"Society & Pandemics: Development of an Open-Education Resource on the History of Pandemics for Historiana, a project of the European Union," Pandemic Research Groups Spring Symposium: California State University-Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA. 19 April 2023.
"Combating Holocaust Denial. Categories and Origins of Holocaust Denial & Why We Must Educate Against Such Disinformation," A Public Event of the Kern County Library System. Lake Isabella, CA. 15 April 2023.
"Concomitant Internationalisms? The League of Nations' Disease Commissions, German Doctors, & Imperial Tropical Medicine in the African Mandates" Panel: Insiders as Outsiders, Imperial Afterlives Conference, hosted by University of Cambridge, Cambridge England, UK. August 18-19, 2022.
“Society’s Pre-Existing Conditions: Patterns of the History of Pandemics”. Two Identical talks given to Washington State University & the Idaho Humanities Council, Pullman, WA & Moscow ID, March 22, 2022.
Chair and Participant in the Workshop Panel “Professionals, Capitalists, and Capital,” Imperial Afterlives Workshop, virtually hosted by the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK. 24 February 2022.
“Decolonization, Diplomacy, Drugs and Disease: The Unexpected Webs of Historical Research,” Invited Zoom Workshop given to Center for Student Research and Creative Activity at University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, CT. 3 November 2021.
“Plague and Prejudice: Racism and the Third Pandemic of Plague,” Invited Zoom Lecture given to Students at University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, CT. 3 November 2021.
“The Forgotten Food Fight: Axis Rinderpest Bioweapons Campaigns and Allied Countermeasures in World War II.” Invited Zoom Event for the Entire Kern County Library System. Kern County, CA. 16 October 2021.
“Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching the History of Disease and Public Health in the Classroom and Beyond,” Invited Zoom Workshop given to Faculty at University of North Carolina—Asheville, Asheville, NC. 16 April 2021.
“Pandemic Racism: Historical Patterns of Disease Burden,” Invited Zoom Lecture given to Students and the Public at University of North Carolina—Asheville, Asheville, NC. 16 April 2021.
“The Sniffle Heard Round the World: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons,” Invited Zoom Event for the Entire Kern County Library System. Kern County, CA. 27 March 2021.
“Syphilis to HIV/AIDS: STD Controls in Uganda, 1910-2020,” Zoom Lecture given to Macalester College (St. Paul, MN), 18 November 2020.
“Chronic Disparities: Public Health in Historical Perspective,” Webinar hosted by Oxford University Press. 9 October 2020.
"Developmentalist Antagonism to Universal Health Care from the Mandates System to COVID-19." Virtual Conference on “Social Justice, Remade? The Decline of the European Welfare State in a Global Context, 1973-2009” hosted on Zoom by University of Wisconsin, Madison and the George L. Mosse Program in History. 10-14 August, 2020.
“Contagious Inequalities: Teaching Diversity and Equity Gaps in a Pandemic,” General Education Summer Institute: California State University-Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA, 4-5 August 2020.
“Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, the League of Nations, and Imperialism,” History Forum: California State University-Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA. 21 February 2020.
Commentator, Panel: German Africas: Postcolonial Strategies across Three Regimes. German Studies Association Conference, Portland, OR. 3-6 October 2019.
“Morphine and Mandates: German Influence Politics and International Diplomacy 1919-1926.” German Studies Association Conference, Portland, OR. 3-6 October 2019.
“Fighting them on the Beaches: Operation Overlord and the Allied Infiltration of Nazi-Occupied Normandy, 6 June 1944,” Remembering D-Day: A 75th Anniversary Public Event of the Kern County Library System. Lake Isabella, CA. 8 June 2019.
“Fear-mongers of Imperial Decline: Colonial German Responses to Colonial Guilty & the League of Nations Mandates System.” American University of Paris Conference “The Making of a World Order: A Reappraisal of the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles.” Paris, France 23-26 May 2019.
“A Crisis of Empire? WWI and Interwar Imperial Consolidation.” Remembering Armistice Day: A Public Event of the Kern County Library System. Lake Isabella, CA. 10 November 2018.
Chair, Panel: Session II, Panel C: Historical Insights from Wartime Letters and Memoirs. America in the Trenches. A Centennial Exploration of America’s Involvement in the Great War. California State University—Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA. 13 October, 2018.
“A Question of Respectability: Colonial German Responses to the Treaty of Versailles and ‘Colonial Guilt.’” Max Weber Conference on “Settlement and Unsettlement: The Ends of World War I and their Legacies.” German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. 22-24 March, 2018.
Commentator, Panel: Imperial Imports and Colonial Commodities: German Consumption and Identity-Construction, 1814-1914. German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, GA. 5-8 October, 2017.
“Grasping for a “Great New Future”: The Interwar German Colonial Lobbies in Search of a United Platform.” German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, GA. 5-8 October 2017.
“Ravening Wolves’ and a Return to the Imperial Fold? Colonial Germans, The Press and the Spirit of Locarno.” Central European History Society Affiliate Panel, American Historical Association Conference, Denver, CO. 5-8 January 2017.
2016 “Echte Deutsche” or “Half-Baked Englishmen”?: German Southwest African Settlers, the Mandate System, and the Naturalization Crisis, 1922-1924.” American Historical Association Conference, Atlanta, GA. 7-10 January 2016.
2015 “The Faithful Hounds of Imperialism? Heinrich Schnee on the League’s Manchurian Commission.” German Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C. 1-4 October 2015.
2014 “The Faithful Hounds of Imperialism? Heinrich Schnee and the League’s Manchurian Commission.” Missouri State University, 25 April 2014
“From ‘Unfit Imperialists’ to ‘Fellow Civilizers’: German Colonial Officials as Imperial Experts in the League of Nations, 1919-1933.” German Studies Association Conference, Denver, CO. 3-6 October 2013.
“‘O Afrika, Meine Seele ist in dir geblieben’: Empire, Heimat and Memory among German East African Repatriates in the 1920s.” German History Society Conference, London, UK. 12-14 September 2013.
“Longing for “Home”:Empire, Heimat, and Memory among Former Settlers of German East Africa in the 1920s.” German Studies Association Conference, Louisville, KY. 22-25 September 2011.
“Violence, “Victimhood” and Vindication?:‘Colonial Guilt’ and the Decolonizing Negotiation of Imperially-Constituted German National Identity by a Former Colonial Governor.” Conference for the Association for Georgia State University Historians, Atlanta, GA. 16 April 2011.
“Missionary Zeal: German Missionaries, Colonial Policy, and Imperial Deutschtum” Southeast German Studies Workshop, Atlanta, GA. 24-25 February 2011.
“Colonial Complications: Deutschtum or Kolonialdeutschtümer?” Southeast German Studies Workshop, Atlanta, GA. 11-12 March 2010.
Commentator on the panel “New Turns in Modern German History,” Conference for the Association for Georgia State University Historians, Atlanta, GA. 24 October 2009.
“Ein Ende zu der „verächtlichen Stellung“ machen: The Role of Interest Groups in the Foundation of the German Colonial Empire.” Missouri Conference on History, Springfield, MO. 16 April 2009.