Upcoming and Recent Talks (Selected)
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19-21 September 2024, Banff, Alberta
“Rogers Sugar and the Changing Landscape of Colonial Fiji”
A paper submitted to the 2024 Canadian Business History Association Conference
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23-25 May 2024, Portland, Oregon
“Bonds of Extraction: Canadian Business Wives in the British Trans-Pacific”
As part of the Affective Bonds, Intimate Exchanges: Family, Kinship & Gender in Business History Conference, the 5th Biennial Richard Robinson Workshop on Business History
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12-14 May 2023, Suva, Fiji
“Celebrating and Documenting Girmitiya Lives in Navua, Fiji Before 1920”
As part of the Celebrating Girmitiya Lives Conference, University of the South Pacific
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5 June 2023, Suva, Fiji
“Canadian Sugar and Indenture in Navua – Local and Global Stories”
University of the South Pacific
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16 March 2023, Detroit, Michigan
“Global Capitalisms and Commodities: Directions for Future Research”
As part of the international
Business History Conference
16-18 March 2023
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15 March 2023, Detroit, Michigan
“Imperial Capitalism in the Pacific: Canadian Sugar’s 1922 Departure From Fiji”
As part of the international
Business History Conference
16-18 March 2023
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10-13 November 2022, Chicago, Illinois
“Growing Canadian Sugar: Indentured Workers in Fiji and the Building of a Transpacific Sugar Empire”
As part of the North American British Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois
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26–29 June 2019, Anchorage, Alaska
“From Fiji to Vancouver and Beyond: Voices of Unfree Labourers in the History of BC Sugar”
As part of the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Values Society 2019 Conference, University of Alaska, Anchorage
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13–14 October 2018, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
“Militant Minority: Women in the BC Sugar Strike of 1917”
As part of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Committee on Labour History, University of Saskatchewan