Monday, November 26, 2012

Decolonizing Knowledge & Power, Barcelona, Spain 2013




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Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Summer School, 2013 – Barcelona, Spain

The Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues (Barcelona, Spain) is now accepting applications for its two-week summer institute (TAUGHT IN ENGLISH) open to advanced undergraduate/graduate students, post-doctoral candidates, junior faculty and professionals on decolonial thought and knowledge.

DECOLONIZING KNOWLEDGE AND POWER: POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES, DECOLONIAL HORIZONS Barcelona, Spain - July 8-18, 2013 
http://www.dialogoglobal.com/barcelona
Application Deadline: 
February 1, 2013

The international Summer School, "Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons" will be in its fifth year and aims at enlarging the scope of the conversation (analysis and investigation) of the hidden agenda of modernity (that is, coloniality) in the sphere of knowledge, power and higher education.

The professors invited for the 2013 Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Summer School are drawn from our affiliated faculty and cover different thematic fields of study, historical periods and regions of the world: Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the US.

Affiliated faculty include:

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Emma Pérez, Linda Martín Alcoff, Salman Sayyid, Nelson Maldonado-Torres,

Chela Sandoval, Ramón Grosfoguel, Houria Bouteldja, Kwame Nimako, Stephen Small, Tiffany Ruby Patterson,

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, James Cohen, Daphne V. Taylor-García, Lars Jensen and Alejandro Vallega


The course is offered in English.

Deadline for Applications: 
February 1, 2013.
http://www.dialogoglobal.com/barcelona/application.php

Costs for the July 8-18 intensive seminars:

    * 1st Option: Tuition only: €1,300
    * 2nd Option: Tuition + Shared Room (1-2 other participants): €1,600

Location:  Barcelona, Spain (important social and cultural center of Spain and the Catalonia region, right on the Mediterranean Sea)

You can check the web page below for more information, and please, do send this message on to potentially interested people and networks.
http://www.dialogoglobal.com/barcelona
You can also write to the following email address if you have any questions:
decolonialknowledge@dialogoglobal.com


Best regards,

Ramon Grosfoguel, Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Director

Roberto D. Hernandez, Chicana/o Studies, San Diego State University Coordinator

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