Emmanuel Balogun, PhD is open to speaking invitations for

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Speaking

2024

  • Region-Building in West Africa: Convergence and Agency in ECOWAS

    Now booking in-person and virtual events for my book tour. Learn more about Region-Building in West Africa: Convergence and Agency in ECOWAS

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Health Competition and Great Power Politics

How have contemporary geopolitics influenced the response to the pandemic in Africa?

What has been the role of national governments, multilateral bodies, and bilateral donors? How do these dynamics play out in African communities at the grassroots level? And will global health come to constitute a new geopolitical background in the years to come?

Panellists: Emmanuel Balogun, Skidmore College Kim Yi Dionne, University of California, Riverside Joshua Eisenman, University of Notre Dame Mandisa Mbali, University of Cape Town Gordon Shen, University of Texas Health Science Centre

Chair: Simukai Chigudu, University of Oxford

2021

  • ECOWAS at 45 and Counting

    A full-day online workshop between the SFP 119 Collaborative Research Center at Leipzig University in Germany on Making Sense of West African Regional Agency in Global Politics co-organized with Jens Herpolsheimer. Emmanuel led a session about capacity-building called Visibility and Legibility in the ECOWAS Communities of Practice.

  • Addressing Global Inequality in a Post-COVID World

    A talk discussing themes and potential responses to global inequality at Skidmore College on June 1, Watch on Facebook.

  • Health Competition and Great Power Politics

    Presented on a panel for the Oxford University China Africa Network (OUCAN) Annual Conference on May 20, Watch on YouTube.

  • Explaining Variation in African Policy Responses to the COVID Pandemic

    A presentation written and presented with John Ishiyama and Joseph Oppong at the International Studies Association Annual Convention on April 6-9

  • Epistemic Convergence in ECOWAS, African Union, and World Health Organization: African Agency in Regional Health Governance

    A presentation at the International Studies Association Annual Convention on April 6-9

  • COVID-19 and the Global African World Virtual Symposium

    A panel for Skidmore College on March 24

 

Addressing Inequality in a Post-Covid World” Skidmore College Alumni Association

Join us to welcome Emmanuel Balogun to our webinar series. He will Build on elements from his “International Relations of the Global South” and “Contemporary African Politics” courses, as well as field research in West Africa, as he discusses themes and potential responses to global inequality.

2020

  • The Effects of COVID-19 on African States and Societies

    A panel for the African Politics Conference Group Online Colloquium on April 27, Watch on Youtube.

  • Representation as a Measure of Underrepresented Minority Student Motivation

    A presentation at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Teaching and Learning Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 7-9

APCG Virtual Panel: The Effects of COVID 19 on African States and Society

Panellists: Emmanuel Balogun (Webster University), Adia Benton (Northwestern University), Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford), and Kim Yi Dionne (UC Riverside). Originally record on April 27, 2020.

Moderated: Judd Devermont (Director, Africa Program- CSIS) and featuring panelists

2019

  • Convergence and Agency in West Africa: Region-Building in ECOWAS

    An invited book talk for the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies at the Center for Africana Studies on November 20

  • Dependence, Regionalism, and Governance

    A guest lecture for the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies at the Center for Africana Studies on November 20

  • Bureaucratic Agency and the Institutional Development of ECOWAS

    A presentation at the International Studies Association Accra Meeting in Ghana on August 1-3

  • State of the State Department

    An invited talk for the Great Decisions Speaker Series at the World Affairs Council of St. Louis at Webster University on April

  • Regional Security and Health Governance Service Delivery and Civil Society Restrictions in West Africa

    A presentation at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada on March 26-29

  • Decolonizing the University: Towards a Culturally Inclusive Curriculum

    A guest lecture for the Webster University Diversity and Inclusion Conference on February 27. Emmanuel’s talk starts at 4:18:55 in the video below. Watch Livestream.

Decolonizing the University: Towards a Culturally Inclusive Curriculum

A guest lecture for the Webster University Diversity and Inclusion Conference on February 27. Emmanuel’s talk starts at 4:18:55 in the video below.

2018

  • Author Meets Critic: Examining AIDS Interventions on World AIDS Day

    A roundtable participant at the 61st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia on November 29-December 1

  • The Monkey Cage at Washington Post New Contributor Workshop

    A workshop participant at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts on August 28

  • Building a Unified West Africa: People-Centrism and the Construction of Symbolic Nationalism in ECOWAS

    A presentation at La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLASCO) and International Studies Association (ISA) joint conference in Quito, Ecuador on July 25-27

  • Author Meets Critics: Patrick James and Robert Lloyd on ‘Religion and Health Care in Africa’

    A roundtable participant at La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLASCO) and International Studies Association (ISA) joint conference in Quito, Ecuador on July 25-27

  • The Emergence of Practitioner-Led Regionalism at ECOWAS

    A presentation at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in San Francisco, California on April 3-7

2017

  • #GambiaDecides: Exploring the Networked Development of Democracy and Good Governance in ECOWAS

    A presentation at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois on November 16-18

  • The West African Experience

    Moderator for this panel at the West African Experience event co-sponsored by Webster Ghana and the Office of Study Abroad at Webster University in September

  • Preparing for Graduate School as a Student of Color

    An invited talk for the McNair Scholars Program at the University of Delaware in July

  • Building Regional Health Infrastructure in West Africa: Regional Convergence in ECOWAS

    A presentation at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Baltimore, Maryland on February 22-25

2016

  • Regional Convergence on the Non-interference Norm in West Africa

    A presentation for the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Washington D.C. on December 1-3

  • Financialization and Regional Convergence in West Africa

    A presentation for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 2