23 February: Gayatri Spivak at Haverford

The Department of Philosophy at Haverford College is delighted to invite you to the 2019 Altherr lecture, which will be given by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Professor Spivak’s lecture, titled “Complicity,” will take place on Saturday 23 February, 4:00 pm-5:45 pm in Stokes Auditorium. The lecture will be followed by a public reception in Stokes Lobby from 5:45pm pm-6:45 pm.


Gayatri Spivak is a leading figure in the humanities, and her work is foundational in postcolonial studies. Her writings include "Can the Subaltern Speak?", A Critique of Postcolonial Reason,Outside in the Teaching Machine, The Post-Colonial Critic, In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, and an influential translation of, and introduction to, Derrida's Of Grammatology. In 2012 she was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.

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