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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).

For travel directions visit www.le.ac.uk/portals/maps/howto.html

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