Presentations
Academic
“African Global Visions of the 20th Century, Revisited in the 21st: The Intellectual Traditions of Julius Nyerere and James Aggrey”
66th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA]
Atlanta, Georgia, 20 November 2025
“Pan-Africanism’s Backwater: Ethiopianism in Colonial East Africa”
12th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)
St. Louis, Missouri, 31 October 2025
“Building the African Nation and New Directions in Pan-Africanism”
African Studies Seminar, Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 27 October 2025
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“Pan-Africanism, African Identity, and Building the African Nation in East Africa”
The Cause Distinguished Lecture Series, Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS), University of Colorado.
Boulder, Colorado, 7 October 2025
“Kujenga Umoja: Nyerere’s Evolving Conception of Unity”
Ujamaa, Ubuntu, and New Pan Africanisms: the Future of World Peace
Arusha, Tanzania, 24 May 2024
“Ghana’s Global Son of the 1920s: Aggrey, the Academy, and His Intellectual Legacy”
64th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA]
San Francisco, California, 1 December 2023
Keynote address, “Africa’s Soulful Politician: The Catholic Social Thought of Julius Nyerere and the Shaping of Global Catholicism”
International Colloquium: ‘Politician with a Soul’ Evangelii Gaudium, Fratelli Tutti, and the Wisdom and Witness of Julius Kambarage Nyerere,' Pontifical Gregorian University
Rome, Italy, 24 November 2023
Panel organizer, “Pan-Africanism, Christianity and the Black Atlantic: A Reassessment”
The Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Plymouth
Plymouth, United Kingdom, 5 July 2023
“African Unity, Ethiopianism, and the Black Atlantic in East Africa”
The Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Plymouth
Plymouth, United Kingdom, 5 July 2023
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“Global Intellectuals and Christian Mission: James Aggrey and the Black Atlantic”
Christian Missions in Global History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London
Online, 17 May 2022
“Julius Nyerere and Human Dignity: Freedom and Justice for Africa and the World”
Conference on Faith and History, Biennial Meeting
Baylor University, Waco Texas, 1 April 2022
“Human Dignity and Equality: The Catholic Roots of Nyerere’s Political Thought”
64th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA]
Online, 20 November 2021
“Julius Nyerere, Radical Philosophers and His Moral Vision for the Future of Africa and the World”
The Third Biennial African Philosophy World Conference: Building Africa’s Future on African Philosophy, University of
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 29 October, 2019
“Creating New Ethnographies: The Local and Global Thought of James Aggrey”
Currents, Perspectives, and Ethnographic Methodologies in World Christianity Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, New Jersey, 16 March 2019
“Scripture in the Political Thought of Julius Nyerere”
27th Annual conference of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western
Christianity, New College, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 30 June 2018
Chair, “South Africa: Resistance, Conflict and Remembering”
59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA]
Chicago, Illinois, 17 November 2017
“The African Political Thought of Julius Nyerere”
59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA]
Chicago, Illinois, 16 November 2017
“A Multi-Polar World: Decolonization and the Cold War in Zanzibar”
SHAFR Conference
Washington D.C., 22 June 2017
“James Aggrey and the Impact of Aural Biography on Egalitarian Politics in East Africa”
African Christianity Biography Conference, Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts, 29 October 2015
“Crossing Boundaries and the Creation of African Consciousness: The Continental Influence of James Aggrey” 14th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas
Austin, Texas, 5 April 2014
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“Narratives of African Intellectual History: Transnational Connections”
Bridgewater State University Center for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship Conference
Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 15 May 2013
“Conceptualizing East Africa: The Historical Writings of Paul Sindi Seme”
The Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 6 April 2013
“Re-examining African Elite: The Political Activists of Colonial Tanganyika”
55th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1 December 2012
“A Small Stage for a Global Conflict: Decolonization, the Cold War and Revolution in Zanzibar”
7th International Seminar on Decolonization, Library of Congress
Washington D.C., USA, 1 August 2012
“Women and Non-Ethnic Politics in East Africa, 1934-1947”
54th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA]
Washington D.C., USA, 17 November 2011
