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The third workshop in the SHIFTING THE GEO-GRAPHY AND BIO-GRAPHY OF KNOWLEDGE series, Coloniality at Large: From the Peripheries of the European Union (Romania, Hungary, and Ireland) took place on September 29-30, 2006 at Duke University and UNC, Chapel Hill with the participation of Manuela Boatca (University of Eischtatt, Germany) "The Imperial/Colonial Border: Changes & Pitfalls for Knowledge Production", Nicholas Allen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) "Thinking the Irish Republic", and Jozsef Borocz (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) 'Eastern' Europe on the Map of De-Colonial Studies".
Our second SHIFTING THE GEO-GRAPHY AND BIO-GRAPHY OF KNOWLEDGE workshop, Subaltern Geopolitics and Transnational Transgressions,took place on April 28-29, 2006 with the participation of Gertrude M. James González de Allen (Spelman College, Atlanta) "Transnational Transgressions: Reflections on the Shifting Dimensions of Afro-Latin Identity" and Taieb Belghazi ( University of Rabat, Morocco) "Subaltern Geopolitical Praxis in the New Global Arrangements: Harragas & hard Rockers in Morocco".
The Center for Global Studies and the Humanities was pleased to host a workshop on Afro-Latinidad: Racism, Oil and Beauty in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil). The workshop took place at Duke University on Friday, October 6 from 12:30 pm to 5:15 pm at the John Hope Franklin Center and was 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 took place at Duke University on Friday, September 29 from 12 noon to 6:15 pm and was followed by an informal conversation at UNC, Chapel Hill on Saturday, September 30 from 10 am to 1 pm with guest speakers Manuela Boatcă, Jozsef Borocz and Nicholas Allen.
The first in the SHIFTING THE GEO-GRAPHY AND BIO-GRAPHY OF KNOWLEDGE series, Identity and Liberty, was held Febuary 18 - 19, 2005 at Duke University. Keynote speakers were Linda Alcoff (Syracuse University) "The PoliticalCritique" and Anthony Bogues (Brown University) "Working Outside Criticism: Thinking Beyond Limits"
Patricia Lorenzoni will spend the fall 2005 semester as a fellow research scholar with the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities. She is a PhD candidate studying the "History of Ideas" at Goteborg University in Sweden. Patricia is doing her graduate research on the work of the late 19th and early 20th century anthropologist, J.G. Frazer, specifically looking at the role of violence in his thinking about savagism and civilization in an era of imperial expansion.The CGSH is pleased to announce that Nelson Maldonado-Torres has secured a Ford Foundation Fellowship and will be the CGSH's Research Scholar in Residence during the 2003-2004 academic year. He will use this time to complete a book project relating to the project, Locating Knowledges and Decolonizing Expertise.
CATHERINE
WALSH
The CGSH brought
Catherine Walsh, of the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
in Quito, Ecuador, and Edizon León, of the Fondo Documental,
to discuss their work documenting and working with Afro-Ecuadorian
and Indigenous movements. Walsh gave a public lecture on Friday,
April 25th at noon in Room 232 of the Franklin Center as part of
the Consortium in Latin American Studies' "Burning Issues"
Series.
EMMANUEL
CHUKWUDI EZE
Nigerian philosopher and De Paul University Professor Emmanuel Eze
delivered the final public lecture in the CGSH's 2002-3 research
cycle on human rights. The lecture took place on April 28 at 7:00pm
in Room 240 of the Franklin Center.
TERESA
BASILE
On Monday the 7th of April 2003, Teresa Basile, who is a Professor
of Latin American Literature at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata
delivered a lecture entitled, “El aporte de la novela histórica
uruguaya a los debates de la posdictadura,” in the Faculty
Lounge in Duke University’s West Union Building. CONTRIBUCIÓN
LATINOAMERICANA AL DEBATE CRÍTICO SOBRE MODERNIDAD Y COLONIALIDAD
Columbian philosopher
Santiago Castro-Gómez, Finnish theologian Elina Vuola, Duke
religion professor Nelson Maldonado-Torres, and University of Connecticut
cultural studies professor Freya Schiwy took part in a two-day event
(Feb. 7 and 8) at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and
Duke, reflecting on the critical role of Latin American thinkers
in shaping discourses about Modernity and Coloniality.
LOS
INTELECTUALES INDÍGENAS, LA UNIVERSIDAD Y LA POLÍTICA
EN LOS ANDES, HOY
This
workshop, which was sponsored by the Andean Working Group on "Modernity,
Development and Coloniality," Duke in the Andes, and the CGSH,
featured Marcelo Fernández (Universidad de San Andrés,
La Paz) and Joanne Rappaport (Fellow, National Humanities Center).
Their discussion on Andean intellectual and political life took
place at the Franklin Center on December 2, 2002.
BOAVENTURA
DE SOUSA SANTOS
On October 25, 2002, Portuguese legal expert and University of Wisconsin
Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos delivered a public lecture
related to the CGSH's theme for 2002-3: "Human Rights and Critical
Cosmopolitanism." Afterwards, he met with members of the Dialogical
Ethics and Critical Cosmopolitanism seminar.
SOYINI
MADISON
On
September 6, 2002, the Ethics and Cosmopolitanism seminar brought
Soyini Madison, Professor of Communication Studies at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Madison spoke on "Performance
and Human Rights."
TARIQ
ALI
On April 15, 2002, world-renowned scholar, writer, and activist
Tariq Ali spoke as part of the CGSH’s on-going project on “Dialogical
Ethics and Critical Cosmopolitanism.” Ali, who was born in
British-ruled Pakistan, spoke about his most recent book, The
Clash of Fundamentalisms, which explores the competing visions
of religion and modernity that emerged after September 11th.
THE
COLOR OF HEGEMONY: LATINOS/AS IN THE U.S. AND NORTH CAROLINA
The CGSH co-sponsored this two-day conference in February 2002 on
the role of Latinos/as as strategic agents in processes of social,
cultural, and political transformation in the U.S. Bringing together
activists, scholars, and critics from the fields of Chicano/a, U.S.,
Latino/a literary and cultural studies, political science, cultural
anthropology, performance studies, journalism, and communications,
the workshop explored links between academic work and human rights,
research, teaching and activism toward social change and justice.
GLOBALIZATION,
AREA STUDIES AND THE
UNIVERSITY
This two-year project between Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill was co-organized
by Walter Mignolo and Jim Hevia of UNC. The first meeting at Duke
in February 2001 was part of the inauguration of the John Hope Franklin
Center. The meeting's participants represented several different
departments: anthropology, history, religion, literature, as well
as Asian and African languages and literature. A dossier consisting
of half a dozen position papers plus the statement from the organizers
was published in Nepantla: Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise.