  | Toivanen, A.-L. (25 October 2019). Clandestine mobility, European peripheries and practical cosmopolitanism in Fabienne Kanor's Faire l'aventure [Paper presentation]. Voyage and cosmopolitanism: From the island to the world, Funchal, Portugal. |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (28 March 2019). Afroeuropean itineraries and representations of Europe in Francophone African Literatures [Paper presentation]. Fictions of Europe: Imaginary Topographies and Transnational Identities across the Arts, Brussels, Belgium. |
 | Toivanen, A.-L. (25 March 2019). Eurooppalaiset periferiat postkoloniaalisessa kirjallisuudessa Liègen yliopisto, Belgia, 24.5.2018. Avain: Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti, 16 (1), 82-85. doi:10.30665/av.78069 |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (16 January 2019). The poetics of zombified mobilities: Darkness and death in literary representations of African clandestine travel [Paper presentation]. Darkness, Longyearbyen, Norway. |
 | Toivanen, A.-L. (2019). Zombified mobilities: clandestine Afroeuropean journeys in J. R. Essomba’s Le paradis du nord and Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore. Journal of African Cultural Studies. doi:10.1080/13696815.2018.1519692  Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Toivanen, A.-L. (2019). Globalisation, mobility and labour in African diasporic fiction. In M. Adejunmobi & C. Coetzee (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of African Literature (pp. 47-59). Routledge. Peer reviewed |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (06 December 2018). Cartographies of Paris: Everyday Mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson’s Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou’s Tais-toi et meurs [Paper presentation]. Annual conference of the Australian Society for French Studies: Environment and Identity, Perth, Australia. |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (20 October 2018). From Migration to Mobilities: Applying a Mobility Studies Perspective to Francophone Afrodiasporic Fiction [Paper presentation]. États présents, états futurs: French and Francophone Studies in the 21st Century, Dublin, Ireland. |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (04 October 2018). From migration to mobilities: Applying a mobility studies perspective to Francophone Afrodiasporic Fiction [Paper presentation]. BoMoCult/CULTCHANGE conference: Methods, approaches, ethics, Joensuu, Finland. |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (14 September 2018). Poetics of “Homecoming” in Contemporary Francophone Afrodiasporic Return Narratives [Paper presentation]. Borders and Crossings: International and multidisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing, Pula, Croatia. |
 | Toivanen, A.-L. (2018). Failing border crossings and cosmopolitanism in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. doi:10.1177/0021989418794743 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (2018). Lectures pour l'été 2018: Kidi Bebey: Mon royaume pour une guitare. Lectures pour l'été 2018. |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (2018). Lectures pour l'été 2018: Emmanuel Dongala: La sonate à Bridgetower. Lectures pour l'éte 2018. |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (2018). Arvio: Ayobami Adebayo: Älä mene pois. Maailmankirjat. |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (18 November 2017). Mobility, Globalisation and Labour in Alain Mabanckou’s Tais-toi et meurs and Fatou Diome’s Le ventre de l’Atlantique [Paper presentation]. Annual Conference of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies: Regional, National and Global Identities in the Francophone World, London, United Kingdom. |
 | Toivanen, A.-L. (17 November 2017). Anxious Mobilities in Accra and Beyond: Making Modern African Subjects in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story. Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 49 (2), 307-328. doi:10.1163/18757421-04902005 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (11 July 2017). African Travellers and Tourism in Europe: Bernard Dadié’s La ville où nul ne meurt (Rome) (1968) and Pap Khouma’s I Was an Elephant Salesman (1990/2010).” [Paper presentation]. Borders and Crossings: Travel Writing Conference, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. |
 | Toivanen, A.-L. (07 July 2017). Clandestine Tours of Europe: Fabienne Kanor’s Faire l’aventure (2014) and Pap Khouma’s I Was an Elephant Salesman (1990) [Paper presentation]. Afroeuropeans : Black Cultures and Identities in Europe. Sixth Biennial Network Conference, Tampere, Finland. |
 | Toivanen, A.-L. (29 June 2017). Spaces of in-between-ness and unbelonging: The hotel in short stories by Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. English Studies in Africa, 60 (1), 1-11. doi:10.1080/00138398.2017.1326565 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
| Toivanen, A.-L. (2017). Arvio: Petina Gappah: Muistojen kirja. Maailmankirjat. |
 | Toivanen, A.-L. (2016). Failing Cosmopolitanism: Aborted Transnational Journeys in the Novels by Monique Ilboudo, Sefi Atta, and Aminata Sow Fall. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52 (3), 359-371. doi:10.1080/17449855.2016.1140069 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Toivanen, A.-L. (2015). Not at Home in the World: Abject Mobilities in Marie NDiaye’s Trois femmes puissantes and NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names. Postcolonial Text, 10 (1), 1-18. Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Toivanen, A.-L. (2013). Diasporic Romances Gone Bad: Impossible Returns to Africa in Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane, Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde and Véronique Tadjo’s Loin de mon père. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 49 (4), 432-444. doi:10.1080/17449855.2012.721791 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |