THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PUBLICS: NORTH, SOUTH, AND IN BETWEEN
Critical Epistemology, Knowing
through
Gender
and the
Decolonial
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Inventing School: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Critical Theory
Decolonizing Critical Theory
Technologies of Critique: New Sources for Critical Theory
After Foucault: Gender and Biopolitics in the Americas
Aesthetics and the Critique of Political Theology
Critical
theory
in the
Global
South
Decolonizing Critical Theory
The project was designed as a conceptual and formal scaffolding for the different subprojects of Critical Theory in the Global South. It emphasized open-ended, collaborative research inquiries and in-situ meetings; promoting frameworks that encourage project designs on a learning-based trajectory.
The project was initiated in 2017 with a workshop and a teach-in event that brought together more than twenty scholars from universities in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, North America, and South Africa. The project's second event, "Decolonizing Critical Theory: Decolonial Aesthetics and Epistemic Violence," was produced in the following year as a four-day conference, which served as a platform for the participants to workshop and present their subprojects.
In 2020, the project held one of its first online events, curated specifically for the COVID era. Hosting close to twenty scholars, the event was formed as a series of workshops where scholars discussed the centrality of Santiago Castro-Gómez's work, Crítica de la razón latinoamericana (Critique of Latin American Reason, 1996). The workshops accompanied a new translation of Castro-Gómez's book. Published by Columbia University Press in 2021, the book includes interventions by participants including Linda Martín Alcoff, Eduardo Mendieta, Cintia Martínez Velasco, Jesús Luzardo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, and María del Rosario Acosta López.
Between 2021 and 2022, the project focused on decolonial reclamations of universality. Events included a conference and graduate dialogue with the speakers Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Paulin Hountondji, and Nadia Yala Kisukidi. In a followup eventgraduate students workshopped a prepublication translation initiative of essays by Kisukid with the author.
CRITICAL THEORY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
TEACH-IN SESSIONS
2017
Decolonizing Critical Theory: Decolonial Aesthetics and Epistemic Violence
2018
CRITIQUE OF LATIN AMERICAN REASON BY SANTIAGO CASTRO-GÓMEZ
WORKSHOP
2020
Decolonizing Universality
Conferences
2021-2022
Coordinator:
professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and Associate Director of its Critical Theory Cluster. In this capacity, she was coordinating PI (2017-2022) of Critical Theory in the Global South, a collaborative syllabus project funded by the Mellon Foundation in conjunction with a grant to U.C. Berkeley (PI: Judith Butler) to establish the International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs.
COLLABORative Investigators:
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joined the project as a Mellon predoctoral Fellow and joined Northwestern in the fall of 2022 as a PhD scholar in Spanish and Portuguese.
Now Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. As a Northwestern PHD Mellon PREDOCTORAL fellow, De Schryver organized the 2021 conference, "Decolonizing the University, Decolonizing the Universal."
Joined as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program of Critical Theory, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University.
As a postdoc Mellon fellow, Velasco joined the subproject, the Critical Epistemology, Knowing through Gender and the Decolonial.