Saturday, 13 May 2000
9:00 AM - 12:00 noon
REGISTRATION IAPL PUBLISHERS' BOOK EXHIBIT & CAF (Coffee, tea, juice, and pastries in the morning)
Student Activities Center Auditorium, SUNY/Stony Brook
All concurrent sessions will be held on the third floor of the SUNY/Stony Brook Student Activities Center [SAC].
10:00 AM-1:30 PM X CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
CE - 1S: Gayatri Spivak and the Limits of Postcolonial Reason (SAC 306 )
Chair: Renuka Sharma (Psychoanalyst, Melbourne, visiting Emory University). 1. Joan Scott (Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University), "Spivak and History." 2. Drucilla Cornell (School of Law, Rutgers University), "Spivak's Feminism." 3. Abdullahi A. An-Ha'im (School of Law, Emory University), "Inventing Post-colonial Africa - an Islamic Critique." 4. Thomas Keenan (Human Rights Project, Bard College), "Rights and Responsibilities." 5. Purushottama Bilimoria* (Philosophy, Deakin University-University of Melbourne, Australia, and visiting Emory University), "A Postcolonial Critique of Reason - Spivak between Kant and Matilal.'' 6. Donna Jones (English, Princeton University), "Spivak and Culture." 7. Ritu Birla (History, Columbia University), "There's a Limit: Spivak on the Secret Value of History." 8. Dina Al-Kassim* (English, SUNY/Albany), "Foreclosure and Transnational Literacy." 9. Forest B. Iii Pyle (English, University of Oregon), "A Critique of Postcolonial Judgment: Gayatri Spivak and the Problem of the Aesthetic." 10. Mark Sanders (Society for the Humanities, Cornell University), "Post-script." Respondent: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)