​Selected Lectures/ Symposiums/Workshops

• 2020: Presention of Walking backwards into the future and in conversation with Ruth Skinner, SASAH and Visual Arts Public Program, Western University, London, Ontario
• 2019: Gardenship and State workshop and artist presentation, Western University and Museum London, London, Ontario
• 2016: Presented paper at Art & Resistance conference, Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture, Bethlehem, Palestine
• 2016: Lecture on the installation Nur, Xi'an, China, Open Sesame, Kitchener, Ontario
  
• 2016: Moderated panel, Peripheral Visions, with Wafaa Bilal, Jaclyn Melcohe, Lisa Hirmer, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario
• 2016: Book launch of Nur, Landon Public Library, London, Ontario
• 2016: Presentation of Nur and organized book table at Vancouver Art/Book Fair, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
• 2015: Co-chaired with Ruba Kana'an, one-day symposium, Home Ground: Canadian Perspectives, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario
• 2015: Artist presentation of the inaugural program for the Aga Khan Museum related to the permanent collection and contemporary art practice, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario
• 2015: Presented paper on panel at conference This is Paradise, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
• 2014: Art Now, Speaker Series, Visual Arts, Western University, London, Ontario
• 2010: Art Creates Change, Kim Pruesse Memorial Lecture Series, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Ontario
• 2010: Art & Public Space, artist talk, Canadian Literature, Faculty of Arts, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
• 2009: Across Landscapes of Diaspora & Migration, presentation at conference “The Politics of Community and Identity”, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
• 2009: The Artfulness of Play, keynote address, conference, Critical Theory Department, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
• 2009: participated in week-long international forum including discussions, research & presentation Amsterdam: Warzone 2030, projects for public art project, organized by independent curator Brigitte Van der Sand, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2008: Tracing the Lines a symposium on contemporary poetics and cultural politics in honour of Roy Miki, Centre for Innovation in the Arts in Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia
• 2008: Artist talk, visual art department, University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus, Ontario
• 2008: Keynote address Orientalism & Ephemera in context of exhibition Baraka: Souvenirs of Voyage, Discovery & Home, a Museum Studies Program between Visual Arts Department, UWO and Museum London, London, Ontario
• 2008: Orientalism & Ephemera, Ottawa Art Gallery, with curator Emily Falvey and public programmer Amber Yared, the exhibition also included extensive related public programming; workshops, Gerry Shikatani, a panel and film screening, of “Out of Place : Memories of Edward Said” (2005) by Sato Makato (Tokyo, Japan) introduced by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Film Department Carleton University.
• 2008: Orientalism & Ephemera, Centre A Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Organized international symposium with director Hank Bull and curator Makiko Hara and Derry Maclean, Director of Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Culture, Simon Fraser University. Program also included film screenings “Out of Place : Memories of Edward Said” (2005) by Sato Makato (Tokyo, Japan), Canadians Jayce Salloum and Sanjay Talreja’s films.
• 2008: Building an Inventory artist/curator talk to graduate students organized by Sabine Bitter Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
• 2008: Orientalism & Ephemera, artist/curator talk to Museum Studies students organized by Scott Watson, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
• 2008: Panelist, conference Complicated Entanglements, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
• 2008: Public dialogue with Dr. Karim Karim, Chair of School of Journalism moderated by Prof. Eva Mackey School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
• 2008: Keynote address, Answerable participant : “I-for-the other”, Becket-Baxter Memorial Lecture, symposium “rearranging desires: About Culturally Specific Works”, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
• 2008: Participated in symposiums co-sponsored by The Humanities Research Unit, co-chairs, Lynne Bell and Len Findlay related to the exhibition Orientalism & Ephemera, Art Galleries at The University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon and film screening of “Out of Place : Memories of Edward Said” (2005) by Sato Makato (Tokyo, Japan), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• 2008: Artist talk, Art and Local History - London 1950-1970, Museum Studies, Visual Art Department, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
• 2008: Artist talk , Galleries & Nationalism, Museum Studies, Continuing Education Program University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
• 2008: Tracing the Lines a symposium on contemporary poetics and cultural politics in honour of Roy Miki, Centre for Innovation in the Arts in Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia
• 2008: Artist talk , visual art department, University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus, Ontario
• 2008: Participate in International Artists’ Books & Book Art exhibition and symposium organized by “El Nafeza” (The Window) Centre for Contemporary Art & Development, Cairo, Egypt
• 2004: Presentation, Thoughts on the Road to Beit Meri, from Orientalism to Olive Tree, one day in tribute to Edward Said, Studies in National & International Development, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario
• Lecture, Sister Speak to Me, art, public space & activism, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
• 2003: Presentation at symposium on Collecting, Compulsions, Obsessions, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
• 2003: Member of organizing committee for Greg Curnoe, Adjusted, Museum London, London, Ontario
• 2003: Moderator of panel “Cultural Nationalism, Censorship or 1968", Museum London, London, Ontario
• 2001-02: Canada Council International Residency Program, Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Port of Spain, Trinidad
• 2001: Artist-in-residence at the Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary within their Human Rights and Anti-Racism program, Calgary, Alberta
• 2001: The Artist as Activist, panel with Ron Benner and John Greyson, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario
• 2001: Why are we de-illusional? workshop with Ron Benner, Museion, Interdisciplinary Research and Education, University of Göteborg/ Museum of World Cultures, Göteborg, Sweden
• 2000: “These Destructive Hands”, lecture and visiting artist, Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
• 1999: “Front Porch Culture”, paper for panel at conference, A Visionary Tradition : Canadian Literature & Culture at the Turn of the Millennium, Regional/Transregional, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
• 1998: Dialogue with independent curaor Neery Melkonian, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
• 1998: Trillium Plus: Music & More, London Regional Art & Historical Museums, London, Ontario
• 1997: "The Fragment and Narration", Interdisciplinary Program Visual Arts Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
• 1997: "The Fragment, Narration and Community", Department of Fine Arts, Mount Allison University Sackville, New Brunswick
• 1997: "A Recent History of Contemporary Art in London, Ontario" Toronto School of Art, Toronto, Ontario
• 1997: “Memories of Oranges” conference presentation Body Projects 1: Incarnations, Inscriptions, Adhesions, Invasions, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
• 1997: Lecture, Lalit Kala Akademi, Calcutta, India
• 1996: Lecture, Visual Arts Program, York University, Toronto, Ontario
• 1996: Visting Artist and Residency Program Film (School of Photography and Film) Goteborg University, Sweden
• 1996: Lecture, Department of Photography, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
  
