July 1995:	Keynote lecture at the Fourth International Conference on Adult Education and the Arts,St Andrews, Scotland. Title: Memory and Representation: The Arts and Social Change in South Africa.”
Sept 1998:	Interstate Firehouse Cultural Centre Origins Lecture Series, Portland, USA. Title: “Home Truths: Growing up in black and white.”
Oct 2000:	University of Chicago Millennium Poetry Series. Title: “The Arts of Recovery: Writing in the transition.”
March 2004:	The Capilano Review Koerner Lecture Series. Title: ‘”Verbs that move mountains”: commitment and the lyric poem.’