Presentations

Session Presenter. Small Island Development in the Age of Global Climate Change. Paper. 45^th Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference. Georgetown, Guyana. June 2020. Conference Canceled due to COVID19.

Round-table Panelist: Immanuel Wallerstein’s Legacy. 61^st Annual Convention of the    International Studies Association. Honolulu, HI. March 2020. Conference Canceled due to COVID19.

Round-table Panelist: Classic Alternative Analyses of the Global Political Economy (The Bourgeois Intellectual Order in Lenin’s Imperialism). 61^st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Honolulu, HI. March 2020. Conference Canceled due to COVID19.

Session Presenter. Contemporary Africa in the World-System. Annual Meeting of the California Sociological Association. Sacramento, CA. November 2019.

Session Presenter. Small Island Developing States and Climate Change: The Case of Dominica. 114^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. New York City, NY. August 2019.

Session Presenter. Grappling with the concept of nationalism from a sociological/world-systems perspective. 60^th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Toronto. March 2019.

Paper presented in session by co-author. Racism and the Evolution of Distant Othering (with Christopher Chase-Dunn and Eugene N. Anderson). Special Session. 113^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA. August 2018.

Session Presenter. Eluding National Boundaries: Commodified Citizenship and the Transnational Capitalist Class. 113^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA. August 2018.

Session Presenter. Global Governance and State Formation. 113^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA. August 2018.

Session Presenter. Global Systemic Crisis and Semiperipheral Countries. FLACSO-ISA Joint International Conference – Power Reconfigurations: Regional and Global Responses in an Age of Uncertainty. Quito, Ecuador. July 2018. (pdf of ppt presentation)

Panelist. Is ‘Environmentalism’ Failing The Global South? Assessing the Rise of Buen-Vivir Environmentalism versus Neoliberal-Extractive Environmentalism. 59^th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. April 2018.

Round-table presentation. Arrested Development? Sub-Saharan Africa in the Stratified World Economy: 1965 to 2015. 112^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Montréal, Québec, Canada. August 2017. (pdf of ppt presentation)

Session Presenter. Sub-Saharan Africa in the Stratified World Economy at the Development in the Face of Global Inequalities Conference. Barcelona. May 2017.

Session Presenter. Historical Migration, Geopolitical Relation, and Accumulation Regimes: Chinese Investments in Philippine and Zambian Mining with Alvin A. Camba. Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Toronto, ON. March 2017. (pdf of ppt presentation)

Session Presenter. Exploring Global Governance and State Formation Through Sea Piracy. 58^th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Baltimore, MD. February 2017.

Session Presenter. Foreign Aid and Development: A GWR Approach. 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Chicago, IL. November 2016.

Invited Speaker. The Evolving China-Africa Relationship: Eastern Promises, Western Fears. 111^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA. August 2016.

Session Presenter. China and Global Economic Stratification in an Interdependent World. 111^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA. August 2016.

Session Presenter. Movements in the Periphery/Semi-periphery: An Exploration of China’s Influence on Stratification in the World Economy. 111^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA. August 2016.

Session Presenter. Toward a Multipolar World. High Finance, China and the Global South. 87^th Pacific Sociological Association. Oakland, CA. March/April 2016.

Session Presenter. Global Economic Stratification: The China Effect and Sub-Saharan Africa. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers. San Francisco, CA. April 2016.

Session Presenter. China in the Capitalist World-Economy: Development of the Global South. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, MA. March 2016.

Session Presenter. Class Formation in an Era of Global Precarity. Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. March 2016.

Session Presenter. Movements in the Stratified World Economy: The China Effect and Sub-Saharan Africa. PROWEL Workshop on Vulnerability, Deprivation, Poverty and Inequalities. Murten, Switzerland. Workshop. December 2015.

Session Presenter. Periphery/Semiperiphery in Motion: An Exploration of China’s Influence on Stratification in the World Economy. Annual Meeting of the California Sociological Association. Sacramento, CA. November 2015.

Session Presenter. China in the Global South: Something New or Borrowed?. 110^th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL. August 2015.

Session Presenter. Examining the Impact of Chinese Foreign Aid and Investment on Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Conference on the Evolution of Economic and Social Inequalities in Switzerland and Beyond. Neuchâtel, Switzerland. October 2014. (pdf of ppt presentation)

Session Presenter. The Case of China in Sub-Saharan Africa: Redefining Subversion in the Long Twentieth Century to the Twenty-first. The Long Twentieth Century to the Twenty-first. Binghamton, NY. October 2014.