“The Women of the African Association and women's political activity in Tanganyika and Zanzibar during the 1930s and 1940s”
African Research Forum Seminar, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 17 May 2011
“Islam and History in West Africa: New Approaches to Social and Economic Change”
Chair and Discussant
Africa Research Forum, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 16 March 2011
“Missionaries and Muslims in East Africa before the Great War”
Henry Martyn Seminar, Westminster College, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 9 March 2011
“Rethinking the Origins of Political Thought in Colonial East Africa: The Local, Regional and Global Intellectual Influences on the African Association”
African History and Politics Seminar, University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom, 7 February 2011
“James Aggrey’s “African Nation” and alternative identities in Colonial East Africa”
53rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association [USA]
San Francisco, California, USA, 21 November 2010
“Thinking outside the (Colonial) Boundaries: The Continental thinking of the African Association in the 1930s”
African Studies Association [UK] Biennial Conference
Oxford, United Kingdom, 17 September 2010
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“Inter-Religious Competition as a Catalyst for Intra-Faith Cooperation in East Africa, 1907- 1913”
19th Annual conference of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western
Christianity, New College, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2 July 2010
“Missionary Perceptions of Islam in East Africa Before the First World War”
African Studies Research Group, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
Oxford, United Kingdom, 30 March 2010
“Africa’s Awkward Integration into the writing of ‘Modern’ World History”
What is World History? seminar, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 9 November 2009
“A Post-Nationalist Reading of African Politics in late Colonial East Africa”
World History Seminar, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 21 May 2009
“Mediating Territorial Activism with Local Political Energy in Colonial Tanganyika and Zanzibar: The Case of the African
Association”
History Graduate Student Seminar, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 27 February 2009
“Analyzing Chatterjee’s Moments of Departure, Manoeuvre, and Arrival in light of African Nationalism”
Post-Colonialism: History and Theory seminar, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 17 Feb 2009
“Unexpected Encounters: Missionary perceptions of Islam in late nineteenth century East Africa”
African History Seminar, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 13 May 2008
“Britain’s African Treasure: The history of modern Uganda”
Baylor Capstone course in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda, 18 March 2008
Campus-wide and Community Talks
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“The Christian Thought of Julius Nyerere, Africa’s Philosopher King”
Trinity Academy: World Religions, Spirituality, the Bible, and Social Issues
Trinity United Methodist Church
Denver, CO, 10 March 2024
“Religion and Politics in Modern Africa”
Trinity Academy: World Religions, Spirituality, the Bible, and Social Issues
Trinity United Methodist Church
Denver, CO, 3 March 2024
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“Gathering in Response to War in Israel/Palestine: Historical Context of the Israel-Hamas Conflict”
Regis University
Denver, Colorado, 13 October 2023
Organizer, and panelist with Heider Tun Tun, “Black in Mexico”
Regis University
Denver, Colorado, 16 February 2022
Panelist with Erica Ferg, Forrest Huntington and Ian Zuckerman, “Understanding the US-Iran Conflict”
Regis University
Denver, Colorado, 18 February 2020
“A History of Race Relations in Denver”
Vision for Life series, “Racial Reconciliation”
Fellowship Denver Church
Denver, Colorado, 17 February 2020
“Julius Nyerere: Africa’s Global Visionary”
URSC Scholarship Symposium
Regis University
Denver, Colorado, 16 April 2019
Panelist, “The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict: An Invitation to Learn Revisited”
Church of the Transfiguration
Evergreen, Colorado, 29 April 2018
Panelist, “The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict: An Invitation to Learn”
Church of the Transfiguration
Evergreen, Colorado, 11 March 2018
with Allie Holmquist, “The Syrian Conflict: A Civil War?”
Regis University
Denver, Colorado, 18 April 2017
“Understanding ISIS”
Regis University
Denver, Colorado, 14 April 2016
Chair and discussant, “Conflict Transformation in Africa,” roundtable discussion with the Tanzanian Ambassador Liberata
Mulamula, Dr. Laura DeLuca, Dr. Connor Seyle
The Posner Center for International Development
Denver, Colorado, 18 November 2014
“Whither the Arab Spring?”
Regis University
Denver, Colorado, 6 October 2014