Category: conferences

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.

International Conference, 13th – 15th November 2014
Institute of Sociology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen

Crisis is not exceptional in capitalism but its constant companion. It represents the foundation from which the modern/colonial world system has evolved. This conference draws on critical feminist economics and decolonial feminist thought and practice on material matters. The question of materiality has emerged as a central topic in recent years. Under the umbrella term “new materialism”, this interdisciplinary and multifaceted academic debate seems to have revived a Marxist vocabulary. Yet, the question of why “materiality” matters in times of crisis capitalism is rather absent in this debate. We are considering this question by three interrelated aims: first, to examine from transnational feminist perspectives the impact of the global crisis on people’s livelihoods; second, to explore the theoretical contributions of the triad of feminism, coloniality and political economy; and, third, to consider critical feminist economics and decolonial approaches to thinking alternative economies and convivial futures.

Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory IX / The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism
29 June – 11 July 2014

The Programme
The 2014 programme will span two intensive weeks of lectures, seminars, public events, exhibitions and performances. The idea behind the planning of this mobile Workshop is to travel to significant critical sites in the history of South Africa’s notorious racial project in order to open the question of the “non-racial” both in South Africa and in its manifestation in other parts of the world. Workshop participants will travel by bus from Johannesburg to Swaziland, Durban, Mandela’s grave at Qunu, Steve Biko’s Ginsberg, and conclude in Cape Town. At each site, the Workshop will convene conversations that explore the histories and legacies of racisms in these particular places, posing these histories in relation to broader conversations about the post-, non-, and anti-racisms across relational global contexts. Lectures, panel discussions and performances will draw on research from the African continent, China, Australia, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Euro-America, as well as on some of the oceans that connect them.

Speakers and Performers
The 2014 Session will feature a range of local and international speakers and performers. These include: Ackbar Abbas, Ruha Benjamin, Keith Breckenridge, Mwelela Cele, Sharad Chari, Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Philomena Essed, David Theo Goldberg, Siba Grovogui, Ghassan Hage, Salah Hassan, Isabel Hofmeyr, Premesh Lalu, Liu Sola, Achille Mbembe, Dilip Menon, Neo Muyanga, Sarah Nuttall, Deborah Thomas, Francoise Verges.

un proyecto de Diásporas Críticas

1ª sesión – 16 de mayo Viernes de 19:30 a 21:30h – Migrarte – Espacio del Inmigrante del Raval (C/ Passatge Bernardí Martorell. Nº2 entresuelo 1ra. Raval)
23 de mayo – MACBA – Aula 0
30 de mayo – MACBA – Aula 0

A partir de una selección de textos de Walter Mignolo y otrxs pensadorxs fundamentales del actual debate decolonial/postcolonial abordaremos algunas preguntas que abrirán una diáspora crítica hacia la decolonización colectiva ¿Cómo y dónde opera la colonialidad hoy? ¿Cómo se sostiene, se reproduce y se aprende? ¿Cómo desvelarla y desmantelarla? ¿Cómo intervenir desde los activismos anticoloniales y las prácticas artísticas en la invención de tecnologías descolonizadoras? ¿Cuáles serían las técnicas de decolonización hoy y aquí? ¿Cuáles serían nuestras estrategias de auto-descolonización y descolonización colectiva?

Estas preguntas nos invitan a revisar lecturas y materiales, recorriendo categorías y experiencias fundamentales para comprender el funcionamiento –invisible pero efectivo– de la colonialidad que reproducimos hoy, presente en el pensamiento, las leyes, la producción de los cuerpos y las formas de trabajo y organización.