„Foucault´s genealogy as a decolonial methodology. How to articulate Foucault´s micro-political thinking at the macro-level of world-system analysis?“
Santiago Castro-Gómez, Associated Profesor, Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá.
Tuesday 22.01.2012, 6 pm, Georg-Simmel-Zentrum
Mohrenstr. 41, 4th floor on the left, Ubahn Hausvogteiplatz/Stadtmitte
(Santiago will give his talk in Spanish - with german translation)
This talk/workshop intends to offer an alternative to the question of the decolonial methodologies. Is it possible to think the world-system from the coloniality/modernity perspective in genealogical terms? The the decolonial thinking implements processes of reformulation of the colonial history, in a similar way as Foucault´s genealogical method does on a european frame. In the talk I´d like to present/discuss the possibilities and difficulties on taking this concept as a decolonial tool. On the one hand, in order to understand power relations in the social context of Latin America we need to go beyond Foucault himself. On the other hand, in order to articulate the Genealogy at the macro-level of the world-system analysis we come in confrontation with some decolonial methodologies and terminologies.
Tuesday 22.01.2012, 6 pm, Georg-Simmel-Zentrum
Mohrenstr. 41, 4th floor on the left, Ubahn Hausvogteiplatz/Stadtmitte
(Santiago will give his talk in Spanish - with german translation)
This talk/workshop intends to offer an alternative to the question of the decolonial methodologies. Is it possible to think the world-system from the coloniality/modernity perspective in genealogical terms? The the decolonial thinking implements processes of reformulation of the colonial history, in a similar way as Foucault´s genealogical method does on a european frame. In the talk I´d like to present/discuss the possibilities and difficulties on taking this concept as a decolonial tool. On the one hand, in order to understand power relations in the social context of Latin America we need to go beyond Foucault himself. On the other hand, in order to articulate the Genealogy at the macro-level of the world-system analysis we come in confrontation with some decolonial methodologies and terminologies.
Methodologies and decolonization. Anthropology, the white political field, and the World Charter of Decolonial Research Ethics.
Julia Suárez-Krabbe Assistant professor, Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University
Associated researcher, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra.
Tuesday 08.01.2012, 6 pm. Georg-Simmel-Zentrum (Mohrenstr. 41, 4th floor on the left, Ubahn Hausvogteiplatz/Stadtmitte)
This talk addresses three central concerns to take into account in the processes of decolonizing methodologies: Firstly, it looks at the close relationship between the categories that we use to work by and our power as intellectual elites inhabiting the white political field of knowledge construction, taking into account the ‘abyssal line’ and the zone of nonbeing. Secondly, and intimately connected to the first, the talk discusses the relationship between the tools we use to approach and study reality (methodologies), and white identity. I centre here especially on “fieldwork” as a methodological tool pivotal to anthropological practice, the white imaginaries attached to it, and the requirements to defend the white political field of such a methodology, mainly through ideas about “scientificity” that ground the suspension of ethics. Finally, on the basis of these critical reflections about methodology and coloniality, I present the “World Charter of Decolonial Research Ethics” that speaks to the above problems and seeks to outline some fundamental principles for decolonial research.
(organized together with the "Laboratory Critical Europeanization Research"/IfEE, HU Berlin and in cooperation with Georg-Simmel-Zentrum fuer Metropolenforschung)
Associated researcher, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra.
Tuesday 08.01.2012, 6 pm. Georg-Simmel-Zentrum (Mohrenstr. 41, 4th floor on the left, Ubahn Hausvogteiplatz/Stadtmitte)
This talk addresses three central concerns to take into account in the processes of decolonizing methodologies: Firstly, it looks at the close relationship between the categories that we use to work by and our power as intellectual elites inhabiting the white political field of knowledge construction, taking into account the ‘abyssal line’ and the zone of nonbeing. Secondly, and intimately connected to the first, the talk discusses the relationship between the tools we use to approach and study reality (methodologies), and white identity. I centre here especially on “fieldwork” as a methodological tool pivotal to anthropological practice, the white imaginaries attached to it, and the requirements to defend the white political field of such a methodology, mainly through ideas about “scientificity” that ground the suspension of ethics. Finally, on the basis of these critical reflections about methodology and coloniality, I present the “World Charter of Decolonial Research Ethics” that speaks to the above problems and seeks to outline some fundamental principles for decolonial research.
