Over the course of the MULOSIGE project, the team has co-ordinated a number of events, as well as overseeing projects and conducting fieldwork. Explore our full list of events, publications and projects here.
Publications
| Title | Date | Team Member | Bibliography |
| ‘Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English village novels’ | 2017 | Francesca Orsini |
‘Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English village novels’, in N. Srivastava and Rossella Ciocca (eds), Indian Literature and the World. Multi-lingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 61-86 (10,000 words) ISBN 978-1-137-54549-7
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| “The social history of a genre: Kathas across Languages in Early Modern North India” | 2017 | Francesca Orsini |
“The social history of a genre: Kathas across Languages in Early Modern North India”, Medieval History Journal, (13,000 words) Spring.
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| “History in Twentieth Century Ethiopia: The ‘Great Tradition’ and the Counter-Histories of it’s National Failure,” | 2017 | Sara Marzagora |
“History in Twentieth Century Ethiopia: The ‘Great Tradition’ and the Counter-Histories of it’s National Failure,” The Journal of African History. Cambridge University Press, 58(3), pp. 425–444. doi: 10.1017/S0021853717000342.
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| ‘Mysteries of the Indian jungle: Emilio Salgari’s Orientalist adventures’ | 2018 | Francesca Orsini |
‘Mysteries of the Indian jungle: Emilio Salgari’s Orientalist adventures’; in Purushartha 35: Inde et Italie, ed. Marie Fourcade.
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| ‘Significant geographies: in lieu of world literature’, with Sara Marzagora and Karima Laachir, Journal of World Literature 3.3, special issue on ‘Debating world literature’, ed. David Omissi and David Damrosch. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00303005 | 2018 | Francesca Orsini |
‘Significant geographies: in lieu of world literature’, with Sara Marzagora and Karima Laachir, Journal of World Literature 3.3, special issue on ‘Debating world literature’, ed. David Omissi and David Damrosch. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00303005
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| Significant Geographies | 2018 | Franceca Orsini, Karima Laachir, Sara Marzagora |
Significant Geographies, Journal of World Literature, 3(3), 290-310. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00303005
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| Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a Ground-up and Located Approach to World Literature. | 2018 | Franceca Orsini, Karima Laachir, Sara Marzagora |
Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a Ground-up and Located Approach to World Literature. Modern Languages Open, (1), p.19. DOI: http://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.190
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| ‘World literature, Indian views, 1920s-1940s’ | 2019 | Francesca Orsini (with Laetitia Zecchini) |
‘World literature, Indian views, 1920s-1940s’, in The Journal of World Literature, special issue on ‘The Location of (World) Literature’ ed. by F. Orsini and L. Zecchini, (9,1450 words).
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| ‘Introduction.’ Special issue on ‘The Location of (World) Literature | 2019 | Francesca Orsini (with Laetitia Zecchini) |
(with Laetitia Zecchini) ‘Introduction.’ Special issue on ‘The Location of (World) Literature, The Journal of World Literature.
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| Barreessitoonni Oromoo Waa’ee Ogbarruu Oromoo maal jedhu? (What do Oromo writers say about Oromo literature?) | 2019 | Ayele Kebe Roba |
Barreessitoonni Oromoo Waa’ee Ogbarruu Oromoo maal jedhu? (What do Oromo writers say about Oromo literature?). MULOSIGE academic website. SOAS, University of London, UK.
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| Hindhageenne / I did not know it/, A short story. | 2019 | Ayele Kebe Roba |
Hindhageenne / I did not know it/, A short story. MULOSIGE academic website, SOAS, University of London, UK.
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| The Ethiopian Writers’ Association: Between Multilingual Openings and Monolingual Practice. | 2019 | Ayele Kebe Roba |
The Ethiopian Writers’ Association: Between Multilingual Openings and Monolingual Practice. MULOSIGE, academic website. SOAS, University of London, UK.
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| Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies (MULOSIGE): Dhiyaannaa Haareya Qu’annoo Oguma Addunyaa (translation) | 2019 | Ayele Kebe Roba |
Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies (MULOSIGE): Dhiyaannaa Haareya Qu’annoo Oguma Addunyaa (translation). MULOSIGE academic website, SOAS, University of London, UK.
