“The ‘Falling Men’ of 9/11: Richard Drew, Don DeLillo and the Reproduction ofPhotography.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.April 2015.
“Insecure Cosmopolitanism: Intimacy and Auto-immunity in Mohsin Hamid’s TheReluctant Fundamentalist.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting.University of Washington, Seattle, United States. March 2015.
“Diaspora and Disorientation in Post-9/11 London: Reading Gender and Agency inthe Geographical Interfaces of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane.” Literary London Society AnnualConference. University of London, England. July 2013.
"When Word Meets Image: Teaching Visual Media Methodologies." CanadianComparative Literature Association at CONGRESS. University of Victoria, Canada. June 2013.
“Domesticity, Diaspora and Orientations on the Edge.” Canadian Association forCommonwealth Literature and Language Studies at CONGRESS. University of Victoria, Canada.June 2013.
“Fiction, Journalism and the Visual Mediation of National Mourning in The9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation." Pacific and Ancient Modern Language AssociationConference. Seattle University, Washington. October 2012.
Balfour, Lindsay. “Apprehending Otherness at Abu Ghraib: Technology and the Recognition ofSuffering.” Borders and Border Crossings Conference. University of British ColumbiaOkanagan. Kelowna, Canada. May 2012.
“Organic Shrapnel: Flesh, Vulnerability and the Ethical Possibilities of MetaphoricEmbeddedness in 9/11 Fiction.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting.Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. March 2012.
“Contesting Canada’s Multicultural Imaginary: Race and Language in Lorena Gale’sJe me Souviens.” Borders and Border Crossings Conference. University of British ColumbiaOkanagan. Kelowna, Canada. April 2010.
“Looking Saddam in the Eye: Emergent Technologies and the Ethics of VisualConfrontation.” Photography and International Conflict Conference. Clinton Institute forAmerican Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland. June 2009.