Keynote Address
“Resonant Tracks: Queer, Black, and Diasporic Formations of Lusophone Popular Music,” Diálogos XX Conference, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University–Bloomington, 2023.
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Invited Talks
“Trans Tessituras: The Queer Arrangements of Diasporic Expression,” Faculty Lectures, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, 2026.
“RU Portuguese?,” Strengthening Portuguese Programs Through Collaboration, Princeton University, 2025.
“Black Brazilian Trans Music Matters,” Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 2024.
“Barco Negro,” Music of Vaivén – The Habanera Diaspora Colloquium, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, 2023.
“An Occupying Sound,” Portuguese Language Program, Princeton University, 2023.
“From Saudade to Safado: Fado as Queer Praxis,” Portuguese Language Program, Princeton University, 2022.
“Theorizing Trans Tessituras,” Theorizing – Comparative Literature and Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 2022.
“Resonant Tracks,” Sawyer Seminar, Rutgers University–Newark, 2022.
“Fado and bell hooks: On Madonna’s Madame X,” Diaspora Upside Down Colloquium, Ohio State University, 2022.
“From Streets 2 Screens: Travesti and Trans Latina Activism,” Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, Columbia University, 2021.
“Intersections, Identities, and BLM in Brazil: Marielle Franco, Favelas, and Travestis,” Portuguese in the World, OLAR Student Organization, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, 2020.
“Rethinking Gender,” Festival Albertine 2018 Re-Imagining Democracy with Masha Gessen and Jack Halberstam, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York, 2018.
“Dissident Folk: Protest and Performance against Austerity in Portugal,” Portuguese Honor Society, University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth, 2026.
Daniel da Silva, Ph.D. 