Talks

2026-2027 academic year:

December 03-06: 69th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, New Orleans (Louisiana).

• Present the paper Circulation of Islamic Knowledge from Senegambia to the Iberian World, 1500–1700 at the panel (XIV-A-24) Colonial Intimacies: Transatlantic Circulations of African Knowledges, Peoples, and Things, Part II; 
• Serve on the roundtable (II-K-4) Making Africa’s Past Present: Histories for General Readers and Audiences;

2025-2026 academic year:

June 2-3, 2026: 2nd International Conference Women and Slavery: Violence, Resistance and Diasporas” – University of Lisbon (Portugal).

April 8, 2026: Book launch – Muçulmanos Africanos nos Países de Colonização Portuguesa, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique).

March 4, 12:15 to 1:30: Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.

February 25-26, 2026: New Perspectives on Islam in West Africa – Insights from Brazilian Historiography, a seminar, University of California, Santa Cruz.

November 20-22, 2025: 68th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Atlanta (GA).

• Serve on an Author Meets Critics roundtable on Toby Green’s The Heretic of Cacheu.
• Chair the panel VIII-K-30, New Perspectives on Cabo Verde and Guinea-Bissau, Part II; 
• Present the paper “Between Collections and Exclusions: Islamic History, Colonial Legacies, and Museum Practices in Guinea-Bissau”;

November 06, 2025: Work in Progress Talk: Chapter 2 – Peaceful teaching, University of California, Santa Cruz.

October 24-25, 2025: A Luta Continua! A symposium marking the 50th anniversary of African liberation from Portuguese rule, Harvard University.

October 15, 2025: Stanford’s African Research Workshop, Stanford University.

September 09, 2025: Workshop on sources for African History, Federal University of Viçosa.