[CS] Save the Date: 4/15: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak gives Schocket Memorial Lecture at Hampshire College

[Paula Harmon]

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Subject: 	Save the Date: 4/15: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak gives Schocket 
Memorial Lecture at Hampshire College
To: 	Linda McDaniel <lmcdaniel at hampshire.edu>



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We are pleased to announce our Seventh Annual Eric N. Schocket Memorial 
Lecture on Class and Culture:

*“Class and the Disciplines"*

*Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak*
*University Professor*
*Columbia University*

Tuesday, April 15, 2014
5pm
Main Lecture Hall
Franklin Patterson Hall
Hampshire College
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*Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak *is a literary theorist and 
co-founder of the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at 
Columbia University, where she holds rank of University Professor. 
Professor Spivak is best known for her essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” 
(1988) which was a founding text of both postcolonial and subaltern 
studies; the 20th anniversary of this essay’s publication occasioned a 
volume entitled Can the Subaltern Speak?/: //Reflections on the History 
of an Idea  (/2010)/, /in which eight scholars trace the impact of 
Spivak’s groundbreaking essay. Professor Spivak is the translator of 
Jacques Derrida’s /Of Grammatology/, and she has also translated a 
number of literary works by Mahasweta Devi. Her most recent work 
includes /A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the 
Vanishing Present/ (1999), /Death of a Discipline/ (2003), and /An 
Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization/ (2012). She is 
currently at work on a book entitled /Du Bois and the General Strike. 
/She has also been an activist in rural education and feminist and 
ecological social movements since 1986. Professor Spivak received her 
B.A. in English (First Class Honors) at Presidency College, Calcutta, in 
1959, her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Cornell University in 1967, 
and she is the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates. She received 
the Kyoto Prize in Thought and Ethics in 2012, and Padma Bhushan, the 
third highest civilian award given in the Republic of India, in 2013.
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*Professor Eric Schocket *taught American literature at Hampshire 
College from 1996 until his death in 2006. A much-admired teacher 
and colleague, his courses inspired a decade of students. Nationally, he 
was a leading figure in working-class studies. His writings on figures 
like Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, and 
Langston Hughes engaged the important relationship between class and 
culture. His book, /Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature/, 
was published in 2006.

For more information, please contact Linda McDaniel 
(lmcdaniel at hampshire.edu <mailto:lmcdaniel at hampshire.edu>), Assistant to 
the Dean in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies.

*/We hope you will join us!/*
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Michele Hardesty
Assistant Professor of U.S. Literatures
School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA
mhardesty at hampshire.edu <mailto:mhardesty at hampshire.edu>
413.559.5490
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http://hampshire.academia.edu/MicheleHardesty






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Paula Harmon, Administrative Assistant
School of Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
893 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
phone: 413.559.5502
fax: 413.559.5438
http://cs.hampshire.edu


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