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Spivak (re)envisions 'global humanities'

By Stephanie Pottinger | February 5

In the course of a wide-ranging speech Wednesday, eminent literary theorist Gayatri Spivak decried the "thousands of years of cognitive oppression" imposed on marginalized populations and urged the humanities towards a heightened awareness of these issues. Spivak's talk to a packed Pembroke Hall inaugurated ...

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Divided 'Square Roots' reaches its limit

By Stephanie Pottinger | December 9

After a two-year stay on the Front Green, Patrick Dougherty's "Square Roots" will be dismantled and removed in January 2009.

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Novelists talk identity, life

By Stephanie Pottinger | November 9

Last Friday, renowned novelists Ngugi wa Thiong'o of Kenya and George Lamming of Barbados spoke to an audience of around one hundred in Salomon 101 about the politicized uses of literature in postcolonial Africa and the Anglophone Caribbean. This event was the third installment since 2004 in the Department ...

Spivak (re)envisions 'global humanities'

Divided 'Square Roots' reaches its limit

Novelists talk identity, life

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