Conferences and Lectures
Jennifer Clement has given lectures and keynotes around the world in English and Spanish, and gave the commencement speech to the NYU (Gallatin) graduates in 2017. As a speaker and Emerita President of PEN International, she speaks on issues such as freedom of expression, writers in prison, and the challenges faced by women writers all over the world. In addition, she speaks on issues covered in her novels, such as the trafficking of women and girls in Mexico and gun violence and gun trafficking in the USA. She also speaks on the art worlds of Mexico City in the 60s and 70s and the New York art scene of the 80s, which are both covered in her memoirs Widow Basquiat and The Promised Party (2024).
Lectures and conferences (a selection)
Speech at award ceremony for Freedom of Expression distinction, Brussels, 2023
Lectio Magistralis, Premio Gregor von Rezzori, Florence, Italy, 2020
International Publishers Association Keynote Speaker, New Delhi,India, 2018
Commencement Speaker, NYU, 2017
Gothenburg Book Festival, Sweden, 2016
Poetry Festival Manuel Acuña, Mexico, 2016
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 2015
Amnesty International, Norway, 2015
Byron Bay Writer’s Festival, Byron Bay, Australia, 2015
International Writers Stage at Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
Writer’s Unlimited, The Hague, Netherlands, 2015
Hay Festival, UK, 2014
Literaturfestival Berlin, Germany, 2014
Nimrod Writer’s Conference, “Conference on memoir writing”, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2011
Round Top Festival, USA, 2009
“Mexico in English” University of Granada, Spain, 2008
"Writers in Prison" Edinburgh Book Festival, sponsored by PEN and Amnesty International, 2001.