“The 1907 strike: A watershed in South African trade unionism”. Unisa History departmental seminar, 1987.
“The 1907 strike: A watershed in South African white miner trade unionism”. The Twelfth Biennial Conference of the South African Historical Society, Pietermaritzburg, 1989.
“Early trade unionism on the gold mines in South Africa and Australia”. Unisa History departmental seminar, 1990.
“Early trade unionism on the gold mines in South Africa and Australia: A comparison”. The Conference of the Historical Association of South Africa, Johannesburg, 1990.
“The Chinese in South Africa to 1910: A preliminary overview”. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992.
“The Chinese in South Africa to 1910: A preliminary overview”. Institute of Asian Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992.
“The Chinese in South Africa: An interstitial community”. International Conference on Overseas Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 1992.
“Gandhi, the Chinese and Passive Resistance”. International Conference on Gandhi and his significance - Centenary Celebrations, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1993.
“The South African Chinese: An economic threat”. International Symposium on Ethnic Chinese Economy, University of Shantou, People's Republic of China, 1993.
“Report back on 'Elements of course design' by Fred Lockwood” with Etta Lubbe. Study group for language across the curriculum, University of South Africa, 1994.
“Applicability of Lockwood's course design” with Etta Lubbe. Seminar at College of Education of South Africa, Pretoria, 1994.
“Elements of course design by Fred Lockwood - A report back” with Etta Lubbe. Education Department Seminar, University of South Africa, 1994.
“The status of the overseas Chinese in the Netherlands and South Africa: A comparative perspective” with Frank Pieke. International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas: Comparative Perspectives Conference - Last Half Century of Overseas Chinese, (1945-1994), University of Hong Kong, 1994.
“Chinese Immigration to Australia and South Africa: A Comparative Analysis of legislative control” with Jan Ryan. International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas: Comparative Perspectives Conference - Comparative Perspectives Conference: Last Half Century of Overseas Chinese (1945-1994), University of Hong Kong, 1994.
“Accepting the group, but not the area: The South African Chinese and the Group Areas Act”. The Sixteenth Biennial Conference of the South African Historical Society, Pretoria, 1997.
“‘Closeted culture’: The Chinese in South Africa”. International Conference on Ethnic Chinese, International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, Anteneo de Manila University, Philippines, 1998.
“The Chinese in South Africa: A Historical Study of a Cultural Minority”. University of Pretoria Department of History seminar, 1999.
“Confucian Education: A case study of the South African Chinese”, International Conference Immigrant Societies and Modern Education, National University of Singapore, September 2000.
“‘Whiteness’, ‘Blackness’, ‘Neitherness’: The South African Chinese since 1885”, Wits History Workshop and Wiser Conference, The Burden of Race? “‘Whiteness’ and ‘Blackness’ in Modern South Africa”, University of the Witwatersrand, July 2001.
“Yellow gold, black gold: The Chinese and African labourers on the South African mines”, African American Studies Program, Boston University, Blacks and Asians in time and space, April 2002.
“Early encounters between China and Africa: myth or moment”, Historical Association of South Africa, Heritage creation and research: The restructuring of historical studies in southern Africa, Rand Afrikaans University, June 2002.
“Scattered and silent sources: Researching the overseas Chinese in South Africa”, Second International Conference of Institutes and libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies, Transnational Networks: Challenges in research and documentation of the Chinese overseas, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ohio University, Hong Kong, March 2003.
“Private and Confidential: The Chinese mine labourers and unnatural crime”, Fourth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, Sex and Secrecy Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, June 2003.
“Encouraged and excluded: the Chinese at the Cape a century ago”, Historical Association of South Africa, Centenary Conference, University of Stellenbosch, 5-7 April 2004.
“‘Telling it as it is’ - Representing the past in the new South Africa”, with Louis Changuion and Ria Groenewald. Democratising museums and heritage: 10 years on, South African Museums Association Conference, 1-3 June 2004.
“Cultural tourism as a career for history learners”, History, heritage and IKS roundtable, Department of Education, Pretoria, 22-23 September 2004.
“‘Not a chinaman’s chance’: Chinese labour in South Africa and elsewhere”, Chinese Studies Association of Australia Ninth Biennial Conference, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia, 30 June-3 July 2005.
“‘Not a chinaman’s chance’: Chinese labour in the USA and SA”, Twentieth International Congress of Historical Sciences, Poster Session, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 3-9 July 2005.
“China’s African Horizon: the historical record in South Africa”, International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, University of Pretoria, December 2006.
