Michael Allan is on sabbatical and is currently based in Berlin and Marburg, with events in Norway, Holland and Scotland in the coming months. He will also be conducting research at the Lumière Archive in Lyon, France, at the beginning of May. In Berlin, he has presented on his recent book In The Shadow of World Literature, and he is also presenting at a conference titled What Makes a Man a Man: Sexuality and Representation in Europe-Middle East Encounters. In Norway, he will be speaking at the conference Synchronizing the World: Historic Times, Globalized Times, Anthropogenic Times.