Gayatri Spivak: On Generalism and methods of teaching and academic research

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Gayatri Spivak, University Professor at Columbia University, lectures on Generalism and methods of teaching and academic research.
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Edward Said Memorial Conference - Gayatri Spivak: "A Borderless World?"

source: Centre for the Humanities Utrecht University    2013年10月22日
Keynote lecture by Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: "A Borderless World?" at the Edward Said Memorial Conference, Utrecht, 16 April 2013.

What is this lecture about?
"What institutions of tertiary education in varieties of the metropole now have to think about is that globalization has introduced a kind of accessible contemporaneity to us, and placed us within it, which has not taken away, but rendered obsolete, the established ways of knowing the historical. Modernity/tradition methodologies, colonial/postcolonial methodologies remain appropriate in their own place, but are no longer useful to understand this new situation, which seems to lend itself more easily to a quantified, statisticalized, and, in a less rigorous way, simply arithmeticalized approach, democracy computed as supervised safe elections, epistemic claims without reality checks, going hand in hand with a collection of "global" curiosities as evidence.

Let us rather ask ourselves how we must change in response to this challenge to knowing, not how we can add more information and money to the spectacular alternative streams at the edges of disciplines. How can the mainstream of disciplines be rearranged so that we and our students learn to think differently, rather than separate rigorous history and method from the glamour of easy globality. Such challenges have come in history from time to time and intellectual historians as well as students of the history of consciousness have told us after the fact how these changes happened. To that extent, we too must give ourselves over to what we call the future anterior, what will have happened in spite of our best efforts. But at the university, we must also make these efforts — once again, to change ourselves, rather than simply to acquire more substantive knowledge."

Edward Said Memorial Conference was organised by the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University as one of the Treaty of Utrecht commemoration events on 15-17 April 2013. More information available at: http://cfhutrecht2013.com/.

Gayatri Spivak keynote Speech at CSD Dept of International Relations- 7t...

source: University of Westminster     2016年1月29日
"Keynote Speech at the Centre for the Study of Democracy - Department of Politics and International Relations 7th November 2015.
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Doing and Thinking Democracy Questions and Answers

source: University of Westminster    2015年11月20日
Questions and Answers to Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Uploaded by: driverc

Gayatri Spivak: Humanities, Democracy and the Politics of Knowledge in Higher Education

source: Teaching & Learning TV by UTLO     2014年9月30日
TLHEC8 - Keynote Address by Prof Gayatri Spivak
25 September 2014 (Day 1)
Topic: Humanities, Democracy and the Politics of Knowledge in Higher Education
Keynote Speaker: Professor Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, USA
Chair: Dr Nyna Amin - School of Education, University of KwaZulu Natal

Gayatri Spivak: Future, pasts, languages, Balkans

source: Kanal uporabnika Prisotnoststeje    2012年5月20日
SUBVERSIVE FORUM - THE FUTURE OF EUROPE, Zagreb, 18. 5. 2012
Gayatri Spivak: Future, pasts, languages, Balkans
The idea of Europe is historically and currently precarious as the basis of any unification. The Latin Middle Ages do not offer a good analogy. Monocultures are always in a double bind. In order to think Europe as a territory with borders that can negotiate the performative contradictions of the borderlessness of global capital, every citizen must rethink nation as a site of capital-management. Is this possible? I believe it can be if education makes the appropriate changes and this shift is understood as both poison and medicine, depending upon its collective use. 'Future' can then be seen as part of the gamble. To supplement this shift away from nation-thinking to capital-management thinking, the incalculable element of languages must be taken with the utmost seriousness. This is particularly apposite in the Balkan context. This is the pre-text of the short term economic struggle. A comment on the byzantine movements of Greece and Turkey on the European chessboard might enter here. And digital idealism should be aware that social networking is dependent upon constituted subjects in transformed collectivities as described in the opening of this abstract.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Indian literary critic, theorist and a University Professor at Columbia University. She is best known for the essay Can the Subaltern Speak?, considered a founding text of postcolonialism, and for her translation of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. She describes herself as a 'practical Marxist-feminist-deconstructionist'. She is also a visiting faculty member at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Spivak is best known for her contemporary cultural and critical theories to challenge the 'legacy of colonialism' and the way readers engage with literature and culture. She often focuses on the cultural texts of those who are marginalized by dominant western culture: the new immigrant, the working class, women and other 'postcolonial subjects'. Some of her books are A Critique of Postcolonial Reason Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), Death of a Discipline (2003), Nationalism and Imagination (2010).
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Touch with Shelly Silver and Gayatri Spivak

