Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Starting at the End: Picking Up the Relay of Shesher Kabita 

The Inaugural Maya Mitra Das Lecture on Tagore
Speaker: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian literary theorist, feminist critic, postcolonial theorist, and University Professor at Columbia University
Panelist/Discussants: Poulomi Saha, Associate Professor of English; Rahul Bjørn Parson, Assistant Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Opening Remarks: : Sugata Ray, Associate Professor of History of Art and of South & Southeast Asian Studies; Interim Director, Institute for South Asia Studies
Sponsors: Institute for South Asia Studies, The Tagore Program on Literature, Culture and Philosophy at UC Berkeley, The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Department of English, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights, Department of Anthropology, Arts & Humanities, Letters & Science Division of , Department of Sociology, The Program in Critical Theory, Center for Race and Gender, Social Science Matrix
The Institute for South Asia Studies and the Tagore Program on Literature, Culture and Philosophy at UC Berkeley and are privileged to have Dr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, acclaimed Indian literary theorist, feminist critic, and postcolonial theorist deliver our inaugural Maya Mitra Das Annual Lecture on Tagore at UC Berkeley.