“Taking the gaps between the documents: University of Pretoria Archives as a case study”, Knowledge, Archives and Records Management Conference, Poussiére, Cape Town, July 2007.
“Changing face: the “Two Chinas” in 20th century South Africa”. International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas VI, University of Beijing, PRC, September 2007.
“Active Archives: the University of Pretoria”, South African Cultural History Association conference, May 2008.
“Marketing your Archives”, Knowledge, Archives and Records Management Conference, Polokwane, 5-8 May 2008.
“The Chinese crisis, BEE and the past”, Biannual conference of the South African Historical Association, “History and Crisis”, Rhodes University, July 2008.
“The Chinese in the Cape Colony: a significant cultural minority”, National Congress of the South African Society for Cultural History, June 2009.
“Blurring boundaries: Chinese inter group relations in the late 19th century Colonial Cape”, South African Historical Society Conference, “Breaking Boundaries, Blurring Borders: the changing shape and scope of southern African historical studies”, Unisa, Pretoria, 22-24 June 2009.
“‘Coolie’ labour compared: Indian and Chinese indentured schemes in South Africa”, Bananas-ISSCO International Society for the Study of Chinese conference, “Rising Dragon, Soaring Bananas”, University of Johannesburg, Auckland, 17-19 July 2009.
“Exclusion reveals inclusion: Chinese in the late nineteenth century colonial Cape”, Bananas-ISSCO International Society for the Study of Chinese conference, “Rising Dragon, Soaring Bananas”, University of Johannesburg, Auckland, 17-19 July 2009.
“Chinese intergroup relations in the colonial Cape”, Chinese in Africa / Africans in China (CAAC) International Research Working Group, University of Johannesburg, 26-29 August 2009.
“Indentured labour: Indian and Chinese ‘coolies’ in South Africa”, Global Organization People of Indian Origin International Convention, “Turning Historical Diversity into Advantage”, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 28-31 March 2010.
“Dignity Day: The South African Chinese Commemoration”, Historical Association of South Africa Biennial Conference, University of North-West, 22 -24 July 2010.
“Chinese inter group relations in the colonial Cape”, Chinese in Africa / Africans in China (CAAC) International Research Working Group, University of Johannesburg, 26-29 August 2009.
“Dignity Day: The South African Chinese Commemoration”, Biannual Conference of the Historical Association of South Africa, University of the North-West, Potchefstroom, July 2010.
“A language tool: A Chinese Vocabulary and Phrase Book”, Southern African Historical Society Conference, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, June 2011.
“The Mining Migrants: White, Black and Yellow (1886-1910)” The South African Archaeological Society, 22 October 2011.
“Sources with Hindsight: Kruger in retrospection”, The Making of Modern Southern Africa c.1867-1899, Oppenheimer Trust Fund International Network of Historians, University of Pretoria, 30 March 2012.
“The Chinese are black: a South African racial contortion”, Doing history, Historical Association of South Africa, University of Pretoria, 6 & 7 July 2012.
“The Chinese trader in the South African past”. Chinese in Africa /African in China. Collaborative project between Monash University; Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch; GIGA Institute of Asian Studies; Xiamen University; National Chengchi University of Taipei; University of Denver, 21-23 August 2012.
“Indentured ‘Coolie’ Labour in South Africa: the Indian and Chinese schemes in comparative perspective”, Organization for Diaspora Initiatives, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 29-30 March 2013.
“Changing face, losing face: the South African Chinese” South African Historical Society Biannual Conference, University of Botswana, 27-30 June 2013.
“Changing face, losing face: the South African Chinese” International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, Kuala Lumpur, 17-19 August 2013.
“Harmonisation of tourist guide training in southern Africa”, Tourism research seminar: Advancing tourism growth and development through research, National Department of Tourism, Pretoria, 12 March 2015.
“Chinese Hawking relations in South Africa: An unchanging reality”, African Asian Encounters (II) Goethe University and University of Stellenbosch, 24-26 March 2015.
“Leung Quinn: an unstable subject with an unsettling story”, South African Historical Society Conference, University of Stellenbosch, 1-3 July 2015.
“The South African Chinese Community: From Exclusion and Neitherness to Substantive Contemporary Presence,” Workshop on “Chinese Diaspora Studies in the Age of Global Modernity”, Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. Singapore, 18-21 November 2015.
“The accessibility of the southern African region as tourist destination: Cross-border tourism and "tourism-scapes", Tourism Symposium, University of Pretoria, 9 September 2016.
