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Fall 2022

  • Ohio State University, Archives and States of Anxiety in Uganda

Spring 2022

  • University of Oxford, ‘Expulsion, Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality’, Time, Revolution, and Histories of Citizenship in Late Colonial Uganda

Fall 2021

  • African Studies Association, Organized the Uganda Studies Group Roundtable: Reciprocal Obligation & Speaking and Being Heard in Uganda Studies (in honour of Holly E. Hanson)

  • African Studies Association, Co-organized a 2-panel series on Catholic Politics and Public Authority in Postcolonial Africa

  • African Studies Association, Author Meets Critic, Catholic Political Imagination in Late Colonial Africa

Spring 2021

  • St Edward King & Martyr Research Forum, University of Cambridge, Baganda Diplomats and Foreign Policy during the Imperial Scramble for Africa

  • Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge, Book launch, Contesting Catholics

Fall 2020

  • Makerere University, Department of History, Reimagining Religious Politics in Late Colonial Uganda: Benedicto Kiwanuka and Intra-Catholic Contestations on the Eve of Independence

  • Uganda Studies Group, Discussant, Religious Networks and Electoral Mobilization in Late Colonial Uganda

Fall 2019

  • United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, Assassination in Africa: Public Memory and Political Murder in Early Colonial Buganda

Fall 2018

  • African Studies Association, Atlanta: Co-Organized a 4-panel series on Knowledge Production in Uganda Studies

    • Uganda and the Decolonization of Knowledge: The State (Panel 1 of 4)

    • Uganda and the Decolonization of Knowledge: Languages and Concepts of Power (Panel 2 of 4)

    • Uganda and the Decolonization of Knowledge: Intimacy in Ugandan History (Panel 3 of 4)

    • Uganda and the Decolonization of Knowledge: Medical Knowledge (Panel 4 of 4)

Fall 2017

  • Centre College, Faculty Forum: Decolonizing the Curriculum: Power and Pedagogy in the Postwar Period

Spring 2017

  • Co-Convener, Workshop on Uganda Studies, University College London

  • Workshop on Uganda Studies, University College London: ‘As wide as the king’s road in Mengo’: time, space and the Uganda Railway in early colonial eastern Africa

Fall 2016        

  • African Studies Association, United Kingdom, Cambridge: Chair and organiser: The Failure of Moderate Politics in Africa?: The Digital Archives of Eridadi Mulira (to commemorate the launch of the first digital collection of the Cambridge Centre for African Studies)

  • African Studies Association, Washington, DC: Panel Chair, New Approaches in Uganda Studies

  • African Studies Association, Washington, DC: Snakes and the Sophistry of Dissent in Colonial Buganda

Spring 2016    

  • Intellectual History in Modern African Historiography, Yale University: Reassessing Epistemological Boundaries in African Intellectual History: Historical Imagination & Reading Practices in Colonial Uganda

January 2016  

  • Co-Convener: Terrorism in Africa, Oxford University

Summer 2015  

  • ‘Using and Abusing the Past: The role of History in modern Uganda’, SOAS and Makerere University, Mukono, Uganda: When Mukaabya became Muteesa: the fictions of calm in twentieth-century Ganda history writing

Spring 2015    

  • Pursuing Justice in Africa, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge: Historical Imagination and Competing Conceptions of Political Justice in Colonial Buganda

Fall 2014        

  • African Studies Association, Indianapolis: Panel Chair and Presenter: The 1950s in Africa’s Futures

  • African Studies Association, Indianapolis: (Discussant): Roundtable of the Uganda Studies Group: The Violence of Regulating Sexualities: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives from Uganda

Fall 2013        

  • African Studies Association, Baltimore: Islamic Political Theology in Late Colonial Buganda

  • African Studies Association, Baltimore: (Panel Respondent): Mobility and Territoriality in Eastern Africa

  • African Studies Association, Baltimore: (Discussant): Roundtable of the Uganda Studies Group: The Popular and the Public in Uganda: Intellectual and Cultural Productions in the Past and Present

Spring 2012    

  • World History Seminar, University of Cambridge: Reading Rousseau and Locke in Colonial Uganda

Fall 2011        

  • Africa Research Forum, University of Cambridge: (Respondent) David Lee Schoenbrun, Remain Calm: Emotion and the Fictions of Sovereignty in 16th century Bunyoro

  • World History Group, University of Cambridge: Theological Imagination and the Making of Constitutional Discourse in Colonial Uganda: A Global Intellectual History

Summer 2011  

  • Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame: Benedicto K.M. Kiwanuka and the Longue Durée of Justice in Twentieth-Century Catholic Buganda

Fall 2010        

  • African Studies Association, San Francisco: Diasporic Influences on Conceptual Politics in Twentieth-Century Buganda: The Case of James Aggrey and E.M.K. Mulira

  • African Studies Association, San Francisco: Panel Chair: Identity & Belonging: Intellectuals of the Black Atlantic

  • African Research Forum, University of Cambridge: Hermeneutic and Revelation in Twentieth-Century Ganda Political Thought: The Case of I.K. Musazi and Erieza Bwete

  • African Studies Association: United Kingdom, University of Oxford: Politics and Hermeneutic: The Discovery of I.K. Musazi’s Bible and the Influence of Theological Metaphor on Political Thought in Late Colonial Buganda

Spring 2009    

  • Africa History Group, University of Cambridge: Ganda Political Community and the Reception of Idi Amin: Reassessing Uganda’s Second Republic

  • 10th Annual Research Africa Day, University of Oxford: National Historiography versus Ethnic Historiography: The Instance of Buganda under Idi Amin

  • World History Seminar, University of Cambridge: Ganda Historiography and Idi Amin: Reassessing Uganda’s Second Republic, 1971–1975