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