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“Asian Rice in Africa: Plant Genetics and Crop History,” at ASWAD, Pittsburg, PA., November 3-6, 2011. “Asian Rice in the Atlantic: Using Plant Genetics to Address the Black “Rice Debate,” a poster presented at the Rice and Language across Asia Symposium at Cornell University, September 22-25, 2011. Discussant, “Peter Gran’s Rise of the Rich: Theory in World History,” World History Association Annual Meeting, Salem, Mass., June 25-28, 2009. Chair and Presenter, “Textbooks and Knowledge of Africa” a roundtable discussion at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November, 13-16, 2008. Presenter, “Emerging Notions of Western Indian Ocean Unity: The Dhow as Cultural Icon,” World History Association Annual Meeting, London, Queen Mary, University of London, June 26-29, 2008. Discussant, “African Maritime History,” a panel at the African Studies Association annual meeting in San Francisco, November 16-19, 2006. Chair and Presenter, “Teaching World History to Advanced Undergraduates and Graduate Students,” World History Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, June 22-25, 2006. Presenter, Roundtable on World History Pedagogy, Arkansas College History Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Little Rock, October 6, 2005. Chair, “Do Textbooks Really Matter?” a roundtable at the African Studies Association annual meeting in New Orleans, November 11-14, 2004. “The Bark Mania of 1930s: East African Mangrove Swamps and the Global Economy,” presented at the African Studies Association annual meeting in New Orleans, November 11-14, 2004. Chair and presenter, “The Frontiers of the Dar-al-Islam: Islamic History as Borderlands History,” at World History: The Next Ten Years, a conference sponsored by the World History Center at Northeastern University, Boston, March 12-14, 2004. Poster session on Graduate Education in Global History at Arkansas State University, at World History: The Next Ten Years, a conference sponsored by the World History Center at Northeastern University, Boston, March 12-14, 2004.