20/04/2023
“Playing catch-up with China – the political economy of competing connectivity initiatives in Africa”
Guest lecture at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
22/03/2023
“China in Africa and the geopolitics of competing connectivity initiatives”
Guest lecture at the Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University – Stellenbosch, South Africa
24/11/2022
“Africa-China relations: The changing nature of an ‘all-weather friendship’”
Guest lecture at the Karlshochschule International University – Karlsruhe, Germany
4/10/2022
“Seamless imaginaries, territorialised realities: the regional politics of corridor governance in Southern Africa”
Talk delivered at the Cross-Border Road Transport Symposium of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Kasane, Botswana
9/7/2022
“China-Tanzania relations and the role of infrastructure”
Guest lecture (online) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany
19/5/2022
“‘Global Africa’ in the emerging post-pandemic world order”
Keynote address delivered at the 7th Pécs African Studies Conference, University of Pécs, Hungary
9/1/2022
“Gerechtigkeit global gedacht”
Keynote address delivered at the New Year’s function of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), Uhingen chapter
11/11/2021
“Moving Beyond the ‘Debt Trap’: (Meta-)Theoretical Reflections on the Analytical Treatment of Debt in Africa-China Studies”
University of Florida, Center for African Studies, China-Africa Working Group
13/9/2021
Talk given at an event on Africa organised by Heike Baehrens, Member of the German Parliament
28/4/2021
“Belts, roads and railways: Chinese infrastructure projects and regional reordering in Africa”
University of Leipzig, Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) – Leipzig, Germany
1st annual conference
13/1/2021
“China’s spatial fix in Africa : Infrastructure, African agency and the issue of debt”
University of Bremen, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies – Bremen, Germany
Colloquium “Internationalised Politics”
4/12/2020
“The political economy of ‘China in Africa’: Chinese overaccumulation, African agency and the issue of debt”
University of Padova, Department of History, Geography and of the Ancient World – Padova, Italy
Graduate seminar series on China-Africa
3/9/2019
“The Chinese ‘infrastructural fix’ in Africa: Contradictions in the Sino-Zambian ‘road bonanza’”
University of Edinburgh & Confucius Institute for Scotland – Edinburgh, UK
International Conference on the Belt & Road Initiative
24/2/2018
“Africa’s transport infrastructure boom: empowering whom and for what purpose?”
St Andrews Africa Summit – St Andrews, UK