2025
- “The Ethnopet? Looking for a New England Cat,” 2025 BrANCA biannual symposium, Université Paris Cité (12/25)
- “Zoopoétique du queer: redistribuer le sensible amoureux et son langage chez S.O. Jewett et M.E.W. Freeman (1872-1914),” séminaire du laboratoire CIRpaLL, Université d’Angers (11/25)
- “Sarah ‘Dear Boy’ Jewett: the trans joy of a body re-constellated with the wild things,” 2025 triannual SSAWW conference, Philadelphia (11/25)
- “Gnawing the Legacy of Poe’s Unity of Effect: Jewett’s Raccoon Multiverse,” Poe-Hawthorne Fourth International Symposium, Paris (07/25)
- “From the Horse’s Mouth: Hawthorne’s (non-)influence on Jewett”, 2025 annual BAAS symposium, University of Hertfordshire (04/25)
2024
- “Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the sapphic eroticism of pussies”, graduate seminar series hosted by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick (10/24)
- “The cute, the abusive and the naughty: Jewett’s bizarre cat stories for children”, Jewett Unbound, Université Paris Cité (10/24)
- “Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Zoopoetics of Queerness”, doctoriales de l’AFEA, Université d’Aix-en-Provence (05/24)
- “Lo(o)ser lovers: renonciation et devenir-animal de la queernesse dans ‘Coronation’ et ‘Amanda Todd’ de Mary E. Wilkins Freeman”, congrès 2024 de l’AFEA, Université d’Aix-en-Provence (05/24)
- “Beyond Genus and Gender: The (Nonsense) Politics of Animality in the Life and Works of M.E.W. Freeman”, A19 Seminar, Université Paris Cité/Sorbonne (03/24)
2023
- “Jewett against ecofeminism? Animals as refuse and the refusal of environmental readings,” 2023 BRANCA Symposium, Bristol (12/23)
- “A Hauntology of Cats,” Gothic Women Writers International Conference, University of Dundee (08/23)
- “’They Regard her as an Interloper:’ Cats; or, Writing the Queerspecies Trouble in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Letters to her Editor,” Queer Nineteenth Summer Symposium, Queer Nineteenth Association (08/23)
- “Animals, Intimacy and the (Im)possibility of Anthrozoological History,” American Literary Association Annual Symposium, Boston (05/23)
- “Queer Pet(ting): Cats, Mutual Domestication and Queer Affects in ‘The Cat’ by M.E.W. Freeman,” Feeling in the Long Nineteenth-Century, University of Cambridge (01/23)
2022
- “About ‘The Cat:’ Feline America and the Humanimal Temporality of Domestication,” Freeman in Paris International Conference, Université Paris Cité (09/22)
- “Vivisection and Reparative Representation,” Animals in the Popular Imagination, PopMe (09/22)
Emma Thiébaut 