Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University Professor in the Humanities, will give a public lecture entitled "As My Work Pulls Me." This lecture will focus on her recent work An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization, among other topics.

The lecture will be followed by a lively Q&A session with RISD faculty and audience members.

Core faculty and leadership group for this event: Gwen Farrelly, Avishek Ganguly, Mimi Cabell, Tracie Costantino, Lindsay French, Paula Gaetano Adi, Leora Maltz-Leca, and Ijlal Muzaffar.

Support for RISD's "Global Forum: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak" is provided through collaborations with the RISD Global Partners & Programs Committee; RISD Global office; RISD Global Faculty Fellowship; the Division of Liberal Arts Humanities Fund; the Mapping Identities Initiative of the Provost's Office, the Division of Graduate Studies, and the RISD Museum.