2021 “Qaṣidah De-Formed: Dynamics of maskh in Arabic Literary Theory and Hebrew Poetics.” Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits, Columbia University.
2020 Panel Organizer, “Trajectories of Syrian Culture in Retrospect,” MESA.
2020 “The Aleppo Literary Forum and the Poetics of Minimalism,” MESA.
2019 “Translating Difference in Assad’s Syria: Theory and Practice,” ACLA 2019, Georgetown University.
2019 “Under a Low Ceiling: Towards a Poetics of the Everyday in Assad’s Syria,” Dartmouth College.
2017 “Thou Shalt Not Join the Zealots: Responses to the Six-Day War in Israeli Literature,” The Naksa Fifty Years Later, Harvard University.
2016 “Take of the Best Fruit of the Land: Oral to Written Translation in Natan Zach and Rashid al-Hussein’s Dates and Palms,” ACLA 2016, Harvard University.
2015 “Jacqueline Kahanoff on the Margins of The Thousand and One Nights,” The Thousand and One Nights: Sources, Transformations, and Relationship with Literature, the Arts and the Sciences, Harvard University.
2015 “In her Likeness: Saleh Diab and the ‘Undue Influence’ of Women Poets,” MESAAS Graduate Conference, Columbia University.
2014 “Mourning and Dancing: Mordechai Galili’s Long Poems,” Middle Eastern Literatures in the 21st Century, Harvard University.