[Reader-list] Spivak Lecture, Leicester 16 June

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Please find attached details of a public lecture to be held at the Centre
for Philosophy and Political Economy, University of Leicester on 16 June.
Details also below:

“Ethics with a Public Face”

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

3.30pm, Friday 16 June 2006

Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy
University of Leicester Management Centre

Lecture Theatre 1, Ken Edwards Building, University of Leicester

To be followed by a reception, 5.30pm – 7.00pm

Senior Common Room, 5th Floor, Charles Wilson Building

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the
Humanities at Columbia University, New York. One of the leading public
intellectuals of our times, she is the author of numerous articles and
book chapters and is internationally renowned for her ground-breaking work
in literary and cultural studies, in feminist, Marxist and deconstructive
theory, and is a leading figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies. She
is translator of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology and many works by
Mahasweta Devi and her books include In Other Worlds (1987), The
Postcolonial Critic (1990), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), The
Spivak Reader (1996), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999) and Death
of a Discipline (2003).

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For more information visit www.le.ac.uk/ulmc/cppe or email cppe at le.ac.uk