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| Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Amharic and Oromo intellectual histories. | 2019 | Sara Marzagora, Ayele Kebe Roba |
Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Amharic and Oromo intellectual histories. (2019) in eds. Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee, Routledge Handbook of African Literature. Routledge:
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| Introduction: Multilingual Locals and Textual Circulation before Colonialism. | 2019 | Francesca Orsini, Karima Laachir, Sara Marzagora |
Introduction: Multilingual Locals and Textual Circulation before Colonialism. In: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 63–67. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-7493777
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| Ethiopian Intellectual History and the Global | 2019 | Sara Marzagora |
Ethiopian Intellectual History and the Global, Journal of World Literature, 4(1), 107-128. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00401006
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| The Migration of Resistance and Solidarity: ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʼirī’s Promotion of Hijra | 2020 | July Blalack |
The Migration of Resistance and Solidarity: ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʼirī’s Promotion of Hijra’ In Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, 2020
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| Located and Multingual: worlding literature in India’ | Forthcoming | Francesca Orsini |
Located and Multingual: worlding literature in India’, in Cambridge History of World Literature, ed. Debjani Ganguly [accepted for publication]
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Projects
| Project | Date | Team Member | Project Details |
| Archival Research, New York | 2016 | Sara Marzagora |
Archival research on Melaku Beyyan and his Harlem-based newspaper The Voice of Ethiopia, published in response to the Italian occupation of Ethiopia
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| Workshop: Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies Before Colonialism | 2016 | Sara Marzagora |
Co-organised the workshop: Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies Before Colonialism
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| Visting Researcher at ZMO | 2017 | Sara Marzagora |
Spent three months at the ZMO (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin) as a visiting researcher.
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| Archival Research, Italy and France | 2017 | Sara Marzagora |
Spent four months of archival research in Italy and France on the topic of Italian and French colonial language policies in the Horn of Africa.
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| Fieldwork in Ethiopia | 2018 | Ayele Kebede Roba | |
| Research Project | 2018 | Sara Marzagora |
Narratives of Order: Rethinking non-Western Political Thought
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| Morocco Scholars | 2019 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano |
Liaision with scholars from Morocco (Lhoussain Simour), the UK (Vanessa Elbaz, Dora Latiri), Spain (Gonzalo Fernández-Parrilla), the US (Eric Calderwood), France (Daniella Merolla) and Sweden (Teresa Pepe);
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| London Libraries | 2019 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano |
A series of public engagement activities and events – with the Council of Islington
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| Primary Research in Madrid, Tunis and Tetoua. | 2019 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano |
Primary research conducted in Madrid (Spain), Tunis (Tunisia) and Tetouan (Morocco);
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| Oral Traditions Conference, in Addis Ababa | 2019 | Sara Marzagora, Ayele Kebede Roba |
Co-cordinated Oral Traditions Conference, in Addis Ababa
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| Visiting Position at Northwestern University | 2019 | Sara Marzagora |
Two-months visiting position at the Program of African Studies of Northwestern University
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| “Reading together” in multilingual contexts beyond monolingual methodologies – Conference | 2019 | MULOSIGE team |
“Reading together” in multilingual contexts beyond monolingual methodologies
International Workshop at Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Naples 11-12 April 2019 |
| Scherezade Cultural Events Programme | 2020 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano |
A series of Arabic-focused literary events at North London Libraries
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Events
| Event Description | Date | Team Member | Event type |
| ‘Multilingual locals and significant geographies before colonialism’, ERC conference, SOAS, 16-18 June. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini | Workshop/reading group 2016 |
| The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia’, co-organized with Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS, Paris) as part of the ERC project and with the support of the labex TransferS (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Collège de France, PSL), Paris 19-20 June. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini | Workshop/reading group 2017 |
| ‘The West-Eastern Lyric: Modernist Poetry between Asia and Europe’, co-organized with Fatima Burney and Ben Hutchinson as part of ERC project (SOAS) with Centre for European Literatures, University of Kent, 17 November. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini | Workshop/reading group |
