Past Events

Disciplinary Delinking: Gnoseology and the Politics of Decolonial Investigations

February 6-10, 2023

 

ICRRA Conference: Cooperation in a Fragmented World

October 13, 2021

On 13 October 2021, Walter D. Mignolo, the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature at Duke University, delivered the keynote speech for "Cooperation in a Fragmented World", the annual conference of the International Cultural Relations Research Alliance (ICRRA). The title of his talk was "Colonial and Imperial Differences: A Hindrance to Inter-national Cultural Cooperations"

 

Conceptualizing Planetary Humanities: Public Panels

June 24, 2021

From June 24-25, 2021, two public panels moderated by Professor Dominic Sachsenmaier of the University of Göttingen (Germany) discussed the topic of Conceptualizing Planetary Humanities. The way knowledge is produced, managed, applied and disseminated on a global scale today is damaging to the environment and to social relations, threatening to destroy the well-being of the vast majority of humans in the near future. What needs to be done in order to change this? Many scholars working on humanities questions agree that there is a need for a radically new interpretative framework of the world. What would a new narrative on globalization, a planetary narrative, look like? 

 

Eurocentrism, Coloniality, and Museums/Eurocentrismo, colonialidad y museos

June 15, 2021

Professor Walter Mignolo spoke by invitation of Fundación TyPA, Theoria y Practica de las Artes as a central figure in Latin American decolonial thought and founding member of its Modernity/Coloniality Group. TyPA's new online program examining the role museums play in this time of ongoing change is designed to help viewers understand the transformations they observe.

 

UNESCO Panel: The Legacy of Slavery, Transgenerational Trauma, and Collective Healing

May 26, 2021

At this exciting international event, the UNESCO Slave Route Project and the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace Research Institute (GHFP) will bring together high-profile speakers and artists to launch "Healing the Wounds of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery: Approaches and Practices: A Desk Review." 

 

The Beauty of the Sovereign People: Jean Casimir and the Decolonial History of Haiti

May 19, 2021

UFS observes Africa Day with a different theme each year. This year's theme as declared by the African Union was "The AU Year of the Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want." Walter Mignolo gave the Memorial Lecture at Annual Africa Day online

 

#Educarconsentido: "La descolonizaciòn de las ideas, como la de universalidad"

May 14, 2021

Pablo Rivera Vargas of the University of Barcelona Department of Teaching, Learning, and Educational Organization joined Ezequiel Passeron, Institutional Director of Faro Digital, in an online dialogue with decolonial theory expert Walter Mignolo May 14, 2021.

 

Decoloniality: Paulino José Miguel

May 14, 2021

Broadcast from Tübingen, Germany via livestream radio, Global Learning on Air (Globales Lernen On Air) explores the widely discussed topic of decoloniality as a possible way out of the structures that European modernity and colonialism created and which still structure our thinking and behavior today.

 

The Politics of Decolonial Investigations - Central University, New Delhi

May 5, 2021

Department of English at Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University in New Delhi held their Annual Distinguished Lecture.

 

No quiero hablar por ti sino contigo: un homenaje a María Lugones desde Abya Yala

May 4, 2021

Acompáñennos este martes 4 de mayo 2021 para crear juntes un homenaje a la vida, fuerza y legado de María Lugones.

 

Keynote Address: Decoloniality and the Politics of History

April 29, 2021

This month-long series of panels April 29-May 28 places the frameworks by which we produce historical knowledge at its center. Walter D. Mignolo gives the keynote address.

 

James Kirk Memorial Lecture: The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

April 21, 2021

Professor Mignolo gave the annual James Kirk lecture sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Denver's College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences on April 21, 2021. Founded in 1998, the mission of the lectureship is to foster greater understanding of the important role religion plays in the world.

 

The New Polis Roundtable: What Do We Mean by "Decoloniality"?

April 14, 2021

Walter Mignolo, Catherine Walsh, Tink Tinker, and Fernando Herrero held a roundtable at The New Polis on April 14, 2021 on the topic, "What Do We Mean by 'Decoloniality'?" The discussion was hosted by Victor Taylor.

 

El Declive de la Hegemonía Occidental y Continuidad del Capitalismo

March 10, 2021

Professor Walter Mignolo gave an online talk on March 10, 2021 as a guest speaker of the University of the Pacific Andean Sciences conference series in Lima, Peru.

 

La Colonialidad: Implicaciones del progreso, la modernización y el desarrollo en el mundo

March 6, 2021

Guest speaker Professor Walter Mignolo joins Comunicaciones Ciencias Sociales y Humanas Universidad de Antiquoia for his talk, "Coloniality: Implications of Progress, Modernity, and Global Growth."

 

Decoloniality, Coloniality, and Mobility: A Conversation with Professor Walter Mignolo

March 4, 2021

Queen Mary University of London, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and School of Politics and International Relations Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholars Benedetta Zocchi and Manuela da Rosa Jorge speak with Professor Walter Mignolo about decolonial thinking, coloniality and mobility in an online talk.

 

Decoloniality and the Future of Democracy

February 17, 2021

School of International Training critical scholar Taieb Belghazi and leading decolonial theorist Walter Mignolo engage with postcolonialism and decolonial thought, providing a critical reading of major decolonial concepts such as Modernity/Coloniality, the Colonial Matrix of Power, Delinking, Gnoseology, and Aesthesis.

