— “Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing the Mortal,” Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey, 12 March 2005.
— “Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing the Mortal,” Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, cosponsored by Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center and the Visual Criticism Program at CCA, 2 December 2004.
— “Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing the Mortal,” cosponsored by the departments of Modern Culture and Media, Theatre, Speech and Dance, and Literary Arts, 29 November 2004.
— “Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing the Mortal” and “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster,” inaugural lectures at “Flicker at Buffalo: Correspondences in New Media, Film, and Poetry,” State University of New York at Buffalo, 17 and 18 November 2004.
— “Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing the Mortal,” the Center for Behavioral Research, the American University of Beirut, 25 October 2004.
— “Saving the Living Human’s Face & Backing the Mortal,” Akademie der Bildenden Künste (the Academy of Fine Arts), Munich, 24 June 2004.
— “Backing Mortals’ Proper Names,” part of Irruptions of the Real: 2 Videos and 1 Lecture by Jalal Toufic, DisORIENTation: Contemporary Arab Artistic Practices from the Middle East, House of World Cultures, Berlin, 12 April 2003.
— Panalist in “Politics and Aesthetics — the Political Context for Artists and Art Production,” part of the symposium “Creativity, Crisis and Critics — Art Production in the Arab World,” DisORIENTation: Contemporary Arab Artistic Practices from the Middle East, House of World Cultures, Berlin, 5 April 2003.
— “Artist Talk: Jalal Toufic,” BüroFriedrich, Berlin, 7 December 2002.
— “Discussion between Paul Perry and Jalal Toufic,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, 29 October 2002.
— “‘Âshûrâ’: A Condition of Possibility of an Unconditional Promise,” in Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practices in the Region (participants from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria), The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan, Madina Theatre, Beirut, Lebanon, 3 April 2002.
— “Backing Mortals’ Proper Names,” Klein Yalta 101, DasArts, the Netherlands, 2 November 2001.
— “Forthcoming,” in the seminar “Contemporary Arab Representations,” directed by Catherine David, the International University of Andalusia, Seville, Spain, 22 - 26 October 2001. My presentation is published online .
— Panelist in the roundtable discussion “Photography and Memory,” Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, 25 June 2001.
— “Backing Mortals’ Proper Names,” Department of Architecture and Graphic Design, American University of Beirut, 9 May 2001.
— Panalist in the symposium “In Need of the Other Identity,” Malmö University, Sweden, 21 September, 2000.
— Guest Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 26 July 2000: “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster.”
— Panalist in Kahlil Gibran: Horizons of the Painter, Musée Nicolas Sursock, 27 January 2000: “Kneeling Angel with Mountainous Wings.”
— Visiting Artist, Film Department, California College of Arts and Crafts, 25 March 1999.
— Roundtable discussion with John Baldessari, Dick Hebdige, David Bunn, and Mary Ellen Solt, in conjunction with the exhibition “Text,” California Institute of the Arts, 15 April 1998.
— Guest Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2 April 1998: “Radical Closure.”
— Panalist in “From al-Mashriq to San Francisco: Arab Writers of the Bay Area,” 7th Annual San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival, 2 November 1996.
— Critical Arts Forum, California Institute of the Arts, 22 October 1996: “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster”.
— Guest Lecturer, Film Department, California College of Arts and Crafts, 16 October 1996: “Immobilization in Undeath, Trance, and Dance: Landscapes of People.”
— Reading (with Lebanese writer and painter Etel Adnan), New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 2 February 1995.

Lectures in the Classes of Other Artists/Filmmakers/Videomakers:

— Guest Lecturer in a Walid Raad class at Cooper Union, New York, 22 November 2004: “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster,” and “Ruins.”
— Guest Lecturer in a Sharon Lockhart class at the Art Department, UCLA, 19 May 1997: “Irruptions of Photographs and Colors in Radical Closures.”
— Guest Lecturer in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s seminar Film, Feminism and the Avant-Garde, Department of Women’s Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 28 February 1996: “Maya Deren.”
— Guest Lecturer in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s seminar Film (De)Aesthetics, Department of Women’s Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 11 and 27 September 1995.
— Visiting Artist (with screening of Credits Included) in Lynn M. Kirby’s class, Film Department, California College of Arts and Crafts, 10 April 1995.
— Guest Lecturer in a Trinh T. Minh-ha class, Department of Women’s Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 5 April 1995: “Marguerite Duras: Between ‘You have seen nothing in Hiroshima’ and ‘It would have been a film; it is a film.’”