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Lectures

III Balvant Parekh Distinguished Lecture

and

National Symposium on "The Human Sciences in the Time of Disciplinary Decadence"

10-12 Feb ruary 2011

Venue: Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences,

302, Siddhi Vinayak Complex, Behind the Railway Station,

Faramji Road, Alkapuri, Baroda Tel: (0265-2320870)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, New York City will deliver the

Third Balvant Parekh Distinguished Lecture on "Teaching Literature Today" on February 11, 2011 at the Centre. To

coincide with her visit, a symposium on the above topic will be organized. Historically speaking, the human sciences

emerged during the time of the First World War from a crisis in European thought; now is perhaps the time of the second

renaissance of that awakening. At a time when disciplines like the humanities and social sciences are under a serious

threat from the market forces that have considered these knowledge-generating fi elds of study as useless luxuries for

social well-being, one needs to recall the old Greek term "theoria" for reclaiming what could be called an "originary

experience" of knowledge combining a penchant for theory and its application in praxis. The human sciences have to be

understood as an attempt to get back to that experience. As a hybrid episteme drawing its sustenance from the positive

attributes of both the sciences (natural and social) and the humanities, the human sciences seem to have provided a

way out of the "disciplinary decadence," to use a phrase from Lewis Gordon, our institutions have fallen into. They are

also an attempt to simultaneously de-transcendentalize Theory as abstraction and to distil empirical praxis to conceptual

refl ection. Professor Spivak's recent works and concerns are directed toward that effort. Some of the papers presented

at the symposium will be published as a book. Those who want to present papers in this Symposium should mail their

abstracts to [email protected] by December 15, 2010. Full papers should reach us by January 15, 2011. Registration

fee for participation is: Rs.1000/ (Rupees one thousand only), which may be sent by money order or bank draft favoring

Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences by January 15. This amount will take care of

lunch and tea during the Symposium. Those who want to attend the event without making any presentations are also

welcome to register by paying the same amount.

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