Category: work

Right to move / Libertad de movimiento

De fronteras internas y externas a colaboraciones, líneas de fuga y perspectivas
De 23 a 26 de mayo de 2016, Goethe Institut – Barcelona

Durante cuatro días presentaremos en el Goethe-Institut Barcelona conferencias performativas, ponencias y debates, proyecciones y documentación alrededor de los temas “Decolonizar el lenguaje”, “Líneas de fuga” y “Estrategias de trabajo en red”. Con “Decolonizar el lenguaje” queremos cuestionar el uso del lenguaje y la cultura como prácticas para re-organizar la sociedad y la política. En “Líneas de fuga” nos aproximamos a los movimientos migratorios actuales y a la continuidad de conflictos heredados del pasado colonialista. “Estrategias de trabajo en red” mostrará prácticas que resumen los puntos anteriores a través del ejemplo de proyectos positivos que presentan las perspectivas de un trabajo social y político nuevo.

Toward a non – Eurocentric Academia: Border Thinking and Decoloniality from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Americas

SUMMER INSTITUTE
UNC, CHAPEL HILL AND DUKE UNIVERSITY (U.S.A), MAY 14-22, 2016

In May 2016, the Summer Institute Toward a non-Eurocentric Academia: Border Thinking and Decoloniality, will assemble advanced graduate students and junior scholars from different parts of the world to create a platform for crosscutting, inter-sectional, and trans-disciplinary research that seeks to think through the contemporary crisis of post-colonial epistemologies with a focus on border making, border contestation and new border imaginations. The workshop will aim to re-evaluate the state of humanities and social sciences in a non-Eurocentric global order today. The terms ‘Decoloniality, Borders, Borderthinking, Borderlands’ will not only be approached in their immediate political and physical sense, but also as tropes of thinking about the complexity of modern human experience that can not be understood with the analytical tools of civilizational, national and religious containers. Gathering contributions from Gender Studies, Black Studies, Religious Studies, Post-colonial Studies and Decolonial Thinking the workshop will offer various theoretical critiques rooted in multiple humanities and social science fields, yet exceeding them in their significance.

kronotop.org / online archive of video-interviews

Understanding practice as a network of connections from one theoretical point to another, and theory as a network of connections between one practice and another, kronotop.org is conceptualized as a research project committed to action, theoretical and practical.

With the intention to relate art, activism, politics and critical theory, and in the search for situations that encourage dialogue and collaborative networks, kronotop.org opens a collective space to think about the politics of positioning, critical interventions, limits of representation, as well as current conditions of art production and distribution. It is is a space for sharing ideas which can be rethought, rearticulated, expanded or used by other persons or groups in different contexts of their political actions.

Angela Davis: Life between Politics and Academia

Angela Davis: Life between Politics and Academia

5th of October, 2015, 18:30h

University of Vienna, Großen Festsaal (Great ceremonial hall, main building)

The introductory speech by Marissa Lôbo and Njideka Stephanie Iroh from Black_Woman*_Space (http://blackwomenspace.com) and PAMOJA – The Movement of the young African Diaspora in Austria(facebook.com/pamojamovement).

The lecture was organized within the gender justice focus project by AG UniFrauenJubel, University of Vienna

(univie.ac.at/en/650/celebrating-with-us/gender-justice-focus/)

Angela Davis lecture: Life between Politics and Academia

5 October 2015, 18:30
Venue: University of Vienna, Großen Festsaal (Great ceremonial hall, main building)

Angela Davis, activist and philosopher, associated with the Black Panthers in the 1960s-1970s. She joined the Communist Party when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. Already in the 1970s she taught women’s and gender studies as well as African American studies in the US. Concurrently, she became a central figure in the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the US. She still investigates the intersections between oppression on grounds of gender, race/ethnicity and class in a globalised world.