First reading seminar for 2025 Holberg Laureate: Gayatri Spivak
In collaboration with the Holberg Prize, Centre for Women's and Gender Research organizes four reading seminars about Spivak's works. On 28 April we meet for the first seminar.
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鈥� one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology 鈥� recently named Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as its 2025 Laureate.
Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and considered one of the most influential global intellectuals of our time. She receives the prize for her groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in comparative literature, translation, postcolonial studies, political philosophy, and feminist theory.聽Read more here:聽.
This reading seminar is the first of four where we invite everyone who is interested, in particular students and employees, to read and discuss texts that Spivak herself has chosen for the reading list of her . The texts provide a good cross-section of her latest research.
For this first reading seminar, we will read the following texts:
- Spivak, Gayatri C. 1999. Can the subaltern speak? Section from Chapter 3 "History鈥� in聽Critique of postcolonial reason聽starting with the line "At the other end of the spectrum鈥�". Harvard University Press, pp. 244-311.
- 聽Spivak, Gayatri C. 2010. 鈥淚n response鈥�, in聽Can the subaltern speak? Reflections on the history of an idea, Rosalind C. Morris (ed.). Columbia University Press, pp. 227-236.
If you want to participate, contact Kamilla St酶len (kamilla.stolen@uib.no) to receive a copy of the text.
All seminars will take place from 14.30-16.00 at SKOK's meeting room in Parkveien 9, Ida Bloms hus on the following Mondays: 28 April,聽 12 May and 19 May, and from 13.30-15.00 on 5 May.
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