• University of Northumbria, Association of Art Historians, 22nd Annual Conference, "Beauty?" participated in 2 sessions, including "War & the Limits of Depiction" and "Meet the Artists", Newcastle, United Kingdom
• 1996: Glasgow School of Art & Design, Glasgow, Scotland
• 1996: Castlefield Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
• 1996: Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay, India
• 1996: Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, India
• 1996: Centre for Culture, Technology & the Environment, Mysore, India
• 1995: Art Gallery of Ontario, "Locating Communities" series, dialogue with Homi Bhabha, moderator Monika Kin Gagnon, Toronto, Ontario
• 1994: Banff Centre of Fine Art, participated in the conference "Naming a Practice, Curatorial Strategies for the Future" presenting in the session, "Local Knowledge & New Internationalism”, Banff, Alberta
• 1994: Harbourfront, Canadian Museum Association Conference, panel participant "Cultural Diversity & Identity: Museums as a Place of Memory & Imagination", Toronto, Ontario
• 1994: Photographers' Gallery, lecture, "Disrupted Borders: Politics & Culture", London, United Kingdom
• 1994: Reading University, Dept. of Fine Art, Reading, United Kingdom
• 1994: Northern Photography Centre, Oulu, Finland
• 1994: Centre of Film, Video & Design, Turku, Finland
• 1994: University of Art & Design, Department of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
• 1993: University of Hong Kong, participated in conference, North African & Asian Studies, Hong Kong
• 1992: National Gallery of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
• 1991: Emily Carr College of Art, lecture, "Defining Identity in a Climate of Repression", lecture Vancouver, British Columbia
• 1991: Euclid Theatre, conference "Race to the Screen", presentation, "Reclaiming Home", Toronto, Ontario
• 1991: Concordia University, participated in conference, "War, Media & the New World Order" presentation with Marwan Hassan, "Where the Media Will Not Go" Montreal, Quebec
• 1991: University of Ottawa, participated in conference, "Art/Theory", moderating panel, "Institutional Theory in a Post-Colonial World", Ottawa, Ontario
• 1990: University of Saskatchewan, lecture "Architecture & the Politics of Public Space", Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• 1990: Artist talk Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
• 1989: “Planning: Power, Politics and People” DIA Art Foundation, conference, "If you lived here...The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism", organized by Martha Rosler, New York, New York, United States
• 1989: University of Leeds, lecture "Feminism & Activism", United Kingdom
• 1986: Ekcoe Public School, Glencoe, Ontario
• 1985: Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
• 1985: Table ronde "Permissivite et Politique en Art", Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
• 1983: Designed and taught course, "Beyond a Marginal Reality: Survival for the Artist", University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
• 1977: Artists in the Schools Program, Ontario Arts Council, Red Rock High School, Red Rock, Ontario