(organized together with the "Laboratory Critical Europeanization Research"/IfEE, HU Berlin and in cooperation with Georg-Simmel-Zentrum fuer Metropolenforschung)
Privilege, Plurality and Place: Decolonial Pedagogy and Ethical Interventions
Soenke Biermann. PhD Candidate, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University. Director, Australia Program, Long Island University.
09.01.2012 6 pm, Georg-Simmel-Zentrum (Mohrenstr. 41, 4th floor on the left, Ubahn Hausvogteiplatz/Stadtmitte)
Drawing on recent doctoral fieldwork undertaken in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada, this talk seeks to explore the opportunities, challenges and implications of a decolonising approach to university pedagogy and academic knowledge production. By foregrounding questions of white privilege, epistemological plurality and the creative locus of place, I argue that an active decolonial pedagogical praxis focuses on ethically intervening into disciplined classroom formations and opening up spaces to work with, and learn from, others. This talk questions what it might mean to unpack the continuing epistemological dominance of the Atlantic Age, of the long-lasting legacies of over five hundred years of European colonialism, and to turn our view towards a Pacific Future, one determined by the realities of peoples with diverse ways of being and knowing struggling to decolonise and relate to each other through ties of mutual recognition. Looking beyond the Eurocentric confines of contemporary academic knowledge production, this presentation asks us to consider the vast implications of a decolonising pedagogical turn that both engages with the irrevocably pluralistic realities of human thought and works towards a peaceful, decolonising and neighbourly world.
(organized together with the "Laboratory Critical Europeanization Research"/IfEE, HU Berlin and in cooperation with Georg-Simmel-Zentrum fur Metropolenforschung)
09.01.2012 6 pm, Georg-Simmel-Zentrum (Mohrenstr. 41, 4th floor on the left, Ubahn Hausvogteiplatz/Stadtmitte)
Drawing on recent doctoral fieldwork undertaken in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada, this talk seeks to explore the opportunities, challenges and implications of a decolonising approach to university pedagogy and academic knowledge production. By foregrounding questions of white privilege, epistemological plurality and the creative locus of place, I argue that an active decolonial pedagogical praxis focuses on ethically intervening into disciplined classroom formations and opening up spaces to work with, and learn from, others. This talk questions what it might mean to unpack the continuing epistemological dominance of the Atlantic Age, of the long-lasting legacies of over five hundred years of European colonialism, and to turn our view towards a Pacific Future, one determined by the realities of peoples with diverse ways of being and knowing struggling to decolonise and relate to each other through ties of mutual recognition. Looking beyond the Eurocentric confines of contemporary academic knowledge production, this presentation asks us to consider the vast implications of a decolonising pedagogical turn that both engages with the irrevocably pluralistic realities of human thought and works towards a peaceful, decolonising and neighbourly world.
(organized together with the "Laboratory Critical Europeanization Research"/IfEE, HU Berlin and in cooperation with Georg-Simmel-Zentrum fur Metropolenforschung)
Ramón Grosfoguel: The difference vs alterity- a
question in decolonial methods
Ramón Grosfoguel (UC Berkeley) will give a presentation on decolonial methods, epistemologies of the South and Fanonian philosophy on
Wednesday 12th of December 2012 at 6pm at Georg-Simmel-Zentrum/IfEE (4th floor).
The event is organized by "Laboratory Critical Europeanization Research" and the "Decolonial Group Berlin" in cooperation with the "Georg-Simmel Zentrum für Metropolenforschung".
Wednesday 12th of December 2012 at 6pm at Georg-Simmel-Zentrum/IfEE (4th floor).
The event is organized by "Laboratory Critical Europeanization Research" and the "Decolonial Group Berlin" in cooperation with the "Georg-Simmel Zentrum für Metropolenforschung".
Decoloniality Europe Website
Since a couple of days, there is a common website of different decolonial groups in Europe!
http://decolonialityeurope.wix.com/
http://decolonialityeurope.wix.com/
Performance: "Acts of Voicing"
Invited by the artist Ingrid Wildi Merino, the Decolonial Group Berlin participated in the exhibition "Acts of Voicing" at the Würtembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Nov 2012).
"Ingrid Wildi Merino / Group Decolonial, Arquitectura de las transferencias. La hibris del punto cero (Architektur der Übertragungen. Die Hybris des Nullpunkts), 2012
Die Choreografie für sechs Stimmen, bei der Fragmente aus Santiago Castro Gómez’ Publikation La Hybris del Punto Cero rezitiert werden, kreist um Eurozentrismus und Kolonialität von Wissen und Erinnerung."
