CBEES, forskningsområdet Kritisk kulturteori och samverkansprojektet Translatability inbjuder till gästföreläsning : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: “Gender and Translation in the Global Utopia” What are the uses an d abuses of translation in globalization? In her first visit to Södertörn University, professor Spivak will be discussing this issue with regard to the question of gender. Professor Spivak has performed groundbreaking work in postcolonial theory and gender studies, and has had a profound impact on the studies of globalization in the humanities as well as the social sciences. OBS! För deltagande krävs föranmälan hos [email protected] Tid: 5 dec 10-12 Plats: MB 416 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, the highest honor given to a handful of professors across the university, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature a nd Society at Columbia Unive rsity. B.A. English (First Class Honors), Pres idency College, Calc utta, 1959. Ph.D. Comparative Lite rature, Cornell University, 1967. D. Litt, University of Toronto, 1999; D. Litt, University of London, 2003; D. Hum, Oberlin College, 2008. D. Honoris Causa, Universitat Roveri I Virgili, 2011. Fields: feminism, marxism, deconstruction, globalization. Books: Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W. B. Yeats(1974), Of Grammatology (translation with critical introduction of Jacques Derrida, De la grammatologie, 1976), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987; Routledge Classic 2002), Selected Subaltern Studies (ed., 1988), The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (1990), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993; 2d ed forthcoming), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993; Routledge classic 2003), Imaginary Maps (translation with critical introduction of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1994), The Spivak Reader (1995), Breast Stories (translation with critical introduction of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1997), Old Women (translation with critical introduction of two stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1999), Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet / Imperative zur Neuerfindung des Planeten (ed. Willi Goetschel, 1999; 2d ed. forthcoming), 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), Chotti Munda and His Arrow (translation with critical introduction of a novel by Mahasweta Devi, 2002), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other Asias(2005), An Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization (forthcoming). Significant articles: "Three Women's Texts a nd 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), "Subduing Byzantium"

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CBEES, forskningsområdet Kritisk kulturteori och samverkansprojektetTranslatability inbjuder till gästföreläsning:

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:

“Gender and Translation in the Global Utopia”

What are the uses and abuses of translation in globalization? In her first visit toSödertörn University, professor Spivak will be discussing this issue with regard to thequestion of gender. Professor Spivak has performed groundbreaking work inpostcolonial theory and gender studies, and has had a profound impact on the studiesof globalization in the humanities as well as the social sciences.

OBS! För deltagande krävs föranmälan hos [email protected]

Tid: 5 dec 10-12Plats: MB 416

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, the highest honor given to ahandful of professors across the university, and a founding member of the Institute forComparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. B.A. English (FirstClass Honors), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1959. Ph.D. Comparative Literature,Cornell University, 1967. D. Litt, University of Toronto, 1999; D. Litt, University of London, 2003; D. Hum, Oberlin College, 2008. D. Honoris Causa, Universitat RoveriI Virgili, 2011. Fields: feminism, marxism, deconstruction,globalization. Books: Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W. B.

Yeats(1974), Of Grammatology (translation with critical introduction of JacquesDerrida, De la grammatologie, 1976), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural

Politics (1987; Routledge Classic 2002), Selected Subaltern Studies (ed., 1988), The

Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues (1990), Thinking Academic

Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993; 2d ed forthcoming), Outside in the

Teaching Machine (1993; Routledge classic 2003), Imaginary Maps(translation withcritical introduction of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1994), The Spivak

Reader (1995), Breast Stories (translation with critical introduction of three stories by

Mahasweta Devi, 1997), Old Women (translation with critical introduction of twostories by Mahasweta Devi, 1999), Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet / Imperative

zur Neuerfindung des Planeten(ed. Willi Goetschel, 1999; 2d ed. forthcoming), ACritique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing

Present (1999), Song for Kali: A Cycle (translation with introduction of RamproshadSen, 2000), Chotti Munda and His Arrow (translation with critical introduction of anovel by Mahasweta Devi, 2002), Death of a Discipline(2003), Other

Asias(2005), An Aesthetic Education in the Age of

Globalization (forthcoming). Significant articles: "Three Women's Texts and aCritique 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), "Translatinginto English" (2005), "Rethinking Comparativism" (2010), "Subduing Byzantium"

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(Forthcoming). Activist in rural education and feminist and ecological socialmovements since 1986.

Föreläsningen är ett samarrangemang mellan CBEES, forskningsområdet Kritisk Kulturteori, och samverkansprojektet Translatability, finansierat av KK-stiftelsen.

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