At the invitation of Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor Hari Vasudevan delivered a special lecture titled, “Working for Moscow. Living Anywhere”, which was jointly hosted by the Global Cultural Studies Centre, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University. From 2012, he was closely involved with the multi-institutional Radiating Globality project of Gayatri Spivak, and carried it into a new phase of collaboration with the University of Kunming, China, in 2018.