More: http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/programm/2012/ausstellungen/acts-of-voicing/
"Ingrid Wildi Merino / Group Decolonial, Arquitectura de las transferencias. La hibris del punto cero (Architektur der Übertragungen. Die Hybris des Nullpunkts), 2012
Die Choreografie für sechs Stimmen, bei der Fragmente aus Santiago Castro Gómez’ Publikation La Hybris del Punto Cero rezitiert werden, kreist um Eurozentrismus und Kolonialität von Wissen und Erinnerung."
More: http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/programm/2012/ausstellungen/acts-of-voicing/
Decolonial Days on "Decolonizing Whiteness"
Montag, 24.09.2012, 10.00 am (st!) - 13.00 pm
Workshop with Prof. Ramón Grosfoguel (UC Berkeley)
"Whiteness, the Urgency of Decolonization and the (Im-)possibilities of Solidarity in Anti-Racist Decolonial Struggles in Europe Today" (In English)
Dienstag, 18.00 pm (ct) - 20.00 pm
Presentation and discussion with Cecilia Cissell Lucas (UC Berkeley)
"Decolonizing Whiteness, Dismantling White Supremacy" (In English / German)
At: Georg-Simmel-Zentrum fuer Metropolenforschung, HU Berlin, Mohrenstr. 40/41.
Workshop with Prof. Ramón Grosfoguel (UC Berkeley)
"Whiteness, the Urgency of Decolonization and the (Im-)possibilities of Solidarity in Anti-Racist Decolonial Struggles in Europe Today" (In English)
Dienstag, 18.00 pm (ct) - 20.00 pm
Presentation and discussion with Cecilia Cissell Lucas (UC Berkeley)
"Decolonizing Whiteness, Dismantling White Supremacy" (In English / German)
At: Georg-Simmel-Zentrum fuer Metropolenforschung, HU Berlin, Mohrenstr. 40/41.
Enrique Dussel in Berlin!
One of the founders of the Philosophy of Liberation, Prof. Enrique Dussel, gave a lecture called "1492, the invention of the Other"!
3rd Decolonial Week Berlin 2012
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Three-day workshop with Ramón Grosfoguel:
Monday Jan 16th, 14-16 Uhr
"E. Dussel's Transmodernity / Philosophy of Liberation" (at the seminar "The Decolonial Turn and Ethnographic Writing"),
Room 312, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
Tuesday Jan 17th, 14-18 Uhr
"A Decolonial Perspective applied to Migration" (Lecture / Discussion)
Room 415, Georg Simmel Zentrum
Wednesday Jan 18th, 14-16 Uhr
"What is Racism?"
16 - 18 Uhr Uniwatch: "Methods of resisting racism at the German university"
Room 415, Georg Simmel Zentrum
The adress for all three events is: Mohrenstr 41. / U2 - Hausvogteiplatz or Stadtmitte or U6 Stadtmitte.
Three-day workshop with Ramón Grosfoguel:
Monday Jan 16th, 14-16 Uhr
"E. Dussel's Transmodernity / Philosophy of Liberation" (at the seminar "The Decolonial Turn and Ethnographic Writing"),
Room 312, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
Tuesday Jan 17th, 14-18 Uhr
"A Decolonial Perspective applied to Migration" (Lecture / Discussion)
Room 415, Georg Simmel Zentrum
Wednesday Jan 18th, 14-16 Uhr
"What is Racism?"
16 - 18 Uhr Uniwatch: "Methods of resisting racism at the German university"
Room 415, Georg Simmel Zentrum
The adress for all three events is: Mohrenstr 41. / U2 - Hausvogteiplatz or Stadtmitte or U6 Stadtmitte.
Diana Avella in Berlin
"Diana Avella has been a leading member of the Colombian Hip-Hop scene for eleven years now. She moves between academic and empirical hip hop, and her lyrics feature ideological, cultural and autobiographic elements. At the same time, her instrumental rhythm is reminiscent of rap in its early years and draws on the influence of producers from Portugal, Miami, France, Germany and Colombia." (http://translatinghiphop.de/artists/diana-avella/ , by Haus der Kulturen der Welt).
Decolonial rapper Diana Avella visited the Decolonial Group to give a presentation about politics and daily life in Colombia and how lived experience of injustice influences her work. And she gave a semi-official concert at Mainzelmenschen/Berlin...
Decolonial rapper Diana Avella visited the Decolonial Group to give a presentation about politics and daily life in Colombia and how lived experience of injustice influences her work. And she gave a semi-official concert at Mainzelmenschen/Berlin...
