BBRG PRESENTS: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on Situating Feminism

BBRG PRESENTS: Annual Keynote Talk - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Situating Feminism

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University

This presentation will attempt to situate feminism geographically, in terms of the triumph of the Euro-specific (even Anglo-specific) model, in terms of the history of both of Marxism and Capitalism. It will trace feminisms itinerary through both coloniality and globalization. It will also attempt to situate feminism historically in terms of the provenance of what we at radical U.S. universities call feminism and see how it reflects on the development of mobility among women in terms of not only capital but also the great engines of world governance.

Organized by: The Beatrice Bain Research Group

Co-sponsored by: Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Rhetoric, Department of Sociology, Department of Gender and Women's Studies- Li Ka Shing Lectures, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, English Department, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for Race and Gender, Center for South Asia Studies, Department of Geography, Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, and the Townsend Center Working Group on Muslim Identities and Cultures

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[volumexxvii]

I am grateful that YouTube exists so that I can see / hear scholars such as Spivak, Butler, Haraway-and so many others -share their ideas. But looking at the comments below, one thinks: this is what happens when someone as erudite, critical, and articulate as Spivak appears here. Keyboard-happy, ignorant children with no attention span or education post comments that blaspheme intelligence, rigor, critical thinking, and human-rights scholarship.

To borrow a cliche: casting pearls to swine.

[magandaling]

Is there a transcript to this somewhere? If so, I would love to have it!!! Thanks.

[DickNBass]

Thank You

[dancinmad]

Haha that was a interesting, insightful and, i must say, really quite moving talk especially toward the end. I suppose just mentioning it degrades the level of discourse... Doesn't Spivak have a beautiful smile? It warms my heart.

[646kimber]

f No my major is human services but i have studied Spivak in other classes & honestly those who can appreciate what she stands for and understand her true intentions are and i quote from volumexxvii " NO ATTENTION OR EDUCATION POST COMMENTS THAT BLASPHEME INTELLIGENCE" clearly i am not the only one who thinks this ways and it is because i have a fellow student who is educated enough to watch someone speak and see beyond the most obvious things such as physical appearance or accent.

[drgdrf]

@646kimber Are you a grad student of feminism?

[646kimber]

You all who comment about her appearance and making vein comments of her being a stupid feminist are obviously pathetically uneducated individuals missing the larger point of aesthetic education for all to create equality among boys and girls men and women in society. In doing so the desire of women placing dignity in men must be rearranged. She is a respected theorist worldwide and you all would never know it b/c you lack the intellectual cognitive abilities to understand what she is saying.

[neenaism]

The Ethics & Aesthetics of Politics of Location: sharing American life and 'that life'? While the Personal is very much Political and maybe vice-versa, why intensively talk about the project of schools in the backward rural village in East India in front of an audience 'situated' in the West? And the obvious result is not surprising- one audience-member expressing her desire to visit that place! What is this? -An 'engaged' academic tourism of the least of the Third World!

[hannibal345]

that would feel AMAZING!!!!!!!! and i mean AMAZINGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!