Conferences
“Toward Inspired Responsibility,” invited presentation at “Decoupling Human Wellbeing from Resource Consumption” Conference. Organized by Wuppertal Institute, Club of Rome, and Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover, Germany, August 27-29, 2014.

Course Director and Interdisciplinary Lecturer – World Academy of Art and Science & World University Consortium Certification Course: "Individuality, Entrepreneurship and Values: Individual Accomplishment, Growth, and Character of Life in Management, History, Literature, and Psychology,” Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 2014.   

Special participation with the delegation of the World University Consortium at the “Preparatory Meeting of Consortium Partners: New Paradigm for Human Development.” Organized by the World Academy of Art and Science and Nizami Ganjavi International Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, April 30, 2014.

Special participation with the delegation of the World Academy of Art and Science and World University Consortium at the “II Global Shared Societies Forum: Post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda – Measuring Shared Societies.” Organized by the World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid and Nizami Ganjavi International Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, April 27-29, 2014

“World University Consortium: The New Culture of Learning.” Invited Speaker, Plenary Session: “The Coming Revolution in Higher Education,” BioVision Alexandria 2014, Seventh International Biennial Conference. Theme: “New Life Sciences: the Next Decade,” Organized by Bibliotheca Alexandrina and World Life Science Forum, Alexandria, Egypt, April 7-9, 2014.

http://webcast.bibalex.org/Cast/Details.aspx?ID=vBcZLcTz3sdBiTaHe+G07A== 

“Superposition as a Plane of Immanence: Migrant Women, Alternative Figurations, and the New Collectivity.” Duquesne Women in Philosophy Conference: “Subjectivity in Question.” Duquesne University, Pennsylvania, February 8, 2014.

Special participation as coordinator and discussion group leader at the World Academy of Art and Science Forum “World Academy Forum on Global Higher Education,” pre-launching forum for the World University Forum. University of California Berkeley, October 2-3, 2013.

Special participation at the World Academy of Art and Science Roundtable “Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century: Need for a New Paradigm.” Washington DC, September 14-15, 2013.

Forum participation in the World Academy of Art and Science Web Seminar; “The Science of Complexity,” June 18, 2013.

“Break Downs and Break Throughs: Empires through Crises and Transformations.” International workshop: “Search for an Alternative Paradigm to Address the Multi-dimensional Global Crises.” World Academy of Art and Science and the Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina), Alexandria, Egypt, June 5-6, 2013.

Special participation with the delegation of the World Academy of Art and Science at the UN International Conference:  “Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century: Search for a New Paradigm,” World Academy and the United Nations, Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, June 3, 2013.

Forum participation in the World Academy of Art and Science Web Seminar; “The Evolution of Sovereignty – Global Rule of Law II,” May 20, 2013.

“Break Downs and Break Throughs: Empires through Crises and Transformations.” World Academy of Art and Science Web Seminar: “The Role of Crises in Social Revolutions: Lessons from History.” May 13, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bUQ9AFWreU

“Being in Superposition: Migrant Women and Modern Subjectivity.” International Conference: “Humanities and the Contemporary World.” World Academy of Art and Science, European Academy, All European Academies, and the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, Podgorica, Montenegro, June 7-9, 2012. 

Forum participation in the World Academy of Art and Science Web Seminar: “Emerging Individuality,” February 17, 2012.

“Metafictions, Migrations, Metalives: Narrative Innovations and Migrant Women’s Aesthetics in Giannina Braschi and Etel Adnan.” Ninth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Universidad de Granada, Spain, June 8-11, 2011.

“Economics of Dignity: Growing People from Consumers to Members.” Co-author Saša Popović, University of Montenegro, School of Economics. International Conference: “Values and the 21st Century.” World Academy of Art and Science, European Academy of Sciences and Arts , Central and Eastern European Network, Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts; Podgorica, Montenegro, November 19-21, 2009. http://www.canu.org.me/cms/images/programvaules.pdf

“The Prophetic Politics: Giorgio Agamben’s Concept of the Political at Its Limit.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference: “Global Languages, Local Cultures,” Harvard University, March 26-29, 2009. http://www.acla.org/acla2009/aclaprogram2009.pdf

“A State of Her Own: Montenegro’s Fictional Females and the En/Gendering of the National Image.” International Seminar: “Feminist Critical Analysis: Re/Producing, Consuming, Engendering,” the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 19-23, 2008.

