Re-Orientale: Reading Orientalism with Gayatri Spivak and Kyoo Lee March 2, 2010

Re-Orientale: Reading Orientalism with Gayatri Spivak and Kyoo LeeMarch 2nd 2010, Tuesday, 6:30pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre

This public seminar with Gayatri Spivak sets out to explore the heart of Occidentalism from the outside in by using Edward Said’s field-defining modern classic as the starting point. Gayatri Spivak is University Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University. Kyoo Lee is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Jay College, and Resident Mellon Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center

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