Public Lectures and Presentations

Talks
Introduction to the Exhibition, “Crocodile and Bird,” at Stadt Museum, Göttingen/ Germany, 2002.
Männerhäuser am Sepik” (Sepik Spirit Houses) at Städtische Gallerie, Traunstein/ Germany, 1999.
Using Audio-Visual Aids for Teaching about Africa” at a Teacher Training Workshop organized by the Columbia University African Studies Institute, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1999.
Oru-Igbo Ritual Spaces, at the IASTE (International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments) meeting at Berkeley, CA 1997.
Traditionale Heilkunst und Prävention bei den Oru-Igbo in Südost Nigeria”. (The Traditional Art of Healing and Prevention Among the Oru Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria) at Institut für Medizinische Psychologie, Heinrich Heine Universität, at Düsseldorf , Germany, 1995.
Africa on Film, Video and TV in the West, at a Teacher Training Conference, sponsored by the American - South African Friendship Organization at SUNY Albany, 1994
Okoroshi and Owu among the Oru Igbo, at the University of Göttingen/ Germany, 1994.
Mammy Water: The Icon, the Goddess, and her Priestess, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, 1993.
Women and Water Spirits in Africa, at Queens College, New York, 1992.

Power Point Presentations:

Mammy Water across the Waters: An Avatar of African Religious Beliefs.

A power point presentation at the exhibition “Madre Africa” (Mother Africa); Curator Rey Kerr at the Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, July 2007.

The Sign of the Python: From Nsibidi to Mammy Water.

A power point presentation at Tri-anneal Meeting of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association at the University of Florida at Gainesville, FL, 2007

The Agugu Festival: Integrating Oru-Igbo Society, Religion and Nature.

A power point presentation at the first inaugural conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture at the University of Florida at Gainesville, FL, 2006.

From Haus Tambaran to Church: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Papua New Guinean Design.

The catholic church at Ambunti	Stones for de-capitation in front of the new ‘Haus Tambaran’ at Kankanamun
Interior of the church at Ambunti	Painted bark spathe ceiling in a ‘Haus Tambaran’ at Bangwis
Decorating a sculpture in preparation of a ceremony in the ‘Haus Tambaran’ at Yentshan	A painted gable mask on a ‘Haus Tambaran’ at Nangusap

A power point presentation at the IASTE (International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments) meeting at Hong Kong, December 2002 (with Georg Jell)

Ecology and the Oscillation between Melanesian Culture and Contemporary Architecture in Papua New Guinea.

The National Parliament of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby	An initiation screen in the ‘Haus Tambaran’ at Yentshan
A hook sculpture in front of a transparent wall inside the ‘Haus Tambaran’ at Yentshan	Sculptures inside the church at Ambunti

A power point presentation at the Visual Research Conference at the American Anthropological Association meeting (With Georg Jell), 2002.

Film presentations with public discussions:
Presented and discussed my films, Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits in Nigeria; Owu: Chidi Joins the Okoroshi Secret Society; Tubali: Hausa Architecture of Northern Nigeria; Skull Art, and Eze Nwata - The Small King at various national and international festivals, conventions, professional meetings and institutions, including: Museo del Hombre Dominicano at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2007). Seattle Art Museum (2006). University of Texas at San Antonio (2000). American Anthropological Association Meetings (2000, 1995, 1994, 1992, 1989, 1984). Moscov/ Russia Ethnographic Film Festival (2004), Salekhard/Russia (2000). Nuoro Ethnographic Film Festival, Sardinia/ Italy (1998 & 1994). University of Texas at San Antonio (2000). "Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future: an International Conference on Literature by Women of African Decent", New York University, New York (1997). Linden Museum, Stuttgart/ Germany (1997). The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, Ethnographic Film Festival in Kent (1996 & 1994). Tri-ennial Symposium of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (1997 & 1992). New York African Studies Assoc. Meeting (1995). “Wohnräume” an Architectural Digest on German TV, WDR III and 3SAT (1995). The Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History in New York (1994, 1989, 1983). Afrikanistentag (German African Studies Association Meeting) University of Cologne/ Germany (1994). Landesmuseum Hannover/ Germany (1994). Symposion' 94: Psychiatrie im Kulturvergleich (Symposium on trans-cultural psychiatry and psychotherapy) Psychiatrisches Landeskrankenhaus Reichenau/ Germany (1994). Rhode Island School of Design (1992). Bilan du Film Ethnographique at the Musee de l'Homme, Paris (1991). African Studies Association (1991), Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses and Power, a conference at the Schomburg Center for Black Culture and at NYU in New York (1991). Blacklight Festival for International Black Cinema, Chicago (1990). Queens Village OPD, Creedmoore Psychic Center, New York (1990). The Northeastern Anthropological Association (1990). German TV, WDR III, Cologne/ Germany (1990). The 2nd International Congress of Traditional and Folk Medicine at the University of Morelos, Cuernavaca/ Mexico (1984). The Sixth Annual Festival of Anthropology on Film, at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago (1983). The XI International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, in Vancouver/ Canada (1983). "Berlin am Montag", SFB, Berlin TV/ Germany (1982). Arsenal Theatre, Berlin/ Germany (1982).