Conferences & Presentations

Papers, workshops and guest lectures at universities in the United States, the United Kingdom and Portugal.

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Selected talks

13 – 14 October 2022

Of Mangroves and Men: A Socio-Ecological History of Mangroves in the Niger Delta

Black Environmentalisms Symposium, Yale University

28 April 2022

Lagoon Landscapes: Ephemeral Environments in Lagos, Nigeria

Desert Futures: Poetics and Politics of Saharan Spaces, Yale University

16 February 2022

The Warri Kingdom, British Museums and the Legacies of Imperialism

Guest lecture, Yale College course taught by Dr James Green

March 2018

Three Olus: Symbolism and Exchange in the Early Modern History of the Warri Kingdom, 1597–1653

Greater New York African History Workshop, Columbia University

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All presentations

2022

  • Of Mangroves and Men: A Socio-Ecological History of Mangroves in the Niger Delta

    Black Environmentalisms Symposium, Yale University · 13 – 14 October 2022

  • Lagoon Landscapes: Ephemeral Environments in Lagos, Nigeria

    Desert Futures: Poetics and Politics of Saharan Spaces, Yale University · 28 April 2022

  • The Warri Kingdom, British Museums and the Legacies of Imperialism

    Guest lecture, Yale College course taught by Dr James Green · 16 February 2022

2021

  • Reading African Agency in an 18th-Century French Trader’s Memoirs

    18th Century Africa Conference, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge · 10 June 2021

  • The Military Looting of Itsekiri Cultural Heritage

    Devolving Restitution Workshop, Session 1: Punitive Expeditions, Looting and the Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford · 9 June 2021

  • Nigerian Heritage, Memorialisation and the Legacies of Colonialism: The Case of an Itsekiri Chief

    Heritage & Colonialism Discussion Group, University of Cambridge · 9 February 2021

2019

  • Education and Motherhood: The Itsekiri Experience

    Innovation, Invention and Memory in Africa: IV CHAM International Conference, Centro de Humanidades, Universidade Nova de Lisboa · 17 – 20 July 2019

2018

  • Three Olus: Symbolism and Exchange in the Early Modern History of the Warri Kingdom, 1597–1653

    Greater New York African History Workshop, Columbia University · March 2018