Walter Mignolo

Mignolo

Professor Walter Mignolo is William H Wannamaker Distinguished Professor in Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University and Director, Centre for Global Studies and the Humanities. He will be a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and will be hosted by the Department of Sociology, the Social Theory Centre and the Global History and Culture Centre from 22-26 November 2010.

Professor Mignolo will be involved in a number of academic activities during his time here including:

 

Tuesday 23rd November

 

12pm-2pm, Wolfson Research Exchange, lunch

A reading group discussion of Walter Mignolo’s recent articles, ‘Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom’, Theory, Culture & Society 2009, 26(7–8): 1–23 and ‘Delinking: The rhetoric of modernity, the logic of coloniality and the grammar of de-coloniality’, Cultural Studies 2007, 21(2): 449-514.

(This reading group will be limited to 15 participants, please email m.a.carrigan@warwick.ac.uk to register a place and get copies of the reading)


4pm-6pm, IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House

The Birth of Modernity? A discussion between Walter Mignolo, Phil Withington (Cambridge) and others. Organised by Rebecca Earle. Open to all.

Wednesday 24th November

12pm-2.15pm, Research Room, Law School

Seminar: ‘International Law and Imperial Cosmopolitanism’

A seminar to be held within the Law Department, jointly organised by Julio Faundez and Victor Tadros, Law and Robert Fine, Sociology and the Social Theory Cente. Open to all.

Thursday 25th November

4pm-6pm, IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House, followed by dinner

“Delinking” and “Connecting”: Two Possibilities in Rethinking Historical Sociology, an advanced research training seminar. Co-led by Walter Mignolo and Gurminder K Bhambra.

(This training seminar will be limited to 15 participants, please email m.a.carrigan@warwick.ac.uk to register a place)

Friday 26th November

Public Research Symposium: ‘Decoloniality, Postcolonialism and the Subaltern’, IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House, open to all.

1.30-3pm Decoloniality and Postcolonialism

David Arnold, University of Warwick
‘Coloniality, Subalternity, and the Challenge of Conceptual History'

Walter Mignolo, Duke University,
‘Thoughts and Sentiments on the Decolonial Option'

3-3.30pm tea / coffee / cakes

3.30-5.30pm Knowing the Subaltern 

Mihnea Panu, Willfrid Laurier
'The Bourgeois Other’ 

Robbie Shilliam, Victoria, University of Wellington
'"The Ancestors are Meeting because We are Meeting": Why has Rastafari Resonated with Indigenous Peoples?'

Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Warwick
'The African American Dilemma: Emancipation and the Struggle for Equality' 

6pm - dinner