of Post-Trauma and National Sacrifice.” Modern Language Association Convention, January 2018.
📍 New York, NY
“Mapping Our Lives by Mapping Our Cities.” European Chapter of the International Auto/Biography Association Conference, June 2017.
📍 London, England
“Mapping Lives Across Borders.” Modern Language Association Convention, January 2017.
📍 Philadelphia, PA
“Jean-Luc Nancy and the Concept of Community and Sharing.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, October 2016.
📍 Salt Lake City, UT
“Community-Building and the Celebration of the Everyday in Recent Crowd-Sourced Diaries and Communal Lifestory Archives.” International Auto/Biography Association Conference, May 2016.
📍 Cyprus
“Developing Language Skills and Cultural Awareness Through STEM Content.” ACTFL Annual Convention, November 2016.
📍 San Diego, CA
“The Conflicted Commitments of Archbishop Endre Hamvas Following the Communist Takeover in Hungary.” American Hungarian Educators Association Conference, July 2015.
📍 Cluj, Romania
“H. G. Wells and the Origins of the Quantified Self.” Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, October 2014.
📍 Montreal, Canada
“Maurice Blanchot and the ‘Unavowable Community’ in First-Person Literature.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, October 2014.
📍 Boise, ID
“The Utopia of the Everyday: Two Life-Writing Projects from the 1930s.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, October 2013.
📍 Vancouver, WA
“The Correspondence of Alexander Lenard.” American Hungarian Educators Association Conference, May 2013.
📍 New Brunswick, NJ
“‘My Life in Germany before and after January 30, 1933’: Documenting German National Socialism Through a Collection of Witness Stories.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, March 2013.
📍 Boston, MA
“The 2010 Global Video Contest ‘Life in a Day’ and Its Interpretations.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2012.
📍 Honolulu, HI
“One Day a Year: Documenting One’s Own Life as a Form of Communal Utopia.” Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, October 2011.
📍 State College, PA
“Using Life Stories for the Purpose of Social and Political Activism.” International Auto/Biography Association Conference, June 2010.
📍 Brighton, England
“Sándor Lénárd: Self-Portrait in Three Languages, Part 3.” American Hungarian Educators Association Conference, May 2010.
📍 Berkeley, CA
“Sándor Lénárd: Self-Portrait in Three Languages, Part 2.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, October 2009.
📍 Reno, NV
“Alexander Lenard: Self-Portrait in Three Languages, Part 1.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, October 2008.
📍 Reno, NV
“The Autobiographer as a Symbol: Symbolic Views on Autobiographical Representativity.” The Spirit of the Age Conference, July 2007.
📍 Brighton, England
“Johann Gottfried Herder: The Paradox of Unity and Diversity.” International Auto/Biography Association Conference, July 2006.
📍 Mainz, Germany
“The Autobiographer as a Representative Specimen: Gertrude Stein’s Everybody’s Autobiography.” American Literature Association Conference, May 2005.
📍 Boston, MA
“Self-Abstraction and National Identity: The Autobiographies of Nietzsche and Yeats.” International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, August 2004.
📍 Manchester, England
“The Autobiography of a Typical Individual? H. G. Wells’s Experiment in Autobiography.” INST Conference, November 2003.
📍 Vienna, Austria