“Translating Dalit literature,” Presentation at the Department of English Studies, English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India, August 8, 2009.

“Dalit Aesthetics and Dalit Literature.” Panel presentation at the 14th Triennial Conference of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Vancouver, Canada, 17-22 August, 2007

“Dalit Literature in the Academy.” A speech at the Chetna Association of Canada in Vancouver on August 19, 2007.

“Postgraduate Research and Education: Opportunities and Partnerships.” Presentation at the 11th Technology Summit and Technology Platform, a jointly organized conference by Confederation of Indian Industry, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, and the Government of Canada, September 21-22, 2005

“The Global and the Local: Cross Cultural Studies of the Literatures in English.” Panel presentation at the 13th Triennial Conference of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Hyderabad, India, 4-9 August, 2004

“Ethnicity and Literature.” Keynote speech at the Humanities Division, York University’s Ethnicity and Literature conference, November 29, 2004

“The Challenge of Reading Dalit Literature.” Central University, Hyderabad, India, August 9, 2004

“The Meaning of Oppositional Aesthetics.” Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies, Jaipur, India, August 1, 2004

“Postcolonial Literatures in Canada: Some Ground Realities.” Postcolonial Professional Concerns Panel organized by the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literatures and Languages Studies, Congress, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May 29, 2004

“‘You Don’t Even Want to Go There’: South Asian Subjects in the Canadian Classroom.” Plenary Address at the “Postcolonialism and Pedagogy Symposium: Canadian Literatures in the Classroom,” University of Ottawa, May 3-5, 2002.

“Canadian Multiculturalism and Literature Classrooms.” Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies, Jaipur, India, July 30, 2002

“Canadian Universities and the Challenge of Multiculturalism.” Inaugural Canadian Studies Lecture, Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, July 27, 2002

“Setting Terms for Reconciliation: Interrogative Discourse of Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan.” The 12th Triennial Conference of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Canberra, Australia, July 9-14, 2001.

“Dalit Aspirations: Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan.” Perspectives on Social Inequalities: Issues of Race, Gender and Class Worldwide. Sponsored by the Tokyo Foundation in connection with the York Graduate Fellowships for Academic Distinction and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Massey University, New Zealand, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Howard University, USA. Hosted by York University, September 14, 2001

“‘We Are Human Beings With Lives’: The York Stories Project.” A Seminar on International Women’s Day, sponsored by Indian Association for Canadian Studies and Women’s Studies and Development Centre, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, March 8, 2001

“Women of Colour in the Academy: In But Not at Home.” Women in the Academy: Global Warming and the Chilly Climate Colloquium, Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, University of Alberta, May 26, 2000

“York Stories: Women in Higher Education.” National Association for Women in Education’s 13th Annual International Conference on Women in Higher Education, New Orleans, January 8-11, 2000

“A Second Wave in Postcolonial Studies.” Åbningssymposium, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, April 15, 1999

“‘Postcolonial’ - A Hydra-Headed Monster or . . .: What Do We Make of the Term?” The Making of Postcolonial Literatures at York: Theory, Politics, Practice. Colloquium at Department of English, York University, February 25, 1999

“Questioning Celebrations: Marginalised Communities and Literatures in India.” Modern Languages Association (MLA), Toronto, December 27-30, 1997

“The Challenge of Dalit Writing.” “Competing Realities: Fifty Years of South Asian Literature” International Conference, University of Toronto, September 19-21, 1997

“How Shall We Read South Asian Canadian Texts?” Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York, April 22, 1996

“How Shall We Read South Asian Canadian Texts?” “Postcolonial Literatures and Theory” International Conference, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany, December 14-17, 1995 “Teaching Ethnic Minority Writing: A Report from the Classroom.” Conference on Ethnic Minority Writing, Trent University, Peterborough, August 1995

“The Role of the Artist in the Modern World.” Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, April 1995

“Interrogating Postcolonialism: Some Uneasy Conjunctures.” “Interrogating Postcolonialism: Texts and Contexts” International Conference of the Indian Association of Commonwealth Languages and Literatures Studies, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India, October 2-5, 1994.

