Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a world renowned scholar, theorist and professor at Columbia University. Her thoughts and works have inspired academic communities across the globe. She is best known for her essay Can the Subaltern Speak? and for her translation of, and introduction to Derrida’s De la Grammatologie . Outside in the Teaching Machine, Death of a Discipline and Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization are some other works.

Gayatri Spivak will inaugurate the colloquium and speak on the topic The Theatre of Education on 12-12- 2017, at 10. a.m. In the afternoon of 12-12- 2017, she is interacting with the alternative educators in Kerala.

Sadanand Menon is an Indian arts editor, cultural journalism teacher, photographer, stage light designer and professor at Asian College of Journalism and IIT Madras. His writings and speeches on various topics have been instrumental in training the imagination of the arts students across India. He will talk on the topic Compulsory Miseducation: A Perspective from the Arts, on 13-12- 2017, at 10. a.m.

As a renowned thinker, writer and speaker, Sunny M Kapikad has always been at the forefront of various movements for Dalits in Kerala. His is an invaluable presence in the seminars and conferences across India. He speaks on the topic, Institutionalised Exclusion at the valedictory session of the colloquium, to be held on 14-12- 2017, at 2.30 p.m.