| 2025 | “The Scholarly-Type Mind,” Opening Address to the 13th Annual Conference of the EBSN, Hildesheim (15/9/2025) |
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| 2025 | “The Beats – Contours: The Cambridge Literary Studies Hour”, online (25/6/2025) |
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| 2025 | “The Mystery of Academia,” Leek Loves Books literary festival (7/6/2025) |
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| 2024 | “Teaching the Beats,” roundtable presentation at “The Beats: Wilderness and Wildness,” the Twelfth Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network, Bialystok, Poland (13/5/24). |
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| 2023 | Opening Address and Panel Chair at CUT-UPS@2023 Conference at the University of Chicago Center, Paris (12/9/2023). |
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| 2021 | Opening Address and Panel Chair, “Beat Studies—Present and Future,” the Tenth Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network Virtual Conference (29-31/10/21) |
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| 2017 | “un règlement de comptes avec la Littérature: A Cut-Up Mystery,” Sixth Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network, Paris (20/9/17) |
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| 2016 | Opening Address to the Fifth Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network Conference, Manchester (27/6/16) |
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| 2014 | “The Nova Machine Exploded,” “William Burroughs @100 Conference,” International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester (13/12/14) |
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| 2014 | Keynote Address, “Shift, Spit, Cut: A Genetic Geography of Naked Lunch” The Third Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network, Tangier (17/11/14) |
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| 2014 | “Editing The Cut-Up Trilogy,” The New York Public Library (26/4/14) |
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| 2014 | Keynote Address, “Cutting Up The Trilogy,” to The William Burroughs Centennial Conference, City University of New York (25/4/14) |
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| 2014 | Keynote Address, “A Life-Time Cut-Up,” to “Beyond the Cut-Up: William S. Burroughs and the Image,” The Photographer’s Gallery, London (15/2/14) |
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| 2014 | Chair, European Beat Studies Panel, British Association of American Studies Conference, Birmingham University (11/4/14) |
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| 2014 | Keynote Address, “Cutting Up the Century,” to “The Burroughs Century Conference,” Indiana University, Bloomington (7/2/14) |
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| 2012 | Opening Address to the European Beat Studies Conference, Middelburg,
Holland (5/9/12)
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| 2012 | Keynote Address, “Working the Hole with William Burroughs: Censorship and The Soft Machine,” to “Underground” Conference, Koc University, Istanbul (8/5/12) |
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| 2012 | Chair, European Beat Studies Panel, British Association of American Studies Conference, Manchester (13/4/12) |
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| 2011 | “The Beats / The French / The American Century,” Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York (5/4/11) |
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| 2010 | “Sawing William Burroughs in Half: the Origins of Naked Lunch,” Temple University, Philadelphia (14/9/10) |
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| 2010 | “‘Confusion’s Masterpiece’: Re-editing William Burroughs’ First Trilogy,” Book History Colloquium, Columbia University, New York (16/9/10) |
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| 2010 | “Double-Crossing Hemingway: The Iceberg Aesthetic as Red Herring,” Department of English, University of York (3/3/10) |
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| 2009 | “The Frisco Kid, He Never Returns: William Burroughs in San Francisco,” San Francisco Art Institute (20/11/09) |
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| 2009 | Keynote Address, “From Dr Mabuse to Doc Benway: The Myths and Manuscripts of Naked Lunch,” William Burroughs Conference, Columbia University, New York (9/10/09) |
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| 2009 | Organiser’s Address to Naked Lunch@50 Symposium, University of London Institute in Paris (1/7/09) |
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| 2009 | “Burroughs and Kerouac on the road to Naked Lunch,” University of Sussex (24/2/09) |
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| 2008 | Plenary Address, “The Holy Shit of Burroughs and Kerouac,” to “The Beats and the Post-Beats,” University of Birmingham (13/12/08) |
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| 2008 | “The Inside Story on Covers: Confessions of a Burroughs Scholar,” “Uncovering the Scholarly Edition” symposium, Keele (18/6/08) |
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| 2008 | “Beating Scholarship: On the Unspoken Truth about Editing and Publishing," American Literature Association, San Francisco (5/08) |
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| 2007 | “Cutting Up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text,” Annual Symposium on Textual Studies, De Montfort University (25/5/07) |
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| 2007 | “Cutting Up the Beat Hotel,” British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, University of Leicester (4/07) |
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| 2006 | “Burroughs’ Mexican Triptych: Junky, Queer, and Yage,” UNAM,
Facultad de filosofía y letras (5/9)
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| 2003 | Keynote Speaker, “Junky at Fifty,” Columbia University (4/03) |
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| 2000 | “Film Noir Fascination,” American Culture Association, New Orleans |
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| 1998 | “Queer Shoulders, Queer Wheel,” Netherlands American Studies Association Conference, Middelburg, Holland |
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| 1997 | “The Beat Mythology,” North Eastern Modern Languages Association Conference, Philadelphia |
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| 1996/97/99 | Seminars, Department of English, Université Charles de Gaule, Lille-3 |
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| 1996 | “I-con-oclast,” Department of English, Glasgow University |
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