Selected conferences

University of Stirling, Scotland
‘Napoleon, Antonious, Said: modernity and (rewriting) western missions to the Middle East’, conference: ‘Christians in the Middle East’ workshop

University of Bergen, Norway
'Re-imagining 'metropole' and 'periphery' in mission history', conference: 'Protestant Missions - Local Communities: Regional and International Dimensions of Missionary Encounters'

University of Stirling
'Locating metropoles and peripheries', conference: Translating Christianities workshop, School of Languages, Cultures and Religions

King's College, London
'Creating British gender identities in Palestinian contexts', conference: 'Palestine, Britain & Empire: 1841 - 1948'

University of Göttingen
'Die Gottesfrage als Kern des Glaubens - Veränderungen im Denken W H Temple Gairdners in seiner Auseinandersetzung mit dem Islam', conference: 'Die Gottesfrage im orientalischen Christentum in Koexistenz mit dem Islam im Bereich des Mashriq'

North Carolina State University
'Rethinking the links between colonialism, missionary endeavour and capitalism', conference: 'Missionaries in the Middle East: Rethinking Colonial Encounters'

Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, University of Edinburgh
'Subaltern Status and Power: Women's Emancipation and the Tabeetha School in Jaffa, 1918-1936'

Aktion Sühnezeichen/Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, London
'Multiculturalism and learning from history', conference for Austrian, British, German and Polish volunteers

Department of History, Bergen
'Missionaries as "self" and as "other": the ambiguity and contradictions inherent in missionary identity', conference: 'Protestant missions, practice and representation in the formation of "self" and "other", ca. 1850-2000'

Fachgebiet Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, Philipps-Universität Marburg/Fliedner-Kulturstiftung, Düsseldorf
'Healthcare as Mission - the Example of Scottish Missions to Jews; Theology and Practice (Mission durch Gesundheitsfürsorge am Beispiel der schottischen Judenmission. Theologie und Praxis)', conference: 'Die soziale Dimension der Mission im Orient'

Senter for fransk-norsk forskningssamarbeid innen samfunnsvitenskap og humaniora/Centre de coopération franco-norvégienne en sciences sociales et humaines, Paris
'Square pegs and round holes: independent mission work by women in Jaffa and the Scottish churches', workshop: 'Welfare, gender and practice in the Middle East: 1800-2000. 200 years of entrepeneurship'

Aktion Sühnezeichen/Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, London
'Living a post-conflict life: reflections on guilt and responsibility', conference reflecting on 'second-generation' post-World War II issues

First World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), University of Mainz
'Distinctive elements of Scottish missionary motivation as factors in the failure of the Scottish missions', panel: 'Modern Historical Missions to the Middle East' (presenter/co-chair)

MacLeod Centre, Iona
'The Unbearable Weight of Memory: the Politics and Power of Forgetting' (co-leader of a week's course examining conflict and post-conflict societies)

Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO) Congress, University of Göttingen
'Changes in Scottish missionary methods in the Levant: isolation, acceptance and integration, panel: 'Israel and Palestine'

German-speaking Congregation, Glasgow
lecture: 'Deutsche, Israelis und Palästinenser: ein schwieriges Verhältnis (Germans, Israelis and Palestinians: a difficult relationship)'

Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO) Congress, University of Mainz
'Scottish and American Protestant missionaries in 19th century Lebanon - a study in representation and misrepresentation', panel: 'Migration und Integration der orientalisch-christlichen Minderheit'

Yale-Edinburgh Symposium, University of Edinburgh
'"Duff established a new mission in the Lebanon" - Scottish representation and misrepresentation of the missionary context in 19th century Lebanon'