Wednesday, February 03, 2010

stanford: History, Memory and Reconcilation" presents: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on Feb 25

feb 2nd, 2010

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From: Pasang Sherpa <psherpa@stanford.edu>
Date: 2010/2/3
Subject: "History, Memory and Reconcilation" presents: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on Feb 25
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This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia. Please contact the main sponsor for additional information.



The Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, the Forum on Contemporary Europe, 
and the Program on Human Rights present—

History, Memory, and Reconciliation Series Event:

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Columbia University

Aesthetic Education 
in the Age of Globalization

A Panel Discussion with 
David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford)
& Ramón Saldivar (Stanford)

Thursday 25 February 2010
10:00AM Workshop 
4:00PM Panel Discussion

Terrace Room (426), 
Margaret Jacks Hall (Building 460)

Space at the morning workshop is limited. If interested, please email Saikat Majumdar at majumdar@stanford.edu.

Event co-sponsored by the Departments of English, History, and Comparative Literature;
the Program in Modern Thought and Literature; the Center for African Studies;
the Stanford Humanities Center; and the Center for South Asia


History, Memory, and Reconciliation is sponsored by the Research Unit in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University. 


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Stanford University
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3 comments:

Murli said...

Gayatri Spivak, if I recall right, is one of them "postmodernists", as in "Alan Sokal hoax". In other words, she writes impenetrable prose and gets praised for it cuz nobody knows what the heck she is saying, anyway.

nizhal yoddha said...

she is poco-poco-pomo, for sure (politically-correct, post-colonial, post-modern), and does write the most appalling stuff.

did anybody ever come across the Dada engine? the writings of spivak, or homi bhaba (i heard him once at stanford), are indistinguishable from the Dada engine's moxious emissions :-)

Murli said...

I have played with the engine and it's hilarious. To think that long, long, ago, I used to be rather impressed with the kind of writing ... O, I was so naive and foolish ..
Postmodernism generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

Dada Engine:http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/