| ‘Poetic equivalence, parallel aesthetics, and language-stretching: Poetic traffic in a multilingual literary culture’, panel on ‘Prismatic Translation’, ICLA committee for Literary theory, Vienna, 25-26 June. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini | Keynote address 2016 |
| ‘Translational culture without translation’. Workshop on ‘Tradurre e produrre testi in contesti multilinguistici: Movimenti di parole e idee in/oltre l’Asia Meridionale*”, Torino 20-22 October. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini | Keynote address 2016 |
| ‘The Social History of a Genre: Kathas across Languages in Early Modern North India’, Medieval History Journal Annual Lecture, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 11 November | 2016 | Francesca Orsini | Keynote address 2016 |
| ‘Who were the cosmopolitans? Reflections from multilingual South Asia’, Oxford conference on ‘Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary cosmopolitanism after the republic of letters’, Trinity College, Oxford University, 18-19 March. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2016
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| ‘Between qasbas and the city Literary multilingualism in Nawabi Awadh’, at SOAS ERC workshop on ‘Multilingual Locals and Significant geographies before colonialism’, 16 June. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2016
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| ‘Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English village novels’, CSSS, Kolkata, 31 August and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 19 September. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2016
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| Beyond the Generic: plural histories of the local’, at conference The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia, SOAS 5-6 September. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2016
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| ‘Multilingual traces and poetic traffic: cultivating and practicing poetry in early modern north India’, workshop on Small-scale multilingualism, SOAS, 2 December. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2016
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| ‘The texture of time and place: Two local histories of Jais’, at workshop on Local History in the Persianate Cosmopolis, SOAS, 17 December. | 2016 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2016
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| From the “smallest of the big nations” to the “biggest of the small nations”: Europe and Africa in Ethiopian political thought. University of Crete | 2016 | Sara Marzagora | Conference |
| Visiting Senior Scholar, South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania, April: 5 sessions on Awadh as world literature (academic, staff/students, 15-20). | 2017 | Francesca Orsini | Short course, 2017 |
| Tutor, Institute of World Literature, Copenhagen, July: 7 sessions on Colonialism, a multilingual local and its significant geographies (students: 15) | 2017 | Francesca Orsini | Short course, 2017 |
| ‘Present absence: world literature and book circulation in the 19c’, roundtable, MLA 2017, Philadelphia, 6 January | 2017 | Francesca Orsini | Workshop/reading group 2017 |
| ‘Comparison as Relation: Multilingual literary regions and comparative colonialisms’, co-organized with Prof. Apoorvanand as part of ERC project (SOAS) with Raza Foundation, Delhi 14-16 December. | 2017 | Francesca Orsini | Workshop/reading group 2017 |
| ‘Present absence: world literature and book circulation in the 19c’, Conference on ‘Loose Tongues’, University of Stockholm, 23-25 August; and Jena, September 2017 | 2017 | Francesca Orsini | Keynote address 2017 |
| ‘Present Absence’, British Library South Asia Series, 13 March. | 2017 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2017
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| ‘Persianing Banaras: Literati, new courts and changing dynamics of multilingualism in 18c Awadh’, at workshop on Professions in motion in the long eighteenth century, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, 1-2 June. (academic staff/students, 30) | 2017 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2017
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| ‘World literature, Indian views, 1920s-1940s’, at workshop on The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia, Paris, 19-20 June. (academic, staff/students, 25) | 2017 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2017
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| ‘Praise/description: writing about place in 18c north India’, at workshop Landscapes of the Long 18th Century: Mediating Places, Powers and Pasts in South Asia and Beyond, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin June 22-23. (academic, staff, 15) | 2017 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2017
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| ‘Eastern in the East: Miraji’s translations of “Eastern poets”’, at workshop West-Eastern Poetry, ERC project (SOAS) and University of Kent, 17 November. (academic, staff/students, 20) | 2017 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2017
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| ‘Multilingual allegories’, at workshop on Comparison as Relation: Multilingual literary regions and comparative colonialisms, ERC project (SOAS) and Raza Foundation, Delhi 14-16 December. (academic, staff/students, 35-40) | 2017 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2017
