I-House Ushiba Fellowship
The first Fellow of the I-House Ushiba Fellowship
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Programs related to Prof. Spivak's visit to Japan under the I-House Ushiba Fellowship
Period of residency in Japan: June 28-July 20, 2007
[Academic Activism in the Humanities]
Date & Time: Sat, July 7th, 2007, 3:00 pm-6:00 pm
Venue: Room 2201, Higashi 2 Gokan, Hitotsubashi University
Organizers: Graduate Schools of Language & Society and Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
In co-sponsorship with the International House of Japan
Contact: Satoshi Ukai, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Tel: 042 (580) 9034 e-mail: ce00236*srv.cc.hit-u.ac.jp(please replace * with @)
Language: English/Japanese consecutive interpretation provided
[Rethinking Comparativism]
Date & Time: Tue. July 10th, 2007, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Venue: Sakima Art Museum (Ginowan City, Okinawa)
Admission: 1,000 yen
Organizer: Inter-College Organizing Committee for Spivak Seminar in Okinawa
In co-sponsorship with the International House of Japan
Contact: Ikuo Shinjou, Associate Professor, University of the Ryukyus
e-mail: shinjou*ll.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (please replace * with @)
Language: English/Japanese consecutive interpretation provided
Closed Meeting for Scholars and Researchers
[Spivak Colloquium: Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]
Date: Sat, July 14th, 2007
Venue: Ochanomizu University
Organizer: Ochanomizu University 21st Century COE Program, “Frontiers of Gender Studies”
In co-sponsorship with the International House of Japan
Language: English/Japanese simultaneous interpretation provided
[Other Asias] (I-House Academy)
Moderator: Satoshi Ukai, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Date & Time: Wed, July 18, 2007, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Venue: Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall, International House of Japan
Organizer: International House of Japan
Admission: I-House Members: Free/ Non-members: 1,500 yen/ Students: 1,000 yen
Language: English/Japanese simultaneous interpretation provided
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Born in Calcutta, India, in 1942. Received a B.A. in English (Honors) from Presidency College, Calcutta, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University for her dissertation on W. B. Yeats, under the supervision of Paul de Man, cultural critic. Critically intervening the politics working behind the production of knowledge and the system of representation as discourse in relation to power arrangements, Professor Spivak is regarded as a leading cultural critic and a public intellectual of our times.
Widely cited in a range of disciplines, her major writings and publications include Of Grammatology (translation, with critical introduction, of Derrida's text) (1976), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Selected Subaltern Studies (edited with Ranajit Guha) (1988), The Post-Colonial Critic (1990), The Spivak Reader (1995), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Death of a Discipline (2005),and Other Asias (2007).
Contact
Program Department
International House of Japan
5-11-16 Roppongi, Minato-ku Tokyo 106-0032 Japan
Tel: +81-3-3470-3211 Fax: +81-3470-3170
E-mail: program*i-house.or.jp (Please replace * with @)
