"Little Theory and Less Philosophy: the Colonial Unconscious."
Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of the West Indies, Cave
Hill campus. May 2002 (84 pages, not including appendices).
Print. (co-author)
"Proposal for the Development of the Philosophy Programme." Faculty
of Humanities and Education, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
campus. October 1998 (6 pages, not including appendices).
Print.
PRESENTATIONS
“Rhetoric III: the Rhetoric of Inquiry.” Seminar
Series in Theory and Criticism. University of the West Indies, Cave Hill,
Barbados, March 21, 2011.
“Kamau Brathwaite, Literary Historian.” Kamau
Brathwaite: Intercultural Dialogue / Dialogics, Seventh Workshop on
Caribbean Theory and Criticism. University of the West Indies, Cave Hill,
February 25, 2011.
"From Dialectic to Différance: Rethinking Creolisation in
the Later Work of Stuart Hall." Antillanité-Créolité-Littérature-Monde.
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, October 14-15, 2010.
"Rhetoric II: Key Turning Points in the History of
Rhetoric." Seminar Series in Theory and Criticism. University of the West
Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, September 20, 2010.
"Migrating Ideas: Towards a Differential Poetics of Caribbean
Literature." Fifth Workshop on Caribbean Theory. University of the West
Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, December 9, 2009.
"Rhetoric I: the Quarrel Between Philosophy and Rhetoric." Seminar Series
in Theory and Criticism. University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados,
October 26, 2009.
"Beyond Our Boundaries." Fourth Workshop on Caribbean
Theory. University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, May 27, 2009.
"Further Thoughts on a Caribbean Sublime: Walcott’s Musings on History."
Departmental Seminar Series. University of the West Indies, Cave Hill,
Barbados, April 1, 2009.
"Caribbean Palimpsests: the Emergence of a Regional Rhetoric of Inquiry."
Problem-Spaces: the Work of David Scott. Third Caribbean Workshop on
Theory. University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, November
26, 2008.
"‘Travelling’ Theory? The Muse of History." Seminar Series in
Theory and Criticism. University of the West Indies, Cave Hill,
Barbados, November 3, 2008.
"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: 27th
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 21st 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 17th
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." 14th 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.