Third reading seminar for 2025 Holberg Laureate Gayatri Spivak
In collaboration with the Holberg Prize, Centre for Women's and Gender Research organizes four reading seminars about Spivak's works. On 12 May we meet for the third seminar.
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The Holberg Prize — one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology — recently named Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as its 2025 Laureate.
Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and considered one of the most influential global intellectuals of our time. She receives the prize for her groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in comparative literature, translation, postcolonial studies, political philosophy, and feminist theory. Read more here: Literary Theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Named 2025 Holberg Prize Laureate.
This reading seminar is the third of four where we invite everyone who is interested, in particular students and employees, to read and discuss texts that Spivak herself has chosen for the reading list of her upcoming PhD master class. The texts provide a good cross-section of her latest research.
For this third reading seminar, we will read the following texts:
- Spivak, Gayatri C. 2017. "Global Marx?", in Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees, Richard McIntyre, Robert Garnett Jr. and Theodore Burczak (eds). Taylor and Francis, pp. 265-287.
- Spivak, Gayatri C. 2003. "Foucault and Najibullah", in “Other Asias”. Wiley pp. 132-161.
If you want to participate, contact Kamilla Stølen (kamilla.stolen@uib.no) to receive a copy of the text.
All seminars will take place from 14.30-16.00 at SKOK's meeting room in Parkveien 9, Ida Bloms hus on the following Mondays: 28 April, 12 May and 19 May, and from 13.30-15.00 on 5 May.
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