03/07/2022
All students who are returning in the fall are invited to submit proposals to lead a session at International Roundtable 2022, October 13-15. Proposals for student-led sessions may be submitted by completing the IRT Proposal form by March 25. Check out the short slide deck in our instagram bio for more details about the IRT.
Working abstract for International Roundtable 2022:
There has been a recent growth in calls and arguments for decolonizing frameworks of knowledge, and the concomitant “coloniality of power” by which social and cultural systems reinforce Eurocentric hierarchies that presume “others” as inferior and less valuable. This global condition has also produced anti-colonial and emancipatory epistemologies which have contributed to decolonizing possibilities for governance, education, social movements, international relations, environmental practices, the media, for race and sexualities, and more. Our 2022 IRT will create the space to discuss decolonization efforts and also ask critical questions: Who can decolonize? What has worked as decolonial praxis and what are the limits? Can decolonization ever be attained? Can decolonizing approaches decenter power? What are some of the fissures and fractures within decolonial practices? What tensions, solidarities, and collectivities can emerge from encounters with intersectionality, critical race theory, indigenous ontologies and pluriverse thinking, ecology, feminism, and q***r theory just to name a few? How does decolonization work across space, geopolitics, and borders? Can the global South and the West ever achieve “having a discussion of equals”?
Questions? Contact Professor Olga Gonzalez [email protected], Paul Cosme, '22 [email protected], or Meg Thorson [email protected]
