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Selected Conferences & Invited Talks/Media

Liberal International British Group Webinar - The World's Most Neglected Crisis: Cameroon (19 April 2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmh0HzUY1JU 

Coalition For Dialogue and Negotiations Virtual Forum on US Senate Resolution 684 (13 Feb 2021)
Video not available, but PPT presented available here: 
https://coalitionfdn.org/2021/03/03/cdn-forum-on-sr-684-full-recap/

Global Campaign for Peace & Justice in Cameroon - Webinar Series (Webinar 3 of 3: 2 May 2020)

https://cameroonpeacejustice.ca/webinar-recordings/

China-Africa Project Podcast (8 November 2019): Does China benefit from the US stripping Cameroon of its AGOA privileges?
https://chinaafricaproject.com/podcasts/does-china-benefit-from-the-u-s-stripping-cameroon-of-its-agoa-privileges/

CGAI Podcast "Defence Deconstructed" (13 September 2019): The Conclusion of Canada's Mali Mission - https://soundcloud.com/user-609485369/defence-deconstructed-the-conclusion-of-canadas-mali-mission
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CGAI Podcast "The Global Exchange" (7 November 2018): A Crisis in Cameroon & Peacekeeping in Mali: Discussing Canada's Approach to Africa - https://www.cgai.ca/a_crisis_in_cameroon_peacekeeping_in_mali_discussing_canadas_approach_to_africa 

CBC Radio, "The Current" (31 October 2018): The Crisis in Cameroon - https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-october-31-2018-1.4885367/could-a-conflict-along-language-lines-push-cameroon-to-civil-war-1.4885406​ 

CPSA Annual Conference May 2018 (Regina): “The soft bigotry of low expectations”: Unintended consequences of Canadian priority development partnerships in Africa (paper presentation)

18 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"
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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.]
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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 




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