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| Institute of World Literature, organised by Harvard University, July 2017 -Panel: the future of collaborative research in Europe (with Francesca and Jack), Jack’s response to the program is here -Colloquium: World Literature and Circulation (with Jack), report here |
2017 | July Blalack | Conference/ panel |
| “Poetry from and About Timbuktu,” presentation at World Book Day for Secondary Schools, Routes Into Languages Program, SOAS University of London, March 2017 |
2017 | July Blalack | Public talk |
| Moroccan literary history with a focus on late colonial bilingual (Arabic andSpanish) magazines at Comparison as Relation: Multilingual Literary Regionsand Comparative Colonialisms. Delhi University, Delhi (India), 14-16/12/2017and Euro-African Memories: Colonial and Postcolonial Spanish Legacies inMorocco and Equatorial Guinea. IMF-SCIC, Barcelona (Spain), | 2017 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano | Conference |
| Tutor, Chase Comparative Literature Summer School (U of Kent), June: taught session on Doing World Literature (students, 20) | 2018 | Francesca Orsini | Short course, 2018 |
| ‘Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies’, Oxford, 1 November. | 2018 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2018
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| “Travel Outside and Inside: Maghrebi Sufi Response to Foreign Invasion,” ‘Global Sufi Literatures: Tracing Significant Geographies of Maghrebi, Turkish, and Ethiopian Sufi Texts’ panel at Middle Eastern Studies Association, San Antonio November 2018 |
2018 | July Blalack | Conference/ panel |
| Moderated the “Beyond the Human” panel at ‘Trading Places? Empathy in Material Culture and Critical Methodologies,’ Centre for Cultural Literary and Postcolonial Studies annual conference at SOAS, June 2018 |
2018 | July Blalack | Conference/ panel |
| Moroccan literary history with a focus on trans-local reform in a manuscript by a local 19th-century scholar from Tetouan at World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES). Seville (Spain), 16-20/07/2018 and Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies. Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London (UK) | 2018 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano | Conference |
| “The Emperor, the Intellectuals and the Press: Print Culture and Class Formation in Ethiopia (1941-1970)”. Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference | 2018 | Sara Marzagora | Conference |
| Ethiopian visions of the “global”: worldmaking in Amharic political thought (1901-1919). Africa in Global History Conference | 2018 | Sara Marzagora | Conference |
| Book launch at SOAS for Neelam Srivastava’s monograph Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire (1930-1970) | 2018 | Sara Marzagora | Book launch |
| Lahore Literature Festival, two sessions: ‘Reading Urdu literature outside Pakistan’ (with Sabyn Javeri), and ‘Music, Literature and Performance in North India’ (with Katherine Schofield and Nasreen Rahman), 22-24 Feb. | 2019 | Francesca Orsini | Short course, 2019 |
| Tutor, Chase Comparative Literature Summer School (U of Kent), 23-25 June: taught session on Doing World Literature, South-South Comparison (students, 20) | 2019 | Francesca Orsini | Short course, 2019 |
| ‘The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Local debates, internationalisms, and Print Cultures between Decolonisation and the Cold War’; Postcolonial Print Cultures International Network & ERC Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies project (SOAS), SOAS, 11-12 January. (academic, staff/students, 40) | 2019 | Francesca Orsini | Workshop/reading group 2019 |
| ‘The magazine and world literature’, workshop co-organised with Prof Sascha Ebeling at ALCS, University of Chicago, 15 October. | 2019 | Francesca Orsini | Workshop/reading group 2019 |
| ‘Postcolonial Archives: Networks, Objects, Collaborations, Absences’, symposium co-organised with Anjali Nerlekar (Rutgers) and B. Venkat Mani (Madison), Madison South Asian Studies Conference, 18 October. | 2019 | Francesca Orsini | Workshop/reading group 2019 |
| ‘Why Multilingual Literary History? And How to do it?’, Conference on ‘Global Congo’, Unimi, Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano, Italy, 16 May. | 2019 | Francesca Orsini | Keynote address 2019 |
| ‘Located, multingual: world literature in/from South Asia’, Manchester, 2 May. (academic, staff mainly, 15) | 2019 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2019
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| ‘Located, Multilingual: New keywords for world literature’, one-day Postcolonial Forum on the MULOSIGE project at University of Amsterdam – academic (staff/students, 25) | 2019 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2019
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| ‘‘Literary activism in Cold War India: the short story, the magazine and the world’, Cambridge, Centre of South Asian Studies, 31 October. | 2019 | Francesca Orsini |
Invited lectures and conference papers 2019
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| “Māʾ al-ʿAynain and the International Court of Justice: Comparative Saḥrawi Belonging” ‘Embodiment and Belonging’ panel at African Studies Association, Boston, November 2019 |
2019 | July Blalack | Conference/ panel |
| Bilād al-Shinquit in Precolonial Arabic Sources,” ‘Conceptualizing the Sahara: Images and Imaginings Across Languages and Locations’ panel at Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans, November 2019 |
2019 | July Blalack | Conference/ panel |
| Co-organizer, SciFi Beyond the West: Futurity in African and Asian Contexts, Centre for Cultural Literary and Postcolonial Studies annual conference at SOAS, July 2019 | 2019 | July Blalack | Conference/ panel |