 

Decolonization, Neocolonialism and Human Rights: Walter Mignolo

December 15, 2020

Decolonization, Neocolonialism and Human Rights is an interdisciplinary reading group at the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) at Columbia University, serving as a colloquium among peers dedicated but not limited to terms of intersectional discrimination, inequality, Human Rights, and colonial history.

 

Vivir y pensar en la frontera: Philosophy Day 2020

November 30, 2020

Professor Walter Mignolo gave a lecture entitled "Vivir y pensar en la frontera: en fin de la filosofía y la diferencia colonial" in celebration of Philosophy Day. The Philosophy Institute of Valparaíso University and the Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez Catholic University in Santiago, Chile organized the event, in collaboration with presenters Alex Ibarra and Eugenia Fraga. 

 

Theory from the Margins: The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

November 18, 2020

Philosopher, semiotician, and author Walter D. Mignolo, one of the world’s foremost thinkers on epistemic decolonization and a founder of the modernity/coloniality school of thought, discusses two works in this Theory from the Margins event.

 

Conversa con Walter Mignolo

August 5, 2020

The current times have shown us the need to rethink life, the role of the State, democracy itself and the global and local effects of the coronavirus pandemic. In a talk with the Association of Applied Linguistics of Brazil ("ALAB": Associação de Linguística Aplicada do Brasil) in August 2020, Walter Mignolo discussed themes of decolonial thinking, education, democracy and the coronavirus pandemic reflecting on our current context. Lynn Mário Trindade Menezes de Souza hosted the conversation.

 

The Communal, the Museum and the End of the Contemporary: Decolonial Summer School

June 23, 2020

This summer school course will focus on the communal and modern/colonial histories, looking in particular at the role of museums and other cultural institutions and their (potential) impact on society. The school will analyse the conceptual foundation of “modern” cultural institutions questioning the idea of “modernity’ through a decolonial perspective. We will explore the closing of Western modernity through the end of the contemporary and the decolonial opening toward the communal.

 

Transnational Soundscapes: Literary and Sonic Cultures across the Americas and Iberia

February 25, 2020

The Transnational Soundscapes symposium will bring scholars to present and discuss topics of sound, literature, and culture across the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula.

 

Global South Cultural Production and Dialogue

December 19, 2019

Professor Walter D. Mignolo served as the Academic Convener and keynote speaker of the twenty-second International Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory. The event, held in Hyderabad from the 19- 21 December 2019, was the result of a collaboration between Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (Formerly American Studies Research Centre) and the International Lincoln Center for American Studies of Louisiana State University (Shreveport, USA). 

 

Epistemic Reconstitution(s): Colonial/Imperial Differences and Border Thinking

December 12, 2019

Professor Walter D. Mignolo, PhD spoke at the Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences, on December 12, 2019 at 4pm. There was a symposium on the topic of the Lecture on December 13-14, 2019.

 

Gritos, Grietas y Siembras

July 18, 2019

The Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador hosted a three day event, for homage and celebration of Quijano and Garcia's live achievement and influence. Speakers included Danilo Quijano, Walter Mignolo, Rita Segato, Edguardo Lander, Catherine Walsh, and more.

 

Reconstitución epistemológico/estética y/en los tres ejes del patrón colonial de poder

May 3, 2019

Walter Mignolo desarrolla esta conferencia en el "Congreso-Homenaje Internacional Aníbal Quijano Descolonialidad del poder hoy" realizado en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales del 03 al 09 de mayo del 2019.
 

Colloquium on Decoloniality After Decolonization: The Question of Knowledge and Higher Education in Southern Africa and the Global South

August 13, 2018

The workshop unfolds from a proposal of the same title lead by Walter Mignolo with the collaboration of Catherine Walsh of Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Quito; Leo Ching, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University; and Roberto Dainotto, Romance Studies and Program in Literature at Duke University.

 

De-colonization and Re-Afrikanisation: A Conversation

August 6, 2018

A groundbreaking conference that sought answers to what de-colonisation and re-Afrikanisation truly mean for South Africa and Africa?

 

Conferencia: El museo en el horizonte colonial de la modernidad

May 4, 2017

El museo y la universidad son dos instituciones claves tanto en la formación y auto-definición de la Civilización Occidental como en la constitución, reproducción y diseminación de la colonialidad del saber. En palabras de Mignolo “La universidad (que no es universal, lo que se puede considerar universal es la educación no las instituciones que la actualizan) data en occidente del medioevo. La formación del museo es más tardía, y comienza con las Cabinet des curiosités y la Kunstkamera. Puesto que son instituciones guardianas de la colonialidad del saber y en consecuencia de la colonialidad del ser, provocan necesariamente respuestas decolonizantes. Sobre la universidad son notables los reclamos actuales de estudiantes en toda Sud Africa: decolonizar la universidad, decolonizar el conocimiento. Igual reclamos existen ya con respecto al museo”. Así, Mignolo desarrollará sus investigaciones y llamados a la desoccidentalizacion del museo, tomando, entre otros, el Museo de Arte Islámico de Doha y el Museo de las Civilizaciones Asiáticas en Singapur como casos de estudio. 

 

Radio Papesse Interview with Walter D. Mignolo

Twenty years after his publication The Darker Side of the Renaissance, he held the Key Lecture at the symposium Unmapping the Renaissance (12 – 15 March 2015, Villa Romana in cooperation with the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut).