Dear friends and colleagues,
Please join us for the conference “Decoloniality and the Politics of History” hosted by the Department of Art History & Archaeology and the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University with generous support by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art and the Society of Fellows.
The conference will take place at weekly intervals over Zoom from April 29-May 28, 2021, scheduled for 11am – 1.00pm EST. It starts with a keynote by Walter D. Mignolo.
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“Decoloniality and the Politics of History” brings together art historians, anthropologists, critical theorists, sociologists, and artists to create a multidisciplinary conversation. You can find the full program here, and pasted below.
This series of panels places the frameworks by which we produce historical knowledge at its center. Questions we seek to focus on include: How to address the colonizer/colonized relationship not as a universal binary but simultaneously in its global and local specificity? How to provincialize the West without ignoring the lived realities of its hegemony? What to make of the increasing problematization of hybridity and syncretism? And how does a decolonial framework help us understand the relations between socio-economic and cultural forms?
For questions and inquiries contact: p.karambeigi@columbia.edu
Keynote, April 29, 2021, 11 am – 12:30 pm
Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University, Literature)
Moderator: Alex Alberro (Columbia University, Art History)
Panel 1, April 30, 2021, 11 am – 1 pm
Mediating the Vernacular
Julia Bryan-Wilson (University of California, Berkeley, Art History)
Rosalind C. Morris (Columbia University, Anthropology)
Moderator: Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College, Architecture History)
Panel 2, May 7, 2021, 11 am – 1 pm
Indigenous Cultural Production
Elvira Espejo Ayca (Former Director, Museum of Ethnography and Folklore, La Paz)
Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz (Former Director, Museo Nacional de Arte de La Paz)
Pablo Lafuente (Artistic Director, Museo de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro)
Moderator: Alessandra Russo (Columbia University, LAIC)
Panel 3, May 14, 2021, 11 am – 1 pm
Politics of Hybridity
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (New York University, Social and Cultural Analysis)
Allison Bigelow (University of Virginia, Spanish)
Moderator: Pujan Karambeigi (Columbia University, Art History)
Panel 4, May 21, 2021, 11 am – 1 pm
A Hemispheric Lens
Alice Creischer (Artist, Berlin)
Silvia Federici (Hofstra University, Social Science)
María Galindo (Artist, La Paz)
Moderator: Naeem Mohaiemen (Columbia University, Society of Fellows)
Panel 5, May 28, 2021, 11 am – 1 pm
Threads of Labor
Verónica Gago (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Sociology)
Ana María León (University of Michigan, Art History)
Moderator: Reinhold Martin (Columbia University, GSAPP)
Image credit: Andreas Siekmann