“Writing from a Hard Place: M. G. Vassanji’s ‘African’ Fiction and Canadian Literary Nationalism.” Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, November 11, 1994. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the X International IACS Canadian Studies Conference at Goa, India, May 10-13, 1994

“Interrogating Postcolonialism: Some Uneasy Conjunctures.” “Interrogating Postcolonial: Texts and Contexts” International Conference of the Indian Association of Commonwealth Languages and Literatures Studies, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India, October 2-5, 1994

“Teaching Minority Canadian Writing: Problems and Challenges.” “Writing Thru’ Race” Conference, Writers’ Union of Canada, Vancouver, June 29-July 1, 1994

Chair, Session on “South Asian Women Poets in Canada,” X International IACS Canadian Studies Conference, International Council for Canadian Studies and the Indian Association for Canadian Studies, Goa University, Goa, India, May 10-13, 1994

“Reading Race in Women’s Writing.” Workshop on “Feminist Methodology,” York University, January 21-22, 1994

“Postcoloniality of Fundamentalism: Postcolonial Theory and the Destruction of the Babri Mosque.” “What the Hell is a Daffodil: Landscape, Language and Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature.” The 8th Annual Literary Studies Week, Victoria College, University of Toronto, January 8, 1994

“Canadian Nationalism, Canadian Literature and Racial Minority Women.” Modern Languages Association (MLA), Toronto, December 29, 1993

“Canadian South Asian Literature.” Canadian Punjabi-English Literature Series Book Festival, Vancouver, April 25, 1993

“The Cultural Work of South Asian Canadian Literature.” “Aux Canadas: Reading, Writing, Translating Canadian Literature,” Un colloque en l’honneur de Philip Stratford, Université de Montréal, April 18, 1993

“Bessie Head’s Dialogue with India.” International Conference on “Dialogue and Cultural Theory,” Mysore, India, December 1992. I was one of six Canadian academics invited to present papers at this conference.

“The Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Pedagogy.” Conference on “Post-Colonial Pedagogy: Teaching the Commonwealth Literatures,” Queen’s University, Kingston, August 31-September 2, 1992.

“Sharing Our Experience: The Education of an Anti-Racist Feminist.” The Centre for Women's Studies in Education at Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, as part of the eighth annual lecture and discussion series on Popular Feminism, November 2, 1992

“The Role of Dr. Ambedkar in the Poona Pact.” The “Ambedkar Centenary Celebration Conference,” University of Toronto, June 1991

“The Teaching of Post-colonial Literature.” Presented at a panel discussion organized by the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literatures and Languages Studies, Learned Societies Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, May 1991

“Right Out of Herstory: Racism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and Feminist Literary Theory.” Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Languages Association, Hartford, Conn., April 1991

“Changing the Curriculum.” “Remedies for Racism and Sexism in Colleges and Universities: A Working Conference,” organized by the Race Relations Directorate, Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Fanshawe College, London, Ont., April 1991

“Transforming Feminist Theory: The Voices of Non-White Women.” Feminist Issues Lecture Series, organized by the Master’s Office and Women’s Studies Programme, Atkinson College, York University, November 14, 1990

“Sister Carrie: A Response from India.” State University of New York’s “Conversations in the Disciplines” Conference to observe the 90th year of Sister Carrie, SUNY College at Brockport, NY, October 1990

“Whose Postcolonialism and Whose Postmodernism?” Symposium on “Postcolonialism and Postmodernism” at the joint session of the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literatures and Languages Studies and the Association for the Study of Canadian and Quebec Literatures, Learned Societies Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, May 1990

“Bourgeois Nationalist Discourse in Mulk Raj Anand’s The Untouchable.” South Asia and Development session of the Society for Socialist Studies, Learned Societies Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, May 1990

“Women and Cultural Politics.” Toronto Area Women’s Research Colloquium 1989-1990, York University, March 2, 1990

Panelist, “The Politics of Representation in a Multiracial Society: Writers’ Perspectives.” International Convention of American Studies Association and Canadian Association for American Studies, Toronto, November 1989

“Characterization in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children: Strategies of an Anti-Realist.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literatures and Languages Studies, Learned Societies Conference, Laval University, Quebec, May 1989

“A House Divided: Black Women and American Feminist Theory.” Conference on the Contemporary Women’s Movement in Canada and the United States: A Retrospective and Prospects for the Future, Centre for American Studies and Centre for Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, May 1989

“Knights and Businessmen: Parody in Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” Department of English, University of Guelph, Guelph, March 1989

“Deconstructing the Devi: Mahasveta Devi’s ‘The Wet-Nurse’.” Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Toronto, April 1990. An earlier version of the paper was read at “India Since Independence, 1947-1987” Conference, York University, September 1987