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Decolonial Research Methods Webinar Series While the popularisation of a coherent decolonial paradigm may be one of the most significant developments within academia in recent years, there has not been enough focus on the implications of this ‘decolonial turn’ for research methods and methodologies. In this webinar series, eminent decolonial experts will reflect on some of the key issues relating to the coloniality/decoloniality of academic research methods and methodologies. This webinar series will prompt academic… read more about Webinar Series Recordings: Decolonial Research Methods »

"Yes, the university needs to be reformed. Students and future generations need to understand that corporate values at the university are reinforcing the uni-lateral view, which beyond being uni-lateral, is deadly. The struggle for the control of knowledge is imperative in the twenty-first century. Knowledge controlled only by the corporations and States supporting corporate values will be the last weapon for a ruling corporate elite managing a totalitarian society with the sweet chants of consumption and… read more about At the End of the University as We Know it »

 "Finally on sanctions. Canadian-Nishnaabeg writer, activist and singer, Leanna Simpson, makes a point in marking the distinction between Christian idea of education and First Nations (Indigenous people of Canada). Christianity education is based on prohibitions and punishments.  Nishnaabeg in nurturing, for the simple reasons that prohibitions and punishment encourages in a child violation of the prohibitions and revenge to the punishment. US implementing sanctions on Russia follows the Christian way of Western… read more about Ukraine 2014: A Decolonial Take »

Organised as part of the launch of the international and multidisciplinary scientific journal Global Africa, the international colloquium aims to encourage exchanges and debates on the stakes of pan-African research in the face of global challenges and its international outreach capabilities. Organised by the Gaston Berger University (UGB) -Saint-Louis, Senegal- and the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), in partnership with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa(Codesria) in the… read more about Upcoming Lecture! »

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. Mignolo is an important thinker of decoloniality and a postcolonial theorist. Drawing on decolonial thoughts and Indigenous thinking from Latin America, his study exposes the coloniality of power, the hegemony of Western epistemology, and geopolitics of knowledge hidden behind the world system since the sixteenth century.  Mignolo’s recent work investigates the political forces of… read more about New Faculty Publication »

In a recent article highlighting the work of five scholars at Duke University, Professor Leo Ching, African and African American Studies Chair Michaeline Crichow, Assistant Professor Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Jessica Namakkal and Romance Studies Professor Walter D. Mignolo all spoke about what decolonization means:   “Even when people aren’t invoking colonialism, they are pointing to the outcomes,” Crichlow said. A growing movement seeks to “decolonize” contemporary institutions in order to reckon with those… read more about What Decolonization Means »

The Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth in Germany in collaboration with the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa are launching a collaborative research project and seminar series on the theme: "The Changing African Idea of Africa and the Future of African Studies". This collaborative research starts with a series of seminars beginning in April 2022 consisting of invited speakers to… read more about New African Studies Seminar Series »

Learning to Unlearn Decolonially: Disobeying, Delinking and Relinking Dedicated to María Lugones June 21 – July 7, 2022 Eindhoven, The Netherlands Coloniality of knowledge, aesthetics and spirituality are areas of experience managed and controlled by major Western institutions. The combination of institutions and languages secured the belief in the universality of Western knowledge, aesthetics, beliefs and its peculiar 'rational' world-view. It also drove the appropriation and destitution… read more about Applications Now Open for The 2022 Decolonial Summer School! »

In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self-fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to eradicate all knowledges in non-European languages and praxes of living and being. Mignolo also traces the geopolitical origins… read more about New Book by Walter D. Mignolo: The Politics of Decolonial Investigations »

A conversation between Professor Walter Mignolo, Duke University (USA) and Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, University of Waikato, author of Decolonising Methodologies. Chaired by Gabriela Salgado, Artistic Director, Te Tuhi took place August 6, 2019, 5:30 - 6:30PM. This conversation event provided a platform for the analysis of comparative notions of autonomy, Indigenous epistemology and geo-body-politics of knowing and sensing as foundational in decolonial thinking. Supported by The University of Auckland Hood… read more about De-linking across Indigeneity: Walter Mignolo & Linda Tuhiwai Smith »

A founding thinker in the field of Decolonial Studies, Professor Walter Mignolo from Duke University, spoke in two free public events at the University of Auckland. On Tuesday, August 6, 2019, with a lecture titled "De-linking across Indigeneity." On Monday 12 August, 2019, discussing "Remapping the order of knowing: The idea of ‘Latin America’ revisited." For more information: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2019/08/02/decolonising-our-thinking…; read more about Decolonising Our Thinking »

International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Culture" June 11-12, 2019 The Workshop "Decolonial Aesthetics in Theater and Performance. Theatrical Strategies of De-Linking" - aims to examine the nothion of  'decolonial aesthetics,' coined and developed by Walter Mignolo and others, in relation to theater and performance in general, and in particular to processes of interweaving between performance cultures.   For more information, /sites/globalstudies.trinity.duke.edu/files/site-images/Workshop%… read more about Decolonial Aesthetics in Theater & Performance »

In this lecture Walter Mignolo, philosopher, William H. Wannamaker Distinguished and director of The Center for Global Studies and Humanities at Duke University (EUA), author of TheDarker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (2011) e Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges,and Border Thinking (1999 e 2012), will address the meaning, potential and boundaries of decoloniality after the Cold War exploring its cultural… read more about Decoloniality After the Cold War »

Frier Universität Berlin 21 - 24 June 2018 The conference sets out to investigate a key topic in research on interweaving performance cultures—this is the notion of knowledge. In four panels and two workshops, scholars from around the globe explore the dynamic relation between past and present processes of interweaving between performance cultures and practices of knowledge production.  http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/interweaving-performance-cultures/events/conferences/Dynamics-of-… read more about Dynamics of Interweaving Performance Cultures »

Tate Britain Talk The Clore Auditorium Millbank London SW1P 4RG 13 June 2018 at 18.30–20.00 Professor Walter Mignolo (Duke University) is internationally renowned for his research into colonial histories and systems. This is a unique chance to hear the Argentine thinker discuss his new work, and what the terms ‘coloniality’ and ‘decoloniality’ mean to him. Responding to the talk will be artist Phoebe Boswell, who will also join Walter in conversation with curator Alanna Lockward. There will also be an opportunity for… read more about Walter Mignolo on Decoloniality »

Prof. Walter Mignolo will gave a guest lecture on May 28th: "Latin' America in the Past and Current World (Dis) Order: Pueblos Originarios, European Diaspora and African Forced Migrations". The lecture started at 08:15 PM in HS 1098, KG I (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) . This event was part of the lecture series held in cooperation with the Arnold-Bergsträsser-Institut on "Latin America between Crises and New Opportunities: Social Movements, State and Democracy". read more about "Latin" America in the Past and Current World (Dis) Order: Pueblos Originarios, European Diaspora and African Forced Migrations  »

  Keynote speaker, Prof. Walter Mignolo (Duke University) The Humanities (and I would say the Human Sciences in European vocabulary, including the Humanities and Social Sciences) have a short story but they are a crucial field of knowing and doing in Western Civilization and scholarship. The Humanities were and still are a powerful tool of coloniality of knowledge. Coloniality of knowledge refers to Western imposition and/or local non-Western collaboration to supplant non-Western knowledges and praxis of knowing, in… read more about LA CONSCIENCE DÉCOLONIALE: THE CALL OF THE HUMANITIES »