Past Presentations:
Sensing movement: (A)Kinesthesia along Diasporic Food-Ways
Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, 71st Annual Meeting,
Asheville, NC, April, 2024.
American Sociological Association Annual Congress session on “The Educative Power of Sociology,” Philadelphia, PA, August, 2023.
Sensory Re-composition: Exchanging Food Parcels in a Pandemic
North Central Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI, March, 2023
Digital Ethnography Working Group held online at Rutgers University, NJ, September, 2022.
Sensing the Mahjar: Mobility and Belonging in Palestinian-Chilean Kitchens
MESAAS Graduate Student Conference on Borders and Boundaries held online at Columbia University, March 2022
Memory as a Field Site: Making (Sense of) Empanadas and Doenjang-jjigae
International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative held online, January 2022
Presented with Matthew Howard
Eating Apart Together: Online Foodways in a Time of Social Distancing
Food Matters and Materialities: Critical Understandings of Food Cultures at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, September 2021.
Authentic Sensation: Assembling the Biography of Comida Árabe.
American Sociological Association Annual Congress session on “Culture and Identity.” Chicago, IL, August 2021.
Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress, Vancouver, Canada, May 2021.
Presented with Steve Wiley and Daniel Bascuñan-Wiley.
Layered Authenticities: The commodification of Arab identity in the Chilean foodscape.
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2019.
La Segunda Parte de Palestina: Palestinian (Be)Longing in Chile.
Yalla Ila Amrika: Formation of Arab Christian Communities in Latin America at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 2019.
Diasporic Sumud: Palestinian Food-Memory and Resistance in Chile.
The Global Encounters Lunch Series at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 2019.
Culinary Place-Identity: Palestinian Belonging in the Chilean Foodscape.
The 34th annual Middle East History and Theory Conference on Migration, Diaspora, and Movement of Peoples at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 2019.
From Beit Jala to Patronato: Transregional identities and Culinary Connections.
Cities of the Arab World: Theory, Investigation, Critique at Michigan State University’s Global Urban Studies Program, East Lansing, MI, February 2019.
Patronato: A Palestinian Cosmonational Foodscape.
Migration and Incorporation Workshop at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, January 2019.
Sumud and Food: Remembering Palestine through Cuisine in Chile.
From “Mjaddarah” to “Fatti de Luxe:” Food and Middle Eastern Diasporas at North Carolina State University’s Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Raleigh, NC, April 2018.
The Palestinian Experience in Chile as a Form of Diasporic Re-Territorialization.
The 20th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 2018.
Contextualizing Palestinian Hybridity: How Pragmatic Citizenship Influences Diaspora Identities.
Midwestern Sociological Society Annual Meeting/Couch-Stone Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, April 2017.