1998
“Readable Trash: the Shobha Dé Phenomenon”, I International Conference on Popular Texts, Almagro, Ciudad Real, Spain, 1998
“Journeys into African Identity: From Heart of Darkness to Paradise”, Heart of Darkness Centenary: Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, Potchefstroom & Cape Town, South Africa, 1998
“Anything But the Whole Truth: the Narratives of History” Plenary Lecture. IV Culture & Power: Cultural Confrontations, Zaragoza, Spain, 1998.
“Deceit and Disappointments: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s View of Migrancy”, Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1998
“Hell on Earth: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise”, XXII Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN) Lleida, Spain, 1998
1997
“From Subservience to Resistance. The Representation of Asian Women in Britain”, Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) Hyderabad, India, 1997
“Shaking off Sharam: the Double Burden of British Asian Women”, IV Alcalá Seminar on British Writing. On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain, Alacalá de Henares, Spain, 1997
“Black Business”, III Culture & Power; Business, Madrid, Spain, 1997
1996
“Post Post-Colonial Concerns in Nuruddin Farah’s Somali Trilogy”, VI Jornadas de Literatura Contemporánea en Lengua Inglesa: New Exoticisms, Zaragoza, Spain, 1996
“Translating India into English: Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy”, European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) Oviedo, Spain, 1996
“Negotiating Boundaries in the Horn of Africa: Women in the Fiction of Nuruddin Farah”, 19th Annual Conference of the Association of the Study of New Literatures in English (ASNEL) Konstanz, Germany, 1996
“Institutionalized Humiliation? Female Circumcision in Neo-Colonial Africa”, II Culture & Power: Institutions, Barcelona, Spain, 1996
1995
“Who Says You’re British? From Scientific Racism to Cultural Exclusion”, I Culture & Power, Bellaterra, Spain, 1995
“Towards a Republic of Great Britain”, XIX Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN), Vigo, Spain, 1995
1994
“Class in a “Classless” Society”, XVIII Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 1994
“The Shame of Taslima Nasrin”, XVIII Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 1994
1993
“In the Shadow of the Mutiny: Reflections on Two Post Independence Novels on the 1857 Uprising”, III Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Contemporánea en Lengua Inglesa: Historia y Literatura, Zaragoza, Spain, 1993
“From Jew-Baiting to Paki-Bashing: Political Responses to the Immigration of Pre-1914 Jews and Post-1945 Asians”, XVII Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN), Córdoba, Spain, 1993
1992
“Belonging Nowhere: Culture Conflicts Among British Asians”, Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), Ghent, Belgium, 1992
“British Objects? Changing Attitudes Towards Citizens of the Former Colonies”, XVI Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN), Valladolid, Spain, 1992
1991
“A Study of Deixis in D.H. Lawrence’s “The Man Who Loved Islands”, Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), Lancaster, UK, 1991.
“Shrouded in Tradition: Arranged Marriages Among Asians in Britain”, XV Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN) Logroño, Spain, 1991
1990
with Mireia Aragay, “Dialogue and Power in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills”, Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1990.