Decolonizing the academy - Call for papers
We welcome panel and abstract submissions for papers engaging with questions of decolonization/decoloniality. We welcome scholars working in and on any geographical region, but we are particularly interested in work on the Americas and Africa and dialogues between them.
This one-day conference, titled "Decolonizing the academy", will be held at the University of Edinburgh and will feature a keynote lecture by Ramón Grosfoguel (UC- Berkeley).
Friday 26 February 2016
Possible themes for submitted papers include:
- Decolonial social movements and political projects
- Decolonial, non-capitalist and revolutionary subjectivities,
- epistemologies, ontologies, philosophies and theologies
- Past and present forms of slavery and demands for slavery reparations
- Epistemic violence
- Dimensions of the colonial matrix of power, including gender and
- sexuality, institutions, knowledge and authority
- Theoretical engagements with decolonial thinkers
- Border thinking and non-linear forms of knowledge
- Transmodernity
- The politics of buen vivir
- Power beyond the state
- Meanings, discourses and representations of blackness/indigeneity
- The Africa diaspora, the Black Atlantic, the Black Pacific
- Racism/anti-racism
- Decentring Eurocentrism
- Interactions between MCD and postcolonial studies
- Questions of cultural and political citizenship
- Alternative and non-modern spatialities, temporalities, cartographies and chronologies
Please send paper and panel proposals to Julie Cupples (julie.cupples@ed.ac.uk) using the application form which can be found here:
Deadline for submission: 9 December 2015
For further information about these events, please contact Julie Cupples (julie.cupples@ed.ac.uk)