2020-2021 Visiting Fellow Lecture: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
April 14, 2021
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Via Zoom (info in description)
Address
750 South Halsted, Chicago, IL 60607
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Note: link posted 2/18/2021 replaces previous link.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a critic, theorist, translator, and activist. She is University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of Columbia’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. She is one of the world’s most prominent literary and cultural theorists, whose work continues to influence a broad range of fields, from literary criticism and philosophy to postcolonial theory and feminism. She is author of In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), and An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012), among many other landmark books and articles. In 2012, she received the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy; in 2013, she received the Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian awards given by the Republic of India.
Professor Spivak will be assisted in both programs by Surya Parekh, Assistant Professor of English, Binghamton University.
Gayatri Spivak Teaching Kit
The essays below are a broad sampling of Professor Spivak’s work. They are intended as an introduction for use in classes and reading groups in preparation for her visit to UIC on April 14 and 15.
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization, chapters 20-23.
“The Politics of Translation,” from Outside in the Teaching Machine
“Sex and History in The Prelude” (1805), from In Other Worlds
“Theory in the Margin: Coetzee’s Foe Reading Defoe’s Crusoe/Roxana”
Date posted
Dec 10, 2019
Date updated
Feb 24, 2021