“Political Economy of the Color Line,” University of Tokyo, Institute for Future Initiatives (July 2025, Tokyo) / University of Kyoto, School of Asian and African Area Studies (July 2025, Kyoto)
“From Great Specialization to Great Differentiation,” Princeton University, Racial Capitalism in the History of Political Thought Workshop (February 2025, Princeton, NJ)
Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought, 2025 Annual Conference Keynote (January 2025, York)
“Empire, Capital, and Race in Asia,” University of Edinburgh, CRITIQUE Lecture Series (November 2024, Edinburgh).
“From Racial Capitalism to Capitalist Racialization: A Marxist View,”University of Cambridge, Contemporary Political Theory Seminar Series (November 2024, Cambridge) / University College London, Legal and Political Theory Colloquium (October 2024, London) / Queen Mary University of London, Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (October 2024, London)
“Colonial Capitalism and Racialization in Asia,” Harvard University, Association for Global Political Thought (September 2024, Cambridge, MA)
“Capitalism and Race in Imperial Perspective: Beyond Methodological Atlanticism,” King’s College London (January 2024, London)
“From ‘Civilization’ to ‘Race’: The Political Economy of Imperial Subjecthood,” University of Oxford, Political Theory Workshop (October 2023, Oxford); University College Dublin and Australian Catholic University, Subjecthood in the Nineteenth-Century Anglosphere Workshop (August 2023, Rome)
“Before the Color Line: Empire, Capital, and Race in Asia, 1800-1850,” University of Oxford, Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empire (October 2022, Oxford) / Johns Hopkins University, Arrighi Center for Global Studies (May 2023, Baltimore, MD) / University of Chicago, Empires Workshop (May 2023, Chicago, IL) / University of Glasgow, Racial Capitalism and Its Discontents Conference (April 2024, Glasgow)
“Capital, Race, and Chinese Migration in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia,” University of Chicago, Intellectual Histories of Global Capitalism Conference (June 2022, Chicago, IL)
“Locating Racial Capitalism: Insights from a Trans-imperial Frame,” University of Sussex, Center for Advanced International Theory (November 2021, Brighton)
“Saving Capitalism from Empire: Uses of Global History in New Institutional Economics,” Northwestern University, Political Theory Workshop (January 2020, Evanston, IL)
“Gentlemanly Capitalists, Imperial Frontiersmen: Rethinking the Problem of Primitive Accumulation,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Economic History and Development Workshop (November 2019, Amherst, MA)
“The Challenge of Colonial Capitalism: A Materialist Approach to Liberalism and Empire,” Cornell University, Department of Government (April 2019, Ithaca, NY)
“Capitalism Disavowed: Political Economy, Colonies, and the Problem of Violence,” Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science (April 2019, Baltimore, MD)
“The Wealth of the Colonies: Settler Capitalism and Adam Smith’s Political Economy,” University of Chicago, Historical Capitalisms and Social Theory Workshop (April 2019)
“Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism” (book discussion), University of Tokyo, Institute for Advanced Global Studies (March, 2019, Tokyo)
“The Scottish Enlightenment and the British Empire: David Hume and Adam Smith in Atlantic Contexts,” Yonsei University, Underwood International College (October 2018, Seoul)
“Colonial Capitalism and Liberalism: Towards a New Social History of Political Thought,” University of Otago (June 2018, Otago)
“Imperial Economy and Intellectual History: Capitalism and Liberalism in the British Empire,” Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library (February 2018, New Haven, CT)
“Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism” (book discussion), Brown University, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs (February 2018, Providence, RI)
“Adam Smith, Settler Colonialism, and Cosmopolitan Overstretch,” Columbia University, Political Theory Workshop (February 2018, New York, NY)
“In the Beginning, All the World Was America: John Locke’s Global Theory of Property,” Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law (December 2016, Tel Aviv)
“Liberalism, Empire, and Capitalism: Rematerializing A Research Agenda,” Harvard Law School, The Institute for Global Law and Policy (October 2016, Cambridge, MA)
“Between Commerce and Empire: David Hume on Slavery, Political Economy, and Commercial Incivility,” National University of Singapore (March 2016, Singapore)
“Primitive Accumulation, the New Enclosures, and Global Land Grabs: A Theoretical Intervention,” University of Alberta (September 2013, Edmonton, AB)
“Enclosing in God’s Name, Accumulating for Mankind: John Locke’s Theory of Progress,” Cornell Political Theory Workshop (September 2009, Ithaca, NY)