Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to speak at Appalachian Sept. 24

Posted Sep. 18, 2015 at 12:27 p.m.

BOONE—Professor Gayatri Spivak will speak Sept. 24 at 4 p.m. in Appalachian State University’s Rosen Concert Hall in Broyhill Music Center. The title of her talk is “The Subaltern, Again and Again.”

This major event is free and open to the public and is spearheaded by the South Asian Studies Learning Community (SASLC) at Appalachian. For more information, contact Professor Diane P. Mines at [email protected].

Spivak is one of the leading intellectuals in the world today, a brilliant theorist in postcolonial studies. She is University Professor at Columbia University, and founder of Columbia’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. The author of numerous books and intellectual movements, Spivak’s work is pertinent to many disciplines and interdisciplinary conversations.

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