PRESENTATIONS
 

• "Three Theories in Search of an Object: Caribbean Theorists on Race."  Race and Racism: Second Workshop on Caribbean Theory.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, April 7, 2008.

• "Writers and Subjectivity: Lamming, James, Fanon, Hall."  History, Fable and Myth: Lamming at 80:  27^th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, February 29, 2008.

• "The Chicken and the Egg: Culture, Identity, Text."  Seminar Series in Theory and Criticism.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, February 18, 2008.

• "What is Nutgrass and Why Do They Say Such Terrible Things About It?"  Seminar Series in Theory and Criticism.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados September 10, 2007.

• "A History of a Muse: Some Thoughts on the Caribbean Sublime."  Inaugural Workshop, Cave Hill Theory Project.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, March 15, 2006.

• "Travelling Philosophy."  Conversations II: Western and Non-Western Philosophies.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, March 2, 2006.

• "The Historiography of Caribbean Philosophy."  Philosophy Colloquium.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, November 7, 2005.

• "Rorty on the Contemporary Divide."  Conversations I: Conceptualising Philosophy.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, March 31, 2005.

• "Philosophy or Theory?  Re-thinking the Analytic - Continental Divide."  Philosophy Colloquium.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, February 21, 2005.

• "Conceptualising Caribbean Philosophy."  Inaugural Meeting, Caribbean Philosophy Association.  Accra Hotel, Barbados, May 20, 2004.

• "Austin ‘Tom’ Clarke."  Introduction to the Inaugural Earl Warner Memorial Lecture by Austin ‘Tom’ Clarke.  Barbados Central Bank, Bridgetown, Barbados, March 10, 2003.

• "The Colonial Unconscious: Censoring Caribbean Literary and Intellectual History."  Stages: the 21^st Annual Conference on West Indian Literature.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, March 26, 2002.

• "From Dialectic to Différance: Rethinking Creolisation in the Work of Stuart Hall."  (Re)Thinking Caribbean Culture.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, June 6, 2001.

• "Towards a ‘New Parochial Wholeness’: Brathwaite’s Dialectical Model of Creolisation."  Symposium in Celebration of the Seventieth Birthday of Kamau Brathwaite.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, May 12, 2000.

• "Root Versus Rhizome: an ‘Epistemological Break’ in (Francophone) Caribbean Thought?"  Francophone Studies at the Start of the Millennium.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, April 6, 2000.

• "Dialectic / Différance: Rethinking Diasporic Literary History."  Invited Lecture, Department of English.  University of Toronto, Canada, January 27, 1999.

• "Notes Towards a Taxonomy of Critical Approaches to the Study of Caribbean Culture."  Crossroads: the 17^th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature.  University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, April 6, 1998.

• "Autobiography after Saussure."  Writing the Subject.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, December 19, 1997.

• "‘She Came From Libya’: ‘Mingling Bloods’ and ‘Incertain Lookers-on’ in The Winter’s Tale."  Staff / Postgraduate Seminar Series, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, November 21, 1997.

• "Spivak’s Concept of the Subaltern."  The Concept of the Subaltern in Post-colonial Theory.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, November 7, 1997.

• "The Literary Nature of the Historical Text: Some Implications of Postmodernism for Caribbean Historiography."  The History Forum.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, November 22, 1996.

• "Psychoanalytic Models of Gender: the Freudian / Lacanian Account of the Cognitive Development of the White Male." Seminar Series, Centre for Gender and Development Studies.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, October 30, 1996.

• "Androgyny, Miscegenation and the Masculine Imaginary."  Staff / Postgraduate Seminar Series, Department of Literatures in English.  University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, October 24, 1995.

• "Race, Ethnicity and the Experience of Reading."  14^th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature.  Antigua State College, Antigua, March 9, 1995.

• "‘Hovering Temporizer[s]’: Pastoral Time and the Contradiction of the Natural Order in The Winter's Tale."  Free Exchange Conference 1994.  University of Calgary, Canada, March 18, 1994.

• "Euripides’s Ion and the Crisis of the Fifth-Century Male Athenian Subject."  Lexis Seminar Series.  University of Western Ontario, Canada, March 8, 1994.

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