Gayatri Spivak: Teaching for a broken world
The research group Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality Research invites you to read and discuss 2025 Holberg Laureate Gayatri Spivak’s latest text Teaching for a broken world.
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The Holberg Prize — one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology — recently named Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as its 2025 Laureate.
Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and considered one of the most influential global intellectuals of our time. She has shaped literary criticism and philosophy since the 1970s.
She receives the prize for her groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in comparative literature, translation, postcolonial studies, political philosophy, and feminist theory. Read more on the Holberg Prize's webpage: Literary Theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Named 2025 Holberg Prize Laureate.
In connection with this, University of Bergen's interdisciplinary and interfaculty research group Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality Research invites you to read and discuss her latest text Teaching for a broken world.
Everyone who's interested is welcome to meet and discuss the text at Sydnesplassen 12-13: Undervisningsrom 210 (Mazemap link embedded). No registration is necessary.
