Prof. Dr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Affirmative Sabotage

On 26th February 2018, in the framework of ERIAC first outreach program “International Cultural Outreach Program”, Prof. Dr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak form Columbia University gave a lecture together with Roma feminist scholars.

In this panel discussion organized in ERIAC’s office and art space, outstanding Roma activists discussed the transformative potential of transnational alliances and the power of the periphery to renew social cohesion. Through mobilizing the knowledge of Roma people, Roma feminists proposed to rethink the relationship between nationalism and diversity, searching for answers of what it means to be European today, in a continent divided by political challenges.

The discussion was inaugurated by a lecture of professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on the notion of "Affirmative Sabotage". In her lecture, professor Spivak spoke about the need for a “New Humanism” and linked the contemporary scholarly debates to the current situation of Roma.

Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, born 24 february 1942 in Calcutta, India, is a literary theorist, feminist critic, postcolonial theorist, and professor of comparative literature. She is a professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the institute for comparative literature and society. Considered one of the most influential postcolonial intellectuals, prof. Dr. Spivak is best known for her seminal essay “Can the subaltern speak?” And has eleven 11 honorary doctorates form universities across the world.

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