- Sensitive Heritage: Ethnographic Museums and Material and Immaterial Restitutions, Grassi Museum fur Volkerkunde zu Liepzig, 12 /13 December, 2018
- Art X; Statues Also Die, Considering Institutionalizing Collections, November 4, 2018, Civic Centre, Lagos.
- Publishing Workshop (PROSPA) publishing and Research in of the South: Positioning Africa, Mellon Funded. 19-25, November, 2018, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
- Agenda Setting Workshop, African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) ARUA Centre for Excellence for Unemployment and Skill Development, 6-7 September, 2018, University of Lagos.
- Condition Report 3, Raw Symposium on Art History in Africa, Raw Material Company, Dakar Senegal 20-22 September, 2018.
- Contemporary African Artistic Practise: Political Forms and Practise, Symposium Musee d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, 17-18 May, 2018.
- Declaration of the exhibition open, Oreze VI, Imeobi-Obi of Onitsha’s palace, Onitsha, Anambra State, 30 September, 2018.
- Expropriate Art and the Never Ending ‘ongoing’ Discussion about Returns, Lecture for Life in My city festival (LIMCAF), Enugu, 2016.
- My Art Trajectory: Influences and New Directions’ The Friday Forum, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, USA, 8 September, 2017.
- Visiting Scholar Lecture Series, Fine Art Center, Department of Art History, University of Arkansas, 18 September, 2017
- The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), 17th Triennial Symposium, University of Ghana, Legon. August 8-13, 2017.
- Chair, Jury Life in My City Art Festival, Enugu. 2016
- Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth century: Europe in Transnational and Global Perspectives, Newham College, Cambridge University, Cambridge UK.18-20 September, 2014.
- Artefakte Activation Session, Ecole du Patrimoine Africain in Porto Novo, Republic of Benin, 6-7 October, 2014.
- 101st USA College Arts Association Conference, New York, 10-20 February, 2013.
- Organizer, Annual UNILAG/OYASAF Art Entrepreneurship Workshop 2011 and 2012, Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos sponsored by the Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation.
- Disturbing Pasts: Memories, Controversies and Creativity Project Conference, Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, 20-22 November 2012.
- South African Visual Art Historians Conference (SAVAH), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,11-20 January, 2011.
- African Lace Exhibition and Summer Workshop on Indigenous Textile Art Techniques, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna, Austria 22 October, 2010.
- International Conference on Africans and the Catholic Church Conference paper delivered Christian Images, African Idiom: An overview of Artistic Expressions of Worship in the Catholic Church of Nigeria, Global African Arts Program, Seattle University, USA, January 31-February 2, 2008.
- Women’s Art, Women’s Vision paper delivered Expanding the Frontiers of Women’s Art: The Women and Youths Art Initiative, Nigerian Society for Information, Arts and Culture, Jericho, Ibadan, 26th March 2008.
- Edo Art and the Reconstruction of Memory presented at the Fullerton Hall, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA.,18th of September 2008.
- Contemporary Benin Brasscasting: A Study in Continuity and Change, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 23, 2008.
- Women’s Representation, Women’s Expressions in Benin Art, September 24, 2008, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Culture and Identity in the Mega City; Lagos as an Example, paper delivered titled ‘Cultural Life and Cultural Scene in the Mega City’ A Workshop and Symposium June 28 – June 30, 2007. Goethe Institute, Lagos.
- Royal Commemorative Fabrics of Benin, International Conference on Benin Kings and Rituals; Court Art from Nigeria, May 9-16, 2007, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna, Austria.
- Children’s Crafts Workshop on Paper Crafts, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna, Austria 16-17 May 2007.
- Coordinator, Talent Hunt workshop on vocational training in collaboration with the National Museum Lagos, December 10-17, 2006, Lagos.
- Facilitator, Goldsmithing session, 8th Harmattan Workshop of the Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation, Agbarha-Otor, Delta State, Nigeria, March 2006.
- Discussant, ‘Art and Crafts for National Rebirth’ Lagos State Council for Arts and Culture, Lagos State Council for Arts and Culture, 23 May 2006.
- Guest Speaker, ‘When Does an Artist Become a Master’, Lecture in Honour of Yusuff Grillo, organized by Ara Studio, National Gallery of Arts, Lagos 30 ,May 2006.
- The 17th Archaeological Association of Nigeria Conference held in the University of Ibadan, on the 6-8th March, 2005.
- 30th Anniversary Conference on the theme Contemporary Nigerian Art, Department of Fine Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife 1-4, June 5, 2005.
- Coordinator, Talent Hunt workshop on vocational training in collaboration with the National Museum Lagos, Mbari Mbayo School, Lagos, August 12th -26, 2005.
- Sustaining the Development of Theatre Practice in Nigeria, SONTA 2004, University of Lagos, July 1-3, 2004, paper delivered; ‘Depicting Illusion as Reality; The Role of the Visual Designer in the Development of Theatre Practice in Nigeria.
- Yari Yari Pamberi Conference; Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization,
International Conference on Literature by Women of African Ancestry, Institute of African American Affairs, New York University, October 12-16, 2004.
- Convener of the conference and workshop titled Revisiting History Through the Arts and Creative Workshop, Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos. November 1-8, 2004.
- 7th Harmattan workshop, Agbarha-otor, Delta State, February 2004.
- History seminars of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, 11th May, 2004.
- Presentation of the paper Benin Art, Memory and Reconstruction, on the Broken Memory Project, Ecole des hautes en sciences socials in collaboration with GTMS, Paris 13th May 2004.
- Facilitator, Bronze Casting and Jewelry at the 4th Harmattan Workshop of the Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation, Agbarha-Otor, Delta State, Nigeria, February 24-March 9, 2002.
- ‘Transmission of Knowledge; Terracotta and Metals in West Africa and Cameroons’ An International conference by the Institute of French Research in Africa, 9 – 12 September 2002.
- ‘Harmattan in Lagos’ A workshop/Lecture series at the Centre Culturel Francais De Lagos, 14 September 2002. Paper delivered titled ‘Between the Forge and the Foundry.
- ’Nigerian Traditional Craft for Self Reliance’ the 16th Archaeological Association of Nigeria Conference held on the 9-11 December 2002, National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Jos.
- ‘The Transmission of Artistic Knowledge in Contemporary Nigeria (1960-2001)’ A
Workshop organized by the institute for French Research Institute in Africa (IFRA) 7 May
2001.
- The Universite Nationale du Benin Colloque Internationale titled ‘Borguo 98’ Parakou and Nikki, Republic of Benin. April 6-9, 1999.
- The Experimental Bronze Age Casting Project’ Organized by the Sculpture Society of Ireland, Umha Aois, Navan Centre, Armagh, Northern Ireland, 26 July-4 August, 1996.
- Trends and Themes in Environment and its Implication on Art and The Art Teacher, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Lagos 31 March 1993, Paper delivered titled ‘Extracting Beauty From Waste’.