•    “I never head a language of my own”, Jack Kerouac and the Making of a ‘Big American Writer”, Jean-Christophe Cloutier (U.Penn), 7 March 2024, U Florida, Library East-Smathers, room 100. This event was sponsored by FFRI and the Association Internationale des Etudes Québécoises. 
• The Theater Revival Project: Feb. 16 & 18, 2022
• Organizing a one-day international workshop on George Perec,“Perec: je me souviens/Je me souviens de Perec”.  April 1st, 2022, University of Florida. Sponsored by FFRI- Spring 2022.
• Organized film festival Voyages across Borders with Kole Odutola– 7 international films from Taiwan, to Nigeria, Haiti/Quebec, Morocco and France. A streaming event. (an FFRI event), Jan. 2021.
• Organized two events with Michelle Bloom (UC-Irvine) 1) talk about Taiwanese film “Race-Ing in Cheng Yu Chieh’s Yang Yang” 2) “Sino-French Bandes dessinées. From the Blue Lotus and Shenzhen to Made in Taiwan” (March 2021)
• Organized Henri Simon Blanc-Hoang’s talk “Techno-orientalisme et femmes bioniques: la représentation des héroïnes asiatiques dans la BD franco-belge de science-fiction” (October 2020)
• A one-day international symposium: “Deaf Cinema”: closed captioning, audio description, and the reinvention of silent film” Organized with Richard Burt (English dept.), with Jean-François Cornu, “’Deafness’ in subtitled and Dubbed Versions”, Michel Chion, “Intertitles or captions in some recent neo-silent films: Pastiche or Reinvention” (Skype talk), Peter Szendy,  “Phrasing the Moving Image”, and a  Round-Table:  Jean-François Cornu, Peter Szendy, Dror Abend-David, Sylvie Blum, Richard Burt, Peter Gitto, Prisca Piccirilli. (sept. 18, 2017).
• Organized visit of Kevin Elstob, ‘French language and its regions on the big screen from “Bienvenue chez les ch’tis” to “Les neiges du Kilimandjaro,”’ French in Contact, France Florida Research Institute, LLC, 15 March 2016.
• Organized a film festival for Le Mois du Documentaire, (4 films), sponsored by the Services Culturels Français, Images bibliothèques, Institut Français, France Florida Research Institute. November 2015.
• Organized Le Mois du Documentaire, premiere film screening of “Autour d’un été” by Hernan Rivera Mejia. Sponsored by the Services Culturels Français of Miami, Images Bibliothèques, Institut Français, and FFRI. November 2014.
• Organized an Homage to Edouard Glissant, Museum Nights, Harn Museum of Modern Art, Gainesville,. Poetry read by Bernadette Cailler, and film screening of Edouard Glissant: Un monde en relation/One World in Relation by Manthia Diawara, 9 Feb. 2012
• Organizer of an international symposium: a two-day conference Translation Routes, with English/Creative Writing colleague, Sidney Wade. University of Florida. October 14 – 15, 2005.

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