National Days and Rituals of Celebrating the Nation: The Jubilee of Independence in Gabon. 21st conference for the Association of the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN),  4.-7. April 2011, London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK.

Protocol, Politics and Patriotism. The Jubilee of Independence in Gabon. 4th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 4), 15. – 18. June 2011, Uppsala, Schweden.

‘Doing the nation’ and everyday practices of nation-building in Africa: Results from 50 years of research. Paper presented at the Humboldt Kolleg “Nigeria at 50. The state, nationalism and politics: Challenges of nation-building in Nigeria”, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, October 7-9, 2010