“A language tool or tool of control? A Chinese vocabulary phrase book (1905)”, Conference on Language Power and Identity in Asia: Creating and Crossing Language Barriers, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, 14-16 March 2016.
“History and tourism: disciplinary divide or new routes?” with Charlene Herselman, Historical Association of South Africa International Conference, University of the North West, Van der Bijl Park, June 2016.
“A Policy Review of the Tourist Guiding Sector in South Africa”, Expert Forum, National Department of Tourism, Pretoria, 8 September 2017.
“Entangled Chinese diasporas: Molluscs, ungulates and equidae”, South African Historical Society 26th Biennial Conference, Disputed Pasts, Fractured Futures and the Work of History, University of the Witwatersrand, 21-23 June 2017.
“Interstitial spaces: the urban history of the Chinese in South Africa (17th – 21st centuries), Polarisation, Fragmentation and Resilience: Four Urban Contexts Compared, Hong Kong Baptist University, 29 November – 2 December 2017.
“Film Culture and Destination Economy: South Africa’s potential” (with Charlene Herselman, Alida Green and Hannes Engelbrecht) South African Cultural Observatory International Conference, Beyond the creative economy? Trends and Issues in National and Regional Economies, Port Elizabeth, 7-8 March 2018.
“Stimulating Simulation: Teaching and Training Tourism Graduates, Atlas Tourism Transformations Special Track 4: Tourism Education, Employability and Industry – University Interaction Gerona, Spain, September 2019.
“Insourcing the Indigenous without Outsourcing the Story Teller An African Solution”, Atlas Tourism Transformations: Special Track 6: Integrating Culture and Nature: Holistic Heritage Management Education and Transforming Heritage Tourism, Gerona, Spain, September 2019 (with CR Botha)
“What’s in the box?” Education archives, history skills and honours students”, African Association for History Education & South African Society for History Teachers, Pretoria, 26-27 September 2019. (with Ria van der Merwe).
“What’s in the box?” Using a document tookitt”, National history user group conference, engaging hearts and minds in the pursuit of historical knowledge. Kempton Park, November 2020. (with Ria van der Merwe).
“BIGGER, BETTER, BOLDER: Post Covid-19 domestic tourism -South Africa as a case study”, ATLAS Tourism 21: Rebuilding tourism –Continuities and Changes”, Pretoria online, 8 September 2021 (with CR Botha)
“Vilifying Virus: The acute case of the Chinese in South Africa”, ISSCO Regional Africa Conference, Effects of COVID on the Chinese Diaspora in Europe and International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) Regional Workshop 5 December 2021.
“An Expanding East: Early southern African accounts of China in Africa”, Southern African Historical Society University of Fort Hare, East London, 28-30 June 2022.
“Remodelling the model: Developing resilience within South African domestic tourism”, Atlas Africa Conference, Tourism 22 and beyond – What matters now to the global tourist?”, Cork, Ireland, 6-9 September 2022.
“Disease and Discrimination: Perpetuating and proliferating prejudice in South Africa”, The 30th Anniversary Conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO), 世界海外华人研究学会, “Diasporic Futures: Sinophobia, Techno-Political Strife, and the Politics of Care”, San Francisco, California, USA, November 11-12, 2022.
“A South African Rainbow Rendition: conscientising cultural sensitivities among tourism students”, CultSense & ATLAS SIG Cultural Tourism Conference, Bridging Cultures through Travel: From theory to practice, Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 14-15, 2023.
“Teaching History using Alternate Archive Avenues”, History: New Turns, Fresh Directions and Alternate Avenues, HASA Biennial Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, June 2023.
- “Telling stories – story telling: African touristic tales”, “Tourism after freedom: Democratic Africa”, ATLAS Africa conference, 27 April 2024.
“Chinese Exclusion Act – glimpses of genealogy?”,”South African Society for Cultural History, Stellenbosch, 18-19 March 2024.
“’White-washing or Black-washing?’” - A case of ‘No-washing’ South African history”, 5th network conference of the International Network for Theory of History, History and Responsibility, Lisbon (Portugal), 22-24 May 2024.
“Acquiring Adaptable Attributes: Upping the skilling of the Tourist Guide”, Leisure and Tourism 2030: Navigating the future, ATLAS, Breda University, The Netherlands, 25-28 June 2024.
"Memory Making with the Domestic Tourism Remodelling Model (DTRM)”, Leisure and Tourism 2030: Navigating the future, ATLAS, Breda University, The Netherlands, 25-28 June 2024, (with CR Botha).