INVITED LECTURES

`Post-Manichean Aesthetics,’ Keynote Lecture presented at the Dialogics of Cultural Encounters Conference, Visakhapatnam, India, Dec 2004. Revised versions presented at Washington and Lee University, March 2005; Stanford Humanities Center, May 2005; University of Hawaii, Manoa, April 2006.

`Globalization, Empire and the Postcolonial Critic,’ Lecture presented at Old Dominion University, Norfolk , Virginia, April 2004.

` Africa , African Studies and the Limits of Globalization,' Lecture presented at the State University of Rio de Janiero , Brazil, November 2002; Also presented at the Center for Afro-Asian Studies, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, November 2002. Revised version presented at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference and Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, May 2003.

`Globalization, Diaspora and the Old World Order,’ Lecture presented at the National Humanities Center Workshop on Imperialism, Nov 2001; Revised versions presented at the Mellon Symposium on Postcolonial Theory at Tulane University, Dec 2001; UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies, March 2002; University of Connecticut, April 2002; Duke University (Oceans Connect -- Atlantic Basin Group), April 2002; Yale University Center for International and Area Studies, Oct 2002; Bombay, English Association, Dec 2003; SNDT College, Mumbai , India, Dec 2003; University of Michigan, April 2004.

`Subject to Colonialism : African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library,’ Lecture presented at the University of Mauritius, May 1998. Revised versions presented at the University of Binghamton, April 2000; University of Texas - Austin, March 2001; Boston University (as Keynote Address of the Graduate Conference in African Studies), Boston, March 2001; Brandeis University, March 2001; Northwestern University/University of Chicago (Red Lion Seminar), Chicago, April 2001; University of Amsterdam, May 2001.

`Dangerous Liaisons : Anthropology and the Colonial Order of Things,’ Lecture presented at Florida International University, Miami, November 1999.

`Rape in the Colonial Imagination,’ Lecture presented at Florida International University, Miami, April 1999.

`Rethinking English : Postcolonial English Studies,’ Lecture presented at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, November 1998.

`Gender in the (Post)colonial Imagination,’ Keynote Address at the “Towards 2000 : Gender and Race” conference organized by the Louisiana Women’s Studies Consortium, New Orleans, LA, April 1998.

`Multicultural Literacy and the Performance Paradigm,’ Keynote Address at the Conference on Multicultural Pedagogy, Montclair State University, February 1995.

`Between Worlds : The Longing for Belonging,' Lecture presented at the Duke University Museum of Art in conjunction with the `Interrogating Identity' exhibit. Durham, N.C., February 1993. Revised version of paper presented at Oregon State University, Corvallis, February 1994 and Boston University School of Law, March 1994.

`English as an African Language,' Lecture presented at the Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, July 1990.

`Marxism, Class Analysis and the African Situation,' Lecture presented at the India International Center, New Delhi, June 1990.