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Recorded at: Second International Marxist-Feminist Conference, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
On: 8th October 2016
Panel: Feminist Organising beyond Europe
The Conference was organised by the feminist section of InkriT (Berlin Institute of Critical Theory) http://www.inkrit.de, transform! europe http://www.transform-network.net, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation rosalux.de and many others.
Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak is a university professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University in New York. She is director at elementary schools in Rashpur, Baidyanathpur, Langulia, Haripur, Tabadumra, and Shahabad near the Birbhum-Jharrkhand border where she also facilitates the will for a farmers’ cooperative not imposed by benevolent feudal leaders. She has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Toronto (1999), London (2003), Oberlin College (2008), Universitat Roveri I Virgili (2011), Rabindra Bharati (2012), Universidad Nacional de San Martin (2013), Universities of St. Andrews (2014) and Paris VIII (2014), forthcoming of Presidency University. In 2012 she was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Thought and Ethics and in 2013 the Padma Bhushan. Among her books: In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987, 2002); Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993, 2003); A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999); Song for Kali: A Cycle (translation with introduction of Ramproshad Sen, 2000); Death of a Discipline (2003); Other Asias (2005); An Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization (2012); Readings (2014); Du Bois and the General Strike (forthcoming). Significant articles, published in numerous journals or books and languages: »Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography« (1985); »Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism « (1985); »Can the Subaltern Speak?« (1988); »The Politics of Translation« (1992); »Moving Devi« (1999); »Righting Wrongs« (2003); »Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching« (2004); »Translating into English« (2005); »Rethinking Comparativism« (2010); »A Borderless World« (2011); »General Strike« (2012); »Crimes of Identity« (2014); »Our World« (2014).
Recorded at: Second International Marxist-Feminist Conference, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
On: 8th October 2016
Panel: Feminist Organising beyond Europe
The Conference was organised by the feminist section of InkriT (Berlin Institute of Critical Theory) http://www.inkrit.de, transform! europe http://www.transform-network.net, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation rosalux.de and many others.
Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak is a university professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University in New York. She is director at elementary schools in Rashpur, Baidyanathpur, Langulia, Haripur, Tabadumra, and Shahabad near the Birbhum-Jharrkhand border where she also facilitates the will for a farmers’ cooperative not imposed by benevolent feudal leaders. She has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Toronto (1999), London (2003), Oberlin College (2008), Universitat Roveri I Virgili (2011), Rabindra Bharati (2012), Universidad Nacional de San Martin (2013), Universities of St. Andrews (2014) and Paris VIII (2014), forthcoming of Presidency University. In 2012 she was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Thought and Ethics and in 2013 the Padma Bhushan. Among her books: In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987, 2002); Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993, 2003); A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999); Song for Kali: A Cycle (translation with introduction of Ramproshad Sen, 2000); Death of a Discipline (2003); Other Asias (2005); An Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization (2012); Readings (2014); Du Bois and the General Strike (forthcoming). Significant articles, published in numerous journals or books and languages: »Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography« (1985); »Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism « (1985); »Can the Subaltern Speak?« (1988); »The Politics of Translation« (1992); »Moving Devi« (1999); »Righting Wrongs« (2003); »Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching« (2004); »Translating into English« (2005); »Rethinking Comparativism« (2010); »A Borderless World« (2011); »General Strike« (2012); »Crimes of Identity« (2014); »Our World« (2014).
