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Spring 2025 Organizer of Panel Finance, Famine, and Foreign Investment in Postcolonial Africa, Business History Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
Summer 2024 “Yentua/We Shall not Pay: Debt According to the People,” A Return to the African Personality: Intergenerational Conversations, The Africa Center & The Interdisciplinary Center, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
Spring 2024 “The Debtor Must Still Eat: Credit, Contracts, and the Politics of Borrowing in Postcolonial Ghana,” 2024 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Summer 2023 “International Fraud and the End of Empire: Ghana in the 1950s,” Centre for Economic Cultures, University of Manchester, England
Spring 2022 panel on “Selling States: International Investment as Business and Practice,” Business History Conference, Mexico City, Mexico
Fall 2022 Co-organizer of panel on New Perspectives on Ghana’s Economic Past, African Studies Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Spring 2021 Presidential panelist, “Business History Today,” American Historical Association, Virtual AHA
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Atlanta, GA (2019)
November 2019 African History Seminar Series, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
July 2019 panel on “Rewriting Ghana’s Economic Pasts and Futures,” Ghana Studies Association, University of Ghana, Accra
April 2018 invited lecture for the Department of History + Global South Development Studies, Smith College, Northampton, MA
November 2016 Decoloniality, National Women’s Studies Association, Montréal, Québec
November 2015 roundtable on “Corporate Archives in and about Africa” at the African Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA
November 2014 panel on “New Approaches to Postcolonial Histories” at the African Studies Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana
July 2014 panel on “The Making of Markets and Consumers / La figuración de mercados y consumidores” at the Capitalismo desde el Sur/ Capitalism from Below Conference at the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History, Tepoztlán, Mexico
May 2014 invited lecture for conference on Business History in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Integrating Course Development and New Research at Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass
May 2014 panel on “Women’s Labors and the Global Production of Consumer Culture in the Twentieth Century” at the Sixteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, Canada
Bianca A. Murillo 