Professors Felisa Reynolds, Daniel Maroun, and Eda Derhemi presented at international conferences on topics connected to several intersecting research areas in the department, among them visual studies, gender & queer studies, and regional and ethnic minority identities. 

At the virtual conference, celebrating the launch of the new journal CFC Intersections by Liverpool University Press, Professor Reynolds presented a paper, titled "Minority identities amidst an oppressive universalisme: the role of the podcast Kiffe ta Race in France". She discussed how podcasts can be a disruptive tool to larger narratives on culture, especially universalist discourses in France. At the same conference, Professor Maroun gave a presentation based on his award-winning paper "Do Black Lives Matter? Agency, culpability, and police brutality", highlighting the many ways in which language is used to portray police violence in French newspaper media.

Professor Derhemi’s paper “Can we measure how endangered a language is?”, presented at the State of the Studies on Arbëresh Conference in Tirana , Albania (Sept. 27-29), discussed the theories, measurements, and outcomes of language endangerment in light of two regional contact-varieties of Albenese: Arbëresh in Italy and Arvanitika in Greece. It referred, among others, to the UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger and the role of community response to language shift and language loss in these two bilingual regional minority communities.