Wendy Belcher's Speaking
Invited Lectures
"Discursive Possession: African Thought and the Eighteenth-Century English Author Samuel Johnson." New Haven, CT, October 21, 2011.
Lecture for Yale University's Council on African Studies and the Department of English Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Colloquium.
“Writing Research Articles for International Journals.” Addis Ababa University, Bahar Dar University, University of Gondar, Mekelle University, Dire Dawa University, Haramiya University, Jimma University, Hawassa University, Arba Minch University, Unity University, St. Mary’s University College, Ethiopia, May 30-June 10, July 5, 2011.
Presented half-day workshops on writing research articles for publication at eleven Ethiopian universities.
"Divine Queenship: Representing Sheba in Medieval and Early Modern African and European Literature," Raleigh, NC, April 22, 2009.
Lecture at North Carolina State University for the Medieval and Early Modern Colloquium in their Global Middle Ages and Renaissance Speaker Series.
“Medieval African and European Texts about the Queen of Sheba: Some Speculations about the Early Circulation of Ethiopian Discourse.” Los Angeles, CA, May 4, 2006.
Lecture for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s annual speaker series.
Conference Presentations
“Walatta Petros and Her Sisters: The Role of Seventeenth Century African Women in Defeating the Portuguese.” Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 3, 2009.
Presentation of paper at the Seventeenth Annual International Ethiopian Studies Conference.
"No Longer His Interpreter But He" Discursive Possession, African Thought, and Samuel Johnson. Princeton, NJ, Thursday, October 15.
Presentation for Princeton English Department's Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Colloquium
"’All Africa's Prodigies in Us’: Discursive Possession and Abyssinia's Johnson.” Cambridge, MA, August 28, 2009.
Presentation on panel titled “Johnson and Modern Scholarship” organized by Helen Deutsch for the “Johnson at 300: A Houghton Library Symposium” at Harvard University.
"Challenging the Challenges to African Texts: On the Problem of Demanding Black Authenticity." Burlington, VT, April 16, 2009
Presentation on a panel at the annual African Literature Association Conference.
“The Princeton Collection of Ethiopic Manuscripts.” Boston, MA, November 24, 2008.
Presentation on a panel for the Society of Biblical Literature Conference.
“The Diachronic Disconnect between Contemporary African Literature and its Written Roots.” Chicago, IL, November 14, 2008.
Presentation with Dr. Thomas A. Hale at the African Studies Association Conference.
“Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern African Literature: A Call to Scholarly Action.” Morgantown, WV, March 17, 2007.
Organized a panel at the annual African Literature Association Conference.
“Recasting European Representations as African Possessions: The Circulation of Abyssinian Discourses in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Europe.” Washington, DC, November 18, 2005.
Presentation on a panel at the annual African Studies Association Conference.
“European Representations of Africans: Recasting Possession in Postcolonial Studies,” Boulder, Colorado, April 9, 2005:
Presentation on a panel at the annual African Literature Association Conference.
“African Views of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Texts from the Gold Coast and Abyssinia: Challenges for Postcolonial Theory:” Las Vegas, Nevada, March 31, 2005.
Presentation on a panel at the annual American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference.
“Darkening Encounters: Cultural Transmission to Britain in the Eighteenth Century.” Indiana University, Bloomington, May 19-22, 2004.
Presentation at Geographies of the Eighteenth Century: The Question of the Global Conference, the Third Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop.
“Indirection and Resistance: Strategies for Evading Colonial Power in Three Francophone African Novels,” Alexandria, Egypt, March 19, 2003.
Presentation on a panel at the annual African Literature Association Conference.
“Reversing Binary Readings of Magic Realism,” San Diego, CA, April 4, 2002.
Presentation on a panel at the annual African Literature Association Conference.
Discussions
Book discussion of Dreams of My Father, January 14, 2009, for Princeton University Office of Information Technology Diversity Initiative.
Talks
“Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern African Literature: An Introduction.”
Princeton, NJ, March 26, 2009, for Princeton University course AFS 200: Introduction to African Studies.
Princeton, NJ, March 11, 2009. For Princeton University African Studies Program weekly Indaba.
“Writing Gender: Recent Research on Power, Productivity, and Publication.” Los Angeles, CA, February 2, 2007.
Keynote speaker for the Thinking Gender Annual Conference, Center for the Study of Women.
"Writing Productivity," UCLA Faculty Mentors and Graduate Students, Los Angeles, CA, June 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
"Ethiopian History," International Journal of Ethiopian Studies launch, Los Angeles, CA, August 19, 2005
"Memoir Writing," Crossroads School Writer’s Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 20, 1999. "Embracing the Future," Nathan Hale High School Baccalaureate, Seattle WA, 1988.
Panels
Panelist, UCLA Career Center on Entrepreneurial PhDs, Los Angeles, CA, April 13, 2007.
Panel Moderator, Ethiopian Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, June 29, 2006.
Panel Moderator, Writer’s Bloc “Travel as Exile, Exile as Travel,” Los Angeles, CA, May 9, 2001.
Interviews
Interview for "Revising to Publish: Wendy Belcher Instructs Fledging Authors in Summer Course" by Vange Heiliger. CSW Newsletter (December 2006).
Interview for Ethiopian Dreams: Elias Wondimu and the art of bridging continents by Anthony Miller, LA Weekly, June 3-9, 2005.
Interview, Deutsche Welle Afrika-Amharisch, Berlin, Germany, January 20, 2002. 20 minutes. 2 p.m. GMT. Amharic and English.
Interview for The Everything Hot Careers Book by Ron Reis (Tandem Library 2001).
Interview, KPFK Feminist Magazine, Los Angeles, CA, April 1999.
Writer Draws on African Upbringing by Wendy Soderburg. UCLA Today, January 1999.
Interview for Der Engel bin ich. Manfred Fluegge (Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 1999).
Interview, BBC Network Africa, London, England, 3:30, May 22, 1998.
Interview, Pacifica Network News, Washington, DC, June 10, 1998.
Interview, KPFK, Los Angeles, CA, May 1997.
Interview, KPFK, Los Angeles, CA, 1997.
Interview, KIRO, Seattle, WA, 1988.
Interview, KCNW, Seattle, WA, 1988.
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