Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry invites you to this public lecture by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a literary critic, theorist and holds the highest rank a professor can achieve at Columbia University: University Professor. She is also a visiting faculty member at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Considered a leader and pioneer of contemporary critical theory, she is best known for the essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (now considered a founding text of post colonialism) and for her translation of Jacques Derrida’s “Of Grammatology.” As the question mark in the title ‘A Borderless World?’ suggests, there is no certainty of such a world; yet, Spivak says, it is feasible. While visas and passports might never become obsolete, a seamless world where the walls have been demolished by capital, technology and knowledge of languages is certainly possible. But that possibility hinges largely on economic justice, and on our ability to dream of a world where nations rethink their loyalty to borders and frontiers.
Additional Event:
Join us for a Brown Bag Seminar on Friday, January 20th at noon in the Student Union (Agave Room)