Project presentations and conference papers

2022

• “Thinking about Place in the Study of African Literatures”
  Keynote lecture (online) at the workshop Kenyans Abroad – or, the World “as a Place”. Moi University African Cluster Centre, Eldoret, 17 March 2022

• “’Thousands of creative people’: Urbanität und Ästhetik in Nairobis junger Literatur”
  Lecture in the Ringvorlesung Afrika – Bilder, Diskurse, Stereotype: Zur Selbst- und Fremdrepräsentation eines Kontinents, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, 21 March 2022

2021

• “Entwicklungstheorie und -kritik im Schreiben von Binyavanga Wainaina”
  Paper at the conference Afrikaforschung in Österreich: Zugänge und Perspektiven. University of Innsbruck, 26 – 28 May 2021

• Roundtable “Narratives of Global Cooperation” at New Avenues of Global Cooperation Research, Midterm Conference of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg – Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Germany, 16 November 2021.

2020

• “Retelling the story of development”
  Paper presented in the Staff and Postgraduate Students Seminar at the Department of Literature, Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, 13 February 2020.

• “Kenyan writers and the discourse of development”
  Project presentation in the Departmental Seminar Series at the Literature Department, Moi University, Eldoret, 6 February 2020.

2019

• “Schwarzer Feminismus, Womanismus, Intersektionalität"
  Lecture at the launch of our book Feministische Theorie aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika, a collective monograph by Anke Graneß, Martina Kopf and Magdalena Kraus.
  Universität Hildesheim, 12 November 2019.

• „Developmentalism from a Kenyan perspective: Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place“
  Paper presented at the Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa on “African and Africana Knowledges: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities”.
  United States International University-Africa (USIU), Nairobi, 24-26 October 2019.

• "African literatures and (post-)development thought”
  Paper presented at the 18^th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS).
  University of Auckland, New Zealand, 15-19 July 2019.

• Martina Kopf and Anke Graneß: “From dialogue to polylogue: comparing feminist thought from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East”
  Paper presented at the 8^th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) on “Connections and Disruptions”.
  University of Edinburgh, 11-14 June 2019.

• “Becoming Pan-African: transnational thought in Binyavanga Wainaina (2011) One Day I Will Write About This Place
  Paper presented at the international conference on “The Long History of Pan-African Intellectual Activism: More Than a Centenary, 1919-2019”.
  University of Vienna, Department of African Studies, 16-17 May 2019.

2018

• "Scattered testimony: Kenyan writers on the genocide in Rwanda"
  Paper presented in the Afrika Kolloquium am Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften (IAAW), Humboldt Universität Berlin, 4 July 2018.

• "Encountering development in postcolonial fiction"
  Opening lecture at the international workshop on “Encountering development in postcolonial fiction” , Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, 17-18 May 2018

• "Concepts of development in postcolonial Kenyan writing"
  Project presentation in the research colloquium of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (NELK), Department of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, 1 February 2018.

2017

• "Tracing social and economic change through urban novels"
  Paper presented at the workshop on “Studying Housing in Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, 9-11 November 2017.