PRESENTATIONS:
Fall 2017
"The League of Nations and the Colonial State: A Campaign Against Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1920s-1930s," Penn State Greater Allegheny Speaker Series: West African Migration, White Oak, PA, USA.
"Are You My Brother?: Exploring the Incorporation of Non-biological Children into Family Life in Colonial Nigeria," Social Science History Association, Montreal, Canada.
Humanitarian Efforts in Colonial Southeastern Nigeria: What was at Stake?," African Studies Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
2017 Summer
"The League of Nations and the Colonial State: A Campaign Against Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1930s," University of Calabar, Nigeria.
2016 Fall
"The Remand Home: Juvenile Labor and Reform in Calabar," at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Cambridge, England.
2015 Fall
"The British Social Welfare Office: The Case of Juvenile Labor, Reform, and Nationalism in Colonial Calabar, 1950s," at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California.
"Linking History to Practice: Mapping the History of Nigeria as a Tool to Combat Human Trafficking Today," at The Social Practice of Human Rights Conference, Human Rights Center, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
2014 Fall
Panel Chair for "Human Rights and Activism in the Colonial Era: Transregional Perspectives;" and presented "Women's and Children's Roles in Human Trafficking: Colonial Southeastern Nigeria," African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Rethinking Violence, Reconstruction and Reconciliation, Indianapolis, Indiana
2014 Spring
"Trafficked Children and Children as Traffickers in Colonial Southeastern Nigeria," The Child in Africa Conference, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2014 Winter
"Moneylending, Marriage, and Slavery: Pawning Practices in Southeastern Nigeria, 1920s-1930s," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
2013 Spring
"The League of Nations and the Colonial State: A Campaign Against Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1930s," Indaba Series, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
2012 Summer
"Female Child Dealing During the 1920s: Brides, Pawns or Slaves?" XVIth World Economic History Congress, The Economic History Society of Southern Africa and The Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
2012 Spring
"Children, Labor and Money Lending: Codification of Native Law in an International Context, 1901-1920s" AEGIS Thematic Workshop: Children & Migration in Africa: an Interdisciplinary Perspective, School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom
2008 Fall
"The Social Economy of Children: Pawning, Trade and the 1929 Women's War, "African Studies Graduate Affiliates, Resonances of Resistance: Young Scholars' New Work in African Studies Conference, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2008 Spring
"1929 Women's War: Pawnship and the Social Economy of Children," Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Seminar Series, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2005 Fall
"1929 Women's War: Representations of Fertility Against the Institution of Pawnship," African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Health, Knowledge, and the Body/Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora, Washington, D.C.
"The League of Nations and the Colonial State: A Campaign Against Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1920s-1930s," Penn State Greater Allegheny Speaker Series: West African Migration, White Oak, PA, USA.
"Are You My Brother?: Exploring the Incorporation of Non-biological Children into Family Life in Colonial Nigeria," Social Science History Association, Montreal, Canada.
Humanitarian Efforts in Colonial Southeastern Nigeria: What was at Stake?," African Studies Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
2017 Summer
"The League of Nations and the Colonial State: A Campaign Against Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1930s," University of Calabar, Nigeria.
2016 Fall
"The Remand Home: Juvenile Labor and Reform in Calabar," at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Cambridge, England.
2015 Fall
"The British Social Welfare Office: The Case of Juvenile Labor, Reform, and Nationalism in Colonial Calabar, 1950s," at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, California.
"Linking History to Practice: Mapping the History of Nigeria as a Tool to Combat Human Trafficking Today," at The Social Practice of Human Rights Conference, Human Rights Center, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
2014 Fall
Panel Chair for "Human Rights and Activism in the Colonial Era: Transregional Perspectives;" and presented "Women's and Children's Roles in Human Trafficking: Colonial Southeastern Nigeria," African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Rethinking Violence, Reconstruction and Reconciliation, Indianapolis, Indiana
2014 Spring
"Trafficked Children and Children as Traffickers in Colonial Southeastern Nigeria," The Child in Africa Conference, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2014 Winter
"Moneylending, Marriage, and Slavery: Pawning Practices in Southeastern Nigeria, 1920s-1930s," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
2013 Spring
"The League of Nations and the Colonial State: A Campaign Against Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1930s," Indaba Series, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
2012 Summer
"Female Child Dealing During the 1920s: Brides, Pawns or Slaves?" XVIth World Economic History Congress, The Economic History Society of Southern Africa and The Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
2012 Spring
"Children, Labor and Money Lending: Codification of Native Law in an International Context, 1901-1920s" AEGIS Thematic Workshop: Children & Migration in Africa: an Interdisciplinary Perspective, School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom
2008 Fall
"The Social Economy of Children: Pawning, Trade and the 1929 Women's War, "African Studies Graduate Affiliates, Resonances of Resistance: Young Scholars' New Work in African Studies Conference, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2008 Spring
"1929 Women's War: Pawnship and the Social Economy of Children," Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Seminar Series, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2005 Fall
"1929 Women's War: Representations of Fertility Against the Institution of Pawnship," African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Health, Knowledge, and the Body/Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora, Washington, D.C.