Invited talks

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