source: CUSchooloftheArts    2015年3月5日
In Touch, an older man returns to his childhood home in Manhattan’s Chinatown after fifty years to care for his ailing mother. The protagonist and narrator, who remains nameless, is a librarian, cataloguer and recorder, gay man, watcher and impersonator. He shares an amalgam of research, interviews, thoughts, secrets, improbabilities and free-floating desires.
A response from literary theorist and faculty member Gayatri Spivak and Q+A with director Shelly Silver (Visual Arts Chair) follow the screening.
Critical acclaim for the film:
“By staking her right to documentary material as well as fictional writing, Shelly Silver sizes up the likelihood of an imaginary point of view reaching a truth more subtle than autobiographical truth.” – Charlotte Garson, Cinéma du Réel
“Touch is a poignant and lyrical video diary, a tapestry of vérité camerawork, stolen moments and probing observations, challenging the manner in which we engage with the communities that created us and how we embrace and chronicle images of the everyday.” - Bradford Nordeen, Outfest

THE 2012 KYOTO PRIZE COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE --Gayatri C. Spivak

source: InamoriFoundation English    2012年12月24日
The 2012 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture
Lecture of the Laureate in Arts and Philosophy Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Nov.11th, 2012 Kyoto International Conference Center

Democracy and Representation, a talk by Gayatri C. Spivak

Democracy and Representation, a talk by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak from Media, Culture, Communication on Vimeo.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak addresses the problem of political representation amid the forces of international democracy through a discussion of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of postcolonial Congo, who was assassinated by Belgian forces not long thereafter. Spivak proposes a new epistemology for engaging the contemporary by working through the inter-animation between postcoloniality and democracy.
Hosted by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, with additional funding from the NYU Africana Studies Program, the Comparative Literature Department, and the Anglophone Project in the English Department.
Spivak is a literary theorist, philosopher, and University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" is considered a founding text of postcolonialism. In 2012 she was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for being "a critical theorist and educator speaking for the humanities against intellectual colonialism in relation to the globalized world." She received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award given by the Republic of India, in 2013.

Assia Djebar Patterns of Resistance Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

source: Columbia Maison Française     2015年11月16日
October 16, 2015 Assia Djebar: Patterns of Resistance Conference
The death of the Algerian writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar in February 2015 represents the loss of a major voice of world literature and one of the last great literary representatives of the age of decolonization. For half a century, Djebar explored her country’s past and present in novels, essays and films that combine poignant lyricism with theoretical sophistication. Counter-narratives to official nationalism, her works highlight the experiences of Algerian women before, during and after colonialism. In this one-day conference, an international group of leading scholars reflect on Djebar’s poetics, politics and legacies.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia), Patterns of Resistance
Introduced by Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia)
Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Maison Française, Middle East Institute, Institute for Comparitive Literature and Society, and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality

"Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism" - Opening Panel Spivak

source: Sebastian Garbe    2015年11月18日
"Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism: Transnational Feminist and Decolonial Approaches"
International Conference
13th - 14th November 2014
Justus-Liebig University Giessen
Opening Plenary, 13th November 2014
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Edward Said Memorial Conference - Gayatri Spivak: "A Borderless World?"

