Gender and War: Narrating the Personal and Political
Panellist: Gender and War: Narrating the Personal and Political, Book Launch and Panel Discussion of Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War, SOAS, University of London (April 29, 2024), London, UK.
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Panellist: Gender and War: Narrating the Personal and Political, Book Launch and Panel Discussion of Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War, SOAS, University of London (April 29, 2024), London, UK.
Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (April 13, 2024), Bridgetown, Barbados.
Presenter: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, SOAS, University of London, Department of Development Studies Seminar Series (March 14, 2024), London, UK.
Panellist: ‘How to Start Thinking Ethically about Development’, Ethical Development Initiative (EDI) Panel, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (February 29, 2024), London, UK.
Panellist: Panel 3 (Youth, Academia and Education), Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Centre (ROLACC) Integrity Champions Forum 2023 (December 20, 2023), Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Workshop Facilitator for Secondary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (December 18, 2023), Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Co-chair: ‘Blackness and the Research Gaze’, Departments of Methodology and Social Policy Black History Month 2023 Panel, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (October 16, 2023), London, UK.
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Speaker: ‘Liberia’s 2023 Elections: Prospects for Continuity or Change’, Ducor Institute for Social & Economic Research Policy Dialogue Series (September 28, 2023), London, UK.
Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (July 20, 2023), Castries, Saint Lucia.
Panellist: ‘The Changing Inequalities of Citizenship Globally’, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Festival of Ideas 2023 (June 15, 2023), London, UK.
Keynote Speaker: ‘Development in the 21st Century: What’s Worth Re-imagining?’, Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) Annual Conference (May 29, 2023), Toronto, Canada.
Presenter: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, ‘The Changing African Idea of Africa and the Future of African Studies’ Seminar Series, University of Bayreuth, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) (May 25, 2023), London, UK.
Presenter: ‘Women’s Political Rights and Representation as Proxies for Citizenship Equality in West Africa’, Interdisciplinary Fellows Group 8 at Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) Conference on ‘Increasing Women’s Political Presence in West Africa’ (May 16, 2023), Accra, Ghana.
Presenter: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, University of Manchester Politics (Global Political Economy Research Cluster) and the Global Development Institute Seminar (April 25, 2023), Manchester, UK.
Presenter: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, ‘Celebrated, Centred, and Cited’ Virtual Workshop, Black Women Writing African Politics Collective (April 19, 2023), London, UK.
Guest Lecturer: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, Institut Cardinal Jean Margéot Guest Lecture (April 11, 2023), Beau Bassin-Rose Hill, Mauritius.
Guest Lecturer: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, African Leadership College Guest Lecture (April 6, 2023), Pamplemousses, Mauritius.
Panellist: ‘Ripe for Reckoning? White Saviourism in International Development’, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Public Dialogue (March 29, 2023), London, UK.
Chair: Post-screening Discussion of Powerlands Documentary, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Department of Social Policy Race Matters Initiative (RMI) Lent Term Event (March 10, 2023), London, UK.
Presenter: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, The Africa Institute Faculty Seminar Series (February 22, 2023), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (December 19, 2022), Monrovia, Liberia.
Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (December 16, 2022), Buchanan, Liberia.
Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (December 16, 2022), Buchanan, Liberia.
Presenter: ‘Does Dual Citizenship Reproduce Inequalities?’, University College London (UCL)/Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) Research Seminar Series (November 23, 2022), London, UK.
Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (November 3, 2022), Praia, Cabo Verde.
Guest Lecturer: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, Universidade de Cabo Verde Public Lecture (October 31, 2022), Praia, Cabo Verde.
Chair: ‘African Americans & Africa: Conversations across Centuries’, LSE Firoz Lalji Africa Institute, Department of International History, and Department of Social Policy Race Matters Initiative (RMI) Co-sponsored Black History Month Seminar (October 20, 2022), London, UK.
Guest Lecturer: ‘Does Dual Citizenship Reproduce Inequalities?’, Cornell University Institute for African Development (IAD) Public Lecture (September 6, 2022), Ithaca, NY, USA.
Presenter: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, University of Melbourne Anthropology and Development Studies Seminar Series (August 31, 2022), Washington, DC, USA.
Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (August 10, 2022), Mindelo, Cabo Verde.
Interviewee: ‘Does Dual Citizenship Reproduce Inequalities?’, Liberian Studies Association Monthly Scholar Series, Focus on Liberia (August 7, 2022), London, UK.
Robtel Neajai Pailey is a Liberian academic, activist and author of the anti-corruption children's book, Gbagba.
Robtel Neajai Pailey, PhD
robtel@robtelneajaipailey.com