The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University is pleased to announce A Dialogue with Gianni Vattimo: Philosophy, Democracy and Critical Cosmopolitanism with the participation of : Romand Coles, Political Theory, Duke University; Wahneema Lubiano, African and African-American Studies and Literature, Duke University; William Hart, Religion, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro. This event will take place on Thursday, November 30, 2006 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm in the John Hope Franklin Center, room 240, Duke University. Preceding Professor Vattimo's conversation at Duke, he will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
Monday, November 27: A Conversation on Recent Political Changes in Latin America
Tuesday,, November 28: The Post-Enlightenment University
Wednesday, November 29: A Roundtable Discussion
"The end of philosophy in the age of democracy" by Gianni Vattimo
"Philosophy, Peace and the Myth of Unity" by Gianni Vattimo
Professor Walter Mignolo was quest speaker at "The Crisis of the Social Sciences" seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students at Smolny College, Saint Petersburg. Professor Mignolo delivered "Epistemic Disobedience and the De-Colonial Option: A Manifesto ", on Wednesday, November 1, 2006 and "Epistemic Disobedience and the De-Colonial Option: the Meaning of Identity in Politics ", on Thursday, November 2, 2006.
Professor Walter Mignolo presented a lecture on "Globalization and Critical Cosmopolitanism", at People's Friendship University of Russia on Monday, October 30, 2006.
Walter Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, delivered the Avenali Lecture, "Globalization and De-Colonial Thinking", at the University of California, Berkeley on October 17, 2006.
The Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University is pleased to announce a workshop on Afro-Latinidad: Racism, Oil and Beauty in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil). The workshop will take place at Duke University on Friday, October 6 from 12:30 pm to 5:15 pm at the John Hope Franklin Center and will be followed by an informal conversation with the speakers, Livio Sansone and Angela Figueiredo, on Saturday, October 7 from 10 am to 1 pm, International House, Duke University.
The Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University and the working group on Globalization, Modernity, and Coloniality (The Consortium of Latin American Studies) announce a workshop on Coloniality at Large: From the Peripheries of the European Union (Romania, Hungary, and Ireland). The workshop will take place at Duke University on Friday, September 29 from 12 noon to 6:15 pm and will be followed by an informal conversation at UNC, Chapel Hill on Saturday, September 30 from 10 am to 1 pm.
The Center for Global Studies and the Humanities is co-sponsoring the Insurgencias políticas epistémicas y giros de-coloniales workshop on July 17 - 19, 2006 taking place at the Universiadad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito. This workshop follows the one co-organized by the CGSH in Bolivia with PIEB (Proyecto Investigación Estratética de Bolivia) and the French Embassy in La Paz.
Walter Mignolo, Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, and Louise Meintjes, Music Department at Duke University, are currently at the University of Bremen presenting at the first international workshop in the Duke-Bremen Series: Transcultural Humanities- Between Globalization and Postcolonial Re-Readings of History.
We are pleased to announce the start of a new three-year cycle of Dialogical Ethics and Critical Cosmopolitanism with its first meeting held on Monday, May 1, from 12 - 4 at the John Hope Franklin Center.
The CGSH was pleased to co-sponsor the 2006 faculty lecture series at the Duke Center for Multicultural Affairs where Jacqueline M. Martinez, associate professor of communication at Arizona State University, presented Interrogating Prejudice: Discursive Violence & Methodological Reflexivity by Crossing the Global/local Divide. Professor Martinez's most recent work is the Phenomenology of Chicana Experience & Identity.