Talks & Presentations

“The Africa-India Blueprint for Growth” Report launch organized by CSEP and AUDA-NEPAD in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 2026. 

“Fracturing Security: The Global South in a Polycentric World Order” at Bayreuth University, Germany December 2025. 

“United Nations Academic Conference on Africa” New York UNHQ in December 2025. 

“African Systems of Thought in International Relations workshop” at the Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) at the University of Ghana, July 2025. 

Africa-China Peace and Security Workshop in Abuja, Nigeria February 2025. 

Africa-China Early Career Scholars Training Workshop in Rabat, Morocco January 2025. 

“Pluriversal International Relations and the Global South,” workshop organized by Prof. Chih-yu Shih at the Global South Research Center, Tongji University, Shanghai, December 2024. 

“China-US Dialogue on the Middle East” Track II talked organized by HD Center in Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 2024. 

“Emotions and Solidarity in the Global South: Examining Familiarity, Resonance, and Nostalgia” paper prepared for International Studies Association (ISA) Northeast in Baltimore, November 2024. 

“Infrastructures of Feeling: Imperial Nostalgia and Landmark Restoration Projects” paper prepared for virtual International Studies Association (ISA) Northeast, November 2024. 

Workshop on America and the Middle East organized by POMEPS and Mershon Center for International Studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus, September 2024. 

“The Liberal International Order as an Imposition: A Postcolonial Reading,” paper presented at the annual meeting of APSA in Philadelphia, September 2024. 

Transregional Studies Workshop (second edition), Georgetown University, April 2024. 

The Global Gateway: The European Union’s New Economic Security Tool? Invitation only workshop at Princeton University, March 2024. 

“Mapping and measuring China’s influence worldwide” Symposium organized by University of Oklahoma’s College of International Studies, March 2024. 

“African Systems of Thought” International Studies Association (ISA) Invitation only workshop, San Francisco, March 2024. 

“Infrastructures of Feeling: Imperial Nostalgia and Landmark Restoration Projects” International Studies Association (ISA) conference, San Francisco, March 2024. 

“Ethics of research in China-Africa Studies” Early Career Scholars Training Workshop in Accra, Ghana December 2023. 

“A Celestial Road and its Messaging: Between Ancient and New Silk Road Nostalgias” International Studies Association Northeast, Providence, November 2023. 

“Empire of Nostalgia: Unpacking China’s Cultural Heritage Practices in Africa” International Studies Association, Montreal, March 2023. 

“What States Do, Who States Are: Routines, Foreign Policy, and International Politics” workshop organized by Professor Jennifer Mitzen, Ohio State University, April 4, 2022. 

Boston University, Pardee School, “Human Capital Investments in China’s Belt and Road Initiative” October 2021. 

Collectif pour le Renouveau de l’Afrique “l’Afrique dans le désordre mondial”, April 13, 2021.

The New School, India China Institute panel on China, India, Africa Relations, April 29, 2021.

Cambridge University, Center for Geopolitics, China, Africa, and the US April 15, 2021.

University of North Carolina, Greensboro Indian Ocean Lecture Series March 17, 2021.

University of Ottawa, Center of International Policy Studies Book talk “Shaping the Future of Power” October 16, 2020. 

Georgetown University, “Applications of the Development-Security Nexus: Case of China-Mali Relations” September 22, 2020. 

Princeton University, The U.S. China Coalition Global Governance Forum  Panel on China-Africa people-to-people Diplomacy, August 1, 2020. 

Notre Dame University, Liu Institute for Asian Studies Book talk “Shaping the Future of Power,” March 4, 2020.  

Yale’s third China-Africa conference in Nairobi, Kenya “Political Party Trainings: the other type of bridge-building in China-Africa relations” May 2019

Lingnan University Conference, Hong Kong “Developmental Peace and the Future of Peacekeeping under Chinese trainings” May 9-10, 2019.

Carter Center consultation workshop in Washington DC, “Peacekeeping with Chinese Characteristics” April 2019.

University of California, Berkley workshop on China’s Growing Sharp Power in Berkley, April 2019.

Duke University’s China’s leadership conference “China’s Human Capital Investments in Africa” March 2019.

Carter Center consultation workshop in Johannesburg “Capacity Building programs as a Trilateral Cooperation Platform for US-China-Africa Relations” December 2018.

Carter Center consultation workshop in Djibouti“Chinese Military Involvement in Africa and Its Implications” August 3-4, 2018.

John Hopkins University SAIS CARI “Do knowledge and technical skills transfers from Chinese experts to African trainees diffuse Chinese norms, values, and models?” Washington DC April 19-20, 2018.

Cornell University – Institute for African Development, “From Knowledge Transfers to Power Projection: The Impact of Professionalization Trainings on China-Africa Relations.” Ithaca, NY October 19, 2017.

University of Wisconsin-Madison – Africa at Noon Series “Knowledge-Power nexus in China’s Foreign relations with African Nations.” Madison, September 2017.