“A State of Her Own: Women Authors and Fictional Females in the Recently Declared Independent Montenegro.” “Women, Home, and Nation: Private and Public Spaces,” Binghamton University, State University of New York, March 14-15, 2008.

“Unpacking Independence: Women Authors and Fictional Females in the Recently Declared Independent Montenegro.” Russian Eastern European and Eurasian Conference: “Building the Balkans Anew: From Market to Metaphor,”  University  of Illinois– Champaign, September 21-22, 2007. http://www.reeec.illinois.edu/events/archive/center/07/

“How the Gypsies Drove God Away: Powerful Magic of the Balkan Tricksters in Emir Kusturica’s Time of the Gypsies.” Southeast European Studies Association   Conference, Ohio State University – Columbus, April 26-28, 2007.

“Journeying of and through the Terrific Female: Female Identity in Blake’s Milton.  University of Colorado – Boulder, Dept. of  Comparative Literature Conference: “Odysseys : Journeys of and in Literature.” February 23-24, 2007. http://www.colorado.edu/comparativeliterature/literaryodysseys/Lit-Ods-Program-2.18.07.pdf

“Cinemagic Realism: Magic Realism in International Cinema.” Graduate Research Symposium, University of Colorado at Denver, May 2003.

Special Presentations 
Presented at the literary event dedicated to the work of the Montenegrin author, Ervina Dabižinović. Presentation: “O živoželjnom tijelu žene i o ženskom oštroumu – Palimpsest Ervine Dabižinović,” (“About the Quickening of a Woman’s Body and the Women’s Quick Wit – Ervina Dabižinović’s Palimpsest), Berane, Montenegro, August 3, 2007.

Invited LecturesGuest Lecturer and Guest Oriental Dance Artist at the Annual Hebrew-Arabic Cultural Night of the Center for World Languages and Cultures, University of Denver, Delivered Lecture: “The Spirit of Al Andalus: Culture of Learning, Art, and Co-Existence,”  October 23, 2014.

Guest lecturer and performing artist at the Center for World Languages and Cultures, University of Denver, Delivered lectured on “Middle Eastern Art of the Ecstatic: On Tarab, Mawal, and Raqs.” February 13, 2014.

Guest lecturer at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Montenegro and University of Montenegro - Podgorica, lectured on Magic Realism in International Cinema, May 2004.

Guest lecturer in the course English 3300 – Women and Film, taught by Dr. Susan Linville, University of Colorado – Denver, Spring 2003.

Guest lecturer in the course English 4770/5770 – Recent International Cinema, taught by Dr. Kent Casper, University of Colorado – Denver, Fall 2002.

Special Events
Co-organized the World Academy of Art and Science Seminar: “The Role of Crises in Social Revolutions: Lessons from History” with Garry Jacobs, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the World Academy and the Vice-President of the Mother’s Service Society, Pondicherry, India. Web Seminar, May 13, 2013.

Organized and hosted a literary event entitled “Ženski palimpsesti, ogledala i sati: Promocija romana Palimpsest Ervine Dabižinović,” (“Women’s Palimpsests, Mirrors, and Clocks: Promoting Ervina Dabižinović’s novel Palimpsest”). Speakers: Ljubomirka Kovačević - director of Žinec–ANIMA – Center for Women’s Studies and Peace Education, and Ervina Dabižinović – the author. Berane, Montenegro, August 3, 2007.

In cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Montenegro, organized a three-day seminar on comedy in the American and Yugoslav film entitled “Jedan pogled na američki i jugoslovenski film,” (“A View on American and Yugoslavian Film”), featuring visiting lecturer - Dr. Andrew Horton of the University of Oklahoma. Seminar held in Podgorica, Montenegro, August 25-27, 2004.