University Professor, Columbia University
Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitor - Class of Fall 2017
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University. Her books are In Other Worlds (1987), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999), Death of A Discipline (2003), Other Asias (2008). Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012), and Readings (2014). She has translated Jacques Derrida and Bengali poetry and fiction, and is deeply engaged in rural-teacher training and ecological agriculture. She has received many honorary doctorates, the Kyoto Prize, and the Padma Bhushan from the President of India.
Academy Activities
Oct
17
2017
Richard von Weizsäcker Lecture
Running after Du Bois
Columbia University professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak considers Du Bois in the great diversity of his positions—from the American “Negro” all the way to global communism and Pan-Africanism, with reference to his literary and autobiographical works.
Oct
19
2017
Distinguished W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture
W.E.B. Du Bois in Today’s World
In this lecture, Gayatri Spivak offers a new reading of W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, with reference to Antonio Gramsci and Tillie Olsen.
Oct
17
2017
Running after Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois was the most influential black intellectual of his time. In this talk, Columbia University professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak considers Du Bois in the great diversity of his positions—from the American “Negro” all the way to global communism and Pan-Africanism, with reference ...