| “Ghosts of Smara: A Bilingual Reading of a Sufi City’s Memory” ‘Reading Together the Politics of Representation’ panel at Reading Together in Multilingual Contexts: Beyond Monolingual Methodologies, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, April 2019 | 2019 | July Blalack | Conference/ panel |
| “Māʾ al-ʿAynain: Saharan Citizenship Before the Western Sahara ” ‘Maghreb/ Sahara Studies’ panel at Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Arizona, March 2019 |
2019 | July Blalack | Conference/ panel |
| “The Case of Bringing Arabic Books to London Libraries,” at University Public Engagement with Urban Multilingualism, Manchester, February 2019 |
2019 | July Blalack | Conference/ panel |
| “Al-Riḥlah al-Maʻīnīyah: the Saharan Shaikh Encounters Colonialism and Pan-Islamic Resistance in Egypt,” ‘Transacting Arab Literary Modernity’ Presidential Theme panel at Modern Language Association, Chicago January 2019 |
2019 | July Blalack | Conference/ panel |
| “Significant Geographies of the Northwestern Sahara” PubHD talk, SOAS University of London, January 2019 | 2019 | July Blalack | Public talk |
| ‘Reading together’ Tunisian historical texts (in Arabic and French): “Tunisia seen with Foreign Eyes: Reading Together Aḥmad al-Timbuktāwī’s naṣīḥa and Louis Frank’s Description de cette Régence”, “Reading together” in Multilingual Contexts: Beyond Monolingual Methodologies. Università L’Orientale di Napoli (Italy), | 2019 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano | Conference |
| Tunisian literary history with a focus on the historical novel: “Gender and Race Solidarities in Post-colonial Maghribi Literatures: the case of the Tunisian novel Barg el-Līl”, g19: Rethinking Knowledge Regimes: Solidarities and Contestations. Gothenburg (Sweden) | 2019 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano | Conference |
| Public Engagement and Multilingualism: “Making London Libraries Multilingual: the case of the Arabic book collection at N4 Library” at University Public Engagement with Urban Multilingualism (with MULOSIGE PhD researcher July Blalack). University of Manchester (UK), University of Manchester (UK) | 2019 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano | Conference |
| Panel at International WOCMES Conference: “Re-Imagining the Maghreb beyond Mashreqi and Colonial Mediation: Morocco as a case study” (with MULOSIGE senior researcher Karima Laachir). Sevilla (Spain) | 2019 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano, Karima Laachir | Workshops |
| International workshop: Comparative Perspectives on Gender in the (Post)Colonial Literatures of North India, the Horn of Africa and the Arab World. SOAS (Univ. of London, UK) | 2019 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano | Workshops |
| Worlding orature: ‘Narrative’ and ‘poetic’ proverbs in Ethiopian novels. Seminar on world literature organized by Institute of World Literature, Harvard University (forth coming). | 2019 | Ayele Kebede Roba | Public talk |
| Novelization of Orature or ‘localization’ of the novel?: The interface between orature and the novels in Afan Oromo and Amharic. International workshop on “Oral Traditions in World Literature” organized by the project “Multilingual Locals, Significant Geographies” (SOAS University of London), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (forth coming). | 2019 | Ayele Kebede Roba | Public talk |
| In defense of the liminal voices: Literary minority as a form of resistance. A forum on “Minor/Small Literature(s): Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere” Transregional Academy, Berlin, Germany. | 2019 | Ayele Kebede Roba | Public talk |
| Ethiopian political thought on global history and colonial modernity (1908-1949). The University of Edinburgh | 2019 | Sara Marzagora | Public talk |
| “Pan-Africanism in Amharic Literature in the 1960s”. Postcolonial Print Cultures Conference | 2019 | Sara Marzagora | Conference |
| LSE International History Seminar | 2019 | Sara Marzagora | Public talk |
| Renegotiating Ethiopian Nationalism: The Solomonic Myth in the Long Twentieth Century. Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities | 2019 | Sara Marzagora | Public talk |
| New historiographical approaches to the reign of LÏjj Iyasu (1910-1916). Imperial and World History Seminar of the Institute of Historical Research | 2019 | Sara Marzagora | Public talk |
| ‘Thinking from the Global South’, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witvatersland, South Africa, 1-7 April: 2 sessions on Archives vs Practices and Space & dialogism. | 2019 | Francesca Orsini | Short course, 2019 |
| Trans-Saharan relations with a focus on a 19th-century manuscript from a scholar from Timbuktu to the rulers of Ottoman Tunisia at the Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference by the British Academy, the British Museum, Royal Geographical Society and SOAS – initially planned for 4-6 June, postponed due to Covid-19 and to be held as a virtual conference to be held online | 2020 | Itzea Goikolea-Amiano | Conference |
| Towards literary multilingualism: Representation of linguistic diversity in novels in Afan Oromo and Amharic (Ethiopia). International workshop on ‘“Reading together” in multilingual contexts beyond monolingual methodologies’, organized by the project “Multilingual Locals, Significant Geographies” (SOAS University of London), Orientale University, Naples, Italy. | 2020 | Ayele Kebede Roba | Public talk |
| The problems of the literatures in indigenous languages: The case Oromo language in Ethiopia. A Talk for Language Fest, Institute of World Languages, SOAS University of London, UK. | 2020 | Ayele Kebede Roba | Public talk |