source: Centre for the Humanities Utrecht University     2013年10月22日
Keynote lecture by Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: "A Borderless World?" at the Edward Said Memorial Conference, Utrecht, 16 April 2013.
What is this lecture about?
"What institutions of tertiary education in varieties of the metropole now have to think about is that globalization has introduced a kind of accessible contemporaneity to us, and placed us within it, which has not taken away, but rendered obsolete, the established ways of knowing the historical. Modernity/tradition methodologies, colonial/postcolonial methodologies remain appropriate in their own place, but are no longer useful to understand this new situation, which seems to lend itself more easily to a quantified, statisticalized, and, in a less rigorous way, simply arithmeticalized approach, democracy computed as supervised safe elections, epistemic claims without reality checks, going hand in hand with a collection of "global" curiosities as evidence.
Let us rather ask ourselves how we must change in response to this challenge to knowing, not how we can add more information and money to the spectacular alternative streams at the edges of disciplines. How can the mainstream of disciplines be rearranged so that we and our students learn to think differently, rather than separate rigorous history and method from the glamour of easy globality. Such challenges have come in history from time to time and intellectual historians as well as students of the history of consciousness have told us after the fact how these changes happened. To that extent, we too must give ourselves over to what we call the future anterior, what will have happened in spite of our best efforts. But at the university, we must also make these efforts — once again, to change ourselves, rather than simply to acquire more substantive knowledge."
Edward Said Memorial Conference was organised by the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University as one of the Treaty of Utrecht commemoration events on 15-17 April 2013. More information available at: http://cfhutrecht2013.com/.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak at CSDS, Golden Jubilee Lecture

source: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies   2013年9月30日
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Presents:
What Good are the Humanities for Development Studies
Speaker: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Chair: Rajeev Bhargava
Date: Monday, 5 August, 2013
Venue: CSDS Seminar Hall, 29 Rajpur Road 110054

Abstract: The proper training of the Humanities is our best weapon for producing problem-solvers rather than solving problems. If they are acknowledged as imaginative activism, rearranging desires, building the possibility of constructing self and world differently as objects of knowing, producing the intuitions of democracy outside of the demands of electoral politics; the power and difficulties of the task emerge. To implement this is an uphill road, since the priorities for developing societies seem to be located elsewhere. My paper will consider this problem as practically as possible, considering, along the way, such typical criticisms as individualism, mere liberalism, etc. I will be attentive to the fact that this Center has successfully studied "Development" for half a century.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University. Her latest books are Other Asias and An Aesthetic Education in An Era of Globalization. She has 5 honorary doctorates. She is the 2012 laureate of the Kyoto Prize in Art and Philosophy. She trains teachers and guides ecological agriculture in western Birbhum district in West Bengal, India.
Rajeev Bhargava is Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.

Gayatri Spivak - An Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization

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Gayatri Spivak lecture, "A Borderless World" at The University of Arizona

source: Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry    2012年10月26日
Gayatri Spivak gives a public lecture at Crowder Hall in the School of Music at the University of Arizona on Jan. 19, 2012. Over 600 people packed the auditorium to be present at this free event sponsored by Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry.

BBRG PRESENTS: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on Situating Feminism

source: UC Berkeley Events    2010年4月1日
BBRG PRESENTS: Annual Keynote Talk - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Situating Feminism
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University.

This presentation will attempt to situate feminism geographically, in terms of the triumph of the Euro-specific (even Anglo-specific) model, in terms of the history of both of Marxism and Capitalism. It will trace feminisms itinerary through both coloniality and globalization. It will also attempt to situate feminism historically in terms of the provenance of what we at radical U.S. universities call feminism and see how it reflects on the development of mobility among women in terms of not only capital but also the great engines of world governance.

Organized by: The Beatrice Bain Research Group
Co-sponsored by: Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Rhetoric, Department of Sociology, Department of Gender and Women's Studies- Li Ka Shing Lectures, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, English Department, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for Race and Gender, Center for South Asia Studies, Department of Geography, Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, and the Townsend Center Working Group on Muslim Identities and Cultures

Gayatri Spivak: The Trajectory of the Subaltern in My Work

source: University of California Television (UCTV)    2008年2月7日
Columbia University Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, is one of the leading literary theorists and cultural critics of our times. She takes issue with Western intellectuals' account of their inability to mediate the historical experience of the working classes and the underprivileged of society. Series: "Voices" [9/2004] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8840]