Invited Talks
2023
The Legacy of Post-industrialism in Albania, London School of Economics (LSE)
Frames of Friendships: Organising in the Post-socialist Space, invited talk as part of the exhibition Diaries: Lindart, Bulevard Art & Media Institute, Tirana, Albania.
Power and Representation in Global Visual Cultures, invited lecture, School of Oriental and African Studies, (SOAS)
Horizontal Art History and Beyond, panel discussion, Postsocialist Art Centre, University College London (UCL)
Speak Alb! A Counter Platform to Albanophobic Narratives, panel discussion, part of Difference Festival, University of Westminster
2021
Commoning the Post-socialist Ruins, invited public lecture, PPV (Perverting the Power Vertical: Politics and Aesthetics in the Global East), UCL SSEES’s FRINGE Centre.
Chair, Discussant, Convenor
Commons in Conflict: Decolonising, Decommissioning, and Retrieving Infrastructures of the Capitalocene, co-organised with Maria Alexandrescu and Katerina Genidogan for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) conference “Reclaiming the Commons” (2023)
Working with the Ruins in the Contemporary Condition, panel moderator and organiser, with art practitioners Driant Zeneli, Maria Kapajeva, Dominique Petit-Frère (Limbo Accra) and Miloš Kosec, SSEES, UCL (2022)
Conversations with Images, in conversation with artist Katya Oicherman, Memory and Arts Working Group of the Memory Studies Association (2022)
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, moderator and discussant with Lea Ypi, SSEES Southeast European Seminar Series and the Anglo-Albanian Association, UCL (2022)
Selected Conference Papers
Representation of Albanian Immigrants in British and Greek Media, Post-Socialism, Migration and Memory in Britain and Beyond, Memory Studies Association Webinar, 2023.
Ecologies of Decay: Working with the Unwanted Industrial Heritage, presented at the conference Chronicles of Ever-Changing Cityscapes, Faculty of Architecture & Urbanism, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Tirana, 24-26 November 2022.
Performances of memory: Interventions in World War II socialist monuments in East Europe, presented at the conference The Reconstruction of Post-World-War II Europe through the Visual Arts, ViCTOR-E, Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, 20-22 April 2022.
Ecologies of decay: Engaging with the post-industrial ruins of Southeast Europe, presented at the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), Robinson College, Cambridge, 8-10 April 2022.
The ghost that returns: Remembering trans-connectivity in the post-socialist space, presented at the Memory Studies Association Fifth Annual Conference, Warsow, 5-9 July 2021.
Commoning the “cracks”: Memory activism in curatorial practices, presented at the conference Memories in Transit, the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movemement, University of Cambridge, 15-16 April 2021.
Collective curating in the post-communist space, presented at the conference 1989’s Loose Ends, UCL, London, 7-8 November 2019.
From trauma to memory activism: Collective resistance in public spaces of violence, presented at the London Conference of Critical Thought, London, 5-6 July 2019.
The curatorial in times & spaces of ruination: Reclaiming post-industrial decay in the Balkans, presented at the Memory Studies Association Annual Conference, Madrid, 25-28 June 2019.
In re-search of the traumatic through curatorial practice, presented at the CARU (Contemporary Arts Research Unit) Annual Conference, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 25 November 2018.
Art collaborations in the post-socialist space: Reclaiming political agency collectively, presented at the 2018 Annual Conference, Association for Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art & King’s College London, 5-7 April 2018.
Collective curating in the post-socialist space: From kommunalka and apartment exhibitions to self-organisation, presented at the Art and Ideology: 100 Years since the October Revolution conference, Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Athens, 3-4 November 2017.
Matter, Material, Immaterial, presented at the European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism & Creativity, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 17-18 December 2015.
Where have all the cyberfeminists gone? presented at the Feminist Duration in Art and Curating conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, 16-17 March 2015.
Of flesh and blood: Performing the pain, presented at the Radical Negativity conference, Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths, University of London, 13 June 2014.
Cyborg artists: Body and identity in cybernetic art, presented at The New Sensorium conference, Panteion University of Athens and the University of Toronto’s McLuhan Programme in Culture and Technology, BIOS, Athens, 20-21 April 2012.
Workshops
Early Career Research Camp, CREATe, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 4-5 May 2017.
The Border Crossing Network, Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography, and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans, Konitsa, Greece, 25 July – 9 August 2012.
Workshops Led
Affect and Care in Curatorial Practices, public discussion and reading workshop exploring the micro-politics of care and affect in the curatorial. Co-led with curator Nella Janiika Aarne, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2 February 2019.
Post-Scriptum: Feminist Notes in the Postcolonial, reading workshop exploring notions of gender, identity, and borders in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/ La Frontiera: The Mestiza and Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism, Goldsmiths, University of London, 30 May 2018.
A Semblance of Human Silhouettes, co-organised with PANDO collective (Christian Lübbert and Ashlee Conery) EnclaveLab, August 2016.
Nomadic Translations Reading Group, co-led with Lucy Lopez, on Étienne Balibar’s Stranger as Enemies and Rosi Braidotti’s Nomadic European Citizenship, Jupiter Woods,April 2015.
Dr. Dimitra Gkitsa 