“Regiones en vías de extinción: El canto de las moscas de María Mercedes Carranza”. (Endangered Regions: The Song of the Flies by Carranza). III Coloquio Nacional de Historia de la Literatura Colombiana. Medellín, Colombia, May 25-27, 2011.
“Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban Music, and Cuban Exceptionalism.” Maine Humanities Council Seminar at the University of Southern Maine, November 23, 2009.
“Hospedando a la naturaleza: Poesía hispanoamericana y pensamiento ecológico” (Hosting Nature: Spanish American Poetry and Ecological Thought). American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Lorca Chapter Annual Meeting, Lewiston, Maine, October 23, 2009.
“Poesía y activismo en América Latina” (Poetry and Activism in Latin America). Congreso de lingüística y literatura de la UPB. Medellín, Colombia, 22 June, 2008.
“La inmensa minoría: Poesía y activismo por la paz en Colombia”. National University of Ireland – Maynooth, May 2, 2008.
“Poetry and Social Activism in Latin America: Two Contemporary Cases.” Peter M. Small Professorship Inaugural Lecture, Bowdoin College, December 5, 2007.
.“Respondiendo a la violencia: Poesía en Medellín” (Responding to Violence: Poetry in Medellín). Latin American Studies Association (LASA) XXVIII International Conference. Montreal, Canada, September 5-8, 2007.
“Estudiar América Latina desde Estados Unidos.” Lecture series organized by the Curricular Development Committee of the Education and Literature Department, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, June 21, 2006.
Guest discussant presentation: “The Dynamics of Contemporary Mapuche Poetry”. “Culturas en el aire” Symposium. A Conference of Scholars, Writers and Activists on Indigenous Movements in the Americas organized by Harvard University in Santiago, Chile. October 14-16, 2005.
“Hasta Siempre: Re-inventing Che Guevara as a Cultural Icon.” Lecture series organized by Students for Democratic Socialism, Bowdoin College, April 27, 2005.
"Fuera de lugar: Fútbol, masculinidad y nación en dos películas sudamericanas recientes". (Out of Place: Soccer, Masculinity and Nation in Two Recent South American Movies). Florida International University Conference on Spanish and Latin American Film and Literatures. Miami, Florida, Feb. 27-29, 2004.
“Cuban Music and Poetry: Intersections.” Brunswick-Trinidad Sister City Association, Bowdoin College, April 1, 2004.
“The Essence of Desire: Reading Saint John of the Cross.” Brunswick Jung Association, Bowdoin College, March 25, 2003.
“To Be at Home: Reflections on the Concept of Home in Personal and Collective Transformation.” Karofsky Encore Lecture for the Bowdoin College Common Hour, Brunswick, Maine, August 31, 2001.
“La gestión (po)ética indígena en el cambio de siglo: Ariruma Kowii (Ecuador) y Vitorio Apüshama (Colombia)”. (Indigenous Poetic/Ethic Agency at the Turn of the Century: Kowi and Apüshama). 19th International Symposium of the Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico (California). Lima, Perú, Aug. 7-12, 2000.
“Poéticas del Carnaval: Tres hallazgos en Brasil, el Caribe y Europa”. (Carnival Poetics: Three Findings in Brazil, the Caribbean and Europe). Second International Symposium on Carnivals of the Colombian Ministry of Culture. Barranquilla, Colombia, October 5-8, 2000.
“La enseñanza del cuento hispanoamericano: Un modelo de trabajo.” (Teaching Spanish-American Short Story: A Working Model). Keynote presentation at the lecture series organized by Colombia’s Ministry of Education in Medellín to celebrate “The Spanish Language History Month”, April 13, 2000.
