[An edited version of this lecture is available in the IHJ Bulletin, Vol.28, No.1, 2008.]
- [I-House Academy / I-House Ushiba Fellowship Public Lecture]
- Lecturer: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities, Director,
- the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University;
- Moderator: Satoshi Ukai, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
- Date & Time: Wed, July 18, 2007, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
- Venue: Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall, International House of Japan
- Admission: Regular Rate: 1,500 yen (Students: 1,000 yen, IHJ Members: Free)
- Language: English/Japanese (simultaneous interpretation provided)
The First Fellow of the I-House Ushiba Fellowship
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Born in Calcutta, India, in 1942. Received a B.A. in English (Honors) from Presidency College, Calcutta, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University for her dissertation on W. B. Yeats, under the supervision of Paul de Man, cultural critic. Critically intervening the politics working behind the production of knowledge and the system of representation as discourse in relation to power arrangements, Professor Spivak is regarded as a leading cultural critic and a public intellectual of our times.
Widely cited in a range of disciplines, her major writings and publications include Of Grammatology (translation, with critical introduction, of Derrida’s text) (1976), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Selected Subaltern Studies (edited with Ranajit Guha) (1988), The Post-Colonial Critic (1990), The Spivak Reader (1995), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Death of a Discipline (2005), and Other Asias (2007).
In this lecture, she will address re-thinking the concept of “Asia” as an idea that reflects Europe’s “eastward” trajectory and encompasses geopolitical/ cultural complexity, based on her upcoming publication of Other Asias.
Satoshi Ukai
Specializes in French Literature and Philosophy; currently teaching at the Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University. His major publications include Teiko e no shotai［An Invitation to Resistance; in Japanese］(Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 1997), Politics of Amity (Jacques Derrida, Co-translator, Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 2003).