Presenter: ‘Towards a Pan-African Migration and Development Agenda’, Linacre College Michaelmas 2019 Seminar (October 15, 2019), Oxford, UK.

Launcher: ‘Jaadeh! Official US Launch’ (September 22, 2019), Washington, DC, USA.

Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (September 20, 2019), Olney, Maryland, USA.

Presenter: ‘Women, Equality, and Citizenship in Contemporary Africa’, African Feminisms (Afrifems) Conference, Theorising from the Epicentres of Our Agency, Panel 8 on ‘Unhomed: Labour, Citizenship and Belonging’ (September 6, 2019), Johannesburg, South Africa.

Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (September 3, 2019), Johannesburg, South Africa.

Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’, co-sponsored by Enfants de la Rue (August 16, 2019), Ambohipeno, Madagascar.

Speaker: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh! as Anti-Corruption Revolutions from ‘Below’.’ Book Talk Sponsored by Transparency International Initiative Madagascar, Enfants de la Rue, and OP500 (August 14, 2019), Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Panel Guest: BBC World Service Weekend (August 4, 2019), London, UK. 

Panellist: ‘All-Party Parliamentary Group for Africa (APPG) Report Launch: Visa Problems for African Visitors to the UK’ (July 16, 2019), London, UK.

Full report here: https://bit.ly/32u0gwD

Facilitator: ‘A Lesson in Honesty - Jaadeh!’, Africa Writes Literary Festival Family Workshop (July 6, 2019), London, UK.

Location: Harry M. Weinrebe Learning Centre at The British Library

Free/Drop in/For ages 6 - 11

Gather round in a circle and join us for a journey to Liberia, a country in West Africa, and learn new words in Bassa. Robtel Neajai Pailey, author of Jaadeh!, invites families to explore what it means to be accountable to self, community, nation and globe.

Keynote Speaker: ‘De-centring the “White Gaze” of Development’, Development Studies Association Annual Conference, Opening up Development (June 20, 2019), Milton Keynes, UK.

ABSTRACT

In its crudest form, ‘development’ has traditionally been about dissecting the political, socio-economic, and cultural processes of black, brown, and other non-white subjects in the so-called Global South and finding them ‘regressive’, particularly in comparison to the so-called ‘progressive’ Global North. However, in the midst of a twenty-first century, ‘de-colonial’ scholarly pivot, opening up development fundamentally demands turning the colonial, ‘white gaze’ on its head. In particular, contemporary social media movements challenging white supremacy such as #BlackLivesMatter have gained prominence while non-white development actors such as China have emerged as enticing alternatives. These phenomena have pried open development with both positive and negative results, intended and unintended consequences. My keynote seeks to put Critical Development Studies in fluid conversation with Critical Race Studies in an examination of how scholars, policymakers and practitioners have simultaneously succeeded and failed in subverting the ‘white gaze’ of development.

http://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/dsa2019

https://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/news/robtel-neajai-pailey-give-keynote-development-studies-association-conference

Co-presenter: ‘Post-party Politics, Forum Shopping and Liberia’s 2017 Elections’, 2019 European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Africa: Connections and Disruptions, Pol 14 on ‘Regime Change, Democratic Experiments and Trends in Succession Politics in Africa’ (June 14, 2019), Edinburgh, Scotland.

Panellist: ‘Turning Down the Heat: (Mis-) Representation of African Migration in the Media and the Role of Researchers’, 2019 European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Africa: Connections and Disruptions (June 13, 2019), Edinburgh, Scotland.

Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (May 17, 2019), Monrovia, Liberia.

Speaker: ‘Between Rootedness and Rootlessness: Liberia, Migration and Dual Citizenship’, Cuttington University Public Lecture (May 15, 2019), Suakoko, Bong County, Liberia.

Launcher: ‘Jaadeh! Official Liberia Launch’, University of Liberia LUX TALK (May 10, 2019), Monrovia, Liberia.

Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (April 29, 2019), Doha, Qatar.

Speaker: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh! as Transparency Revolutions from ‘Below’.’ Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Centre (ROLACC) LLM Open Evening and International Anti-Corruption Masterclass 2019, Achieving Transparency – Issues in the Modern World (April 28, 2019), Doha, Qatar.

Panellist: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh! as Anti-Corruption Revolutions from ‘Below’.’ Latest Authorship on Liberia Roundtable, Liberian Studies Association (LSA) 51st Annual Conference (April 13, 2019), River Forest, Illinois, USA.

Keynote Speaker: ‘You Can’t Decolonise African Studies without Decolonising Africa’, Northwestern University African Graduate Seminar (Afrisem) International Conference on African Studies Now: Decolonising the Field (April 5, 2019), Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’ (March 14, 2019), São Paulo, Brazil.

Presenter: ‘Women, Equality, and Citizenship in Contemporary Africa’, University of São Paulo Institute of International Relations Post-Graduate Seminar (March 12, 2019), São Paulo, Brazil.

Panellist: ‘Future against Corruption: Celebrating the 2018 International Anti-Corruption Day’, Transparency International’s 25th anniversary event (December 12, 2018), Berlin, Germany.

Presenter: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh! as ‘Revolutions from Below’’, Malaysian Institute of Integrity (Integriti) Seminar on Anti-Corruption Champions: Sharing Session with the Winners of the 2018 International Anti-Corruption Excellence Awards (December 10, 2018), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Discussant: ‘Building Collective Consciousness for the Fight against Corruption’, African Union (AU) and African Governance Architecture (AGA) sponsored 2018 High Level Dialogue on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance in Africa: Trends, Challenges, Prospects, Session Three (November 29, 2018), Gaborone, Botswana.

Guest Speaker: ‘Experiences of Shifting Social Norms around Corruption: Gbagba and Jaadeh! as ‘Revolutions from Below’, U4 Anti-corruption Resource Centre Annual Seminar on ‘Social Norms and Anti-corruption’ (November 13, 2018), Copenhagen, Denmark.