Conferences

Disseminations of my work that I’ve given at various institutions:

27 April 2012 – ‘Welcoming Strangers’ – Royal Holloway University of London.  Delivered a paper entitled ‘Multi Kontra Culti: Gypsy Punk Multiculturalism’.

1-3 September 2011 – ‘Literary Dislocations (Fourth International Congress of REELC/ENCLS)’ – Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia.  Delivered a paper entitled ‘The Roma: A Dislocated People?’

7-9 July 2010 – ‘Literary London 2010: Representations of London in Literature’. Delivered a paper entitled ‘The London Underground in Contemporary Writing’.

17 May 2010 – ‘From Utopia to Heterotopia: Inventing Balkan fictions and territorialisations’. Invited speaker at this seminar at the University of Birmingham.

24 April 2010 – ‘My Territory’ – University of Leicester. Delivered a paper entitled ‘The Home Territory in Ian McEwan’s Saturday’.

1-2 April 2010 – ‘From the Grand Tour to Mass Tourism: The Modern History of the British Abroad’ – Newcastle University. Delivered a paper entitled ‘“We cannot swim, we cannot sunbathe, so with all due respect, we drink”: Intoxication in British Tourism in Europe’.

25-27 March 2010 – ‘Europe: Inside Out’ – Graduate Centre for Europe, University of Birmingham. Delivered a paper entitled ‘Constructing a Balkan Fiction’.

11 June 2009 – ‘Exile and Migration’ – University of Manchester. Delivered a paper entitled ‘Welcome to the Hützovina Border: The Gypsy Punk Construction of the Balkans’.