2nd Decolonial Week Berlin
(also see the videos at "multimedia")
Wednesday 26. Oct (19 Uhr / 7 O'clock)
"Decolonizing the University", with Houria Bouteldja (Paris) and Ramón Grosfoguel (UC-Berkeley). Moderation: Andrea Meza Torres
At the Georg Simmel Zentrum. Mohrenstr. 41. Room 418.
Organized by the GSZ Graduate Studies Group in the context of "Grenzgänger".
Thursday 27. Oct (17 Uhr / 5 O'clock)
"...... and the question of Democracy", with Houria Bouteldja (Paris) and Ramón Grosfoguel (UC-Berkeley). Introduction and moderation: Franziska Brückner
At: Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Universitätstraße 3b, Room 002.
Organized by Netzwerk MiRa in the context of the Ringvorlesung: Wer macht Demo_kratie?"
Ringvorlesung kritische Migrationsforschung II
Friday 28. Oct (17:30 / Half past 5)
"Decolonial Feminism / Antiracist Struggle", with Houria Bouteldja (Paris), Julia Krabbe (Univ. Roskilde), Ramón Grosfoguel (UC-Berkeley), Gaston Ebua (Berlin) and Bethi Muriithi (Berlin). Moderation: Franziska Brückner
At: Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Universitätstraße 3b, Room 002.
Organized by Netzwerk MiRa in the context of the Ringvorlesung: Wer macht Demo_kratie?"
Ringvorlesung kritische Migrationsforschung II
Monday, 31. Oct. (14 (st!) - 16 Uhr / 2 O'clock (sharp!) - 15:45)
Ramón Grosfoguel: “Europe Arriving: Cartography of Power and Racism”
At the seminar "Decolonial turn and ethnographic writing" (Grosfoguel / Meza Torres / Westrich) Begin: 24.10.2011. Institut für Europäische Ethnologie. Room 312.
Wednesday 26. Oct (19 Uhr / 7 O'clock)
"Decolonizing the University", with Houria Bouteldja (Paris) and Ramón Grosfoguel (UC-Berkeley). Moderation: Andrea Meza Torres
At the Georg Simmel Zentrum. Mohrenstr. 41. Room 418.
Organized by the GSZ Graduate Studies Group in the context of "Grenzgänger".
Thursday 27. Oct (17 Uhr / 5 O'clock)
"...... and the question of Democracy", with Houria Bouteldja (Paris) and Ramón Grosfoguel (UC-Berkeley). Introduction and moderation: Franziska Brückner
At: Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Universitätstraße 3b, Room 002.
Organized by Netzwerk MiRa in the context of the Ringvorlesung: Wer macht Demo_kratie?"
Ringvorlesung kritische Migrationsforschung II
Friday 28. Oct (17:30 / Half past 5)
"Decolonial Feminism / Antiracist Struggle", with Houria Bouteldja (Paris), Julia Krabbe (Univ. Roskilde), Ramón Grosfoguel (UC-Berkeley), Gaston Ebua (Berlin) and Bethi Muriithi (Berlin). Moderation: Franziska Brückner
At: Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Universitätstraße 3b, Room 002.
Organized by Netzwerk MiRa in the context of the Ringvorlesung: Wer macht Demo_kratie?"
Ringvorlesung kritische Migrationsforschung II
Monday, 31. Oct. (14 (st!) - 16 Uhr / 2 O'clock (sharp!) - 15:45)
Ramón Grosfoguel: “Europe Arriving: Cartography of Power and Racism”
At the seminar "Decolonial turn and ethnographic writing" (Grosfoguel / Meza Torres / Westrich) Begin: 24.10.2011. Institut für Europäische Ethnologie. Room 312.
1st Decolonial Week Berlin
Prof. Ramón Grosfoguel gives first lectures about decolonial theory at the HU Berlin.
“Migration, Coloniality of Power and the Decolonization of the West”
„Decolonizing Western Universalisms: A Decolonial Pluriversal Perspective from the Americas“
Audio-recordings:
http://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/studium/wichtiges/kvv/institutskolloquium/institutskolloquium_wise1011
“Migration, Coloniality of Power and the Decolonization of the West”
„Decolonizing Western Universalisms: A Decolonial Pluriversal Perspective from the Americas“
Audio-recordings:
http://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/studium/wichtiges/kvv/institutskolloquium/institutskolloquium_wise1011
