Selected Conferences & Invited Talks/MediaAge of Africa Symposium, Toronto (7-8 February 2025): https://ageofafrica.com/
Zambia House (Twitter/X Spaces), Episode 71 "Let's Talk Institutions" (19 May 2024): x.com/zambia_house/status/1792238828410785971 CCAfrica "Exploring Energy Opportunities in Africa" session (16 May 2024): Presentation on energy opportunities and trends in Southern and Eastern Africa Expert Witness (15 April 2024), Canadian House of Commons Foreign Affairs and International Trade Committee (FAAE), "Canada's Approach to Africa" study: https://www.ourcommons.ca/committees/en/FAAE/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=12577011 Adversity Quotient Podcast/CASIS (Feb 2024): 5 Things to Know About Maritime Security and the Red Sea https://casisvancouver.ca/aq-episode-28/ CGAI Podcast (6 Sept 2023) Energy Security Cubed: The Roots of Crisis in Francophone Africa with Joe Ingram and Chris Roberts https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/energy-security-cubed-the-roots-of-crisis-in/id1127937496?i=1000627063546 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 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" ------ 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 |
