Fourth 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 19 May we meet for the final 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 final 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 final reading seminar, we will read the following texts:
- Spivak, Gayatri C. 2015. “Crimes of Identity”. In Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis: Twenty-First-Century Psychoanalysis and Feminism, Robbie Duschinsky and Susan Walker (eds). Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 207-227.
- Spivak, Gayatri C. 2020. “Being Human”. Keynote given at MLA 2020. (DRAFT - DO NOT QUOTE)
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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