Selected Conferences & Invited Talks18 October 2016 - Public Panel University of Calgary Canada’s Upcoming United Nations Military Deployment to Africa 31 August 2016 - National Defence HQ (Ottawa, 31 August 2016), "Revisiting Africa in Canadian Security planning & assessment," Expert Briefing based on the June Workshop: "Revisiting Africa in Canadian security planning & assessment" CONGRESS 2016 (June 2016, University of Calgary) The University of Calgary hosted the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 28 - June 3). Of particular note were the annual conferences of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA, 31 May - 2 June), the Canadian Association for African Studies (CAAS, 1-3 June), and the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID, 1-3 June). I was on the local organizing committee for CAAS. CPSA Conference Abstracts: http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/conference.php CAAS Conference Website/Program: http://caas-acea.org/conference/annual-conference CASID Conference Website: https://www.casid-acedi.ca/annual-conference I was also the chair for a post-Congress Workshop (3-4 June 2016): "Revisiting Africa in Canadian security planning & assessment" CPSA/CAAS Conferences (Calgary, SSHRC Congress, June 2016 ) Panel paper: Canadian bilateral relations with “priority” countries in Africa: the foundations & persistence of routinized intervention and the extraverted, gate-keeper state [This paper was part of a linked panel & roundtable series under the theme "Canada-Africa Relations Sixty Years After Suez: Who's Marginal to Whom?" I was also the chair of the roundtable and was a chair or discussant in other CPSA and CAAS panels.] ------ Society of Military History Conference (Ottawa, April 2016): Panel paper: The Canadian Forces in Africa 1956-1969: Reluctant Interventionists 30 March 2016 - Public Panel University of Calgary Documentary: Poverty Inc - panel discussion plus Q&A 1 February 2016 - Public Panel University of Calgary International Relations Club - Industry panel and networking reception 28 September 2015 - Public Panel University of Calgary Roundtable on the Munk Debate on Canadian Foreign Policy (PDF Poster) 20 November 2014 - Public Panel University of Calgary, Foothills Medical Centre Campus (Organized by UofC Medical Students Association) Ebola Awareness Night 3 November 2014 - Public Panel University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) Canada at War...Again? (Dr. Mojtaba Mahdavi, Dr. Tom Keating, Chris W J Roberts, PhD ABD) 30 September 2014 - International Relations Club University of Calgary Three perspectives on Nigeria's Boko Haram: historical, hysterical, and cynical 28 August 2014 - Workshop: Multilateralism as State Strategy: Seeking Order in an Anarchic Society, University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) Canada, International Society, and the Paradox of the Post-Colonial African State 22 August 2014 - Kwame Nkrumah International Conference III Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Richmond, BC) Assessing the Relative Salience of Sino-Canadian Military Involvement across Africa, 1956-2014 17 June 2013 - Lunchtime talk at the 15th Mining Industry Learning Seminar University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) Notes from East Africa: Community Social Responsibility, a new CSR 6 June 2013 - CPSA 2013 Annual Conference, University of Victoria (BC) Canadian Foreign Policy and African State Formation: Responsibilities, Silences, Culpabilities 9-10 May 2013 - North-South Institute Forum, "Governing Natural Resources for Africa's Development," Ottawa, ON Extractive Sector Regulations in Africa: Old practices, and new models or change 1-3 May 2013 - Canadian Association of African Studies 2013 Annual Conference Carleton University (Ottawa, ON) 1) Roundtable: Canadian Foreign Policy and Radicalization in the Sahel: Interests, Responsibilities, Responses (I organized this roundtable, including Amb. Robert Fowler, Dr. Edward Akuffo, (now) Dr. Christopher Dyck, and myself) 2) The Other Resource Curse: Extractives as Development Panacea, Redux 21 September 2012 - China and Canada in Africa Conference (China Institute/UofA, IDRC, DFAIT), Ottawa, ON Canada’s Hidden Role in China’s Rise in Africa: Canadian leverage at a tipping point 13 June 2012 - CPSA 2012 Annual Conference University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) The English School Meets the Complexity Sciences at the fin de siècle of International Relations Theory 27 October 2011 - Conference of Defence Associations Institute 14th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, Royal Military College (Kingston, ON) The Persistent Salience of a Marginalized Continent: The Canadian Forces in Africa since the Independence Era 21 October 2010 - Institute for African Development Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) The Other Curse: Natural Resources & CSR as Development Panacea 20 August 2010 - Kwame Nkrumah International Conference I Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Richmond, BC) "The darkest thing about Africa has been our ignorance of it": Nkrumah & the Foundations of Canadian Foreign Policy in Post-Colonial Africa 6 May 2010 - Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference Carleton University (Ottawa, ON) Hyper Dragon, Hibernating Beaver: Lessons and Implications for Canada of China's Resurgence in Africa |