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Gayatri C. Spivak

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I-House Ushiba Fellowship Public Lecture / I-House Academy

“Other Asias”

[An edited version of this lecture is available in the IHJ Bulletin, Vol.28, No.1, 2008.]

- Lecturer: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities, Director, the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University; The First Fellow of the I-House Ushiba Fellowship

Moderator: Satoshi Ukai, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Date & Time: Wed, July 18, 2007, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Venue: Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall, International House of Japan
Admission: Regular Rate: 1,500 yen (Students: 1,000 yen, IHJ Members: Free)
Language: English/Japanese (simultaneous interpretation provided)

(Period of residency in Japan: June 28-July 20, 2007)

[Academic Activism in the Humanities]
Date & Time: Sat, July 7th, 2007, 3:00 pm-6:00 pm
Venue: Room 2201, Higashi 2 Gokan, Hitotsubashi University
Organizers: Graduate Schools of Language & Society and Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
In co-sponsorship with the International House of Japan
Contact: Satoshi Ukai, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Tel: 042 (580) 9034 e-mail: ce00236*srv.cc.hit-u.ac.jp (please replace * with @)
Language: English/Japanese consecutive interpretation provided

[Rethinking Comparativism]
Date & Time: Tue. July 10th, 2007, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Venue: Sakima Art Museum (Ginowan City, Okinawa)
Admission: 1,000 yen
Organizer: Inter-College Organizing Committee for Spivak Seminar in Okinawa
In co-sponsorship with the International House of Japan
Contact: Ikuo Shinjou, Associate Professor, University of the Ryukyus
e-mail: shinjou*ll.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (please replace * with @)
Language: English/Japanese consecutive interpretation provided

Closed Meeting for Scholars and Researchers
[Spivak Colloquium: Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]
Date: Sat, July 14th, 2007
Venue: Ochanomizu University
Organizer: Ochanomizu University 21st Century COE Program,
“Frontiers of Gender Studies”
In co-sponsorship with the International House of Japan
Language: English/Japanese simultaneous interpretation provided

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Born in Calcutta, India, in 1942. Received a B.A. in English (Honors) from Presidency College, Calcutta, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University for her dissertation on W. B. Yeats, under the supervision of Paul de Man, cultural critic. Critically intervening the politics working behind the production of knowledge and the system of representation as discourse in relation to power arrangements, Professor Spivak is regarded as a leading cultural critic and a public intellectual of our times.

Widely cited in a range of disciplines, her major writings and publications include Of Grammatology (translation, with critical introduction, of Derrida’s text) (1976), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Selected Subaltern Studies (edited with Ranajit Guha) (1988), The Post-Colonial Critic (1990), The Spivak Reader (1995), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Death of a Discipline (2005), and Other Asias (2007).

In this lecture, she will address re-thinking the concept of “Asia” as an idea that reflects Europe’s “eastward” trajectory and encompasses geopolitical/ cultural complexity, based on her upcoming publication of Other Asias.

Satoshi Ukai

Specializes in French Literature and Philosophy; currently teaching at the Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University. His major publications include Teiko e no shotai［An Invitation to Resistance; in Japanese］(Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 1997), Politics of Amity (Jacques Derrida, Co-translator, Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 2003).

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