
Liberia Beyond Aid
Interviewee: ‘Liberia Beyond Aid’, Special Broadcast of ELBC Radio’s The Super Morning Show, Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) (February 24, 2025), London, UK.
Academic | Activist | Author
Interviewee: ‘Liberia Beyond Aid’, Special Broadcast of ELBC Radio’s The Super Morning Show, Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) (February 24, 2025), London, UK.
Co-chair: ‘Race, Technology and Bias in AI’, documentary film screening of Coded Bias and post-screening discussion by the LSE Department of Social Policy Race Matters Initiative (RMI), The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (March 27, 2025), London, UK.
Moderator: Panel on ‘Empowering Africa’s Youth: Driving Innovation, Overcoming Challenges, and Shaping the AU Agenda’, LSE Africa Summit 2025, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (March 30, 2025), London, UK.
Presenter: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, Universidad de Cartagena Special Seminar (April 10, 2025), Cartagena, Colombia.
Co-chair: ‘Race and Representation in Policy: Does It Matter?’, Zoom panel organised by the LSE Department of Social Policy Race Matters Initiative (RMI), The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (February 19, 2025), London, UK.
Presenter: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, Global Black Thought Seminar Series, South Africa United Kingdom Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory, University of Witwatersrand (October 31, 2024), London, UK.
Moderator: ‘Climate-Induced Migration: Race and Racialisation in the Midst of a Climate Crisis’, Panel co-organised by the LSESU Grimshaw Club and the Department of Social Policy Race Matters Initiative (RMI), The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (October 17, 2024), London, UK.
Presenter: ‘Empowering Liberia’s Women: Addressing Gender-Specific Impacts of War Crimes and Building a Path to Social and Economic Resilience’, Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas (ALJA) Convention 2024 (October 12, 2024), London, UK.
Presenter: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, UK Political Studies Association’s Global Development Politics Specialist Group Webinar Series (September 30, 2024), London, UK.
Interviewee: ‘Analysis of 177th Independence Day National Oration’, A New Day, Focus on Liberia (August 11, 2024), London, UK.
National Orator: ‘A Radical Agenda for Re-imagining Liberia’, 177th Independence Day Official Programme of the Republic of Liberia (July 26, 2024), Monrovia, Liberia.
FULL SPEECH (text): https://bit.ly/3Yn36Tr
Order of the Star of Africa Induction: https://bit.ly/3T4bN1J
OFFICIAL Press Release: https://micat.gov.lr/media/press-releases/government-announces-liberian-scholar-dr-robtel-neajai-pailey-177th
Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’, Cachelle International Creative Arts Centre Summer Camp (July 11, 2024), Monrovia, Liberia.
Workshop Facilitator for Primary School Pupils: ‘Gbagba and Jaadeh!: Lessons in Ethics, Integrity and Accountability’, Royal Learning Academy Vacation School/Summer Camp (July 9, 2024), Monrovia, Liberia.
Facilitator: ‘Recognising and Managing Racial/Xenophobic Microaggressions’, Black Professors Pipeline: A Daylong Workshop, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (May 22, 2024), London, UK.
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.
Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HgNaXMbU4 for the full event recording.
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.
Robtel Neajai Pailey is an award-winning Liberian academic, activist and author.
Robtel Neajai Pailey, PhD
robtel@robtelneajaipailey.com