2026

From Landlocked Imaginaries to the Cloud and Back Again: On Learning to Re-Compose without Rebuilding, with Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé and Francis Gene-Rowe.
Join the Orca Uprising! Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice EASLCE Conference 2026.
Utrecht University, Netherlands, April 2026.

2025

ELT Ireland Bulletin Informative Session, with Aneta I. Duman. Ireland, November 2025.

Other Skies, Same Airspace: Military Uses of the Nonhuman in Speculative Fiction, with Dr Iuliia Ibragimova.
Octocon, the national Irish science fiction convention.
Dublin, Ireland, October 2025.

To the Bone: (Un)Disciplined Monstrous Appetite and (Un)Dead Labour in iZombie and Tokyo Ghoul.
Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious Food in Popular Culture virtual conference.
PopCRN (Popular Culture Research Network), Australia, September 2025.

Public Landscaping, Counter/Cartography, and the Desire Path not Taken: Zines as Ludic Pedagogical Tools.
Education after the Algorithm: Co-designing Critical and Creative Futures conference.
Dublin City University, Ireland, February 2025.

2024

The Graveyard Shifts.
Haunted Futures conference, Creative panel.
University College Cork, Ireland, October 2024.

Myles, Martian Away with the Fairies! Postcolonial Satire and Speculative Philosophy in Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen Lawn column (1940-1966).
Philophantast: A Speculative Fiction and Philosophy Conference.
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, June 2024.

Unions Panel, on behalf of the IWU with CATU and others.
Purple Training intervarsity conference.
Maynooth University, Ireland, April 2024.

2023

You Do Not Recognise the Dangerous Bodies: Imperialist Moral Panics in Jeanette Winterson’s Technogothic Writings.
SEX pan!cs conference, Pages of Pleasure panel.
Dublin City University, Ireland, October 2023.

In/Out of Time: Meditations on Disruption, with Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé, Nora Castle, and Francis Gene-Rowe.
Disruptive Imaginations (SFRA 2023) conference, SF General panel.
TU Dresden, Germany, August 2023.

Dirty Hands, not Dirty Blood: Contrasting Critical and Artistic Responses to
Shame Narratives in Romanian Clinical Encounters.
CRITICAL: Congress of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities (online conference), Eastern Europe and the Critical Medical Humanities: Research- and Policy-related Case Studies from Hungary and Romania panel.
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, United Kingdom, April 2023.

Exploatarea muncii românilor din străinătate (Exploitation of Romanian Labour Abroad), with Daniela Mitran and Radu Nicolae (Part 1 & Part 2).
Contracurent Media, Romania, April-May 2023.

2022

Constellating Resistance & Flourishing with Visionary SF, with Dr Mia Chen Ma and Avery Delany.
Futures from the Margins (SFRA 2022) conference.
University of Oslo, Norway, June 2022.

When the Subaltern Screams in the Night: Queering the Publics in Monique Wittig’s Across the Acheron.
Queer Urban Nights conference, Resistance and Screams panel.
Dublin City University, Ireland, May 2022.

2021

Can the ‘BT’ in LGBT Speak? The Spectrum of Public Engagement with Queerness in Romania, with Mãdãlina Lazãr.
Queerness & SF virtual event.
London Science Fiction Research Community, United Kingdom, July 2021.

Limits of Imagining Equitable Futures, with Dr Ibtisam Ahmed and Avery Delany.
The Future of/as Inequality (SFRA 2021) conference.
Seneca College, Canada, June 2021. 

Made for You: (Ir)Responsible-ability in Human-Posthuman Relationships in Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro and Jeanette Winterson.
Work in Progress #4 virtual event.
London Science Fiction Research Community, United Kingdom, April 2021.

2020

“And to Live in a New House Would Kill Me“: Transylvania in Gothic Literature vs Gothic Literature in Transylvania.
Romancing the Gothic virtual event, United Kingdom, December 2020.

“Mrs Winterson didn’t want her body resurrected because she never, ever loved it”: Digital Afterlife, Cyborg Desire and Queer Somatechnics in Three Novels by Jeanette Winterson”.
Work in Progress #3 virtual event.
London Science Fiction Research Community, United Kingdom, November 2020.

2019

History in Pursuit: The Outlaw Cycle in Irish and Romanian Film, with Fergal Twomey.
Outlaws, Ballads and Bandits in Popular Tradition conference, Contemporary Representations of Bandits and Banditry panel.
University College Dublin, Ireland, December 2019.

(Non)Human, Interrupted: Beckettian Fossil Records of Trauma.
Constructions of Identity: History, Memory and Accomplishment conference.
Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, October 2019.

2018

Machinic Autopoiesis and Contamination in The Unnamable and Not I.
Beckett & Technology conference, Posthumanism, Autopoiesis, Techno-Aesthetics panel.
Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Czech Republic, September 2018.

Troubling and Troubled Couples: Queer Desire in the Love Triangles of Jeanette Winterson’s Novels.
Symposium Opoliense: Salaciousness, Licentiousness, and Promiscuity in Literature, Culture, and Law.
University of Opole, Poland, May 2018.

2017

Reconfigurations of Childhood: Whose Future Is It? Contemporary Romanian and Irish Short Films.
Contact Zones: Transnational Encounters, Dialogues and Self-Representation in Contemporary Eastern European Literature, Cinema and Visual Cultures conference, The Language of the New Romanian Cinema panel.
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, September 2017.

“What is home without Plumtree’s Potted Meat?”: Pop Culture Parlance, Vision, and Musicality in Ulysses by James Joyce.
New Perspective in English and American Studies conference, James Joyce panel.
Jagiellonian University, Poland, April 2017.